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?
Show Notes
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
