[rules-users] Re: Drools-solver

[Mark Proctor]

I think there are plans to have some examples people can relate too. 
Luckily for planning this is easier than rules. So we can setup an 
example for exame time table planning, and availability rostering. Those 
sort of things. I believe that is planned.

Mark
Geoffrey De Smet wrote:
> 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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