Since the late 1990s, natural language processing (NLP) has seen a massive shift from high-precision, low-recall systems based on small sets of hand-written rules, to methods based on the statistical analysis of large corpora.
Descartes gave four rules of method in philosophy based on mathematical procedure: (1) accept as true only indubitable (self-evident) propositions, (2) divide problems into parts, (3) work in order from simple to complex, and (4) make enumerations and reviews complete and general.
The agency will rule on the methods regulators used to force the regional Bells to let rivals lease their networks at steep discounts under The Telecommunications Act of 1996.
However, in 1998 in an extraordinary burst of judicial activism, the special appeals court for patents, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, eliminated the rule against patents on methods of doing business.
IFI cites the 2014 Supreme Court decision in the Alice Corp. vs. CLS Bank International, which tightened the rules on which business methods are patentable.
Pasquier et al. [32] and Tin et al. [36] concentrate on methods to discover rules with minimal antecedents and maximal consequents in rule classes with identical closures.
There is a large literature on "scoring rules": methods for measuring how good a probability is relative to the actual state of the world (Brier 1950; Savage 1971; Joyce 2009; Pettigrew 2011).
The discussion focuses on methods for designing of fuzzy rule base.
Project labor agreements set wages and establish work rules and methods of settling grievances on large multi-contractor construction projects.
For devices and functional products, conceptual product design is carried out by modeling the product based on thermodynamics, kinetics and transport processes, by performing experiments, and by decision making based on rule-based methods The results are product specifications in terms of the type of ingredients, composition, and the structure, form, shape or configuration of the product.
