[rules-users] Last Chance - Drools & jBPM at ICAART (Portugal) 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

[Mark Proctor]

The event is just one week away from being cancelled if we don't get 
more attendance. So if you are thinking of going, better sign up now, 
before it's too late.

Mark

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Droosl & jBPM @ ICAART 2012 is now confirmed, and myself (Mark Proctor) 
and Dr Davide Sottara will be there. If you have any interesting 
research on or with Drools & jBPM that you would like to present on the 
day, let us konw.
6-8 Febuary 2012
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
http://www.icaart.org/tutorials.asp

The day is a tutorial day aimed at all levels. It will start with 
general introductions to the technology but will slant off to more of 
our research based projects such as Drools Semantics and Chance, as it's 
part of an academic conference. We would also like to give an 
opportunity for the people to present their own research, slots can be 
anything from 20minutes to 60 - contact me if you are interested 
mproctor at codehaus d0t org.

There will also be plenty of time for discussions and help with your own 
projects.

*Abstract*

Drools is the leading open source, industry focused, rule engine. While 
Drools started life as a Rete based forward chaining engine, it has 
since transcended. It's ongoing mission is to explore declarative 
paradigms from a practical and industrial perspective, to boldly go 
where no engine has gone before.

The tutorial will start with a gentle introduction, suitable for all 
level of expertise, covering the core language and functionality slowly 
expanding into more complex areas. The topics covered include, but are 
not limited to:

Basic Concepts:

  * Patterns, Constraints and Unification
  * Data Driven and Goal Oriented Inference using Forward Chaining and
    (Opportunistic) Backward Chaining
  * Truth Maintenance
  * Temporal Reasoning and Complex Event Processing
  * Functional Programming
  * Traits and Declarative Models

Advanced Topics:

  * Decision Tables
  * Rule and Workflow Integration
  * Hybrid Rule-Based Systems
  * Agents and Services
  * Unified Testing

*Brief biography of Mark Proctor*

Mark Proctor received his B.Eng in Engineer Science and Technology and 
then his M.Sc. in Business and Information Systems; both from Brunel 
University, West London. His M.Sc. thesis was in the field of Genetic 
Algorithms; which is where he discovered his interest for anything AI 
related.


Mark became involved in the Drools expert system project at an early 
stage and soon became its project lead. Mark then joined JBoss (later 
acquired by Red Hat) as an employee when the Drools project was 
federated into the JBoss middleware stack.
Mark now leads the effort at Red Hat for a unified platform for 
declarative technologies; with a focus on rules, event processing, 
workflow, semantics, distributed agents and governance.

*Brief biography of Davide Sottara*

Davide Sottara received his Ms. Degree in Computer Science(2006) and his 
Ph.D (2010) in Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications from 
the University of Bologna.
His research and development interests include Artificial Intelligence 
in general and Decision Support Systems in particular, focusing on 
hybrid systems combining predictive models and rule-based systems.

Since 2006, he has been working on the development of intelligent DSSs 
in the environmental and medical field. He is a member of the Drools 
open source Community, leading a sub-project on the extension of 
production rule engines to support hybrid and uncertain reasoning, and 
he's also involved in the RuleML rule language standardization 
initiative. He is currently working on remote health-care systems 
enhanced with AI-based predictive, diagnostic and planning features.

*Contacts*

e-mail: icaart.secretariat at insticc.org 
<mailto:icaart.secretariat at insticc.org>
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