Rules – both business rules definitions (including business decisions) and rule-based programming – are very relevant to event processing (both for complex event detection and the subsequence decision and reaction – all parts of the “processing” aspect). Over the coming weeks there are some interesting conference events coming up:
EPTS5, 21-23 Sept 09: the Event Processing Technical Society is covering its working group activities in Trento Italy.
- Audience: analysts, vendors, corporate architects interested in the state of play in event processing technologies.
- Interesting for CEP: lots of European research is going on in CEP, and quite a lot of commercial take-up too. Some of the US leaders in EPTS won’t be crossing the Big Pond for this meeting though. Is this a sign that Europe is at parity with the US on advanced IT?
- Website: http://events.unitn.it/en/eps09
BRForum, 1-5 Nov 09: the main Business Rules conference (interpreted as either “business rules” conference or “business” rules conference – both views are valid!). Co-located (hoorah!) with
RuleML09, 5-7 Nov 09: rule markups and related issues, covering SBVR, PRR, RIF and (possibly) RuleML itself.
- Audience: BRForum is for IT and business folks interested in the rules area (including rule documentation as well as decision automation). Although the content mostly aims outside the power of events / EDA / CEP world.
The RuleML audience is more for the technical folks (systems integrators, enterprise architects, standards folks, academics) looking at rule representations. - Interest for CEP: At BRForum David Luckham is giving a (wakeup) session. TIBCO is also presenting on how CEP helps Decisions. RuleML probably has a CEP session including a CEP keynote on Rules in CEP. Also interesting is the start of coverage of other rule types – in particular constraint rules – which have yet to be much exploited in CEP (or conventional decision services).
- Website: http://www.businessrulesforum.com/ (and TIBCO blog readers can apply a discount code “9SPPV”)
and http://www.defeasible.org/ruleml2009/
ORF09, 26-30 Oct 09: the October Rules Fest is an “alternative” to BRForum for “rules programmers”.
- Audience: those interested in rule programming constructs, techniques, issues, etc.
- Interest for CEP: Even more CEP focus here; one emailed comment was that “CEP is the linch-pin for all rulebased systems for the future”. Plus a TIBCO contribution on whats different about rules in CEP…
- Website: http://www.octoberrulesfest.org/
