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Short introduction to rule engines

  1. Short history of Expert Systems and Rules Engines
  2. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  3. Forward vs. Backward chaining
  4. Declarative vs. procedural/OOP approaches
  5. Comparison of solutions
  6. When to use rule engines?
  7. When not to use rule engines?
  8. Alternatives to rule engines

KIE

  1. Authoring Assets
  2. Workbench Integration
    • Executing rules directly from KIE
    • Deployment
  3. Decision tables
  4. Rule Templates
  5. Guided rule editor
  6. Testing
  7. Work Items
  8. Versioning and deployment
  9. Insights into repository management (git)
  10. Developing a simple process with rules

Writing rules in Eclipse

  1. Stateless vs. Stateful sessions
  2. Selecting appropriate facts
    • Basic operators and Drools-specific operators
    • Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
    • Intermediate calculations
  3. Inserting new facts
  4. Exercises (extensive practice)
  5. Ordering rules with BPMN
    • Salience
    • Ruleflow vs. BPMN 2.0
    • Executing a ruleset from a process
    • Rules vs. gateways
    • Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
    • Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
  6. Domain-Specific Languages (DSL)
    • Creating new languages
    • Preparing DSL for usage by managers
    • Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
  7. Fusion (CPE) and temporal reasoning (for events occurring after, between, etc.)
    • Fusion operators
    • Example in Event Schedules
  8. Unit testing

Optional Topics

  1. OptaPlanner
  2. jBPM
  3. Drools and integration via web services
  4. Drools integration via command line
  5. Updating rules/processes after deployment without recompilation

Requirements

  • Programming proficiency in any language (e.g., SQL, Java, C#, VBA)

Audience

  • Software developers
  • System architects
  • Technical decision-makers evaluating rule engines
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