Drools Research Network Hub

This page lists the known student projects, and provides details of known University mentors who are involved in Drools related efforts and considered "stakeholders"

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University Stakeholders

• University - Fachhochschule
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nikolaus Wulff
• https://www.fh-muenster.de/fb2/personen/professoren/wulff/index.php
  http://www.lab4inf.fh-muenster.de/Lab4Inf

• University - Virginia Tech
• Godmar Back
• http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gback/

• University - Brandenburg University of Technology
• Dr Adrian Giurca
• http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~agiurca/
• http://hydrogen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/wiki/index.php/Portal:Rules

• University - DEIS, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna
• Prof. Paola Mello
• http://lia.deis.unibo.it/~pm/

• University - Ecol Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• Viktor Kuncak
• http://lara.epfl.ch/~kuncak/

• University - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Prof. Dr. ir. W. Joosen
• http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/people/showMember.do?memberID=u0015627

• University - University of Rostock
• Dipl. Ing. Michael Zimmermann
• Chair of Naval Architecture
• http://www.schiffbauforschung.de

Student Projects

2008

• Student - Gizil Oguz
• Mentor - Viktor Kuncak
• Paper - ?
• University - Ecol Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Development of a Rich Client based GUI for Expert Systems (in German)

• Student - Dennis Huning
• Mentor - Prof. Nikolaus Wulff
• Bachelor Thesis URL - http://www.lab4inf.fh-muenster.de/lab4inf/docs/thesis/BA_DHuning.pdf
• University - University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Muenster, Germany

Reasoning with Uncertainty in Drools

• Student - Davide Sottara
• Mentor - Prof. Paola Mello
• Paper - Adding Uncertainty to Rete-OO engines (To be published)
• University - DEIS, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna

Program, Enhance Thyself! Demand-Driven Pattern-Oriented Program Enhancement

• Student - Eli Tilevich
• Mentor - Godmar Back
• Paper ISBN - ISBN:978-1-60558-044-9
• Paper URL - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1353482.1353485&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=1526005&CFTOKEN=47419151
• University - Virginia Tech

Can URML model successfully Drools rules?

• Student: Emilian Pascalau
• Mentor: Dr Adrian Giurca
• Paper ISBN: 978-960-6843-02-0
• Paper URL: http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~agiurca/papers/RuleApps2008.pdf
• University - Brandenburg University of Technology

Knowledge-based Desing Pattern for Detailed Steel Structural Design

• Student: Michael Zimmermann
• Mentor - Prof. Dr. Robert Bronsart
• Phd Thesis
• Work in progress for a short summary, see http://blog.athico.com/2008/09/improving-naval-engineering-process.html
• University - University of Rostock, Chair of Naval Architecture

Policy-driven middleware

• Student - Kris Verlaenen
• Mentor - Prof. Dr. ir. W. Joosen
• Phd Thesis
• Phd dissertation - K. Verlaenen, Middleware for advanced service configuration: a policy-based approach. March 2008.
• University - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Solving Patient Admission Scheduling problem with Drools Solver and Constraint Solver Library

• Student - Wim Van Croonenburg
• Mentor - Peter Demeester
• Phd Thesis
• University - Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven Gent

2007

• Student - Kris Verlaenen
• Mentor - Prof. Dr. ir. W. Joosen
• Published Paper - K. Verlaenen, W. Joosen, and P. Verbaeten. Arriclides: An architecture integrating clinical decision support models. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2007.
• University - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Towards simplified policy specification and reasoning

• Student - Kris Verlaenen
• Mentor - PProf. Dr. ir. W. Joosen
• Published Paper - K. Verlaenen, B. De Win, and W. Joosen. Towards simplified specification of policies in different domains. In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Integrated Network Management, May 2007.
• Published Paper - K. Verlaenen, B. De Win, and W. Joosen. Policy analysis using a hybrid semantic reasoning engine. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 2007.
• University - Brandenburg University of Technology

On Interchange between JBoss Rules and Jess

• Student: Oana Nicolae
• Mentor: Dr Adrian Giurca
• Paper ISBN: 978-3-540-74929-5
• Paper URL: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9783540749295-t1.pdf
• University - Brandenburg University of Technology

Sharing rules between JBoss Rules and Jena

• Student - Oana Nicolae, Mircea Diaconescu,
• Mentor: Dr. Adrian Giurca, Prof. Gerd Wagner
• Paper ISBN: 0-7695-3078-8
• Paper URL: http://csdl.computer.org/dl/proceedings/synasc/2007/3078/00/30780105.pdf
• University - Brandenburg University of Technology