Use Case Support for Design Constraints
The use cases submitted by the RIF Working Group members offer solid grounds for considering the critical success factors and requirements found at UCR/Critical Factors Analysis as design constraints for RIF.
Use cases supporting
coverage of different types of rules (deductive, normative, reactive rules): Automated Trust Establishment for eCommerce, Automated Trust Establishment for Accessing Medical Records, Organizing a Vacation with Friends, Rule-Based Intelligent Guiding, Rule-Based Email Manipulation, Rule-Based Reactive Organizer, Rule-based Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Web Services, Rule Based Service Level Management and SLAs for Service Oriented Computing, Supply Chain Ordering Lead Time
alignment with Semantic Web and key W3C specs: Rule-Based Combined Access to XML and RDF Data, RIF RuleML FOAF, Fuzzy Reasoning with Brain Anatomical Structures, Situation Assessment and Adaptation, Automatically generated rules, Decision making in Health Care, Ontology Mapping with OWL and Rules, Labeling Brain Anatomical Structures in Digital Images, Policy - Preference Computing, Publication of semantics (e.g. SKOS, RDFS),Classification of Rules w.r.t. their role, Decision making in Health Care, SW rules for Health Care and Life Sciences
oracular models: Rule-Based Email Manipulation, Rule Based Service Level Management and SLAs for Service Oriented Computing, Automatically generated rules
oracular models (preferences and priorities): Refund Policies in E-Commerce, Credit Card Transaction Authorization, Supply Chain Ordering Lead Time, Price Discounting
typed languages: Personalisation and Uncertainty -- Representing some levels of fuzzy rules with the help of datatype built-ins, Rule Based Service Level Management and SLAs for Service Oriented Computing
meta language (meta rules for meta reasoning): Rule Based Service Level Management and SLAs for Service Oriented Computing, Supporting the Reuse of Rules, Automatically generated rules
no surprises: Automated Trust Establishment for eCommerce, Automated Trust Establishment for Accessing Medical Records, Operationally Equivalent Translations, Rule Based Service Level Management and SLAs for Service Oriented Computing, Managing incomplete information, Labeling Brain Anatomical Structures in Digital Images, Automatically generated rules
conformance model: Distributed e-Learning
extensibility wrt. expressive power: Portability, Transfer of rules between different vendor products