• Use Cases

This page lists use cases, each showing a way in which RIF is expected to be useful and providing requirements on the RIF design.

Please try to post your use cases on this wiki and link them from this page by 21 December, so they can be included in the first editor's draft of Use Cases and Requirements. Use cases will still be accepted after this date (of course), but they may get somewhat less attention from the Working Group. See How to Add a Use Case.

The use cases listed below are considered in the creation of the UCR (Use Cases and Requirements) document.

Use Cases

• Product Compatibility (mostly done - abstracting from drug scenario in the charter)

• Portability (kind of skeletal right now)

• Situation Assessment and Adaptation

• RIF RuleML FOAF

• Operationally Equivalent Translations

• Enterprise Information Integration

• 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

• Fuzzy Reasoning with Brain Anatomical Structures

• Ontology Mapping with OWL and Rules

• Distributed e-Learning

• Scoped negation, Encapsulation

• Frame-based representation, Inheritance of defaults, Reification

• Message Transformation

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

• Importing rules to check data compliance

• Refund Policies in E-Commerce

• Credit Card Transaction Authorization

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

• Supply Chain Ordering Lead Time

• Price Discounting

• E-Contracts with Exceptions, with OWL Process Ontologies

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

• Policy - Preference Computing

• Filling the holes of OWL

• SW rules for Health Care and Life Sciences

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

• Rule-Based Combined Access to XML and RDF Data

• Information Integration with Rules and Taxonomies

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

• Interpretation and Interchange of Regulations

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

• Transfer of rules between different vendor products

• Real-time contract exchange

• Managing incomplete information

• Classification of Rules w.r.t. their role

• Decision making in Health Care

• Labeling Brain Anatomical Structures in Digital Images

• Automatically generated rules

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

• Rule Interchange Through Test-Driven Verification and Validation

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

• Supporting the Reuse of Rules

• Rules for a Credit Approval Service

• Rule-based User Notification (RUN) framework

See Also

• General Use Case Categories

• Multi-Dimensional Use Case Classification

• Use Case Support for RIF's Design Constraints