I made a decision to discontinue the Cut The Knot column. The column has a distinction of having straddled two decades, two centuries, and in fact, two millennia. It was never meant to last that long. I thank all the readers who cared to send me their sug
BI stands for Business Intelligence, which to some will sound suspiciously similar to Groucho’s famous comment. But in reality BI is more to do with providing the right “Business Information” to people who need it (i.e. business analysts), and there
The Rete Algorithm [References] is intended to improve the speed of forward-chained rule systems by limiting the effort required to recompute the conflict set after a rule is fired. Its drawback is that it has high memory space requirements. It takes adva
One consistent question we get from outside the CEP market is: what is the difference between a “standard” Business Rules Engine (or BRE) and a (rule-driven) Complex Event Processing engine? This is particularly interesting because a rule-based CEP en
Drools is an enhanced Rules Engine implementation based on the ReteOO algorithm, an algorithm adapted from the one originally devised by Charles Forgy. Drools has become quite popular due to performance characteristics and it’s natural language semantic
The famous golfer riddle - first published (as far as I know) by rule-celebrity Dr. Ernest Friedmann-Hill (creator of the JESS rule engine) in this online-article.
I have been thinking about the response I got from David Campbell to my posting on his CEP article. In his comment David discussed the difference between using a business rules engine in CEP (Complex Event Processing) and using business rules more general