Re: [rules-users] Drools 5 for process simulation

Jonathan, Drools supports a simulated clock (unified for rules and processes), so this should allow you to build a simulator. The code that Mark is referring to is just something built on top that allows you to define a simulation as a sequence of commands that are sent to the session at specific time points etc. You could try to reuse this as is if it would be useful in your case, or simply try to do something similar. In any case, there shouldn't be any technical difficulties that should prevent you from doing something like you described I think (just not all out-of-the-box). Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: Labin, Jonathan W. To: Rules Users List Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [rules-users] Drools 5 for process simulation Mark, Thanks for the link. I'll look into it. I'm not sure I'll have time to learn enough about Drools to actually modify it for this project. Do you think it's not practical to attempt to build a simulator without modifying Drools? Thanks, Jonathan From: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Mark Proctor Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:33 AM To: rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org Subject: Re: [rules-users] Drools 5 for process simulation On 04/08/2010 16:20, Labin, Jonathan W. wrote: Drools users, I am currently researching Drools 5 as a potential toolkit to enable my nextproject. I have read through the Documentation for Drools Expert, Flow andskimmed through Fusion and I believe that Drools looks it provides manyfeatures we need. However, I am concerned about one aspect of the way thatthe system seems to operate and was wondering if anyone could point me to asection of documentation (chapter of the manual / wiki / external how-toblog post... whatever) that will clear things up for me. I would like to use Drools Flow to define behaviors of agents as FlowProcesses to create an agent-based simulation. This application requiresthat the processes are kept synchronized with each other by a simulated(faster than real time) clock. Is there a Drools mechanism that enables this? Would I need to create a setof WorkItemHandler classes that perform the synchronization manually? Iswhat I want to do not really practical within the Drools Flow framework?I have something prototyped and it works, but I need to refactor the api and make it much simpler. so if you use it, expect it to change a lot and get a lot simpler and better :) http://blog.athico.com/2009/07/drools-simulation-and-test-framework.html Mark Thanks in advance, Jonathan Labin _______________________________________________rules-users mailing listrules-users@lists.jboss.orghttps://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 Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm