Comments on: Processes = event-driven decisions and actions? http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/2010/02/24/processes-event-driven-decisions-and-actions/ Complex Event Processing (CEP) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:56:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Paul Vincent http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/2010/02/24/processes-event-driven-decisions-and-actions/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 Paul Vincent Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:25:27 +0000 http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/?p=1135#comment-1021 Hi Paul - sorry for the obfuscation in the post, then... the point indeed I was trying to get across was that inferencing was not a use case in its own right but supports the other use cases (processes, decisions, event handling). Of course this is an IT view, not the "sentence view", and I was using "declarative" as in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming" rel="nofollow">programming view...</a> I like your classification (declarative, imperative, interrogative) and can see how these might enable a neat mapping onto some event-inference-process IT system... Cheers Hi Paul - sorry for the obfuscation in the post, then… the point indeed I was trying to get across was that inferencing was not a use case in its own right but supports the other use cases (processes, decisions, event handling). Of course this is an IT view, not the “sentence view”, and I was using “declarative” as in the programming view…

I like your classification (declarative, imperative, interrogative) and can see how these might enable a neat mapping onto some event-inference-process IT system…

Cheers

]]> By: Paul Haley http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/2010/02/24/processes-event-driven-decisions-and-actions/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 Paul Haley Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:49:27 +0000 http://tibcoblogs.com/cep/?p=1135#comment-1020 I was a little confused by what you were saying about inferencing here. But after a few re-reads I think you're saying that inferencing, even if it is "reasoning" and "AI", is OK (as in it "can be used"). No technology should be an end unto itself, but inferencing MUST be used for anything but procedural logic. There are three kinds of sentences in the world: declarative, imperative, and interrogative. Rules address the first two. Declarative rules are true. Their only use is in inference. Imperative rules say what to do. Their use is in taking action (e.g., reaching a decision). Practical systems need both (strictly logical systems only have the former, as in SBVR, as you know). I was a little confused by what you were saying about inferencing here. But after a few re-reads I think you’re saying that inferencing, even if it is “reasoning” and “AI”, is OK (as in it “can be used”). No technology should be an end unto itself, but inferencing MUST be used for anything but procedural logic. There are three kinds of sentences in the world: declarative, imperative, and interrogative. Rules address the first two. Declarative rules are true. Their only use is in inference. Imperative rules say what to do. Their use is in taking action (e.g., reaching a decision). Practical systems need both (strictly logical systems only have the former, as in SBVR, as you know).

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