[rules-users] Using Drools for modeling with rule-driven agents

[Russ Abbott]

Hi Mauricio,

Does your reply mean that you think that Drools would have to be enhanced to
let me do what I want?

Have you thought much about what would have to be added to Drools to create
the capabilities I want -- and how much effort it would take?

Thanks.

-- Russ Abbott
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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Mauricio Salatino <salaboy at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm interested in this topic too.
> I'm Drools contributor about a year now, do  you think that I can help with
> your ideas? and also with the development?
>
> 2009/8/22 Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com>
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm interested in developing (if it doesn't already exist) and then using
>> a framework for agent-based modeling in which the agents are rule driven. An
>> important feature is that the agents and their rules must be dyanically
>> manipulable. That is, both the agents and the rules must be first class
>> objects that can be manipulated as the system is running. Can Drools support
>> that?
>>
>> As someone not familiar with Drools I did my best to find out by looking
>> at the Drools Expert User's Manual<http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/docs/drools-expert/html_single/index.html>.
>> From what I could tell, the Template feature<http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/docs/drools-expert/html_single/index.html#d0e5774>in which one uses Java objects as Template data sources comes close.  I'd
>> like your advice before putting too much development effort into attempting
>> to use it for that purpose.
>>
>> In particular, would it be possible to set up a mechanism that could:
>> create and delete agents on the fly; associate rule sets with agents on the
>> fly; and modify the rules associated with an agent on the fly?  After each
>> such action the system would change to reflect the change in agents and
>> rules.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> -- Russ Abbott
>>
>> P.S. If Drools would not be a good choice, is there some other system that
>> you could recommend?
>>
>>
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