November 2003
Rules Business rules is the current term for a type of knowledge that is knotty to automate. The type of knowledge it refers to is logical knowledge, as distinct from factual knowledge or procedural knowledge. Factual knowledge is exactly that, and it can very naturally be stored in a computer because a computer’s basic architecture includes memory, both internal and external, that is ideally suited to storing factual information. Database tools and the constructs in programming languages that describe facts have evolved naturally from computer memory....