Refinement of Hierarchies in Object-Oriented Models
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Patents(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
- Publication Date
- 2017-06-30
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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[0001] The invention relates to the field of business rule management systems. In particular, the present invention relates to refining hierarchies in an object-oriented model of a business rules management system. Background technique
[0002] A Business Rules Management System (BRMS) uses a Business Object Model (BOM) to define the underlying structure of the business objects on which rules are executed. The BOM may contain verbalization information, which is used by rule authoring systems (eg, ILOG Intellirule (ILOG and Intellirule are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation)) to allow the construction of natural language business rules.
[0003] For example:
[0004] BOM name: customer;
[0005] Language expressions: "the customer", "the customer", "the multiple customers".
[0006] One of the advantages of verbalizing BOM members in this way (and allowing users to define their own linguistic expressions) is that it allows BOM member...