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AIRS
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Blawx
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Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
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Catala
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Drools
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IBM Cúram Social Program Management
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IBM Decision Management
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InRule (InRule Decisioning/Policy to Practice)
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LegalRuleML
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Lucidchart
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NAICS
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Open Referral
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OpenFisca
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Pega
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Standards Body
Data Format Standard
  • Standards making body that sets standards around information and referrals (I & R)
  • Helping create better ways to present / package referral services
  • Standards are robust and optimized to help the consumer experience
  • Helpful when picking the language / words to use in data collection, storage and consumer facing screens
Open Source
  • Well established
  • Accreditation / certification program
https://www.airs.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

AIRS Database Structures

Jason Yi
Technical Language/Specification for Modeling Legal Texts/Rules
Rules Engine
  • Drag and drop coding language to code legislation and contracts
  • Translating legislation and contracts into code
  • Integrates the legal text with the actual code so the structures line up
  • Building the s(CASP) language on top of Google’s blockly library
Open Source
  • Specifically designed for RaC
  • New, does not have a lot of laws already established
https://blawx.dev
Jason Yi
Business Process Visualizer
Rules Engine
  • Tool for business to understand business process in a graphical way
  • Modeling processes and eligibility rules
  • Accessible drag and drop format
  • Graphical interface, drag and drop
Open Source
  • Accessible to many backgrounds b/c of drag and drop model
  • No easy way to export to web/python scripts
https://www.bpmn.org/
Jason Yi
Technical Language/Specification for Modeling Legal Texts/Rules
Rules Engine
  • A programming language designed for both legal thinkers and computer programmers
  • When translating or writing legal documents in a way that can be read/run by the computer
  • Entire coding language dedicated specifically for modeling legal logic in computer code
  • Entirely custom built programming language
Open Source
  • Specifically designed for law, so it is theoretically easy to pick up for both legal and CS experts
  • Completely new language, everyone will have to learn it
https://catala-lang.org/en/about

Catala Research Paper

Jason Yi
Business Process Visualizer
Rules Engine
  • Business rules management system based on Java
  • Creating decision models based on rules and facts
  • Existing standard to represent Drools model in visual form (Decision Model Notation)
  • Uses Maven and Java as Product and Module respectively
Open Source
  • Ease to represent in visual form
  • Built using Maven/Java so need to have coding experience to use
https://docs.drools.org/8.33.0.Final/drools-docs/docs-website/drools/DMN/index.html
Jason Yi
Technical Language/Specification for Modeling Legal Texts/Rules
Rules Engine
  • A platform for providing social program delivery processes
  • Helping the delivery of social enterprises (ex: human services, health, labor, social security, etc.) to users from end to end
  • End-to-end support for all users, can handle intake, eligibility, evidence management, and participant management per case
  • Developed in Java EE (Enterprise Edition) and deployed in a way to be platform independent
Open Source
  • End-to-end coverage of the client experience
  • May be difficult for non-technical people to use and learn
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spm/7.0.0
Jason Yi
Automated Decision Making/Focus on Automation
  • Business decision management that leverages AI
  • Decision making in rapidly changing environments
  • Integrating both business rules and AI/ML together in the decision making process
  • Data is fed to both rules and AI/ML algorithms that produce decisions / actions
Commercial Product
  • Large established company
  • Not designed specifically for rules as code
https://www.ibm.com/decision-management

AON Italy Case Study

Jason Yi
Automated Decision Making/Focus on Automation
  • Ability to deploy automated decisions easily
  • Determining eligibility of people for benefits (see OK Medicaid Case Study)
  • Can easily integrate AI, ML, and process automation 
  • Business rules management software that integrates AI/ML
Commercial Product
  • Proven success (see case study)
  • Not specifically designed for RaC (repurposing an existing business automation software
https://inrule.com/

Policy to Practice White Paper

Oklahoma HCA

Jason Yi
Technical Language/Specification for Modeling Legal Texts/Rules
  • XML-based legal rules modeling platform
  • Modeling legal concepts
  • Able to implement more nuance into RaC (has support to try to model legal logic)
  • Built on top of RulesML, an XML-based framework
Open Source
  • Built on top of RulesXML, so if one has previous experience it is easy to pick up
  • Requires technical skill to use
https://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/legalruleml-core-spec/v1.0/legalruleml-core-spec-v1.0.html
Jason Yi
Business Process Visualizer
  • Easy to use business process tool
  • Creating logical flows of information in a larger collaborative environment
  • Large established company with lots of support
  • Can create diagrams on mac, pc and linux
Commercial Product
  • Easy to understand
  • Paid membership to use
https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/
Jason Yi
Standards Body
Data Format Standard
  • US standard that changes industry names into numerical codes
  • Statistical or mathematical analysis
  • A defined standard for identifying industries
  • Mapping different industries to numerical codes
Open Source
  • Already used and well established
  • Minimal value provided to RaC, not a lot of codes are on a small enough scale to identify specific public benefits rules, only identifies managing entities (ex: Administration of Economic Policies)
https://www.census.gov/naics/
Jason Yi
Standards Body
Data Format Standard
  • Creating a lightweight data exchange format for health, human, and social services that can integrate with pre-existing data formats
  • Documenting and sharing data related to health, human, and social services
  • Making a standard for data exchange, can allow for one instance of the rule to be implemented on different platforms
  • JSON schema
Open Source
  • Built specifically for human services
  • Not designed for analysis/automation to be applied to the format, more for sharing information
https://openreferral.org/

Open Referral Use Cases

Jason Yi
Technical Language/Specification for Modeling Legal Texts/Rules
Rules Engine
  • Acting as a digital common where anyone can create real or hypothetical rules
  • Helping people access benefits (Mes Aides)
  • Digital common, many contributors
  • Rules built using python and cases are presented in .yaml files
Open Source
  • Works with web apps and python scripts
  • Not a lot of pre-existing support for US laws and state variation under Federalism
https://openfisca.org/en/showcase/

PolicyEngine

Jason Yi
Automated Decision Making/Focus on Automation
  • Low-code solution for decision making for businesses
  • Allowing non-technical people to use AI/ML in their business processes
  • Low-code platform that has a variety of applications for businesses and business processes
  • Low-code platform that uses visual blocks to put together logical flows
Commercial Product
  • Low–code, accessible to many
  • Not specifically designed for RaC
https://www.pega.com/products/platform

Pega Government

UK Health Research Authority Case Study

Jason Yi
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