Good to be hearing about a wide variety of topics here at RulesFest this week.
- Continuing a trend of TIBCO customers presenting here, TIBCO CEP user Union Pacific’s George Williamson presented views on Design Decisions for Rules Based Applications. Last year it was a talk on South West Airlines. I’m taking bets on who might be presenting next year…
- Some of the rule-based research systems have been presented, like John Laird’s SOAR (where the engine manipulates rule-specified operators, rather than selecting rules to execute), and SRI’s Karen Myers talked about Battlefield Situation Awareness with a “learning by demonstration” system.
- James Taylor reminded us of the importance of “decisions” viz rules, which conveniently followed and fitted-in with my CEP talk’s breakdown of IT into events-decisions-actions. I’ll follow James’ lead and post some more notes on my presentation later.
Bloggers of the event are being pretty frank which is nice to see – see Carole Ann Matignon and Carlos Serrano-Morales, James Owen, and Daniel Selman.
Disclosure: JT, CAM, CSM, and JO mentioned above are ex-colleagues from prior lives. Either its a small world or I’m stuck in a small orbit!
