Back from RuleML 2007

I attended the RuleML 2007 symposium at Orlando, Florida, which was co-located with the Business Rules Forum.

My main motivation for attending was to build bridges between the BDIM community and the business rules research community, and I was quite happy with the outcome in the end. The symposium was really well organized (Adrian Paschke of Technical University Munich and Yevgen Biletskiy of the University of New Brunswick did a really good job). It definitely helped that it was co-located with the Business Rules Forum, so that they were able to put together a very strong program with four invited addresses and a very interesting panel discussion. They also ran a "challenge session" that was actually more of a demo session than something along the lines of the trading agent competition. However, it got the audience engaged and made the whole experience more interesting.

The most promising connection at this point for BDIM seems to be with the editors of the OMG's Business Motivation Model (John Hall et. al.). The business motivation model could be the basis of the framework to express business objectives and map IT metrics to them.