At the OMG standards meeting today presenting to a “packed audience” on Business Rule Standards on Production Rules and Decisioning… basically introducing the OMG PRR (version 1) and OMG DMN (pre-RFP) specifications. However, as talking metamodels and roles and graphical models etc risked sending even the most ardent standards-supporter asleep, I thought to interject some educational value of a different kind into the presentation – to wit, 1-page “tutorials” on what does it mean to be a “Rete-type” and “inference” rule engine. Sadly we didn’t have time to do the accompanying certification test in this session.
So… here are the condensed versions of “all you need to know” about Rete-type rules and Inference rules (with apologies to Charles Forgy and all the other rule engine designers and implementers out there…).
Click on the images for the PDF versions of these, er, “courses”.
Disclosure: both these characteristics are covered by OMG PRR, and used in the TIBCO BusinessEvents inference engine…
