Do you know how to ...

• Design software that captures a technician’s knowledge and can diagnose customer problems?
• Implement an e-commerce site that offers specials to customers based on criteria specified and changed by the marketing department?
• Create software that dynamically determines the sequence of actions needed to solve a problem?

While there are many solutions to these problems, rule-based software can solve them all.

The ABLE project (Agent Building and Learning Environment) from IBM Research provides you with the technology you need to developed rule-based software. And it can be downloaded from alphaWorks for free!

This course will get you started. You'll get enough of an introduction to ABLE rule-processing technology that you'll be able to decide whether you want to investigate it further as a possible technology solution for your projects.

Before starting on a topic, click on the Course Description and Instructions to find out:

• what will be covered in this course,
• how to proceed through the course, and
• what the other links on the page are for.