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Course Outline
Short introduction to rule engines
- Brief history of Expert Systems and Rule Engines
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Forward vs. backward chaining
- Declarative vs. procedural/OOP
- Comparison of solutions
- When to use rule engines?
- When not to use rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative vs. Traditional Fact Model
- Executing simple rules with simple tests
- Authoring Assets
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limits, and benefits
- Developing simple processes with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs. Stateful sessions
- Selecting proper facts
- Basic operators and Drools-specific operators
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (plenty of them)
Ordering 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
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL for use by managers
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from rules
- Strategies for writing rules from DSL authored by analysts
Unit testing
- Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
- Executing tests automatically
Requirements
While not mandatory, programming proficiency in any language is strongly recommended (e.g., SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc.).
21 Hours
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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.
