Provides an academic, yet practical perspective on knowledge engineering with rule-based systems

Systematically presents the author's research results in the area of intelligent rule-based systems

Focuses on the semantic knowledge engineering (SKE) approach

Is enriched with selected examples of intelligent system design

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Inhalt
Part I Domain of Rule-Based Systems.- Rules as a Knowledge Representation Paradigm.- Knowledge Engineering with Rules.- Selected Applications of Rule.- Part II Formal Models for Rules.- Formalism for Description of Decision Rules.- Formalized Integration of Rules and Processes.- Prototyping Structure of Rule Bases.- Handling Uncertainty in Rules.- Formalizing Interoperability in Rule Bases.- Part III Practical Studies in Semantic Knowledge Engineering.- Semantic Knowledge Engineering Approach.- Rule Interoperability with Expert System Shells.- Visual Software Modeling with Rules.- Using Rules to Support Software Testing.- Integrating Business Process Models with Rules.- Rule-Based Systems and Semantic Web.- Collaborative Knowledge Engineering with Wikis.- Designing Robot Control Logic with Rules.- Rules in Mobile Context-Aware Systems.- Index.