Course Outline
Short introduction to rule engines
- Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Forward vs Backward chaining
- Declarative vs procedure/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 process 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 (lots of them)
Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
- Executing ruleset from a process
- Rules vs gateways
- Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL to be used by manages
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from rules
- Strategies for writing rules from DSL written by analysts
Unit testing
- Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
- Executing test automatically
Requirements
Though not required, programming skills in any language strongly recommended (SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc...)
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Testimonials (5)
the Labs
Frank Mhlongo - Standard Bank of South Africa
Course - JBoss
the trainers skills about the topics and hes way to approach it after viewing our environment in screen share session.
Stig-Ole Amundsen - Helse Nord IKT
Course - WildFly Server Administration
Shared examples of every function and/or operators are all well explained.
Brian Amlon - Thakral One, Inc.
Course - Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers
Exercises and solving problems in groups when the problems were more difficult.
Randy Comer Comer - Sandia National Labs
Course - Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts
I really enjoyed the good atmosphere.