How to Increase Effectiveness of Inference in Rule-Based Systems

The control of the inference process is an important, though not always noticed, problem of using rule-based systems built with the use of knowledge-based approach in practice. Therefore, we have developed an inference algorithm allowing to minimize the costs of data acquisition. The algorithm was patented in the USA. The aim of this paper is to present the principles of the developed algorithm and the advantages of using it in scientific research and business practice. The performance of the algorithm is illustrated by using an example of a banking scoring system.