An overview of business rule technology and business rules methodology.  Does business rules technology hold the key to the success of the Semantic Web ?      

A small section about business rules methodologies.

How business rule technology can help users to utilize the emerging technology of the Semantic Web.

An overview of the rule based systems.  

The three modes of logical inference. 

A conceptual modeling toolkit, Using design patterns to model rules and generic tasks. 

Various issues surrounding designing and managing rule bases.

Special considerations for modeling workflows in a rule based environment.

Semantic Services and the emergence of the Service Oriented Architecture.

Lessons of rule based systems for the Semantic Web.

Early examples of the Semantic Web.

An introduction to simple rule engines and a description of the basic design of a Semantic-Web-worthy inference engine.  A 'paper' rule engine.  

Some strategies for implementing various inference mode with rule engines.   

A more extended example and a preliminary rule editor application.

Collected links and references in one place, organized by subject.

Also interspersed footnotes, comments and ruminations about other approaches and technologies which may or may not be useful.