Interlingua Concept
Challenge: heterogeneity of rule systems (within applications) to be integrated.
- Each has own rule representation. N of them.
- Representation = syntax + semantics.
Approach: translate via interlingua rep’n.
- rep’n A ? interlingua ? rep’n B.
- Advantage: O(N) translators instead of O(N^2).
*Focus: commercially important rep’n families:
- LP’s, production (OPS5), Event-Condition-Action.
- E.g., in OO app’s, DB’s, workflows.