COOUG Business Rules SIG Meeting

UCONN Health Center, Farmington, CT.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006     5:30PM – 7:30PM

Dr. Adrian Walker presents….

“Application Semantics via Next Generation Business Rules

– Comparing Open Vocabulary English and OMG SBVR”

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Open to the Public
Free Admission and Free Parking (no pre-registration required)

Presentation Topic:

“Application Semantics via Next Generation Business Rules

– Comparing Open Vocabulary English and OMG SBVR”

SPEAKER:  Dr. Adrian Walker, CTO, Reengineering LLC 

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

According to the research company Forrester,  “Aligning IT strategy with business strategy has been one of the top three issues confronting IT and business executives for more than 20 years.  Polling of CIOs and business executives conducted in 2004 revealed that aligning IT and business goals remains their No. 1 or 2 priority”.

The stakeholders in a business IT project are usually a diverse group of people, and good communication is important to successful business-IT alignment.  What the stakeholders have in common is that they can converse, read, and write in English.

This presentation uses practical online examples to show that a next generation business rules system can usefully support business-IT alignment, by providing:

· English question answering

· Writing and running of applications, as business rules in open vocabulary English, without external dictionary or grammar maintenance

· Automatic generation and execution of SQL queries that are too complex for a person to write reliably

· Business level, hypertexted English explanations of results, without the need to annotate the rules.

You will see open vocabulary rules examples in Insurance, Car Rental, Supply Chain, and Business Intelligence, plus a comparison with the approach in the OMG Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules Specification [SBVR].

The rules examples are online, and you can view, run and change them, using a browser pointed to the Internet Business Logic system at www.reengineeringllc.com .  You are cordially invited to write and run your own examples.  To do this, you do not need to be a programmer, but some business computing experience, such as writing spreadsheets, will be useful.  Shared use of the system is free.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Adrian Walker is the author of over 20 papers, and an Addison-Wesley book, on business rules systems and databases. He has been Manager of Principles and Applications of Logic Programming at the IBM Yorktown Research Laboratory, Manager of Internet Development at Eventra (a manufacturing supply chain company), and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.

Dr. Walker presented this past March at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.  He will also be presenting in late April at the upcoming DAMA International Symposium in Denver.  Other presentations and articles from the past several years are available for download from www.reengineeringllc.com

[SBVR] www.omg.org/docs/dtc/06-03-02.pdf

Location: Low Learning Center at the UCONN Health Center, Farmington, CT.

In order to get to the Low Learning Center you must go to the main hospital entrance and take the escalators down one floor.  The escalators are located on the left hand side of the main lobby towards the back.  When you get off the escalators you turn left toward Keller Auditorium.  As you approach Keller you will see a hallway to your left.  Follow the hallway down a little ways and you will see the Low Learning Center. 

Directions to UCONN Health Center: http://www.uchc.edu/directions/

Parking:  Free Parking after 5pm in Visitors Parking at the Main Hospital Entrance 

(see campus map for locating Main Hospital Entrance: http://www.uchc.edu/images/campus_map.gif )

Schedule:

· Doors open at 5:30PM for pizza and networking

· Meeting Intro:  6:00PM – 6:05PM

· Presentation and Q&A: 6:05PM – 7:15PM

· Networking: 7:15PM – 7:30PM

Pizza, soda, and cookies courtesy of Lambert Technical Services – Business Rules Development Practice

COOUG Business Rules Email List:

To subscribe to the COOUG Business Rules SIG email list, simply send a message with the word 'subscribe' in the message body to:

bus-rules-sig-announce-request@cooug.org

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Questions:

If you have any questions about this meeting or the Business Rules SIG, please contact:

Co-Chairpersons, COOUG Business Rules SIG

Joe Garrity joe.garrity@thehartford.com
Ladd Bethune lbethune_brdp@lambert-tech.com

The COOUG Business Rules SIG was created in May 2005 as a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the CT. Object Oriented Users Group (COOUG).  The target members of the SIG are a mixture of business and IT since a business rules approach applies to both.  Topics will vary to accommodate the target members, for beginners, for techies, for business, user stories, case studies, etc.