[rules-users] What-if analysis

[Anstis, Michael (M.)]

I believe this is an example of backwards-chaining.
 
(From the manual) Drools only supports forward-chaining at present although
"...Drools will be adding support for Backward Chaining in its next major
release...".
 
Have you looked at Geoffrey De Smet's drools-solver excellent work? Will
this provide what you need?
 
Cheers,
 
Mike


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From: rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org
[mailto:rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Ravi Shankar
(Singtel)
Sent: 22 April 2008 23:25
To: rules-users at lists.jboss.org
Subject: [rules-users] What-if analysis


Dear all,
 
Does Drools support "what-if" analysis?
 
For example, I have the data for the sales done by a salesman for the past
one year. There is a commission available to the salesman for the same he is
doing. I use the data to plot a graph showing the efficiency of all salesmen
in my company.
 
Assume that the comany wants a profit of , say, 10% more than what currently
is, I mean "what if the comany wants more revenue", what should be the
values for sales. It is a trivial example, but just enough for understanding
my query - can we use Drools for this? Is it being used in financial
inductry where derivatives etc are used widely?
 
Thanks and regards,
Ravion

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