A Wiki for Business Rules in Open Vocabulary, Executable English
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The problem of business-IT alignment is of widespread economic concern. As one way of addressing the problem, this paper describes an online system that functions as a kind of Wiki -one that supports the collaborative writing and running of business and scientific applications, as rules in open vocabulary, executable English, using a browser. Since the rules are in English, they are indexed by Google and other search engines. This is useful when looking for rules for a task that one has in mind. The design of the system integrates the semantics of data, with a semantics of an inference method, and also with the meanings of English sentences. As such, the system has functionality that may be useful for the Rules, Logic, Proof and Trust requirements of the Semantic Web. The system accepts rules, and small numbers of facts, typed or copy-pasted directly into a browser. One can then run the rules, again using a browser. For larger amounts of data, the system uses information in the rules to automatically generate and run SQL over networked databases. From a few highly declarative rules, the system typically generates SQL that would be too complicated to write reliably by hand. However, the system can explain its results in step-by-step hypertexted English, at the business or scientific level As befits a Wiki, shared use of the system is free. Introduction The well known "layer cake" diagram (Berners-Lee 2004) outlines a high level agenda for work on the Semantic Web. Figure 1. The Semantic Web Layer Cake
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1103.0697 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007