Short introduction to rule engines
Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Forward vs Backward chaining
Declarative vs procedure/oop
Comparison of solutions
When to use rule engines?
When not to use rule engines?
Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
Authoring Assets
Workbench Integration
Executing rules directly from KIE
Deployment
Decision tables
Rule Templates
Guided rule editor
Testing
Work Items
Versioning and deployment
A bit more about repository (git)
Developing simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
Stateless vs Stateful sessions
Selecting proper facts
Basic operators and Drools specific operators)
Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
?Intermediate calculations
Inserting new facts
Exercises (lots of them)
Ordering rules with BPMN
Salience
Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
Executing ruleset from a process
Rules vs gateways
Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
Creating new languages
Preparing DSL to be used by manages
Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
Fusion (CPE), temporal reasoning (for events to happen after, between, etc...)
Fusion operators
Example in Event Schedules
Unit testing
Optional Topics
OptaPlanner
jBPM
Drools and integration via web services
Drools integration via command line
How to change rules/process after deployment without compiling