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Brief Overview of Rule Engines

  1. History of Expert Systems and Rule Engines
  2. Understanding Artificial Intelligence
  3. Forward Chaining 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. Insight 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 (numerous)
  5. Orchestrating Rules with BPMN
    • Salience
    • Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
    • Executing a Ruleset from a Process
    • Rules vs Gateways
    • 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 Managers
    • Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
  7. Fusion (CPE), Temporal Reasoning (Events Occurring After, Between, etc.)
    • Fusion Operators
    • Example in Event Schedules
  8. Unit Testing

Optional Topics

  1. OptaPlanner
  2. jBPM
  3. Drools Integration via Web Services
  4. Drools Integration via Command Line
  5. Updating Rules/Processes Post-Deployment Without Compilation

Requirements

Programming skills in any language are highly recommended (SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc.)

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