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Course Outline
Introduction to Rule Engines
- Brief history of Expert Systems and Rule Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward chaining versus backward chaining
- Declarative approaches compared to procedural and OOP styles
- Comparison of various solutions
- When to utilize rule engines
- Situations where rule engines are not suitable
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative models versus traditional Fact Models
- Executing simple rules with straightforward tests
- Creating Assets
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Evaluating testing, limitations, and benefits
- Building a simple process incorporating rules
Writing Rules in Eclipse
- Differences between Stateless and Stateful sessions
- Selecting appropriate facts
- Basic operators and Drools-specific operators
- Fundamental accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (numerous hands-on tasks)
Ordering Rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow versus BPMN 2.0
- Executing a ruleset from a process
- Distinguishing between rules and gateways
- Overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Achieving comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL for managerial use
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from existing rules
- Approaches for translating analyst-written DSL into rules
Unit Testing
- Testing strategies (testing per case or per rule)
- Automating test execution
Requirements
While not mandatory, strong programming skills in any language (such as SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc.) are highly 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.