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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Pierre C. Berlandier, San Diego, CA (US);
Jerome R. L. Boyer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In an approach to create a rule hierarchy model, a computer receives from a user a set of rules and an association between each rule in the set of rules and a concept of the plurality of concepts in a concept hierarchy. The computer receives set of rules is stored separately from the concept hierarchy. The computer determines a rule hierarchy where a rule of the set of rules is associated with one or more concepts. Furthermore, the computer creates a rule hierarchy model based on the concept hierarchy and the rule hierarchy wherein grouping related rules in a common structure provides efficient management that facilitates rule authoring, browsing, and extraction.