Talk:Closed world assumption

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the table currently hyperlinks items. This is bizarre and confusing to read. The article has nothing to DO with these random links —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.30.8.51 (talk • contribs) 03:38, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with OWA

I would suggest to somehow merge the contents of this and the Open World Assumption article. They ought to explain essentially the two ends of the same concept. Or, in other words, you can not explain one without explaining the other, so that both articles would most likely end up looking like mirror images of each other. However I can not think of a proper way of doing so (redirecting one article to the other doesn't seem 'fair'). There should be examples of similar situations elsewere in Wikipedia, does anybody know about such examples? What has been previously done in such cases? --NavarroJ 11:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

While they intuitively are closely related, CWA is technically a form of Non-monotonic logic, while OWA seems to be mostly studied in ontology languages. I'd rather keep them separated for now, and see how these two articles evolve. The downside of merging is that the merged article is likely to evolve in two separate and mostly independent parts (Liberatore, 2006). 11:53, 18 July 2006 (UTC)