Time to synchronise diaries for the Fall convention and conference schedule… starting, in date order, with:
RulesFest, 11-14 Oct, San Jose CA
This covers the declarative rule-programming paradigm, as relevant to CEP as it is to conventional data processing, as exemplified by some of the more advanced CEP engines use of rule-based paradigms:
- Constraint specialist (and OpenRules chief) Jacob Feldman is talking about a CEP domain – “connecting the dots” – what we might call situation awareness. TIBCO watchers will note his keywords in the abstract: “always running”, “inference engine”, “pub sub”, “rules engine”, “finite state machine”, “multiple event channels”, … and “Excel” (!) – with the latter being Jacob’s favorite “business user interface”.
- Oracle’s Hal Hildebrand is talking about a Distributed Rules Engine – in this case based on JESS (which may or may not mean Oracle’s version of said stalward Java Expert System Shell – if I recall the original abbreviation correctly). This might compare with TIBCO SPM as “an autonomic system for managing, monitoring and provisioning a large scale distributed system”.
- Starview’s Mack Mackenzie is talking about edBPM – “rule-based event processing systems and workflow business process management systems” with the comment that “unifying them can enable powerful next-generation use cases like real-time datamining and emergent pattern detection”.
- “Software Practices and Experiences of Rules in CEP Applications” by some old geezer might also be relevant…
Last year the event was “ORF” – and this year RulesFest again looks good value from $349 for software and system architects and designers, and should provide a more technical flavor compared to the more business-focused BRForum which we will preview next…
