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Course Outline
Short introduction to rule engines
- Brief history of Expert Systems and Rules Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward versus backward chaining
- Declarative versus procedural/object-oriented approaches
- Comparison of available solutions
- When to utilise rule engines
- When to avoid rule engines
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative versus traditional fact models
- Executing simple rules with basic tests
- Creating assets
- Decision tables
- Rule templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limitations, and benefits
- Developing simple processes with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless versus stateful sessions
- Selecting appropriate facts
- Basic operators and Drools-specific operators
- Basic aggregate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (substantial practical work)
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 DSLs for management use
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from rules
- Strategies for writing rules from DSL authored by analysts
Unit testing
- Testing strategies (testing per case or per rule)
- Automating test execution
Requirements
While not mandatory, having programming skills 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.
