Talk:Inference engine

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"the inference engine model allows a more complete separation of the knowledge (in the rules) from the control (the inference engine)."

What about separation from the data (view)? Isn't that just as important?

[edit] Merge

Production system, Business rules engine, production system, inference engine, all those are basically the same notion, alll these articles needs to be merged--Kompere (talk) 14:56, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I do not think that an inference engine is actually a sub-type of reasoning engine – the terms are used interchangeably in many contexts! For instance, I got [1] and [2] from the first page of Google hits. Hence, inference engine should not redirect to a production-rule topic, but rather to reasoning engine (which should then clarify the different applications fields early on). But inference engine's current production-rule-heavy content could indeed be merged into the suggested production rule articles. --Markus Krötzsch 21:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)