[rules-dev] Miss Manners

I was wondering if anyone fancied having a go at improving Miss Manners to make it harder and less easy to cheat. The problem with manners at the moment is that it computes a large cross product, of which only one rule fires and the other activations are cancelled. What many engines do now is abuse the test by not calculating the full cross product and thus not doing all the work. Mannsers is explained here: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/t... So I was thinking that first the amounts of data needs to be increased from say 128 guests to 512 guests. Then the problem needs to be made harder, and the full conflict set needs to be forced to be evalated. So maybe the first assign_seating rule is as normal where it just finds M/F pairs with same hobbies, but additionally we should have a scoring process so that those matched in the first phase then each must have some compatability score calculated against them and then the one with the best score is picked. Maybe people have other ways to improve the complexity of the test, both in adding more rules and more complex rules and more data. Mark