Flavors of Rules Commercially Most Important in E-Business
E.g., in OO app’s, DB’s, workflows.
Logic Programs (in pure knowledge-representation sense): e.g.,
- Relational databases, SQL.
- Prolog; Knowledge-based systems.
Production rules (OPS5 heritage): e.g.,
- Neuron Data rule-based Java objects.
- IBM VisualBanker using (Haley).
Event-Condition-Action rules (loose family), cf.:
- business process automation / workflow tools.
- active databases; publish-subscribe.