For those who are interested in my former company, they are still committed to natural language business rules management technology, as shown in their most recent press release. They have also picked up on the public sector activity, especially eligibility, as discussed here. From the release, CEO, Dominic O’Hanlon, said: “With our natural language rule [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Rules Management’
In the names of CEP and BPM
Have you heard the one about how to drive BPM people crazy? Ask them the question that drives CEP people crazy! Last fall, at the RuleML conference in Orlando, was the first time I heard a consensus that a standard ontology of events and processes was sorely needed. I’ve had a number of discussions with [...]
Goals and backward chaining using the Rete Algorithm
I was prompted to post this by request from Mark Proctor and Peter Lin and in response to recent comments on CEP and backward chaining on Paul Vincent’s blog (with an interesting perspective here). I hope those interested in artificial intelligence enjoy the following paper . I wrote it while Chief Scientist of Inference Corporation. It [...]
Externalization of rules and SOA is important – for now
James Taylor’s notes on his lunch with Sandy Carter of IBM and the CEO of Ilog prompted me to write this. Part of the conversation concerned the appeal of SOA and rules to business users. Speaking as a former vendor, we all want business people to appreciate our technology. We earn more if they do. They [...]
CEP crossing the chasm into BPM by way of BRMS
Complex event processing (CEP) software handles many low-level events to recognize a high-level event that triggers a business process. Since many business processes do not consider low-level data events, BPM may not seem to need event processing. On the other hand, event processing would not be relevant at all if it did not occasionally trigger [...]
Agile Business Rules Management Requires Methodology
Don’t miss the great post about his and Ilog’s take on rule and decision management methodologies by James Taylor today (available here). Here’s the bottom line: Focus on what the system does or decides. Focus on the actions taken during a business process and the decisions that govern them and the deductions that they rely [...]
Rules are not enough. Knowledge is core to reuse.
James Taylor’s blog today on rules being core to BPM and SOA in which he discussed reuse had a particularly strong impact on me following a trip yesterday. During a meeting with the insurance and retail banking practice leaders at a large consulting firm, we looked for synnergies between applications related to investment and applications [...]
Haley / ART syntax lives on in open-source Java rules
The ART syntax lives on in yet another product! JBOSS Rules (formerly Drools) just described its imminent support for rules expressed in the CLIPS syntax here. NASA derived CLIPS from the syntax of Inference Corporation’s Automated Reasoning Tool (ART) in the mid-80s. I designed and implemented the ART syntax with Chuck Williams on a team [...]
Understanding events and processes takes time
We have been teaching a computer to answer questions like, “How much did IBM’s earnings change last quarter?” It takes a fair bit of knowledge, including how to understand English, to answer this question. But teaching it what a “quarter” is brought back memories of debates with some former CMU colleagues about what units are [...]
The $50 Business Rule
Work on acquiring knowledge about science has estimated the cost of encoding knowledge in question answering or problem solving systems at $10,000 per page of relevant textbooks. Regrettably, such estimates are also consistent with the commercial experience of many business rules adopters. The cost of capturing and automating hundreds or thousands of business rules is [...]