Web rules for Health Care and Life Sciences: use cases and requirements

This paper focuses on use cases and requirements for a Web rule language in the domain of Health Care and Life Science. Most cases are based on our experience with real applications. The paper classifies rules, identifies different use cases where rules are necessary, and summarizes some requirements of important classes of applications in that area. It appears that for most of them a loose interoperation between ontology and rules is not sufficient and a close integration between the two components is highly desirable. Finally, the paper provides results of experiments achieved with the tools currently available.