A Critical Overview of Methods for Rules Interoperability. Position Paper

Abstract

Rules are commonly used as a declarative method for knowledge representation. In the past, they were used in Rule-Based expert systems. Today they found application in such technologies as Complex Event Processing (CEP), Business Rules (BR), Business Processes Model and Notation and Semantic Web (SW). Despite their maturity, many unsolved problems still exist. One of them is related with rules interoperability and knowledge interchange. During the years many research were conducted and several methods were developed. Nevertheless, these methods suffer from their general and complex nature, which causes that the practical tool support is very weak.