As our projects occur across multiple domains, they have a broad and varied focus. Part of our expertise is the ability to quickly familiarise ourselves with a new domain. Below you will find an up-to-date overview of projects, publications and speaking engagements.
2009 | Rotary
Silvie Spreeuwenberg gave an introduction on business rules for the Belgium Rotary in Landen.
2009 | Business Rules Forum
Silvie Spreeuwenberg will give a lecture on dealing with exceptions Business Rules Forum 2009 in Las Vegas.
2008 | European Business Rules Conference
As organizers we are always present at the conference on business rules that gives you an overview of what other customers are doing, all tool vendors and the latest developments from researchers Register for the EBRC, this year in Munchen, 16- 18 June!
2008 | Business Rules Forum
Silvie Spreeuwenberg and Rik Gerrits will discuss the notion of communities and vocabularies to get everyone involved in business rules management Business Rules Forum 2008 in Orlando.
2008 | NAF insight: business rules
Silvie Spreeuwenberg opens NAF insight session and launches Dutch book on business rules.
2008 | Open university
One day seminar business rules organized by Touw on business rules.
2008 | BPMF Poland
Introduction on business rules for BPMF conference in Poland.
2007 | Business Rules Forum
Silvie Spreeuwenberg has been invited to give presentation on quality management of business rules at the Business Rules Forum 2007 in Orlando.
2000 | Public Works and Water Management
Harvest business rules from documentation of a traffic management system. Goal is to re-design all business rules in a form that is declarative and easily understood by the business. Design a methodology to translate informal business specifications to formal rules. Important is that the formal business rules can be subject to a quality check and that a trace between informal specifications, formal specifications and implementation is always available.,Ministry of Transport
2000 | ASZ / Automation Social Security: Aansluiting
Team management of the knowledge analysts in a CBD (Component based development) project with Cool:Gen and Aion. The project dealt with social security / claim handling.
2000 | Griddle – internal project
Design of a rule induction tool in Aion. Rule induction is a form of data mining also called knowledge mining and searches for knowledge rules in a dataset. The difference with data mining is that data mining algorithms often result in models that are hard to interpret by humans. Knowledge mining aims to deliver a model containing explicit knowledge that can be understood and interpreted by humans.
2000 | Advisor – internal project
Implementation in Aion8 of a framework for advise applications which can be deployed on the world wide web.
2000-2001 | Nedstat
Project manager in international project team with eight programmers, testers, marketing and designers for the new enterprise edition of " sitestat, product providing information on website visits.
1999 – 2003 | Valens – internal project
Design and implementation of a methodology “proof by processing” to verify a knowledge base. This methodology is implemented in a tool “Valens” which can detect logical faults like inconsistency, incompleteness and redundancy.
1998 – 1999 | ASZ / Automation Social Security: InnoWW
Responsible for the analysis of three assessment components in AionDS in a large innovative system that deals with the social security legislation through the entire country of the Netherlands.
2004 | Experiences with Adapting a Test Case Generation Idea to Business Rules
R. Knauf, S. Spreeuwenberg, R. Gerrits, M. Jendreck, "A Step out of the Ivory Tower, Experiences with Adapting a Test Case Generation Idea to Business Rules", Proc. of 17th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference 2004 (FLAIRS-2004), Miami Beach, FL, USA, pp. 343-348, ISBN 1-57735-201-7, Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2004.,A Step out of the Ivory Tower
2003 | Using Verification and Validation Techniques for High-quality Business Rules
Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg, Using Verification and Validation Techniques for High-quality Business Rules, Business Rules Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, (February 2003)
2002 | Requirements for successful Verification in Practice
S. Spreeuwenberg, R. Gerrits, Requirements for successful Verification in Practice, Proceedings Fifteenth Flairs conference, p 221, 2002
2001 | Using AI to support the implementation of complex legislation
T. van Engers, R.Gerrits, P. Kordelaar, E. Glassee, M. Boekenoogen, R. Vanlerberghe, R. van Gog, S. ter Horst 2001, POWER to Public Administrations: Using AI to support the implementation of complex legislation, Proceedings of AI and Law 2001
2001 | The role of verification of legal knowledge in improving the quality of legal decision making
S. Spreeuwenberg, T. van Engers, R. Gerrits, The role of verification of legal knowledge in improving the quality of legal decision making, JURIX 2001
2000 | VALENS: A Knowledge Based Tool to Validate and Verify an Aion Knowledge Base
S. Spreeuwenberg, R. Gerrits, M. Boekenoogen 2000, VALENS: A Knowledge Based Tool to Validate and Verify an Aion Knowledge Base, Proceedings 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 731 - 735
1999 | A Knowledge Based Tool to Validate and Verify an Aion Knowledge Base
R. Gerrits, S. Spreeuwenberg 1999, A Knowledge Based Tool to Validate and Verify an Aion Knowledge Base, Validation and Verification of Knowledge Based Systems, Theory, Tools and Practice, 67 - 78, ISBN 0-7923-8645-0