
Presentations and Publications
Presentations and publications devoted to decision management, business rules, constraint programming, and machine learning.
WhatsNew:
OpenRules 6.2.4 is available
A new release 6.2.4 enhances OpenRules BDMS with new features initiated by real-world use of previous releases: http authentication, additional date formats, advanced XML handling and execution reporting.
Recorded Webinar
May 7, 2013: Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models
OpenRules on Cloud
Read the tutorial "Cloud Application Development" with examples of OpenRules web applications available on the cloud.
WhatTheySay:
Forrester Research, Inc.
"OpenRules have the most-aggressive approaches to business-expert authoring
and typically requires less developer support than IBM ILOG, FICO Blaze Advisor,
and JBoss BRMS."
Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011
Events
Upcoming Events

CP 2013, Sep 16-20, Sweden
IntelliFest 2013, Oct.7-11, USA
DecisionCAMP, Nov. 4-6, USA
BBC 2013: Nov. 11-15, USA
Recent Events
Webinar: May 7, 2013
JavaOne 2012: Sep.30-Oct.4, USA
Presentations
Using Decision Tables to Model and Solve Scheduling and Resource Allocation Problems, Business Rules Forum 2012, October 28 - November 2, 2012, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Modeling and Solving Decision Optimization Problems, IntelliFest 2012, October 22-26, 2012 San Diego, CA.
JSR331 "Constraint Programming API", Jacob Feldman, JavaOne 2012, Oct. 1, 2012, San Francisco, CA. See YouTube's recording made by OracleLearning
Representing
and Solving Rule-Based Decision Models with Constraint Solvers,
Jacob Feldman, RuleML 2011 - America, LNCS 7018, pp. 208-221, 2011,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011,
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e66077u456548231
Creating, Testing, and Executing
Decision Models with OpenRules-6,
Jacob Feldman,
OMG Decision Modeling Information Day,
March 23, 2011, Washington DC
A Simple Inference Framework for Connecting
the Dots,
Jacob Feldman,
Rules
Fest, October 11-14, 2010 San Jose, CA.
Developing Large Scale Intelligent
Checklists with OpenRules BRMS
Bill Zemlak, Jacob Feldman,
The 13th International Business Rules Forum,
October 17-21,2010 Washington DC.
An Integrated Business Rules and Constraints
Approach to Data Centre Capacity Management
Roman van der Krogt, Jacob Feldman, James Little, David Stynes,
CP-2010: 16th International Conference on Principles and
Practice of Constraint Programming,
September
6-10, 2010
St. Andrews, Scotland.
CP Standardization Discussion
chaired by Jacob Feldman,
CP-2010: 16th International Conference on Principles and
Practice of Constraint Programming,
September
6-10, 2010
St. Andrews, Scotland.
A Generic Visualization Platform for CP
H.Simonis, P.Davern, J.Feldman, D.Mehta, L.Quesada, M.Carlsson,
CP-2010:
16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming,
September
6-10, 2010
St. Andrews, Scotland.
JSR-331: Early Draft Review
Jacob Feldman at the workshop "Open
Source Tools for Constraint Programming and Mathematical Programming",
CP-AI-OR 2010:
Seventh International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in
Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems,
June
14-18, 2010, Bologna, Italy
Using Hard and Soft Rules to Define and
Solve Optimization Problems
Barry O'Sullivan
and Jacob Feldman,
The 12th International Business Rules Forum,
November 1-5, 2009 Las Vegas, NV. See
presentation.
Rules Violations and Over-Constrained
Problems
Jacob Feldman,
October
Rules Fest, October 26-30, 2009 Dallas, Texas
CP-INSIDE: Embedding Constraint-based
Decision Engines in Business Applications
Jacob Feldman, Eugene Freuder and James Little,
CP-AI-OR 2009: Sixth International Conference on
Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial
Optimization Problems, May 27-31, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
A Unified Business Interface for Modeling
and Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Jacob
Feldman,
OMG Technical Meeting, Santa Clara, CA,
December 8-12, 2008
Integrated Business Rules and Constraint Programming Technologies for EDM
Jacob Feldman, Eugene Freuder, The 11th International Business Rules Forum and The First EDM Summit, Orlando, FL, October 26-30, 2008
Applying Business Rules to Complex Patent
Data Processing - EPO Experience
Rex Bosma, Jacob
Feldman,
The 11th International Business Rules Forum and
The First EDM Summit, Orlando, FL, October 26-30, 2008
Using Constraint Programming in Business
Rules Environments
Jacob Feldman,
October
Rules Fest, Dallas, October 22-25, 2008
CP-based Social Scheduling
Jacob Feldman,
Eugene Freuder, Leonid Ioffe, James Little, Oscar Manzano.
The International Conference on Automatic Planning and
Scheduling, Sydney, September-2008. Watch
Integrating Business Rules and Machine
Learning Technologies
Jacob Feldman, Ian
Graham. A presentation at
the 10th International Business Rules Forum,
October-2007, Washington, DC.
Business Rules Forum 2006 Vendor Panel ~ The
Future is Now
Business Rules Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Feb. 2007), URL: http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2007/b329.html
Configuring Complex On-Demand Services with
Business Rules
George Sallivan, Jacob Feldman. A presentation at
the 9th International Business Rules Forum,
November-2006, Washington, DC.
OpenRules - Open Source Business Rules Management System
Product Showcase at the 7th International Business Rules Forum, November-2004, Las Vegas, NV
Rules-Based Interaction Processes
J.Feldman, I.Khlystov, S.Meshcheryakov, S.Shor.
The 6th International Business Rules Forum,
November-2003, Nashville, TN
Jacob Feldman. The 5th International Business Rules Forum 2002 Conference, November-2002, New Orleans
Jacob Feldman. INFORMS, November-1999, Philadelphia.
Jacob Feldman, Didier Vergamini, PACP-98, The International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Constraint Technologies and Logic Programming, 1998, London
Building Maintainable Scheduling & Resource Allocation Engines
Jacob Feldman. INFORMS, 1998, Montreal.
J.Feldman, N.Sekas, ILOG User's Conference, 1997, Paris
Virtual Loader: a development environment for load planning systems
Jacob Feldman, Walter Maximuck, ILOG User's Conference, 1995, Paris.
Compete presentations (if not available online) can be provided upon request.






