Re: Betfair position on Production and Event-Condition-Action Rules

Alex Kozlenkov wrote:
> 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.

Since you mention "non-trivial information integration" I assume you 
mean that you do need derivation rules it is just that you *also* want 
to support variants of reaction/eca rules as well. Is that right?

Dave

Received on Friday, 2 June 2006 13:33:57 UTC