INFS 770 Meeting Minutes:
3/7/2004
Progress since 2/29/2004
- Kedar
– Implemented Jess with web service including a simple rule
- Mark
– Began writing introduction
- Rob
– Implemented “Hello World” web service
- Paul
– worked on developing classes and object model
- Everyone
– Conversion of policy to pseudo-code
Meeting Minutes
- Paul
reviewed first draft of classes he feels we will need to use.
Kedar should review this.
- Flow
– workflow – to be approved.
- We
reviewed the requirements (policy).
- Discussed
the object model we think we are going to use.
- Paper
outline reviewed, began including supporting documentation.
Things to complete over the following week
-
Everybody should post their version of the
pseudo-code based on the GMU policy
- Mark,
Paul will begin posting the introduction and paper guideline to the site.
- Rob
needs to install Rational.
- Everybody
should begin investigation of RULEML and DAML.
- Convert
paper form to web form.
Meet Wednesday at the Library at 7:30pm.
Kedar, Mark and Paul met at the Fenwick Library from 9 AM to 10 AM.
We discussed the general goals of the paper and the presentation. We agreed
that the paper would cover more material in depth and that the presentation
would give a short summary of this with a demonstration of an example policy
implemented as business rules.
Schedule/Plan (we will fill in more details every week)
2/25:
1) Mark, Kedar: find some GMU policies to use as examples
2) Mark, Paul: find examples of business policy ontologies
3) Kedar, Paul: create sample ("Hello World") web services
and agents in .NET (Kedar) and WebLogic (Paul)
4) Mark: look into background of and market for business rules engines
5) Paul: email Robert to ask about his status
3/3:
1) All: select example policy and start converting to business rules
2) Paul: refine reference list
3/10:
1) Mark, Paul (tenative): start draft of paper
3/17:
1) ?: complete samples ("Hello world") business rules application in
web services
3/24:
1) Mark, Paul: complete draft of paper and submit
2) ?: start draft of presentation