Course Outline

Short introduction to rule engines

  1. Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
  2. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  3. Forward vs Backward chaining
  4. Declarative vs procedure/oop
  5. Comparison of solutions
  6. When to use rule engines?
  7. When not to use rule engines?
  8. Alternatives to rule engines

KIE

  1. Declarative vs Traditional Fact Model
  2. Executing simple rules with simple tests
  3. Authoring Assets
  4. Decision tables
  5. Rule Templates
  6. Guided rule editor
  7. Testing, limits and benefits
  8. Developing simple process with rules

Writing rules in Eclipse

  1. Stateless vs Stateful sessions
  2. Selecting proper facts
    • Basic operators and Drools specific operators)
    • Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
    • ​Intermediate calculations
  3. Inserting new facts
  4. Exercises (lots of them)

Ordering rules with BPMN

  • Salience
  • Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
  • Executing ruleset from a process
  • Rules vs gateways
  • Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
  • Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools

Domain Specific Languages (DSL)

  • Creating new languages
  • Preparing DSL to be used by manages
  • Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
  • Strategies for writing DSL from rules
  • Strategies for writing rules from DSL written by analysts

Unit testing

  1. Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
  2. Executing test automatically

Requirements

Though not required, programming skills in any language strongly recommended (SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc...)
  21 Hours
 

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Testimonials

Lots of exercises, which were good and which were well-administered.

Joseph Richardson

Examples explain and answer questions

中意人寿保险公司

Part of the exercises went from shallow to deep and gradually deepened

中意人寿保险公司

Nice Linux based training environment, a lot of examples and good web based documentation.

Roberto Campesato - CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research

I really enjoyed the good atmosphere.

Martin Jesterschawek

I liked the interactive approach, keeps the training interesting.

Elaine McCarthy

Very well delivered.

Damien Reid

Interactive trainer, helpful and had lots of suggestions for participants.

Liam Donovan

It was nice to see some other editors, other details around bpmn.

Derek Doherty

I really was benefit from the exercises in Eclipse.

Anna Beluskova

I generally enjoyed the exercises.

Merin Tony

The exercises were great and the material is short and concise.

Anjali Sharma

It met our expectations.

Vadim Bilan

Maintaining speed with taking every one in the group along. Exercise oriented. Tried to cover as much as possible comfortably.

Rakesh Prajapati

I was benefit from the flexibility and thorough explanations regarding the usage.

Denis Kirchhübel

I liked the positive and optimistic attitude. Gives good answers to questions.

Emil Krabbe Nielsen

Examples, practical use, answers to questions

Rafal

connection of theory with exercises

Mariusz Hanke

contact, knowledge of examples

Leszek Lickiewicz

driving method

Orange Szkolenia Sp. z o. o.

The instructor was EXTREMELY knowledgeable and had very good interaction with the class. I'm glad he was able to see our screens and give us help when needed.

- Sandia National Labs

Exercises and solving problems in groups when the problems were more difficult.

Randy Comer Comer - Sandia National Labs

I loved that he was able to see our machines to help us when we got stuck.

Megan Burns - Sandia National Labs

Filip was kind and patient and was generally responsive about questions and help.

- Sandia National Labs

I like examples to explain

- AUO友达光电（苏州）有限公司

Various aspects of the Rules engine world, the teacher was helpful and presented in a very structured way.

- Combined Computer Services C.C.S. B.V.

I mostly liked the exercises.

- Combined Computer Services C.C.S. B.V.

I generally liked the excercises.

- Combined Computer Services C.C.S. B.V.

He was very clear.

- Combined Computer Services C.C.S. B.V.

The provided wiki (extensive and clear), pace of training and natural way of presenting by Filip.

- Combined Computer Services C.C.S. B.V.

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