Ruleform

This page describes the concept of a Ruleform in the Ultrastructure system.

Ruleforms

Ruleforms are classes of formally equivalent rules. The rules in a ruleform all share the same structure. These ruleforms are presented in a tabular form, the structure of which is dictated by the ruleform. The contents of the table are the instances of these rules, one per row. In this Ultrastructure implementation, a ruleform is described by a relational database table, with each tuple of the table representing an instance of a rule. The primary and foreign key integrity constraints of the relational database model allow for rapid matching and selection of rules; a primary key consists of a ruleform’s factors, and foreign keys allow linking of information in one ruleform to another.