
1.6 Fuzzy Systems for Business Process Models
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turn. When all the rules have been executed, the inference engine hands
over the results to the application program that invoked the inference
engine.
1.6 Fuzzy Systems for Business Process Models
A more focused and structured approach to model building in the age of
distributed knowledge, fuzzy systems provide the means of combining,
weighing, and using multiple competing experts. Often these experts
are not people but other knowledge sources (such as other business
models and expert systems). For example, Figure 1.10 (somewhat sim-
plified) shows how several models work cooperatively in a distributed