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A rule based system and method interacts with a user to provide the user a series of interim results. The system has a set of one or more operations. Each of these operations in turn has a set of one or more choices, called a choice set, associated with an operation. Rule based intelligence is appli

A rule based system and method interacts with a user to provide the user a series of interim results. The system has a set of one or more operations. Each of these operations in turn has a set of one or more choices, called a choice set, associated with an operation. Rule based intelligence is applied to the operations set and/or one or more operation choice set by a set of rules associated with its respective operation and/or choice set. When one or more rules in a rule set are applied to the operation set, an offered operation set is created which is a subset of the operation set. Only the operations in the offered operation set are offered to the user. When one or more rules in a rule set are applied to a choice set, an offered choice set is created which is a subset of the choice set. Only those operation choices in the offered choice set are offered to the user. The operations (operation choices) that are in the offered operation set (offered choice set) are those that conform to the constraints of the rules that are applied. The user selects operations (operation choices) from the offered operation set (offered choice set). Information about the user selections feeds back to the rules and is used to constrain the next offered operations and operation choices. The user is also permitted to change rules, rule specific metadata, and rule specific metadata algorithms as well as the data in the system. Interacting with the system this way, the user preference, knowledge, and judgment is incorporated in each of a series of interim results and is used to further develop the next interim result in the series of iterations.

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[ We claim:] [1.] An interactive rule based computer system comprising:means for storing data;an operation set of one or more operations, each operation having a choice set of one or more operation choices associated with the respective operation;one or more rule sets, each rule set associated with

[ We claim:] [1.] An interactive rule based computer system comprising:means for storing data;an operation set of one or more operations, each operation having a choice set of one or more operation choices associated with the respective operation;one or more rule sets, each rule set associated with one of the choice sets, and one or more of the rule sets having one or more rules that constrain the choice set to produce an offered choice set, the offered choice set having a subset of the operation choices of the choice set, the offered choice set presented to a user on an output of the computer system; anda feed back mechanism monitoring selection information about one or more selections of operations and one or more selections of operation choices iteratively selected by the user, the selections of operation choices changing an interim result, the feed back mechanism feeding back the selection information to the rule sets, one or more rules in one or more respective rule sets parameterized by the selection information to replace the offered choice set with a new offered choice set that is constrained by the rule set parameterized by the selection information.