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

[Greg Barton]

This wouldn't happen to involve evolutionary pressures altering rules, would it?

--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com>
> Subject: [rules-users] Using Drools for modeling with rule-driven agents
> To: rules-users at lists.jboss.org
> Cc: "Antony W. Iorio" <antony.iorio at gmail.com>, "Abbass, Hussein" <h.abbass at adfa.edu.au>
> Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 5:52 PM
> 
> 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. From what I could tell, the Template
> feature 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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