Rule Management Overview

A rule is a function that defines how changes in environmental condition affects the optimality of that environment for a soil type.

A rule is the basic unit of a knowledge database. Soil scientists may provide their knowledge in the form of optimality functions directly, or they may use words to express the knowledge on the relationship between soil type and environmental condition, or they may identify some locations as places where the soil is typical for the given soil type using a topographic map, DEM, or orthophoto. SoLIM Solutions provides different rule types to support different kinds of knowledge and organizes them in a uniform framework.

Rule management deals with the adding, deleting, renaming, and editing rules.