Blaze Advisor 6.5 springs forward, falls back | InfoWorld | Review | 2007-11-19 | By Steven Núñez
Review of the latest release of one of the leading business rules management systems
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Mark Proctor, he of Drools fame, posted today on his vision for unifying rules and processes. Not content with describing me as “large” and “infamous” in a previous post, now he has to get my blood pressure up with this new post! Seriously, though, I am going to disagree with Mark’s basic premise.
For starters, the [...]

I just noticed that amazon.com is discounting the book so, if you (or your friends) don’t own a copy, now would be a great time to buy one. You can buy it here for just $41.00!

As it’s a holiday week here in the US (Thanksgiving) I spent some time working on the layout of the blog. Hopefully you like the new look, in particular some of the new features in the sidebars and the use of the whole screen. I am going to work on the wiki and on some [...]

Sandy Kemsley posted about a presentation on this topic she saw at a recent conference by Michael zur Muehlen - his presentation is here (on slideshare) and is worth a visit. Sandy’s comments were, as usual, to the point and I only have one thing to add. Michael talks about using business rules to automate [...]

Ron Ross recently gave his keynote from the Business Rules Forum as a webinar. You can access the recording (free registration required) here. It’s a great overview and well worth your time.

Heard the news today that RuleBurst (an Australian BRMS vendor) has acquired Haley Systems (a US one). The press release makes a big point of the two companies shared focus on natural language rules and of their contrasting historical markets (Asia/Pacific and Europe v US).
I don’t have any more details beyond the publicly announced ones, [...]

Drools - Because Knowledge Matters: IJTC and new Production Rule (Rete) explanation in slides
Mark Proctor uses an SQL analogy to explain how Rete and other production rule forward-chaining algorithms work.
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ILOG BRMS Blogs » Managing Change and Complexity - Static Rule Analysis and Semantic Queries
Nicely detailed overview of ILOG’s view of static analysis of business rules
(tags: ILOG BRMS static analysis business rules)

I got a chance to attend some of Enterprise Search Summit West yesterday (thanks to my friends at Semantra). I attended a couple of sessions and browsed the exhibit hall.
The first session was entitled “What is Semantic Search“. Seth Earley gave a rapid 30 minute overview of semantic search. He touched on explicit and implicit [...]