The Open World Assumption: Elephant in the Room

OWA Enables Incremental, Low-risk Wins for the Semantic Enterprise

In speaking of the semantic Web, it is not infrequent that the open world assumption (OWA) gets mentioned. What this post argues is that this somewhat obscure concept may hold within it the key as to why there have been decades of too-frequent failures in the enterprise in business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration and federation, and knowledge management.

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