Betfair position on Production and Event-Condition-Action Rules

Dear All,

Our company (Betfair Ltd., www.betfair.com) is in the process of
defining our strategy with respect to the W3C RIF standardization
effort. We have identified five broad areas where rule technology
standardization may have direct commercial impact on our business. 

According to preliminary analysis, structuring event/response mechanisms
using production and reaction rules to allow for complex event detection
and action workflows, complemented by non-trivial information
integration, as well as structuring workflows and protocols involving
machines and human beings will be at the top of our agenda. Simply
limiting the scope of rules interchange to reasoning based on derivation
rules does not generate a lot of support in our company.

I will be updating the group on our use cases which are in the stage of
conducting internal interviews and requirement gathering. I will be
posting on WIKI some typical reaction rule patterns found during my
personal work on the Prova language (www.prova.ws). I am supporting the
idea that it will be good to identify various usage patterns and rule
flavours in order to avoid a lock-in into a particular type of rules and
not being able to have extensions for patterns useful in the enterprise.

Regards,

Alex Kozlenkov

W3C AC-Representative
Advanced Technologies Group
Betfair Ltd., London, UK
http:/www.betfair.com

Received on Friday, 2 June 2006 12:02:26 UTC