公开(公告)号：GB2503223A

公开(公告)日：2013-12-25

申请号：GB201210811

申请日：2012-06-19

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： JOHNSON PETER JOHN ,  CLARK DUNCAN GEORGE ,  BACKHOUSE CHRISTOPHER PAUL ,  LOCKE DAVID

IPC: G06F17/22 ,  G06F17/27

Abstract: A method of redrafting rules being submitted into a rules database which replaces terms in the submitted rule with terms already found in a rules vocabulary or adds those terms to the rules vocabulary where a rule is submitted from a free form input and terms within the submitted rule are identified, the rules vocabulary is then searched for objects matching the terms and if the term is not found as an object then searching the rules vocabulary for attributes matching the terms the user then deciding either to use the terms found in searching or to add the terms to the rules vocabulary. Also disclosed is a method of determining semantic equivalence between a plurality of rules using a rules database having preferred terms, comprising: identifying at least one of objects, attributes, values, relationships or verbs in each of said plurality of rules; replacing each of said at least one of objects, attributes, values, relationships or verbs in each of said plurality of rules with a preferred term found in the rules database to form a plurality of respective amended rules; and comparing a first of said plurality of amended rules and a second of said plurality of amended rules to determine if they are equivalent (or near equivalent).