Business Rules Expert

Computer Associates has a series of products in the market that support expert system development and knowledge management. A remainder of the original Aion development is CleverPath Aion Business Rules Expert (BRE), which is an advanced... 

Computer Associates International, Inc., New York, CA Aion Business Rules Expert, http //www.ca.com. 

Inference Engine is a module of an expert system that performs reasoning using rules from the knowledge base and facts from the working memory to process them according to specihed business rules. 

Schmidt-Ott evidently approved of the idea to honour military technical services, but opposed giving the task to the KWG, on grounds of military secrecy. Concern about the KWG s discretion seems premature, as von Hamack had not yet delivered his famous critique of wartime profiteering, which was to produce long-lasting animosity in business circles, especially among munitions manufacturers. Besides, the KWG could have created a special commission, whose members were sworn to secrecy. Schmidt-Ott did not advance the more pointed criticism that the KWG lacked experts to evaluate military innovations and inventions. As a rule, the directors of the KWIs were scientists and not technical people or engineers. ... 

As the insurance industry lobbied behind the scenes for major changes, the delegates apparently ignored the informal ALI rule that members check their elients at the door. " To no one s surprise, the Restatement Third of Products Liability that emerged in mid-1997 could have been drafted by the Products Liability Advisory Council. It avoided any mention of strict liability and replaced the Public Interest Era consumer expectation test for product defects with the risk-utility test favored by the business community. It also required plaintiffs to present expert testimony that safer designs were reasonably available, a subtle change that enhanced the role of experts and limited the role of juries. ... 

The new test for products liability retained the well-accepted common law rules that a manufacturer s unexcused failure to comply with an applicable safety regulation automatically rendered the product defective and that compliance did not necessarily shield the manufacturer from liability. A special rule for drugs and devices, however, deferred to FDA approval and adopted a reasonable health-care provider test that required plaintiffs to secure expert testimony. The new test also precluded recovery if the benefits of the drug or device outweighed the risks for any class of patients, even if the plaintiff was in a class of patients for which the opposite was true. Although the business community was thrilled with the changes, the reaction in academia and the state courts was decidedly mixed. ... 

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