Re: [rules-users] priority based on object properties

I believe this http://blog.athico.com/2007/05/dynamic-salience-expressions.html still works. On 18 July 2011 20:44, Simon Chen <simonchennj(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am curious if we can inform Drools' execution based on properties > within objects. > > In particular, the salience value is defined for each rule, in the > sense that rule A has priority over rule B to execute. I am wondering > if we can define some kinda of salience metric, such that object X has > higher priority than object Y to be executed in the same rule. > > To give an example, I am (still) playing with implementing shortest > path using a few rules. I have a rule for selecting a shortest path on > a node (among all the paths received from its neighbors) to a source > node, and another rule for propagating the shortest path on a node to > neighboring nodes. When I have many nodes in my graph, I found that > the paths propagated (via the second rule) are not always the > shortest, while Dijkstra's algorithm always "propagate" from the node > with the shortest distance to the source. The effect is that my rules > are wasting most of the time propagating paths that would be dropped > in the end anyway... > > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > -Simon > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users