visualizing inference process of a rule engine

	visualizing inference process of a rule engine
	Shi Jian; Qiao Ying; Wang Hongan
	2011
会议名称	4th Visual Information Communication - International Symposium, VINCI 2011
会议录名称	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
页码	-
会议日期	August 4,
会议地点	Hong Kong, China
收录类别	EI
出版地	United States
ISBN	9781450308755
部门归属	(1) Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
摘要	In this paper, we introduce an approach to visualize the inference process in a rule engine - Drools, which employs Rete as its pattern matching algorithm. As a software visualization work, our approach is focused on both static structure of the Rete network and dynamic behavior of the inference process. Since logic programming is distinct from other traditional programming paradigms, our approach is also different from traditional program/algorithm visualization methods. In this paper, we first introduce the target we choose to visualize, and then provide a description of the problem and our visualization approach. Finally, with an implementation and an interesting case - sudoku solving, we show that the visualization work is helpful to understanding not only the Rete algorithm, but also the rules used in the inference. Besides, our work supports debugging, tracing and analyzing the rule engine, which is useful in finding errors and optimization. © 2011 ACM.
关键词	Algorithms Java Programming Language Logic Programming Pattern Matching Visual Communication Visualization
主办者	ACM SIGCHI China; China Computer Federation
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/14201
专题	人机交互技术与智能信息处理实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shi Jian,Qiao Ying,Wang Hongan. visualizing inference process of a rule engine[C]. United States,2011:-.

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