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</a>as well as the co-located Drools & jBPM tech and healthcare
days.<br>
<br>
Spaces are filling up fast, so register quickly!!! We have a full
plethora of speakers and talks now. Please take a look at the
updated details below, for a full list of talks and speaker bios.<br>
<br>
You can get the most up to date information from the wiki page
(which is copied below):<br>
<a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011" target="_blank">http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011</a><br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
<div style="border:1px dashed black;padding:10px">
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Logistics" target="_blank">Logistics</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Previous_Boot_Camps" target="_blank">Previous
Boot Camps</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Agenda" target="_blank">Agenda</a>
</li>
<ul>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Mon__Wed_Rules_Fest" target="_blank">Mon
- Wed (Rules Fest)</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Thu_Drools__jBPM_Free" target="_blank">Thu
(Drools & jBPM, Free)</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Fri_Drools__jBPM__Healthcare_Free" target="_blank">Fri
(Drools & jBPM & Healthcare, Free)</a> </li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Speaker_Bios" target="_blank">Speaker
Bios</a> </li>
<ul>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Emory_Fry" target="_blank">Emory
Fry</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Nathan_Bell" target="_blank">Nathan
Bell</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Dave_Walsh" target="_blank">Dave
Walsh</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#John_Koisch" target="_blank">John
Koisch</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Diego_Naya" target="_blank">Diego
Naya</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Davide_Sottara" target="_blank">Davide
Sottara</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Mauricio_Salatino" target="_blank">Mauricio
Salatino</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Mark_Proctor" target="_blank">Mark
Proctor</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Kris_Verlaenen" target="_blank">Kris
Verlaenen</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Edson_Tirelli" target="_blank">Edson
Tirelli</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DroolsJBPMBootCampHealthcareFocusSanFranciscoOct2011#Ray_Ploski" target="_blank">Ray
Ploski</a> </li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>
<p><a href="http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/102-17205-22-17013/Hyatt+Regency+San+Francisco.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Hyatt Regency San Francisco.jpg" src="cid:part1.08050509.09020006@codehaus.org" height="197" width="402"></a></p>
<p><strong>The Drools & jBPM event is free, but you MUST BE
REGISTERED to attend. Registration is from the main rulesfest
website, <a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">here - </a><a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html.</a></strong></p>
<h1>Logistics</h1>
<p><strong>Where</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">Hyatt Regency, Burlingame, San
Francisco, CA</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>When</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">Rules Fest - October 2011 - Mon
24th to Wed 26th</li>
<li style="text-align:start">Drools & jBPM Boot Camp -
October 2011 - Thu 27th to Fri 28th
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">Thu general tech for Drools
& jBPM rules, workflow, event processing, ontologies</li>
<li style="text-align:start">Fri Healthcare focus</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:start"><strong>What</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Rules Fest
<ul>
<li>General reasoning technologies, rules, workflow, agents,
ontologies, uncertainty.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Drools & jBPM Boot Camp
<ul>
<li>Thu general tech for Drools & jBPM rules, workflow,
event processing, ontologies</li>
<li>Fri Healthcare focus</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:start"><strong>Time<br>
</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:start"><strong>Price</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">Rules Fest (Mon - Wed) see <a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">here - </a><a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html</a></li>
<li style="text-align:start">Drools & jBPM Boot camps (Thu -
Fri) <strong>FREE</strong>
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">The event is free, but you must
be registered to attend <a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">here -
</a><a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:start"><strong>Accomodation</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">Discounted Room block available,
see <a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">here - </a><a href="http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html" target="_blank">http://rulesfest.org/html/registration.html</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:start"><strong>Contact Details</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align:start">Rules Fest - Jason Morris - info at
rulesfest d0t org</li>
<li style="text-align:start">Drools & jBPM (general) -
Prakash Aradhya - paradhya at redhat d0t com</li>
<li style="text-align:start">Drools & jBPM (technical) -
Mark Proctor - mproctor at codehaus d0t com</li>
</ul>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h1 style="text-align:start">Previous
Boot Camps</h1>
<p style="text-align:start"><a href="http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-14964" target="_blank">Drools Boot
Camp : San Diego April 2010</a></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><a href="http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-13468" target="_blank">Drools Boot
Camp : San Francisco June 2009</a></p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h1 style="text-align:start">Agenda</h1>
<h3 style="text-align:start"><strong>Mon
- Wed (Rules Fest)</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align:start">General talks covering a variety of
topics related to reasoning systems, rules, workflow, agents,
ontologies, uncertainty.</p>
<p style="text-align:start">Paul Haley will give the key note (not
to be missed) <a href="http://blog.athico.com/2011/07/paul-haley-to-keynote-rules-fest.html" target="_blank">"Paul
Haley to Keynote Rules Fest"</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:start">Rest of agenda see here <a href="http:///" target="_blank">http://rulesfest.org/html/agenda.html</a></p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3 style="text-align:start"><strong>Thu
(Drools & jBPM, Free)<br>
</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align:start">General Drools & jBPM day with
presenters from Red Hat and core community members. This day is
suitable for all and will provide an introduction and overview to
Drools and jBPM and how they are used.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<table style="width:100%;border:1px solid #000000" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#6690bc" align="center" valign="middle"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Name<br>
</strong></span></th>
<th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#6690bc" align="center" valign="middle"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Company<br>
</strong></span></th>
<th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#6690bc" align="center" valign="middle"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Subject</strong></span></th>
<th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#6690bc" align="center" valign="middle"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Presentation
Title</strong></span></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Mark
Proctor </td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Red
Hat</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Drools
Expert<br>
(rules)</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Introduction
to what a Rule Engine is and the capabilities of Drools
Expert. This will cover both the Drools technical language
and Decision Table theory.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">EdsonTirelli</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Red
Hat</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Drools
Fusion (CEP)</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Complex
Event Processing facilitates event correlation and temporal
comparison. Fusion extends Drools to provide capabilities.
Come learn what , what type of problems it helps solve and
how it's done with Drools.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p>Mauricio</p>
<p> Salatno</p>
</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Plugtree</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">jBPM<br>
(workflow)</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Introduction
to what BPMN2 is, why it matters and how jBPM works.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Ray
Ploski</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Red
Hat</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p>Guvnor</p>
<p>(web tooling/brms)</p>
</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Guvnor
provides server side knowledge mangement, authoring and
deployment capalities. This talk introduces these conts and
provides live demos of everything coming together.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Davide
Sottara</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">US
Navy Healthcare</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p>Drools Expert</p>
<p>(Semantics and Ontologies)</p>
</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">What
are semantic ontologies and what research is underway with
Drools to help. Will also introduce the base foundation of
Traits, which provides dynamic and type safe duck typing.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Mark
Proctor</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Red
Hat</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p>Drools Expert</p>
<p>(rules)</p>
</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Learn
how to write Adventure games with Drools. </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3 style="text-align:start"><strong>Fri </strong><strong>(Drools & jBPM &
Healthcare, Free)</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align:start">Healthcare focus, especially clinical.
This day will be predominantly industry lead with professionals
doing most of the talks. None healthcare people are welcome to
join, but be aware that this day is specialised for a focus on
healthcare problems.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p style="text-align:start">Titles and abstracts are still being
fleshed out and subject to change, check back regularly for
changes.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<table style="width:100%;border:1px solid #000000" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#6690bc" align="center" valign="middle"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Name<br>
</strong></span></th>
<th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#6690bc" align="center" valign="middle"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Company<br>
</strong></span></th>
<th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#6690bc" align="center" valign="middle"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Presentation
Title and Abstract<br>
</strong></span></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Emory
Fry </td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">US
Navy Healthcare</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p><strong>Drools Enhancements In Support of Real-Time
Clinical Decision Support.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000"><span>Distributed Decision
Support Services and Knowledge Management Repository
(KMR-II) is a second generation Clinical Decision
Support (CDS) platform for healthcare environments.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the
overall architecture and then discuss in more detail
specific enhancements to Drools that enables it to
better support rule execution using standards-based
object models, semantics, and data structures. KMR
extends Drools with </span></span><span style="color:#000000"><span>Predictive</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><span> </span></span><span style="color:#000000"><span>Model Markup Language
(PMML), Grid Services, and Semantic Web technologies
within an agent architecture. </span></span>KMR-II
provides integrated knowledge management, analytic, and
predictive modeling capabilities critical to the immediate
and long-term care of our patients. As a sophisticated,
standards-based Clinical Decision Support environment, it
is uniquely suited to deliver “knowledge services” that
can be layered on a variety of health information
networks.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Diego
Naya</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">OSDE</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000"><strong>Improving
Healthcare customer service with Drools and jBPM5</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p>Mauricio</p>
<p> Salatino</p>
</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Plugtree</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p><strong>Emergency Services in action.</strong></p>
<p>The application was created to represent complex
scenarios that are being exe-cuted by an Emergency
Services company that deals with concurrent emergencies
within a city. The company needs to solve different
situations where different entities need to be coordinated
to deal with an emergency situation. The Emergency
Services Application shows how we can provide a tool that
helps the company to improve their services by giving them
full visibility of their actions, traceability of their
resources, suggestions and advice based on the con-text
without sacrifficing any degree of exibility that they
need to solve real life situations.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Nathan
Bell</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Pharmacy
OneSource</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p><strong>Speed Saves Lives: Leveraging a massively
parallel expert system for patient surveillance</strong></p>
<p>Pharmacy OneSource is a SaaS provider of applications for
hospital pharmacy and infection prevention professionals.
This case study will discuss the steps taken to develop a
next-generation patient surveillance platform that allows
clinicians to accurately detect risk factors, and perform
interventions. The platform leverages the GigaSpaces
implementation of Tuple-space and the Drools rule engine
to create a massively parallel expert system. This
architecture allows for customizable handling of millions
of HL7 messages per day, evaluation of thousands of
clinician created business rules, and reasoning over
hundreds of thousands of patient data facts to provide
near-real-time surveillance.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000" align="left" valign="top">Dave Walsh</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000" align="left" valign="top">eServices Group</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p><strong>Medicare and Medicaid look to rules for the
future of healthcare</strong></p>
<p>The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an
agency of the Federal government, has aggressive plans to
modernize healthcare administrative systems and Electronic
Healthcare Records (EHR). </p>
<p>The use of Rules and Business Process Management are a
focal point for the new systems. This session will
describe how Medicare and Medicaid work and how the
government (Federal and State) is looking for Rules and
BPM to help change both the administrative and clinical
environments. This session will look at the Medicaid
Information Technology Architecture (MITA) and how Rules
and BPM can augment this Service Oriented Architecture. We
will discuss how to get involved in some of the many
projects that are currently underway.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">John
Koisch</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Commence
Partners</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p><strong>Part 1 - Health IT, Informatics, and Rich
Information Structures - working with ontologies in the
Health space</strong></p>
<p> 1.1) What Health IT is and what it isn't - why health IT
is hard</p>
<p> 1.2) Standards and Health IT - the RIM, vocabularies,
CDA and standardizing information</p>
<p> 1.3) The changing nature of Health IT - Disecting a
typical health system design and why using ontologies
makes sense</p>
<p> 1.4) Why ontologies and information models are not
enough - Why we need rule-based systems and architecture
to build extensible IT solutions</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p><strong>Part 2 - Ontologies for the working Health IT
shop - working with ontologies in a development and
production environment</strong></p>
<p> 2.1) Examining system design - using ontologies and
rule-based systems with rich information structures in a
distributed setting</p>
<p> 2.2) Why good developers have trouble in Health IT -
where java and other frameworks are great, and where rich
information ties you down</p>
<p> 2.3) An example rule based system - dealing with DVT in
a clinical setting</p>
<p> 2.4) Towards an industrial-strength development
framework - Working with ontologies and rules in health IT</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Kris
Verlaenen</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">Red
Hat</td>
<td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000">
<p><strong>Clinical Pathways for doing Clinical Decision
Support (CDS)</strong></p>
<p>This presentation will describe how you can use <em>clinical
pathways</em> to describe the treatment of patients. The
pathways are usually the combination of processes
describing the overall plan (for example using a flow
chart approach but other representations like a
time-task-matrix are possible as well) and rules adding
additional constraints. It takes advantages of some of the
more advanced features of jBPM5 to create flexible and
adaptive, domain-specific processes that integration
closely with rules.<strong><br>
</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h1>Speaker Bios</h1>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>Emory Fry</h3>
<p>Emory Fry, MD, a neonatal intensive care specialist, has over 15
years of experience in the design and development of enterprise
clinical information systems with a particular interest in
cognitive science and clinical decision support, He is the
Principle Investigator for both the Distributed Decision Support
Services and Knowledge Management Repository (KMR) program and the
real-time Closed-Loop Mechanical Ventilation initiative
(SmartVent). His engineering team is actively enhancing the core
Drools infrastructure for the purposes of creating an open-source
real-time clinical decision support for healthcare. Current Drools
projects include Drools Grid, terminology support, ontology
integration, and a rule authoring workbench for clinical domain
experts.</p>
<h3>Nathan Bell</h3>
<p>Nathan is Principal Architect at Pharmacy OneSource (Wolters
Kluwer Health), a provider of SaaS applications for hospital
pharmacy and infection prevention professionals. He has designed
and implemented mission critical, near-real-time, high transaction
volume systems in several industries including financial, medical,
defense and telecommunications. He is currently involved in
various projects within Wolters Kluwer Health to apply business
rules technology to clinical decision support systems at the point
of care.</p>
<h3>Dave Walsh</h3>
<p>Dave Walsh is CEO of eServices Group. eServices Group is a
software development firm focused on supplying software products
to meet the needs of Medicaid and Medicare for over 18 years. Mr.
Walsh also chairs the MITA Technical Architecture Committee (TAC).
The TAC is an industry collaborative that is focused on supporting
the Federal government and States in the definition of the next
generation Medicaid systems based on SOA, BPM and rules.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>John Koisch</h3>
<p>John Koisch has over 16 years of experience in information
technology with 8 in healthcare IT. He has pioneered efforts at
bringing health IT standards into the development space. John has
worked at the strategic levels of a number of organizations, and
has led architects and developers in a variety of health and life
science integration projects. He is a principal in Guidewire, and
directs its research efforts, product development, and standards
engagements.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>Prior to joining Guidewire, John has held a variety of leadership
and development roles in healthcare IT and standarards development
organizations. He has developed a contract-driven development and
system specification framework. He designed and led development in
a Service Oriented Architecture to the DoD's Western Regional
Medical Command. In addition to application architecture, he also
contributed to the DOD's CDA Implementation Guide, participates in
HL7 actively on various service-oriented projects, and has
developed a framework for binding web services to HL7's rich
information models.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>John has a bachelor's degree in physics / astronomy, with focuses
on math from Texas Christian University and is certified in a
number of relevant technologies.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>Diego Naya</h3>
<p>Diego Naya is the Application Development Manager for OSDE,
Argentina’s biggest healthecare company. He has extensive
experience in BPMS and BRMS implementation in the healthcare
industry. Diego wrote the book “OSWorkflow: A guide for
implementing Business Processes” and several related articles.</p>
<p>Mauricio Salatino</p>
<h3>Davide Sottara</h3>
<p>Davide is currently working as an independent private consultant
and as a post-doc researcher at the University of Bologna, being
involved the development of remote health-care systems, enhanced
with AI-based predictive, diagnostic and planning features. </p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>In 2006, he has been awarded a SPINNER grant from the region
Emilia Romagna, attending a post-graduate course in "Research,
Innovation and Technology Transfer". Since 2006, he has been
working on the development of intelligent DSSs in the
environmental (in cooperation with the Italian National Agency for
the Energy, Environment and New Technologies) and medical field
and is a member of the Drools Community, leading a sub-project on
the extension of production rule engines to support uncertain and
fuzzy reasoning. </p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>Davide Sottara got his Ms. Degree (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. </p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>Mauricio Salatino</h3>
<p>Mauricio has been a Drools and jBPM5 Community Contributor for
more than three years now. As CTO of Plug Tree, he has been an
active community member, trainer, developer and Open Source
Software Evangelist. </p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>Mauricio is the author of the <em>jBPM Developer Guide for Packt
Publishing (2009)</em>. He was a JBoss Community Award Winner
2011 (New Features – Bug Fixes). </p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>blog: <a href="http://salaboy.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://salaboy.wordpress.com</a></p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>Mark Proctor</h3>
<p>Mark Proctor received his B.S. Eng. in Engineer Science and
Technology and then his M.S. in Business and Information Systems;
both from Brunel University, West London. His M.S. thesis was in
the field of Genetic Algorithms; which is where he first got his
interest for anything AI related.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>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 RedHat) as an employee when the Drools
project was federated into the JBoss JEMS stack. </p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>Having developed a powerful expert system, Mark is now turning
his attention to other declarative paradigms in an effort to unify
them to allow for richer domain modeling environments.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>Kris Verlaenen</h3>
<p>Kris is a Software Engineer at JBoss, by Red Hat, where he leads
on the jBPM project (an open-source business process management
(BPM) suite), and is also part of the Drools project (an
open-source Java rules engine). The jBPM project consists of a
lightweight workflow engine in Java that support native BPMN 2.0
execution and various tools and features around that to support
business processes throughout their entire life cycle.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<p>Kris did a PhD in Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium. His main research area is policy-based
management, i.e. using declarative policy rules for configuring
services, resulting in highly-configurable, reusable services. He
has experience and a great intrest in policy-based and rule-based
systems, workflow management, service-oriented software
development and clinical decision support. </p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>Edson Tirelli</h3>
<p>Edson Tirelli is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with over
10 years of experience in the Middleware and Telecom Industries.
He has been working on the Drools project (part of the JBoss
Enterprise BRMS product) design and development for 5+ years and
is the Lead Designer of the Drools Fusion CEP engine.</p>
<p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"> </p>
<h3>Ray Ploski</h3>
<p>Ray Ploski is the Director of Application Platforms and Developer
Strategy for JBoss. He has been an active contributor, consultant,
developer, architect and trainer aiding organizations and
companies adopt open source for the past fifteen years. Ray has
been regularly recognized for his contributions in advancing the
adoption of open source and is one of the few Red Hat employees to
have earned the Chairman's Award[1] . In his current role he is
responsible for JBoss's evangelism and developer programs.</p>
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