SE-Radio Episode 299: Edson Tirelli on Rules Engines

Robert Blumen talks to JBoss Drools project lead Edson Tirelli about Rules Engines. The show covers: the nature of business rules; rules and facts; rules and actions; the importance or rules to a business; the structure of a business rule; how many is “a lot” of rules?; communication about rules between the business and software engineers; domain-specific languages programming languages for rules; what is a rules engine?; how does the system communicate facts to the rules engine?; how the rules engine executes rules efficiently; the RETE algorithm; stateful versus stateless rules; complex event processing; the JBoss server; developing with the Drools toolset; size, speed and efficiency of the rules engine; how do rules fit into the modern artificial intelligence environment with more data-driven approaches?

Related links

• Edson Tirelli on twitter
• Wikipedia entry on business rules engine
• Wikipedia entry on business rules
• JBoss developer portal
• Wikipedia entry on Charles Forgy, inventor of the RETE algorithm
• Origin of the RETE algorithm
• How the RETE algorithm works
• Design of the RETE algorithm
• Alternatives to the RETE algorithm
• Getting Started With the Java Rule Engine API (JSR 94)
• Episode 286: Introduction to Machine Learning
• Episode 182: Domain-Specific Languages

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