[rules-users] Drools : usage as appointment booking engine ?

[Greg Barton]

Well, Fusion is mainly geared towards processing incoming dynamic events.  

Drools-solver would be best for creating the appointment schedule.  However, if you want to react to real time changes that may affect your schedule, you could always use drools-fusion for that. (i.e. we have an appointment for Bob, Alice, and Chuck in Room D on Monday.  Then an event comes in saying Chuck is sick within 30 minues of the appointment.  If Chuck is a critical member of the meeting the system decides to reschedule, but without the "only on Mondays" constraint.)  

So drools-solver would create the schedule, and drools-fusion would decide in real time based on the current schedule structure and the incoming events whether to respaawn a solver session to adjust the schedule.  Does that make sense?

--- On Thu, 5/7/09, Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib at drazzib.com> wrote:

> From: Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib at drazzib.com>
> Subject: Re: [rules-users] Drools : usage as appointment booking engine ?
> To: "Rules Users List" <rules-users at lists.jboss.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 10:50 AM
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> > you should look at drools-solver
> > here is a link to the
> >
> documentation<http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/docs/drools-solver/html_single/index.html>
> 
> Thanks this documentation, I was using oudated
> documentation from
> http://users.telenet.be/geoffrey/tmp/solver/manual/html_single/
> .
> 
> I've evaluated drools-solver, for example trying to
> evolve
> "lessonschedule" sample to include some time
> constraints but I failed to
> use time "operators" in drools solver.
> 
> I found Drools Fusion time constraints (before, inside,
> meets) interesting
> but for now haven't been able to build something with
> it. Drools Fusion
> "StockTick" sample seems oriented to STREAM event
> and not to managing time
> slots and constraints on this time slots.
> 
> Anybody having experience with such problems ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> > 2009/5/7 Damien Raude-Morvan
> <drazzib at drazzib.com>
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm evaluating use of Drools 5 as an
> appointment booking engine.
> >> My input data are :
> >> - some time slots, defined with a start and end
> time.
> >> - some appointment constraints (only monday, only
> morning, appointment
> >> theorical duration)
> >>
> >> I've looked at Drools 5 Fusion without finding
> a way to go with this.
> >> Can someone give me some pointer / start URL about
> how to solve this
> >> kind
> >> of problems ?
> 
> -- 
> Damien Raude-Morvan / www.drazzib.com
> 
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