Wednesday | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Chief Architect Track

SESSION TITLE

Using Hard and Soft Rules to Define and Solve Optimization Problems

SPEAKER(s):

Dr. Barry O'Sullivan Associate Director Cork Constraint Computation Centre

Dr. Jacob Feldman CTO OpenRules, Inc.

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: Business & IT

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: Some

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

In this presentation we will show how to define optimization problems using hard and soft rules. While every solution of the problem must satisfy hard rules, soft rules can be broken to a certain degree. We will use a scheduling example to show how a problem defined by business rules can be solved as a constraint satisfaction problem using a constraint solver.
What you will learn:

• how to define hard and soft rules using constrain programming
• how to control the degree of rules violations
• how to use a rule engine and a constraint solver to represent and solve a scheduling problem



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Dr. Barry O’Sullivan is Associate Director of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre at University College Cork, Ireland. He is a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator, the current President of the Association for Constraint Programming, Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland, and Coordinator of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Working Group on Constraints.

Dr. Jacob Feldman is a founder and CTO of OpenRules, Inc., a NJ corporation that created and maintains the Open Source Business Rules Management System “OpenRules”. He has multi-year experience in development of decision support software using business rules and optimization technologies for real-world mission-critical applications. Jacob is also a senior researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre.