Rule-Based Verification of User Input

The requirements for automatic interpretation of SOPs mentioned already leads us to another approach that is a general use for any steps in a laboratory workflow. If we look at the operator-entering data, we have to keep several critical sources of errors in mind typing errors, data type errors, formats errors, and data limit errors. One valuable solution based on expert system technology is a system that verities the data entered by the operator on the basis of rules. 

Verification of user input in a data management system is a typical request from departments with regulated workflows. The basic requirements for such systems are as follows  

A verification system can automatically create user dialogs or forms for input of fielded data on the basis of a human-readable textual specification, preferably in XML. This specification contains the following information  

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