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

> 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

Dave, I would want reaction rule variants to be supported in addition to
the ability to (at least) query local and remote data (like distributed
query processing, "query-ref" messages), the reason being that the local
data or perceived events alone are not enough for making a
mission-critical decision. One should check that certain conditions hold
and this can also include reasoning about the events and state, for
example, using the event calculus approach clearly impossible with
simple SNOOP-like event algebra.

Once again, the key requirement is:

Rules must assist the decision making process in the presence of
evolving state AND events.

Cheers
Alex

Received on Friday, 2 June 2006 13:46:47 UTC