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6. Prototyping Structure of Rule Bases

Author : Grzegorz J. Nalepa

Published in: Modeling with Rules Using Semantic Knowledge Engineering

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Designing a knowledge base for a RBS is a tedious task. The main issue concerns the identification of system properties on which the rules are based. This is an iterative process that needs proper support. This stage is often generally referred to as the conceptual design. The focus of the ARD+ method presented in this chapter is the initial transition from user-provided specification (often in natural language) that includes general concepts, to the rule specification that tie rules with these concepts. Moreover, the semi-automated prototyping of the structure of the knowledge bases is possible. The schemas of XTT decision tables can be obtained, along with default inference links between tables. We introduce the main intuitions behind the ARD+ method and its formalization. Then an algorithm for prototyping the structure of the XTT rule base is given. The design with ARD+ can be also used to generate a business process with rules.

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d(f, t) denotes a dependency d from a property f to a property t.

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For simplicity, \(\mathcal {T}_{ Business Rule }\) will be denoted as \(\mathcal {T}_{ BR }\), and its exemplary elements as \(\tau ^1_{ BR }, \tau ^2_{ BR } \in \mathcal {T}_{ Business Rule }\).

For the user-friendliness of task names, if the attribute t is of the symbolic type or a derived one, the word “Determine” should be used in the task name. In other cases (i.e. numeric types), one can use the word “Calculate” instead.

The conceptual attribute name can be found in the corresponding TPH model, if it is available for the algorithm. In the other case, in the task name the names of all the attributes from the \(T_f\) set can be used.

If a particular conceptual attribute covers a single input attribute, create a User task “Enter name(a)” instead.

The \(g_{+}\) parallel gateway is necessary if there are more than one BR tasks to be connected.

This subset of output BR tasks should not be empty.

If there is only one output attribute, its name should be used instead of name(c).

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Title: Prototyping Structure of Rule Bases
Author: Grzegorz J. Nalepa
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Modeling with Rules Using Semantic Knowledge Engineering
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-66654-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-66655-6

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66655-6_6

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