[rules-dev] Naive questions on rules

[Ellen Zhao]

Hi Wei Tai,

first of all, there is a Chinese proverb "Give a man a fish and you
feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime.", so please allow me to mention that google and wikipedia
are your good friends when you start to learn something. Here is a
Wikipedia entry for Production Rule System:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_system

You can search for the other concepts yourself. And, the official
Drools Documentation is exceptionally good, please by all means read
it if you are new to expert system and Drools. Here you can download
the latest Drools 5.0.0 M2 doc as a zip file:

http://www.jboss.org/drools/downloads.html

You will know from the web articles and Drools doc that there are good
books for beginners. Grab the book list and go to your univ. lib or
amazon.com, get a copy and invest time for reading.

Hope that helps.

Ellen N. Zhao

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Wei Tai <taiw at cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am not sure whether it is the right place to put this question here.
> Currently I am working on rules and got confused with some concepts:
>
> What are the relationships between: resolution, backward chaining, modus
> ponens, foward chaining, production rule system, prolog, logic programming?
> Can all forward chaining systems be considered as logic programming system?
>
> Some of these concepts seems overlap with each other. Can somebody kindly
> give me an answer to these questions. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Best Regards
> Wei
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