Development and Verification of Rule Based Systems - A Survey of Developers

摘要

While there is great interest in rule based systems and their development, there is little data about the tools and methods used and the issues facing the development of these systems. To address this deficiency, this paper presents the results from a survey of developers of rule based systems.rnThe results from the survey give an overview of the methods and tools used for development and the major issues hindering the development of rule based systems. Recommendations for possible future research directions are presented.rnThe results point to verification and validation, debugging and overall tool support as the main issues negatively affecting the development of rule based systems. Further a lack of methodologies that appropriately support developers of these systems was found.