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Course Outline
Introduction to Rule Engines
- History of Expert Systems and Rule Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward Chaining versus Backward Chaining
- Declarative versus Procedural/OOP approaches
- Comparison of available solutions
- When to utilize rule engines
- When to avoid rule engines
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative versus Traditional Fact Models
- Executing simple rules with basic tests
- Asset Authoring
- Decision Tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided Rule Editor
- Testing, benefits, and limitations
- Developing simple processes using rules
Writing Rules in Eclipse
- Stateless versus Stateful Sessions
- Selecting Appropriate Facts
- Basic Operators and Drools-Specific Operators
- Basic Accumulate Functions (e.g., sum, max)
- Intermediate Calculations
- Inserting New Facts
- Exercises (Extensive Practice)
Ordering Rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow versus BPMN 2.0
- Executing Rule Sets from a Process
- Rules versus Gateways
- Overview of BPMN 2.0 Features (Transactions, Exception Handling)
- Comprehensive Declarative Business Logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating New Languages
- Preparing DSL for Management Use
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for Writing DSL from Rules
- Strategies for Writing Rules from DSL Created by Analysts
Unit Testing
- Testing Strategies (Per Case versus Per Rule)
- Automating Test Execution
Requirements
While not mandatory, programming proficiency in any language is highly recommended (e.g., SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc.).
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.
