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PRESS RELEASE Thursday's July 28th, 2005 Stock Trading Alert: "Investors, have a look at VIASPACE, Inc. (OTC BB: VSPC), a spin-off of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory that transforms proven space and defense technologies into hardware and software products that solve today's complex problems. The company announced Thursday that its subsidiary, Arroyo Sciences, has licensed Spacecraft Health Inference Engine (SHINE) technology from Caltech.
VIASPACE said that SHINE, Spacecraft Health Inference Engine, is an ultra-fast rules engine originally designed for on-board monitoring, analysis and diagnosis of NASA's spacecraft and ground data systems, and intended for mission critical systems where inferencing speed, portability and reuse is of critical importance. The company said that SHINE embodies revolutionary concepts in knowledge representation and manipulation that go well beyond traditional expert systems. SHINE can process over 30 million rules per second on desktop class computer processors, as standardized benchmarking studies have shown, and delivers over 100X increase in inference speed and up to 1000X reduction in the size of the execution environment footprint over the best comparable commercial product.
Being the only known expert system that delivers applications to a target system without requiring any additional run-time environment or dynamic memory allocation, SHINE enables an entire class of embedded knowledge based applications on hand-held devices and microsystems. The company said that over the past 10 years SHINE has been successfully applied to over two dozen applications both throughout NASA and within the commercial sector including flight hardware, which has significantly impacted operations cost, reliability and safety in NASA deep space missions, including Voyager, Galileo, Magellan, and EUVE. "

Netherlands Corporate News - BT kiest voor managementtechnologie van Fair Isaac: "BT Selects Fair Isaac's Rules Management
Technology

Business Editors

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2005--Fair Isaac
Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision
technology, today announced that BT Global Services has signed a
contract to implement the Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor policy engine. It
will be part of BT Transform's operational support system (OSS)
framework.

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PRESS RELEASE Bluespring Software Announces OEM Agreement With InRule Technology - Business Rules Engine Will Be Shipped With Every License of BPM Suite: "Bluespring Software Announces OEM Agreement With InRule Technology - Business Rules Engine Will Be Shipped With Every License of BPM Suite
CINCINNATI, OH -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/27/2005 -- Bluespring Software, the Business Process Management (BPM) software company that enables process design, execution AND management from a single desktop, announces an OEM agreement with InRule Technology, an innovative provider of Business Rule Engine (BRE) technology for implementing and managing business rules.
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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
July, 2005 Vol 6 No. 7
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. Keeping Business Rules Separate from Their Enforcement,
by Oscar Chappel
2. Premise & Conclusion: Decision Tables, Part 1 ~ The Route to
Consolidated Business Logic, by Ronald G. Ross
3. Rule Observatory: The Semantic Web and the Business Rules Approach ~ Differences and Similarities, by Silvie Spreeuwenberg
4. In Process: Effective Business Transformation through Process
Management, by Roger T. Burlton
5. "Oldies-but-Goodies" posting, by Ronald G. Ross
If you'd like to read all our articles on the web, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com

1. Keeping Business Rules Separate from Their Enforcement,
by Oscar Chappel
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Article 4.5 of The Business Rules Manifesto states "A rule is distinct from any enforcement defined for it. A rule and its enforcement are separate concerns." This article from The Business Rules Manifesto raises a very important question.
"What is the difference between a business rule and its enforcement?" In this month's feature, Oscar Chappel shares his experiences in separating business rules and their enforcement in order to achieve the results that business people demand from their rule based applications.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b239.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: Decision Tables, Part 1 ~ The Route to
Consolidated Business Logic, by Ronald G. Ross ...............................................................
Decision tables are an excellent means to visualize and manage large sets of rules in consolidated fashion. Scaling up to large sets of rules just about demands them. In the first of this two-part series Ron Ross takes a quick look at the basics of creating and using decision tables.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b240.html

3. Rule Observatory: The Semantic Web and the Business Rules
Approach ~ Differences and Similarities,
by Silvie Spreeuwenberg
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What are the differences and similarities between the Semantic Web and the Business rules approach? In this month's issue of the 'Rule observatory' Silvie Spreeuwenberg shares with you some observations on the differences or similarities between the
Semantic Web and the Business Rules Approach.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b235.html

4. In Process: Effective Business Transformation through Process
Management, by Roger T. Burlton
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The history of business management and information systems is full of discussions and debates on the optimal ways to understand the present, analyze directions, and plan for the future.
"Because of this, I have decided to provide a broad review of and introduction to the topic," writes Roger Burlton. In his inaugural column he introduces the case for a business process perspective.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b241.html

5. "Oldies-but-Goodies" Collection
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BRS is releasing hidden treasures from past print issues of the Data Base Newsletter and DataToKnowledge Newsletter. This month's contribution to our "Oldies-but-Goodies" collection is...
"If We Had Started Coding Already..."
by Ronald G. Ross
from our July/August 1999 issue.
to read more, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com/a1999/a423.html

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N.E.W. Customer Service Companies Selects Corticon Business Rules for Claims Processing and Adjudication; Improved Agility and Compliance Lead Benefits of Automating Rules of Extended Service Plans: "N.E.W. Customer Service Companies Selects Corticon Business Rules for Claims Processing and Adjudication; Improved Agility and Compliance Lead Benefits of Automating Rules of Extended Service Plans SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2005--Corticon Technologies, the leading provider of business rules management software, today announced that N.E.W. Customer Service Companies (NEW) will use Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS) to enhance their warranty claims processing services. NEW is the nation's leading provider of extended service contracts and buyer protection programs for consumer products. NEW will use Corticon's BRMS to streamline the processing of warranty claims, while ensuring that policies are enforced consistently and in an auditable manner. This will support NEW's on-going efforts to reduce operational costs and processing errors while also improving compliance with each of NEW's customers' unique warranty service agreements. "

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ILOG Announces Integration With Oracle(R) BPEL Process Manager: "ILOG Announces Integration With Oracle(R) BPEL Process Manager
Wednesday July 6, 3:00 am ET
Integration with Oracle BPEL Process Manager Allows Customers to Create and Edit Business Rules From Within Their BPM Applications
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG� (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced the availability of the integration between ILOG JRules(TM) and Oracle� BPEL Process Manager. By integrating the ILOG and Oracle products business users can use ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG's business rule management systems (BRMS) product line, to create and edit policies from within Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) applications in a familiar language rather than having to rely on IT staff. The two products used together can enable faster response times to changing business environments and government regulations, as well as competitive pressures for organizations, especially those in financial services, insurance, government, telecommunications, retail and manufacturing industries."

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Major European Bank HypoVereinsbank and Another Two Customers opt for the Business Rules Engine Visual Rules: "Major European Bank HypoVereinsbank and Another Two Customers opt for the Business Rules Engine 'Visual Rules'
(PRWEB) July 6, 2005 -- Launched early in 2004 as 'visual rules', the business rules engine of the German vendor Innovations Softwaretechnologie GmbH is today being used internationally by a great number of companies in different industries. Recently, another three companies have decided to efficiently develop the business logic of their applications with 'visual rules': the HypoVereinsbank AG, the Danish subsidiary of Quelle, Bon�A Parte Versand GmbH and Elsag Solutions AG (subsidiary of the international Group Elsag S.p.A.)."

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Keeping Your Company in the Pink: "Keeping Your Company in the Pink
In the tortured business of health care, athenahealth founders Jonathan Bush and Todd Park have created a culture that is anything but. Here's how they do it. "
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Leverage your best innovators -- employees and customers.
At athena, every employee is empowered to suggest adding a new rule to the rules engine. And every customer is encouraged not only to submit new rules but also to give feedback on any part of the process, either through customer-service specialists, user conferences, or via the Web site itself.
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The Bush Health-Care Solution No, not Dubya's. The president's first cousin Jonathan is an entrepreneur whose company, athenahealth, is trying to free doctors from the nightmare of insurance paperwork so they can get back to practicing medicine.

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What athena calls its "secret sauce" is its rules engine, a horrifyingly complex piece of software that tries to incorporate every single coding change, billing-address modification, or regulatory shift in the industry. There are currently more than 40 million permutations, each of which spawns constant changes and exceptions -- if, for example, Aetna were to require a "Q" before any back-surgery-related claim number. In effect, athena has created a dynamic knowledge-management system in which employees and customers are encouraged to share what they learn.

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Computerworld JRules 5.0 touches all the bases: "JRules 5.0 touches all the bases
James Owen
20/07/2005 09:56:59
Abstracting business logic from underlying code into a separate language that business users can understand, a BRMS (Business Rule Management System) puts the control of business applications into the hands of the business owners. An enterprise BRMS, such as ILOG's JRules or Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor, removes the 'impedance mismatch' between the IT department and business analysts, shortcutting the traditionally lengthy software change process and allowing applications to be updated quickly and easily as business requirements dictate.

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Business rules: Tips, traps and other pratfalls- ADTmag.com: "Business rules: Tips, traps and other pratfalls
7/1/2005
By Stephen Swoyer



As you might expect with any emerging technology, business rules�even when implemented in tandem with a high-performance business rules management system�are anything but turnkey. "

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InRule Gives Cornerstone Appraisal Services Flexibility and Adaptability: "InRule Gives Cornerstone Appraisal Services Flexibility and Adaptability

Product Review published in DM Review Magazine
July 2005 Issue

By Matt Lyon

Review of: InRule from InRule Technology

InRule

REVIEWER: Matt Lyon, business development manager for Cornerstone Appraisal Services."

clikc here ==> For full review