Just a reminder that Edson and myself will be at ORF09 in Dallas again this year. This conference has grown and is now a 5 day event, with a lot of big names. I've reproduced the full agenda below:
October Rules Fest 2009
Agenda
| Monday | October 26, Tutorials, Day One Conference | ||
12:00 - 14:00 | Registration | ||
13:00 - 14:00 | Introduction to Rule Harvesting and Knowledge Acquisition, Rolando Hernandez: ORF Founder & BIZRULES Manny Gandarillas: Bank of America | Tutorial | |
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14:00 - 15:00 | Introduction to Inference Engines Lawrence Terrill: EBDX | Tutorial | |
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15:00 - 15:30 | Q&A and Bio Break | ||
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15:30 - 16:30 | Introuction to the Rete Algorithm Lawrence Terrill: EBDX | Tutorial | |
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16:30 - 17:30 | Rule Testing Techniques: White Box, Gray Box, Black Box and Crazy Box Testing Greg Barton: ORF Founder & Southwest Airlines | Tutorial | |
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17:30 - 18:00 | Tutorial Wrapup / Q&A | ||
| Tuesday | October 27, Day Two Conference | Subject | |
7:00 - 11:00 | Registration | ||
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7:45 - 8:00 | Welcome and Introductions James Owen, ORF Founder & KBSC | ||
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8:00 - 8:50 | A Model-Driven approach for validating rules, documenting requirements, defining system specifications and replacing useless cases Rolando Hernandez: ORF Founder & BIZRULES | Knowledge Acquisition | |
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9:00 - 9:50 | Truth versus Useful Lies Dr. Daniel Lavine: University of Texas - Arlington | Rule Theory | |
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10:00 - 10:50 | Enterprise Architecture 201-A: Creating the Information Age Enterprise John Zachman: Zachman International | Architecture | |
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11:00 - 11:50 | Enterprise Architecture 201-B: Creating the Information Age Enterprise Dr. Leon Kappelman, North Texas University | Architecture | |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30 - 14:20 | SINFERS: The Implementation of a Practical and Modern Rule-Based Expert System Jason Morris: Morris Technical Solutions, LLC | Rulebased App | |
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14:30 - 15:20 | Graph-Based Knowledgebases & Rules Luke Voss, Mindview Labs | Rulebased Theory | |
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15:30 - 16:20 | Early Alert System at Southwest Airlines Greg Barton, ORF Founder & Southwest Airlines Mark Sturdivant, Southwest Airlines | CEP/Rulesbased App | |
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16:30 - 17:20 | Automated Verification Testing for Propositional Logic Systems Dr. Rick Hicks: EZ-Xpert | Testing | |
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17:30 - 18:00 | Q&A - Rolando Hernandez, Dr. Daniel Lavin, John Zachman, Dr. Leon Kappelman, Jason Morris, Luke Voss, Greg Barton, Dr. Rick Hicks | ||
19:00 - 21:00 | Pub Night, Location - Walt Garrison Bar | ||
| Wednesday | October 28, Day Three Conference | Subject | |
7:00 - 11:00 | Registration | ||
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8:00 - 8:50 | Agile Business Rule Development: a tautology or an oxymoron? Dr. Hafedh Milir, University of Montréal Québec | Rule Architecture | |
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9:00 - 9:50 | Rule Classification First Eric Charpentier: Primatek | Rule Architecture | |
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10:00 - 10:50 | Introduction to Rulebased Forecasting: Updating an Earlier Concept James Owen: ORF Founder & KnowledgeBased System Corporation | Rulebased App | |
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11:00 - 11:50 | Playing With the Rules: Participatory Modeling and Network Gaming Through a Rules Engine Andrew Waterman, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur | Rulebased App | |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30 - 14:20 | Production Rule Systems - Where do we go from here? Mark Proctor, Drools | Rule Theory | |
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14:30 - 15:20 | Measuring Your Rules' KPIs Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon: FICO | Architecture & Performance | |
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15:30 - 16:20 | Designing a System of Rulebased Agents Luke Voss: Mindview Labs | Rule Theory | |
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16:30 - 17:20 | Extending General Purpose Engines with Domain Specific Resources Edson Tirelli: Drools | Rulebase Design | |
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17:30 - 18:00 | Q&A - Dr. Hafedh Milir, Eric Charpentier, James Owen, Andrew Waterman, Mark Proctor, Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon, Luke Voss, Edson Tirelli | ||
19:00 - 21:00 | Pub Night, Location - Walt Garrison Bar | ||
| Thursday | October 29, Day Four Conference | Subject | |
7:00 - 11:00 | Registration | ||
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8:00 - 8:50 | Programming Rules Using a Constraints-Embedded Spreadsheet Interface Dr. Gopal Gupta, University of Texas Dallas | Rulebased Theory | |
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9:00 - 9:50 | Rules Violations and Over-Constrained Problems Dr Jacob Feldman: Open Rules | Rulebased Design | |
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10:00 - 11:50 | Business Rules in the Cloud Carlos Serrano-Morales: FICO | Architeture | |
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11:00 - 11:50 | Rule Patterns and Features in Modern Forward Chaining Engines: Rules Beyond Business Rules David Holz: HRSI | Rulebased Theory | |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30 - 14:20 | Generating Rules from UML Daniel Brookshier: No Magic | Rulebased Tools | |
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14:30 - 15:20 | Temporal Reasoning: A Requirement for Complex Event Processing Edson Tirelli: Drools | CEP | |
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15:30 - 16:20 | Building Domain-Specific Languages for Rulebased Systems Luke Voss, Mindview Labs | Rulebased Design | |
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16:30 - 17:20 | What's Different About Rules in CEP? Paul Vincent: Tibco, CTO Business Rules and CEP | CEP | |
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17:30 - 18:00 | Q&A - Dr. Gopal Gupta, Dr Jacob Feldman, Carlos Seranno-Morales, David Holz, Daniel Brookshier, Edson Tirelli, Luke Voss, Paul Vincent | ||
19:00 - 21:00 | Pub Night, Walt Garrison Bar | ||
| Friday | October 30, Day Five Conference | Subject | |
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8:00 - 8:50 | The CLIPS Implementation of the Rete Pattern Matching Algorithm Gary Riley: Gary Riley Consulting | Rulebased Theory | |
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9:00 - 9:50 | A Survey of Complex-Event Processing Models Charles Young: Solid Soft | CEP Theory | |
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10:00 - 10:50 | Distributed Programming with Rule Engines Mark Proctor: Drools | Rulebased App | |
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11:00 - 11:50 | Closely Coupled Parallel Rulesbases Dr. Charles Forgy: Production Systems Technology, Founder/ Inventor of Rete Algorithm | Rulebased Theory | |
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12:00 - 13:00 | Q&A - All Speakers | ||
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch / Depart Conference |
