We're starting early this year in our call for papers. For ORF 2009, regardless of the location and timing, because of the demand from the final session on ORF 2008, we think that it would be best to have ALL of the papers (except for "possibly" a tutorial session prior to ORF 2009) be on the APPLICATION OF RULEBASED SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY.
Here is the difference between ORF 2008 and anything that BR Forum is doing: This entire conference will focus on the following:
- Real World Business or Industry Application
- Supply Chain Management
- Forecasting and Quantitative Analysis
- Insurance
- Banking and Mortages
- Processing Plant Operations
- Geology
- Medicine
- Science (Chemistry, Physics, Math, etc)
- Engineering (EE, ME, CE, etc.)
- What was needed
- What was the approach
- What was the architecture
- Was the problem solved completely
- Show the architecture of the rules
- Examples of rules (yes, screen shots are permissible)
- Neural Network Solutions to problems are encouraged
- Solutions should have contained at least 200 rules but there is no maximum
While the main part or most of the rules "might" be business confidential and not displayed, that's OK so long as the attendees are shown the rules that had the most effect on the outcome. What we do NOT want are the following:
- NO Product Demonstrations per se
- NO Toy example systems
- And nothing to do with a Pet Store UNLESS it was a real Pet Store! :-)
So, any comments? This was what most of the attendees at ORF 2008 seemed to want. I'll probably put out an email later pointing everyone to this blog since most are not using the RSS feed to keep themselves updated. (We don't have an ORF blog right now but maybe next month.)
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