Jerome Boyer is senior solutions architect at IBM labs services, delivering business solution using business rule technology and BPM. He has been working with ILOG/IBM BRMS since 2001 and is a member of a service engineering team dedicated to managing best practices and defining solution implementation methodologies. He is the leading developer of the first open source methodology for business rules: Agile Business Rule Development. He holds an MSc in computer science from Nice University, France. Hafedh Mili has been training, mentoring, and consulting as a rule analyst, developer, architect, and PM for ILOG/IBM on business rules since 1996. He is also a professor of computer science at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He has written extensively about knowledge-based systems, object-oriented design, and software reuse. He holds an engineering diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Paris (1984) and a PhD in computer science from the George Washington University (1988).
[...] Quite possibly this will be the most important and comprehensive book you will ever read on the topic of business rules. [...] If you plan to use business rules to extend and manage the decisions in your operational environment, something I highly recommend, this book will show you how to use an agile approach to do so. - Rob High, Jr., IBM Fellow, IBM SOA Foundation, Chief Architect