Declarative programming with rules, processes and cep

Abstract

Rules, processes and event stream processing/complex event processing are at the heart of the business logic for most enterprises. Each one provides a declarative environment to model the business problems, but each one cannot model everything so integration is needed to model the entire domain problem. Typically an enterprises will source each product from a different vendor and at some level tries to integrate the three to solve business problems. This integration is often very limited and superficial, such as processes only using rules for stateless decision services. In this talk we present a unified environment for rules, processes and cep all as first classes citizens and the declarative modelling advantages this approach provides.

Speaker

Mark Proctor received his Beng in Engineer Science and Technology and then his Msc in Business and Information Systems; both from Brunel University, West London. His Msc thesis was in the field of Genetic Algorithms; which is where he first got his interest for anything AI related. Mark became involved in the Drools expert system project at an early stage and soon became it's project lead. Mark then joined JBoss (later acquired by RedHat) as an employee when the Drools project was federated into the JBoss JEMS stack. Having developed a powerful expert system Mark is now turning his attention to other declarative paradigms in an effort to unify them to allow for richer domain modelling environments.