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Course Outline
Introduction to Rule Engines
- Brief history of Expert Systems and Rules Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward vs. backward chaining
- Declarative approaches vs. procedural/object-oriented programming
- Comparison of available solutions
- When to utilize rule engines?
- When to avoid rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative vs. Traditional Fact Models
- Executing simple rules through basic tests
- Authoring Assets
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limitations, and benefits
- Developing simple processes using rules
Writing Rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs. Stateful sessions
- Selecting appropriate facts
- Basic and Drools-specific operators
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (numerous hands-on activities)
Ordering Rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs. BPMN 2.0
- Executing a ruleset from a process
- Distinguishing rules from 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
- Test strategies (testing per case vs. 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.
