RULE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A rule processing system or method includes defining/entering attributes, enumerations, and/or relationships; packaging the definitions in reduced canonical form suitable for propositional logic manipulation using zero-suppressed binary decision diagrams (Zdd) to produce a prime Zdd (fig. 1B); and/or executing a rule by applying a series of user inputs to a prime Zdd (22) to determine a result (23) that preferably includes conflict and selection advice to help achieve satisfaction. Elective events, such as a display of messages or performance of calculations, may optionally be packaged along with the prime rule or components thereof, and presented during execution to help guide the user to achieve satisfaction or compliancy when choosing among possible selections. The invention automates determination of a complex rule having a combinatorial exploded number of rule components, or a combinatorial exploded number of possible outcomes, exceeding computational capacity of conventional computing systems (24).