Lecture:
Ontology and Business rules in practice

Tuesday 7 October 2025 Bas van der Raadt gave a lecture for the course ‘Knowledge Organization’ at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam).

Where he talked about:
– Problems with code based systems
– Why ontology driven AI systems are needed
– What is an ontology?
– How to verbalize an ontology
– What is a business rule?
– How to verbalize business rules (i.e. with SBVR)
– How to make a LLM-free AI system that runs from an ontology without code generation
– How to develop an ontology
– Ontology goes beyond just information (facts), how are processes and actions also part of an ontology
– Different ontology languages, like OntoUML, DEMO, i* and e3-value
– How to combine those languages into one modelling approach