ARML: an active rule mark-up language for heterogeneous active information systems

As the information management paradigm shifts from data management to knowledge management, active rule support for various information services has become a practical approach to add intelligence to the existing information management systems. Various active rule systems have been developed using different rule description languages and, yet, their business logics are not sharable with each other. In this paper, we propose an XML-based ECA rule definition language, called Active Rule Markup Language (ARML). ARML provides an XML-based uniform rule description for the sharing of business rules among heterogeneous active rule processing systems. Business rules are made interoperable and therefore reusable through ARML when mapped to ARML rule description facility. We discuss the language construct, the proposed rule interoperability, and a prototype implementation.