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October 25, Drools / Jess Boot Camps |
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7:30 - 11:30 |
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Drools Boot Camp
Mark Proctor, Drools & Edson Tirelli, Drools
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8:00 - 11:00 |
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User Projects and special team work |
Drools / Red Hat |
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Drools 5.0 State of the Union: All new features in Drools will be covered at the end-user level including Guvnor, Flow, Fusion and Expert |
Drools / Red Hat |
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User Projects and special team work |
Drools / Red Hat |
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Drools 5.0 Avanced Engine: A deep dive for the technical on Rete enhancements, asymmetrical Rete implementation event processing and work flow |
Drools / Red Hat |
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User Projects and special team work |
Drools / Red Hat |
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Jess Boot Camp
Jason Morris, Morris Technical Solutions: Official Sandia Labs Certified Trainer
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8:00 - 9:00 |
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Jess Language Fundamentals |
Jess |
9:00 - 10:00 |
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Creating Facts, Patterns and Rules, Part I |
Jess |
10:00 - 11:00 |
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Creating Facts, Patterns and Rules, Part II |
Jess |
11:00 - 12:00 |
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Jess API Fundamentals |
Jess |
14:00 - 15:00 |
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Controlling Rule-Based Applications |
Jess |
15:00 - 16:00 |
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Designing a Simple Diagnostic Expert System |
Jess |
16:00 - 17:00 |
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Writing a Diagnostic Knowledge Base |
Jess |
17:00 - 18:00 |
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Writing the Control Knowledge Base |
Jess |
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| Monday |
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October 26, Drools / Jess Boot Camps |
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7:30 - 11:30 |
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Registration |
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Drools Boot Camp
Mark Proctor, Drools & Edson Tirelli, Drools |
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User Projects and special team work |
Drools / Red Hat |
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Jess Boot Camp
Jason Morris, Morris Technical Solutions: Official Sandia Labs Certified Trainer |
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8:00 - 9:00 |
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Writing the Application Code I |
Jess |
9:00 - 10:00 |
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Writing the Application Code II |
Jess |
10:00 - 11:00 |
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Attaching a User Interface |
Jess |
11:00 - 12:00 |
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Questions and Answers |
Jess |
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BRMS Survival Kit
Sean Baseman, FICO |
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9:00 - 12:00 |
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Slow performance, flaky business user interface or spaghetti rules are some of the worst pitfalls of traditional BRMS projects. Come and listen to a hands-on practitioner provide best practice advice illustrated with colorful case studies from the Blaze Advisor community. Whether you are about to embark in your first project or whether you have already experienced a business rules implementation first-hand, this technical session will provide nuggets that you can take home. This session is open to Rules Architect, whether you use Blaze Advisor or not. |
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October 26, Day One Conference |
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13:30 - 14:25 |
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Introuction to the Rete Algorithm
Lawrence Terrill: EBDX |
Rule Theory |
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14:30 - 15:25 |
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Playing With the Rules: Participatory Modeling and Network Gaming
Through a Rules Engine
Andrew Waterman, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur |
Rulebased Apps |
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15:30 - 16:25 |
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Rule Patterns and Features in Modern Forward Chaining Engines:
Rules Beyond Business Rules
David Holz: HRSI |
Rulebased Theory |
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16:30 - 17:25 |
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Early Alert System at Southwest Airlines
Greg Barton: ORF Founder & Southwest Airlines
Mark Sturdivant, Southwest Airlines |
CEP / Rulebased App |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
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Q & A
Lawrence Terrill, Andrew Waterman, David Holz, Greg Barton & Mark Sturdivant |
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18:00 - 21:00 |
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PubNight 1, Location - Walt Garrison Bar |
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| Tuesday |
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October 27, Day Two Conference |
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7:00 - 11:00 |
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Registration |
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8:00 - 8:55 |
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From XCON/XSEL to Today: An Engineer's Perspective on Rule Technologies
Thomas Cooper, Workscape, Director of Software Architecture
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Keynote |
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9:00 - 9:55
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Enterprise Architecture 201-B: Creating the Information Age Enterprise
Dr. Leon Kappelman, North Texas University
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Architecture |
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10:00 - 10:55 |
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Enterprise Architecture 201-A: Creating the Information Age Enterprise
John Zachman: Zachman International |
Architecture |
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11:00 - 11:55 |
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A Model-Driven approach for defining and validating BRE / BRM systems
Janet Hudnall: General Electric
Rolando Hernandez: BIZRULES
Fred Simkin: BIZRULES
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Knowledge Aquisition |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
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Lunch |
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13:30 - 14:25 |
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Production Rule Systems - Where do we go from here?
Mark Proctor, Drools |
Rulebased Theory |
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14:30 - 15:25 |
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Graph-Based Knowledgebases & Rules
Luke Voss, Mindview Labs |
Rulebased Theory |
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15:30 - 16:25 |
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Truth versus Useful Lies
Dr. Daniel Lavine: University of Texas - Arlington |
Rulesbased Theory |
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16:30 - 17:25 |
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Automated Verification Testing for Propositional Logic Systems
Dr. Rick Hicks: EZ-Xpert |
Testing |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
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Q&A -
Thomas Cooper, Dr. Leon Kappelman, John Zachman, Rolando Hernandez, Janet Hudnall, Mark Proctor, Luke Voss, Dr. Daniel Levine, Dr. Rick Hicks, Fred Simkin |
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19:00 - 21:00 |
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Pub Night 2, Location - Walt Garrison Bar |
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| Wednesday |
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October 28, Day Three Conference |
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7:30 - 11:00 |
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Registration |
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8:00 - 8:55 |
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Agile Business Rule Development: a tautology or an oxymoron?
Dr. Hafedh Mili, University of Montréal Québec |
Rule Architecture |
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9:00 - 9:55 |
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Rule Classification First
Eric Charpentier: Primatek |
Rule Architecture |
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10:00 - 10:55 |
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Rules Violations and Over-Constrained Problems
Dr Jacob Feldman: Open Rules |
Rulebased Design |
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11:00 - 11:55 |
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Generating Rules from UML
Daniel Brookshier: No Magic |
Rulebased Tools |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
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Lunch |
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13:30 - 14:25 |
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What's Different About Rules in CEP?
Paul Vincent: Tibco, CTO Business Rules and CEP |
CEP |
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14:30 - 15:25 |
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Measuring Your Rules' KPIs
Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon: FICO |
Architecture &
Performance |
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15:30 - 16:25 |
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Designing a System of Rulebased Agents
Luke Voss: Mindview Labs |
Rule Theory |
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16:30 - 17:25 |
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Extending General Purpose Engines with Domain Specific Resources
Edson Tirelli: Drools |
Rulebase Design |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
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Q&A -
Dr. Hafedh Mill, Erick Charpentier, Dr. Jacob Feldman, Daniel Brookshier, Carlos Serrano-Morales, Carole Ann Berlioz-Maignon, Luke Voss, Edson Tirelli |
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19:00 - 21:00 |
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Pub Night 3, Location - Walt Garrison Bar or
Dallas Cowboy Stadium Tour
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| Thursday |
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October 29, Day Four Conference |
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7:30 - 11:00 |
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Registration |
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8:00 - 8:55 |
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Programming Rules Using a Constraints-Embedded Spreadsheet Interface
Abhilash Tiwari, University of Texas Dallas
Dr. Gopal Gupta, University of Texas Dallas |
Rulebased Theory |
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9:00 - 9:55 |
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SINFERS: The Implementation of a Practical and Modern
Rule-Based Expert System
Jason Morris: Morris Technical Solutions, LLC |
Rulebased App |
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10:00 - 10:55 |
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Temporal Reasoning: A Requirement for Complex Event Processing
Edson Tirelli: Drools |
CEP |
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11:00 - 11:55 |
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Business Rules in the Cloud
Carlos Serrano-Morales: FICO |
Architecture |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
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Lunch |
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13:30 - 17:30 |
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Thursday Think Tank: "Needful Things"
Dr. Charles Forgy, Mark Proctor, Gary Riley, CarlosSeranno-Morales, Carole Anne Berlioz-Matignon, Dr. Jacob Feldman, Dr. Rick Hicks, Paul Vincent, Jason Morris |
Rulebased Tools |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
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Q&A -
Abhilash Tiwari, Dr. Gopal Gupta, Jason Morris, Edson Tirelli, Paul Vincent, Dr Jacob Feldman, Carlos Seranno-Morales, Dr. Charles Forgy, Mark Proctor, Gary Riley, Thomas Cooper, Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon, Dr. Rick Hicks |
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19:00 - 21:00 |
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Pub Night 4, Location - Walt Garrison Bar |
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| Friday |
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October 30, Day Five Conference |
Subject |
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8:00 - 8:55 |
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The CLIPS Implementation of the Rete Pattern Matching Algorithm
Gary Riley: Gary Riley Consulting |
Rulebased Theory |
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9:00 - 9:55 |
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A Survey of Complex-Event Processing Models
Charles Young: Solid Soft |
CEP Theory |
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10:00 - 10:55 |
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Distributed Programming with Rule Engines
Mark Proctor: Drools |
Rulebased App |
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11:00 - 11:55 |
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Closely Coupled Parallel Rulesbases
Dr. Charles Forgy: Production Systems Technology,
Founder/ Inventor of Rete Algorithm |
Rulebased Theory |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
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Q&A and Conference Wrap up-
Gary Riley, Charles Young, Mark Proctor, Dr. Charles Forgy |
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13:30 |
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Lunch / Depart Conference |
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