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

[Mark Proctor]

Russ Abbott wrote:
>
> 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.
This is something I'm slowly working towards. I'm currenlty building an 
architecture to be able to work with drools remotely - which is a bit 
more than sticking an existing drools interface on a remoting tool. I 
then want to try combining this with something like the rio-project, 
which seems to do many of the other requirements you want.

Mark
>
> 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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