...2.0

The Generic Frame Protocol is a result of the joint work between the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International and the Knowledge Systems Laboratory of Stanford University. At Stanford University, this work was supported by the Department of Navy contracts titled Technology for Developing Network-based Information Brokers (Contract Number N66001-96-C-8622-P00004) and Large-Scale Repositories of Highly Expressive Reusable Knowledge (Contract Number N66001-97-C-8554). At SRI International, it was supported by a Rome Laboratory contract titled Reusable Tools for Knowledge Base and Ontology Development (Contract Number F30602-96-C-0332), and NIH Grant R29-LM-05413-01A1.

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...entities

We use the term class synonymously with the term concept as used in the description logic community.

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...V)

KIF syntax note: Relational sentences in KIF have the form (<relation name> <argument>*)

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...holds:

Notes on KIF syntax: Names whose first character is ``?'' are variables. If no explicit quantifier is specified, variables are assumed to be universally quantified. <=> means ``if and only if''.

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...is,

Note on KIF syntax: holds means ``relation is true for''. One must use the form (holds ?C ?I) rather than (?C ?I) when the relation is a variable because KIF has a first-order logic syntax and therefore does not allow a variable in the first position of a relational sentence.

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...is,

Note on KIF syntax: => means ``implies''

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...is,

cardinality is a unary function whose argument is a finite set and whose value is the number of elements in the set. setofall is a set-valued term expression in KIF that takes a variable as a first argument and a sentence containing that variable as a second argument. The value of setofall is the set of all values of the variable for which the sentence is true. =< means ``less than or equal''.

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...is,

KIF syntax note: >= means ``greater than or equal''.

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...is,

Note on KIF syntax: listof is a function whose value is a list of its arguments. Names whose first character is "@" are sequence variables that bind to a sequence of 0 or more entities. For example, the expression (F @X) binds to (F 14 23) and in general to any list whose first element is F.

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...HREF="node4.html#establishconnection">establish-connection

GFP operations are shown in   bold font.

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...operation

An enumerator operation allows us to retrieve the result values in small batches instead of retrieving them altogether in one batch.

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...neither

An operation that is neither mandatory nor optional is supplied by the system.

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...case.

There is no surface syntax for the GFP primitive data types FRAME-HANDLE, PROCEDURE, KB, or REMOTE-VALUE, though variables in a procedure will often take on instances of these data types as values during execution.

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