vincent
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:11:30 +0000
The (newly
renamed)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is running a (series of)
Symposia in
Stanford in March ‘08, with
topics covering interesting areas like:
</p>-
AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management
-
Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents
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Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration
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Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering.
</p>Complex Event Processing technology overlaps with some of these AI topics [*1] in a big way: for example, rule-based CEP technologies expand on the production rule engines developed from expert systems tools for use as business rule engines; underlying distributed event sources and data storage provide efficient blackboard mechanisms for intelligent agents; semantics overlap with the underlying information models of events (especially the correlation of complex events into more meaningful information); etc etc [*2].
</p>As Process Management and Rules are “reasonably” well known to us at TIBCO (
) it might be of interest to study the AI / Business Rules / Process Management symposium (Call for Participation or CfP) in more detail. Disappontingly we don’t get far before detecting
hype (
i.e. paragraph one), namely that
W3C “standards” include
RuleML (which is not
even part of W3C), and
SWRL (which was a “submission”, not a ratified standard). Hmmmm… so why
no reference to the “official” W3C standard-in-progress in this area,
the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group? Maybe Rule Interchange is considered truly
AI-free (although I’d guess the
academic and R&D specialists helping craft RIF might disagree).
The remainder of the CfP expands on the semantics theme - the relationship between nascent
OMG SBVR and AI semantics research, for example. This is interesting, but disappointingly limits today’s AI research to W3C’s vision of a semantic web (although one could argue that either has hijacked the other). Relevant AI topics that didn’t get a mention include:
- machine definition of processes (such as automated generation of BPMN diagrams of processes)
- machine generation (induction) of policy-type business rules (as in SBVR business constraints) - note that rule induction of classification rules for production rule engines is also a long running (and worthy) AI topic, which would be even more useful given standards like
(also not mentioned) OMG PRR
- AI techniques for Complex Event Processing [ah, you knew we’d get back on topic at some point…].
Maybe next time!
</p>Notes:
[1] One paper directly of interest to the CEP community is “Rules for Making Sense of Events: Design Issues for High-Level Event Query and Reasoning Languages” by
Francois Bry and Michael Eckert.
[2] More examples on AI overlapping with CEP: this
comment on distributed agents, or compare this
commentary in the Wiki entry on the history of AI with these
comments on what is needed in CEP…
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01-12-2008
