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Product Safety (17)	Consultation and Feedback (1)
description:	Ontomatica's Consultation and Feedback Data Application integrates relevant ontology rules (items, properties, relationships and constraints) with relevant data sets. The Consultation and Feedback Data Application is used to specify outputs of a system that are routed back as inputs to form a circuit of review. Background: Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems: "Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and second system influences the first, leading to a circular argument. This makes reasoning based upon cause and effect tricky, and it is necessary to analyze the system as a whole."