Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches

Rule-based applications are applications implementing business rules with the help of rule languages and executing these rules by means of rule engines. This book intends to give the state-of-the-art of rule languages, methodologies for building rule-based applications, rule interoperability/interchange and rule applications. It offers comprehensive information about rule languages by putting together basic and advanced research on rules, methodologies for developing rule-based applications as well as important use cases where rules play a central role.