Agile decision services without XML details
Externalizing enterprise decision management using service-oriented architecture orchestrated by business process management makes increases agility and allows continuous performance improvement, but…...
View ArticleHow is a process an event?
Today, I came upon some commentary by a business rule colleague, Carlos Serranos-Morales, of Fair Isaac concerning a presentation I made at the Business Rules Forum. During the presentation I showed...
View ArticleWhat could be more strategic than process or decision management?
The folks from Knowledge Partners have a post that I found thanks to Sandy Kemsley, whose blog often provides good pointers. This article talks about the decision perspective on business rules. It...
View ArticleGoogle vs. Facebook and Bing (again)
Almost a year ago, I wrote about semantics and social networking as threats to Google. In that post, I referenced a prior article on investments in natural language processing, such as Microsoft’s...
View ArticleIBM 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 ArticleWhat is has always been going to be
I’ve been working for a while now on an ontology for representing events (which includes process, of course). One of the requirements of a system that is to monitor, govern, implement, or reason about...
View ArticleEvent-centric BPM and goal-driven processing
The slides for my Business Rules Forum presentation on event semantics and focusing on events in order to simplify process definition and to facilitate more robust governance and compliance are at...
View ArticleNominal semantics of ‘meaning’
Just a quick note about a natural language interpretation that came up for the following sentence: Under that test, the rental to an oil well driller of a “rock bit” having an effective life of but one...
View ArticleSimply Smarter Intelligent Agents
Deep learning can produce some impressive chatbots, but they are hardly intelligent. In fact, they are precisely ignorant in that they do not think or know anything. More intelligent dialog with an...
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