[rules-users] Drools-solver

[Paul Browne]

Geoffrey,

In a bizarre co-incidence I had just finished reading the Drools solver
docs. It's very good - it's taken one of the ideas that I'd been mulling
over and implemented it a (good) way that makes me realise I'm hardly out of
Kindergarten with this stuff :-)

One comment on the documentation; I know you explain what the NQueens
problem is (about 1/4 of the way down in the documentation), but is it
possible to move the explanation beside the NQueens Diagram (which appears
very early in the article), and which people like me who aren't familiar
with NQueens will want to understand?

The other comment is to push what Drools solver can do to the top of the
manual (e.g.the Timetabling , routing problems) to make people sit up and
listen to what the technology can do.

It might be good to blow your own trumpet a bit more and explain why the
(Rule based) solver is better / faster than a 'code your own'  solution.

Just remember the rest of us after you make your first million - running
this to solve the problem of 'what sort of shares should I buy?' :-)

Paul

On 9/24/07, Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Drools-solver solves planning problems.
> It has moved to trunk and the reference manual is now available at:
> http://users.telenet.be/geoffrey/tmp/solver/manual/html_single/
> It's still experimental though.
>
> We even made 2 blogs about it for the price of one:
> http://blog.athico.com/2007/09/drools-solver.html
> http://blog.athico.com/2007/09/drools-solver-in-nutshell.html
>
> Have fun.
>
> --
> With kind regards,
> Geoffrey De Smet
>
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