Considering that a high-end BRMS (Business Rule Management System) costs about US$50,000 just to get started, and that annual maintenance, runtime fees, and professional services can drive the total toward a hefty half-million or more, organizations on a
Rules in (and for) the Web have become a mainstream topic since inference rules were marked up for E-Commerce and were identified as a Design Issue of the Semantic Web, and since transformation rules were put to practice for document generation from a cen
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 Rule Builder is the rule authoring and testing tool of the QuickRules.NET BRMS. The Builder provides a simple user interface to build, test, and save rules for deployment. The Builder enables you to do the following:
New editors for Rule, Task, Decision, Definitions support a single screen editing interface with * Unlimited undo-redo support * Assisted typing and Intellisense * Complete keyboard support for building complex expressions * IDE like expression building,
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.
The Rete algorithm is an efficient pattern matching algorithm for implementing production rule systems. The Rete algorithm was designed by Dr Charles L. Forgy of Carnegie Mellon University, first published in a working paper in 1974, and later elaborated
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