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Course Outline
Brief introduction to rule engines
- Brief history of Expert Systems and Rules Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward vs. backward chaining
- Declarative vs. procedural/OOP approaches
- Comparison of various solutions
- When to utilize rule engines
- When to avoid rule engines
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative vs. traditional fact models
- Executing simple rules with basic tests
- Authoring assets
- Decision tables
- Rule templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limitations, and benefits
- Developing simple processes with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs. stateful sessions
- Selecting appropriate facts
- Basic operators and Drools-specific operators
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (extensive practice)
Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs. BPMN 2.0
- Executing a rule set from a process
- Rules vs. gateways
- Overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL for use by management
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from rules
- Strategies for writing rules from DSL authored by analysts
Unit testing
- Testing strategies (test per case vs. per rule)
- Automated test execution
Requirements
While not mandatory, programming proficiency in languages such as SQL, Java, C#, or VBA is strongly recommended.
21 Hours
Testimonials (2)
I loved that he was able to see our machines to help us when we got stuck.
Megan Burns - Sandia National Labs
Course - Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts
Exercises and solving problems in groups when the problems were more difficult.
