CEP+Rules conference season for 2009 arrives
Posted by Paul Vincent
Rules - both business rules definitions (including business decisions) and rule-based programming - are very relevant to event processing (both for complex event detection and the subsequence decision and reaction - all parts of the “processing” aspect). Over the coming weeks there are some interesting conference events coming up:
EPTS5, 21-23 Sept 09: the Event Processing Technical Society is covering its working group activities in Trento Italy.
- Audience: analysts, vendors, corporate architects interested in the state of play in event processing technologies.
- Interesting for CEP: lots of European research is going on in CEP, and quite a lot of commercial take-up too. Some of the US leaders in EPTS won’t be crossing the Big Pond for this meeting though. Is this a sign that Europe is at parity with the US on advanced IT?
- Website: http://events.unitn.it/en/eps09
BRForum, 1-5 Nov 09: the main Business Rules conference (interpreted as either “business rules” conference or “business” rules conference - both views are valid!). Co-located (hoorah!) with
RuleML09, 5-7 Nov 09: rule markups and related issues, covering SBVR, PRR, RIF and (possibly) RuleML itself.
- Audience: BRForum is for IT and business folks interested in the rules area (including rule documentation as well as decision automation). Although the content mostly aims outside the power of events / EDA / CEP world.
The RuleML audience is more for the technical folks (systems integrators, enterprise architects, standards folks, academics) looking at rule representations. - Interest for CEP: At BRForum David Luckham is giving a (wakeup) session. TIBCO is also presenting on how CEP helps Decisions. RuleML probably has a CEP session including a CEP keynote on Rules in CEP. Also interesting is the start of coverage of other rule types - in particular constraint rules - which have yet to be much exploited in CEP (or conventional decision services).
- Website: http://www.businessrulesforum.com/ (and TIBCO blog readers can apply a discount code “9SPPV”)
and http://www.defeasible.org/ruleml2009/
ORF09, 26-30 Oct 09: the October Rules Fest is an “alternative” to BRForum for “rules programmers”.
- Audience: those interested in rule programming constructs, techniques, issues, etc.
- Interest for CEP: Even more CEP focus here; one emailed comment was that “CEP is the linch-pin for all rulebased systems for the future”. Plus a TIBCO contribution on whats different about rules in CEP…
- Website: http://www.octoberrulesfest.org/
Tags: BRForum, EPTS, ORF, RuleML
Complex Event Processing (CEP), Meetings and events, Rules | 14 September 2009 |
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By Paul Vincent, September 25, 2009 @ 05:58
Ron Ross reminds me that there are quite a few CEP / real-time rule processing references in BRForum this year, apart from David Luckham’s tutorial and TIBCO’s presentation (and the RuleML talks):
- Mike Gualtieri (from analyst Forrester) is speaking on “The Difference between Complex Event Processing and Business Rules”. That could be contentious!!!
- Paul Haley (from his new company Automata) has a facilitated session on events, processes, rules, - which if it is related to his presentation last year should be a very interesting update on the ontology required to join these domains.
- One of the BPM vendors is also talking up CEP (and indeed case management) as a “capability”. It will be interesting to see how the other BPM vendors view CEP - probably as a threat I’d guess, like the BRMS vendors (or so it seems).
Cheers