[rules-users] Logic Problems & drools

MarkA mail at cluttered.co.uk
Sat Aug 18 08:09:44 EDT 2007


Are there examples online somewhere then?

I just want a few more examples to examine really. That and find out how to
run a drools app outside of eclipse without the noclassdefound error.

I'll keep a look out on the list.


Mark Proctor wrote:
> 
> Ellen runs a little "logic club" Dr Gernot Starke one the last one, see 
> mailing list archives for the problem. The winner gets to post the next 
> puzzle, so stay tuned and win, so you can post your puzzle for people to 
> try :) I believe that gernot will post the details of his solution to 
> the blog soon.
> 
> Mark
> MarkA wrote:
>> I am a big fan of the logic problem puzzles (the ones with the grids) and
>> would like to play with drools to solve a few - just for a laugh and to
>> see
>> if it can be done. 
>>
>> I found a pretty simple one:
>> ----------------------------
>> Mrs. Robinson's 4th grade class took a field trip to the local zoo. The
>> day
>> was sunny and warm - a perfect day to spend at the zoo. The kids had a
>> great
>> time and the monkeys were voted the class favorite animal. The zoo had
>> four
>> monkeys - two males and two females. It was lunchtime for the monkeys and
>> as
>> the kids watched, each one ate a different fruit in their favorite
>> resting
>> place. Can you determine the name of each monkey, what kind of fruit each
>> monkey ate, and where their favorite resting place was?
>> 	1. Sam, who doesn't like bananas, likes sitting on the grass. 
>> 	2. The monkey who sat on the rock ate the apple. The monkey who ate the
>> pear didn't sit on the tree branch. 
>> 	3. Anna sat by the stream but she didn't eat the pear. 
>> 	4. Harriet didn't sit on the tree branch. Mike doesn't like oranges. 
>> ---------------------
>>
>> But I can't get the logic working, has anyone done any other examples for
>> drools (or maybe converted the monkey & banana or cannibal ones from
>> CLIPS)?
>>
>> I have looked at the golf one in the examples but it's a bit simple. In
>> that
>> one it uses variables for each bit $bobsColour etc. and then uses those
>> in
>> later rules. I tried it with the one above but I kept needing to refer to
>> a
>> variable that I hadn't yet defined and I couldn't define it as it needed
>> to
>> refer to another one and so on...
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>>
>>   
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