<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.dzone.com/links/r/intellifest_drools_amp_jbpm_workshop_agenda_san_d.html">http://www.dzone.com/links/r/intellifest_drools_amp_jbpm_workshop_agenda_san_d.html</a><div>---</div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At </span><a href="http://intellifest.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 42, 119); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">IntelliFest</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> this year there are two Drools workshops. There is the "General Drools&jBPM Workshop", which is a series of high level talks explaining the various features of Drools&jBPM. The second is the workshop "Rule Design Patterns in Production Systems", by Dr Wolfgang Laun, which is aimed at rule authoring techniques. The agenda for both is below, you can see the more detailed and up to date agenda </span><a href="http://intellifest.org/wordpress/boot-camps/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 42, 119); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">here</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Only 7 weeks to go, and there are limited spaces, so </span><a href="http://intellifest.org/wordpress/community-registration/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 42, 119); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">register soon here</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="separator" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; text-align: center; "><a href="http://intellifest.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/featured_item_11-625x220.png" imageanchor="1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 42, 119); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" height="140" width="400" style="border: none; position: relative; " id="73f94817-c0a6-4bbb-8eb8-c3501b9d7729" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3017765B-55D0-44FA-B7AB-7BE110149BF5@42sls"></a></div><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">General Drools&jBPM Workshop</h3><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">8.00 AM: Breakfast Social – pre-laptop setup, and QA time with solution Architects.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; "> </span></b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: white; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; ">-Key will be provided to setup your laptop, so you can view and run the examples used during the talks.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b>9.00 BRMS Product Overview (Prakash Aradhya 15min) </b></span><br>How we turn the Drools and jBPM communtiy parts into a world class product. Supporting and harvesting all the innovation done in the open community, Red Hat delivers reliable, dependable and integrated solutions for enterprise customers.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">9.15 Introduction to Drools Expert (Mark Proctor 45min)</span> </b><br>Drools Expert covers the business rule engine. A gentle, example driven, dive into the Drools technical rule language and engine features.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">10.10 Introduction to Drools Fusion (Edson Tirelli 45min)</span> </b><br>Learn how Drools does CEP differently. Our unified approach extends Drools Expert with a series of language and sub-engine extensions to provide temporal reasoning and event correlation.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">11.05 Introduction to jBPM and BPMN2 (Kris Verlaenen 45min)</span> </b><br>jBPM is a BPM engine designed for flexible processes, implementing and extending the BPMN2 spec. Built form the ground up to be part of a unified strategy for business automation and decision management. jBPM fully integrates with Drools Expert and Fusion.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">11.45 Decision Modelling with Graphical Editors (Edson Tirelli 30min)</span> </b><br>Drools Expert provides sophisticated web based tooling, around decision tables, guided editors and templates. Our decision modelling approach draws from the very best research found at Dr Jan Vanthienien school of Decision Modelling.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b>12.30 Working Lunch – Experience Drools and jBPM – Hands on labs (Optional) (1hour)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">13.30 Human Tasks up Close and Personal (Kris Verlaenen 40min)</span> </b><br>Human tasks are a central component of BPM. This example driven talk will build an example live, demonstrating what jBPM’s Human Task technology can do for you.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">14.20 Building Games with Drools – Pong, Snake and Wumpus (Mark Proctor 40min)</span> </b><br>Time for some hard play, learn how to build classic computer games with Drools. These also provide interesting exercises in BA requirements gathering.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">15.10 Drools Planner a Quick Overview (Geoffrey De Smet 40min)</span> </b><br>Whether it’s employee rostering, task scheduling, vehicle routing, bin packing or another planning problem: all organizations try to optimize their limited resources under constraints. Drools Planner optimizes business resources for normal Java programmers.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">15.50 Drools Chance for Imperfect Reasoning (Davide Sottara 40min)</span> </b><br>Sometimes data quality is not perfect, so facts may not be known with precision and certainty. Likewise, crisp constraints such as hard thresholds might not be able to capture the complexity of a business policy. Drools Chance allows to apply gradual and/or probabilistic constraints to uncertain or vague data.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">16.40 UberFire – Drools&jBPM Workbench framework (Mark Proctor 30min)</span> </b><br>UberFire is a new project that forms the foundation of our 6.0 web tooling. It’s standalone framework that provides a sophisticated workbench framework for the web; where everything is a plugin. Come learn about the Uberfire, and how you can use the workbench to build your own web applications.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">17.10 Drools&jBPM 6.0 and Beyond (Optional : open as long as people remain)</span> </b><br>An open presentation and discussion about the design ideas, principles and goals that are driving the development of Drools & jBPM version 6.0. This will be an optional and informal session where attendees will have the opportunity to learn about what is coming, contribute ideas and provide feedback that will be taken in consideration by the development team.</div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">17.10 Hands on Lab</span> </b><br>Run at the same time as "Drools&jBPM and Beyond" and Beyond. Solution Architects are on hand to help you with your coding problems, and running examples.</div><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Rule Design Patterns in Production Systems</h3><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font: inherit; line-height: 22px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1.8em; vertical-align: baseline; "><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Rule Design Patterns</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">What is a “Rule Design Pattern”?</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Basic Rule Formats</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Fact Classification</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Handling Failure to Match</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Extending Rules</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Reasoning with Interfaces</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Active Facts</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Marker Facts</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Fact Proxies</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Application Design Patterns</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Short-Term Sessions</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Permanent Sessions</li></ol></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>