href="http://rulesfest.org/html/agenda.html"

target="_blank">RulesFest moved to Burlingame (still

Bay Area, CA USA) where arrivees on Sunday (like myself)

initially had the minor shock of finding themselves in a tatoo

artist conference (complete with anti-gang police presence,

apparently!). Luckily they had moved on by Monday, avoiding

potentially embarrassing delegate mix-ups…

A few CEP-related sessions today:

• IBM's Daniel Selman looked at the various

  href="http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/2010/03/04/how-does-cep-fit-into-bpm-and-soa-environments/"

  target="_blank">technology combination patterns of

  "Executing Processes, Taking Decisions and Detecting

  Situations". Daniel discussed the stateful (short-term)

  CEP versus stateful (long-term) BPM versus stateless decisions,

  which is an interesting (if over simplistic IMHO) viewpoint that

  aligns, funnily enough, with IBM product division demarcation!

  [Also reported on

  href="http://techondec.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/rulesfest-2011-daniel-selman-executing-processes-taking-decisions-and-detecting-situations/"

  target="_blank">here]

• Paul Haley gave a keynote on the

  "Roadmap for Rules, Semantics and Business"

  covering the future of knowledge processing, with honorable

  mentions to the Japanese 5th Gen computer project (highlight of

  the AI era), IBM's Watson (text processing engine), and

  his own work with Paul Allen 's Vulcan

  company's Project Halo and the "Scalable

  Inference for Large Knowledge" engine ( title="[PDF] on Ben Grosof's SILK"

  href="http://www.mit.edu/~bgrosof/paps/silk-iswc2009-poster-demo.pdf"

  target="_blank">SILK). Paul also commented on the

  need for rule standards to avoid the mantra that as soon as

  knowledge is encoded it becomes "code" and

  therefore only manipulatable by "coders" - an

  interesting point as languages like OWL are not at all business

  friendly. He also viewed OMG SBVR as being more important as a

  logic formalism for this reason. [Also reported on title="Sparkling Logic on Paul Haley's RulesFest talk"

  href="http://techondec.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/rulesfest-2011-paul-haley-roadmap-for-rules-semantics-and-business/"

  target="_blank">here]

• Fred McClimans presented on Rules and Human

  Behavior - and specifically on the causality of human events.

  This is the other dimension of event analysis, in this case

  supporting information flows across communities / tribes /

  crowds. Modeling information flows in human systems was somewhat

  scuppered by what Fred described as "pervasive

  hyperconnectivity" - the fact that communities

  communicate across conventional boundaries (for example using

  Twitter).

• Mauricio

  Salatino presented on "Emergency Services - Processes

  Rules and Events" where he had used Drools (and a nifty

  simulation UI reminding me of a computer game) to provide an

  emergency response system. [Also reported on title="Sparkling Logic on Mauricio's RulesFest talk"

  href="http://techondec.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/rulesfest-2011-mauricio-salatino-rules-processes-and-complex-event-processing/"

  target="_blank">here]

My presentation simply re-iterated some of the results

from customers' use of TIBCO CEP technologies as

presented at TIBCO's user group (TUCON) as previously

blogged. The main points were:

- Event-driven

decisions are

href="http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/2011/09/27/tucon2011-fedex-changing-whats-possible/"

target="_blank"> increasingly important in

corporations. [For the TLA challenged, you can view

this as the growth of EDD to support EDA (Event Driven Decisions

and Architecture respectively)].

- Traditional

href="http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/2011/10/03/tucon2011-pjm-controlling-the-flow-of-electricity/"

target="_self">BRMS strengths are not necessarily

required (proprietary repository etc) - some customers

exploit tools like Sharepoint and exploiting events to pass rules

around (Event-based Rules Management).

- More

"classic" business rule users like title="Previous post on TUCON11 AllState, Oct11"

href="http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/2011/10/03/tucon2011-allstate-yes-insurance-is-event-driven/"

target="_self"> insurance companies are also finding value in

CEP.

[Also reported on title="Sparkling Logic on Paul Vincent's RulesFest talk"

href="http://techondec.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/rulesfest-2011-paul-vincent-event-driven-rules-experiences-in-cep/"

target="_blank">here].

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