Enterprise simulation and modelling using a language knowledge-base

Contracting is a complex decision process that involves the sifting and evaluation of masses of information, culminating in a set of contracts, each of which is a concise summary of: healthcare needs and outcomes; and the work-load for a lot of people over a long period of time. The author describes the use of Ep:Script knowledge base for planning evaluating and testing contracts. EpiScript is a clinically oriented computer language that can be used to describe, separately for each disease, the medical and resource related activities that take place during any healthcare treatment programme. EpiScript has well defined semantics and a sound type system. Its structure is such that parsing can ensure syntactic correctness. Most importantly, EpiScript is a process language. >