Figure 2

High level overview of the architecture. Gives a high level overview of the complete architecture. The top left part of the figure represents the components responsible for translating XML-based flow charts into Drools Rule Flows. These components were designed by the authors. The components surrounded by a gray shade visualize the different modules of a Rule-based system such as Drools. These are external components which exist independently. Every possible Rule Engine could be inserted as long as a Post-processing module exists for it. This module translates the intermediate language to the specific language of the Rule Engine. The authors have designed a Post-processing module for Drools. The components at the top right of the figure illustrate the communication of the proposed architecture with the existing ICSP platform. The ICSP platform and the IZIS database were constructed by the co-authors.