• General Use Case Categories

This is a list of categories of submitted Use Cases.

1. Information Integration

Information Integration

• Use cases in this category

  • Frame-based representation, Inheritance of defaults, Reification

  • Information Integration with Rules and Taxonomies

  • Internet search: combining query language, rule languages and scoped negation

  • Managing incomplete information

  • Ontology Mapping with OWL and Rules

  • Organizing a Vacation with Friends

  • Rule-Based Combined Access to XML and RDF Data

  • Rule-Based Intelligent Guiding

  • Rule-Based Reactive Organizer

  • Scoped negation, Encapsulation

  • Situation Assessment and Adaptation

  • SW rules for Health Care and Life Sciences

  • Enterprise Information Integration (moved from "Decision Support" which seems not to be the appropriate category for this use case)

2. Decision Support

Decision Support

• Use cases in this category

• Automatically generated rules

• Decision making in Health Care

• Distributed e-Learning

• Fuzzy Reasoning with Brain Anatomical Structures

• Organizing a Vacation with Friends

• Product Compatibility

• Situation Assessment and Adaptation

• Personalisation and Uncertainty -- Representing some levels of fuzzy rules with the help of datatype built-ins

3. Cross-Platform Rule Development & Deployment (was Interoperability Across Rule Engines and Tools)

Cross-Platform Rule Development & Deployment

• Use cases in this category

• Importing rules to check data compliance

• Operationally Equivalent Translations

• Portability

• Real-time contract exchange

• Rule-Based Email Manipulation

• Rule Interchange Through Test-Driven Verification and Validation

• Transfer of rules between different vendor products

4. Policy-Based Transaction Authorization and Access Control

• Policy-Based Transaction Authorization and Access Control Use cases in this category

  • Automated Trust Establishment for eCommerce

  • Automated Trust Establishment for Accessing Medical Records

  • Credit Card Transaction Authorization

  • Policy - Preference Computing

  • Price Discounting

  • Refund Policies in E-Commerce

  • Supply Chain Ordering Lead Time

5. Interchange of Human-oriented Business Rules

• Interchange of Human-oriented Business Rules Use cases in this category

  • Credit Card Transaction Authorization

  • E-Procurement Contract Exchange, with Default-Inheritance Ontologies

  • Enterprise Information Integration

  • Information Integration with Rules and Taxonomies

  • Interchange of Business Rules between Business People in Different Organizations (Units) When Making Agreements

  • Interchange of Business Rules between People Who Run Organizations and Internally/Externally Supplied IT Systems

  • Interpretation and Interchange of Regulations

  • Price Discounting

  • Product Compatibility

  • Refund Policies in E-Commerce

6. Publication

• Publication

  • Abstracts:

    • Publication of semantics (e.g. SKOS, RDFS)

    • RIF RuleML FOAF

7. Third Party Rule-Interchange Services

• Third Party Rule-Interchange Services Use cases in this category

  • Rule-based User Notification (RUN) framework

  Abstracts:

  • Message Transformation

  • Operationally Equivalent Translations

  • Rule-based Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Web Services

  • Rule Based Service Level Management and SLAs for Service Oriented Computing

8. Rich Knowledge Representation

Rich Knowledge Representation

Use cases in this category

• Automatically generated rules

• Decision making in Health Care

• Filling the holes of OWL

• Fuzzy Reasoning with Brain Anatomical Structures

• Information Integration with Rules and Taxonomies

• Labeling Brain Anatomical Structures in Digital Images

• Managing incomplete information

• Ontology Mapping with OWL and Rules

• Personalisation and Uncertainty -- Representing some levels of fuzzy rules with the help of datatype built-ins

• SW rules for Health Care and Life Sciences

• Frame-based representation, Inheritance of defaults, Reification

• Supporting the Reuse of Rules