[rules-users] Predicate Logic rule-binding clarification

Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 09:10:21 EDT 2009


Yes, that's what Drools and other forward chaining inference engines do.

People have found http://www.jessrules.com/jess/docs/PropPred.pdf helpful.
Even though the syntax isn't Drools, you shouldn't have any problems
following this monograph.

-W


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, dbrownell83 <dbrownell83 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Drools, so this might be an obvious 'yes' answer...
>
> I see that DRL uses "first order predicate logic" for its syntax.
> That is, it models things like "For all X, such that Y, do Z"
>
> Am I correct that as long as some data in the knowledge session matches the
> 'when' conditions, it will run the 'then' consequence?
>
> Is that how it works?  Is this basically what the Rete algorithm does?
>
> Thanks
>
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