What Is an Expert System (Business Rules)?

Business Rules are the most widely used commercial applications developed using artificial intelligence (AI).

Rules are used to represent a rule-of-thumb to specify a group of actions performed for a given situation. Rules are composed of if and then statements that comprise the necessary solution. An inference engine automatically matches facts against patterns and determines which rules are applicable. This process of selecting rules against historical patterns will continue to repeat itself until no applicable rules remain.

One of the most difficult tasks in developing an expert system is extracting the knowledge from an expert so the rules can be written. One of the advantages of iPrevent Business Rules is that the iPrevent data-mining technology automatically generates the rules from any historical data.

The most widely known algorithms for compiling rules are RETE and TREAT. iPrevent 's Business Rules, goes beyond these two algorithms by automatically creating an engine for each rule to improve the scalability.

iPrevent Business Rules provides a real-time inference no matter how large is the knowledge base.