[rules-users] Re: Drools-solver

[Geoffrey De Smet]

Thanks for the feed-back Paul, I 'll adjust the manual accordingly :)

With kind regards,
Geoffrey De Smet


Paul Browne wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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/
>     <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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