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IBM Ilog JRules for business modeling and rule authoring
If you are considering the use of any of the following business rules management systems (BRMS): IBM Ilog JRules Red Hat JBoss Rules Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor Oracle Policy Automation (i.e., Haley in...
View ArticleRecruiting: IBM Ilog vs. JBoss Drools
I received notice of a Victorian government position offering $106k, as follows, today: BRMS Developer (WebSphere ILOG JRules) You will have proven experience as a BRMS Developer within a Java/JEE...
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Background for our Semantic Technology 2013 presentation (part 1)
In the spring of 2012, Vulcan engaged Automata for a knowledge acquisition (KA) experiment. This article provides background on the context of that experiment and what the results portend for...
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Financial industry to define standards using defeasible logic and semantic...
Last week, I attended the FIBO (Financial Business Industry Ontology) Technology Summit along with 60 others. The effort is building an ontology of fundamental concepts in the financial services. As...
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Well this is a blast from the past… I was working on “the next post” about how Watson, Google, and the semantic web threaten the major BRMS systems when I found myself rewriting that what matters about...
View ArticleConfessions of a production rule vendor (part 1)
If you are using one of the more popular rules engines, chances are you can blame me. I popularized the technology of forward-chaining production rules based on the Rete Algorithm. Others have...
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Requirements for Logical Reasoning
Here is a graphic on how various reasoning technologies fit the practical requirements for reasoning discussed below: This proved surprisingly controversial during correspondence with colleagues from...
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Simply Logical English
This is not all that simple of an article, but it walks you through, from start to finish, how we get from English to logic. In particular, it shows how English sentences can be directly translated...
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Confessions of a production rule vendor (part 2)
Going on 5 years ago, I wrote part 1. Now, finally, it’s time for the rest of the story. The bottom line to this story: It’s time to trade rule technology dating back to the 80’s for state of the art...
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Is business logic too much for classical logic?
Business logic is not limited to mathematical logic, as in first-order predicate calculus. Business logic commonly requires “aggregation” over sets of things, like summing the value of claims against a...
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