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Our main current activities at the moment are towards implementation of two main business rules modeling scenarios:

1. Rules are modeled in Strelka , using URML, then translated into R2ML, and then to the target rule platform i.e. Strelka −> R2ML −> Rule Execution Platform
2. Rules interchange between different platforms via R2ML. The interchange is performed by translators. Up to now we have built translators from R2ML to F-Logic, Jess, Jena 2, RuleML, SWRL and JBoss Rules. Next steps involves OCL, Oracle Business Rules and ILOG JRules

In order to support these scenarios we present I1 Rule Modeling Framework.

I came back from the International Fujaba Days, where I presented our rule modeling tool and the paper about UML-based rule modeling.
Unfortunately, I had no time for sightseeings, but I've enjoyed Fujaba people and the University.

I like such academic communities, when people are committed to what they do and easily share their ideas. The most community-building part of the event is so called Fujaba Coding Madness, when all people, including professors and mature researchers, sit in one room and just do coding. Seems like during 6-8 hours of intensive coding in such an environment one may implement more than during several weeks in his office. After-coding pizza and beer, of course, strengthen achieved practical results.

Sometimes I review papers for conferences and workshops. It is clear almost every time which text editor has been used to create a paper. It is an interesting observation: papers created in Latex usually have better quality and scientific weight than papers, created using MS Word.

The first version of FAQ, related to I1 projects, is public now. We are going to extend it when new question arise.

We have submitted our next deliverable on R2ML verblization. It describes a verbalization approach, based on templates in a form of XSL transformations. Since R2ML is an XML language, we use XSLT in order to describe a structure of the pseudo-natural language sentences.
On-line demo is also available. This is the first version and there are still a lot of open issues and integration work do be done.
The final goal is to integrate this verbalizer with Strelka tool and with a web-service, which, in conjunction with R2ML translators, will provide verbalization of rules, expressed in any rule language.

I receive questions from interested people about our work in REWERSE I1, therefore soon I am going to publish a short FAQ on R2ML, URML, R2ML translators, etc.

New release of R2ML, version 0.4.

The main new feature is the support of "internal" R2ML vocabularies. It is possible to describe classes with reference properties and attributes. There is an example of representing JBoss production rule set with a corresponding vocabulary. More examples will follow.

Since one of the main R2ML purposes is an interchange format betwen existing rule representation formalisms and languages, we are currently working on a set of translators.

The ambitious goal is to support as many languages as possible, in particular languages, used in ILOG JRules and JBoss.

My application paper on Strelka plugin for Fujaba has been accepted to the Fujaba Developers Days 2006 in Bayreuth, Germany.