[rules-users] Reasoning with past events

[Wolfgang Laun]

On 15 November 2010 11:56, Anais Martinez <amartinez at iti.upv.es> wrote:

>
> I'm using Drools for a system of alarms on agriculture. I am considering
> several parcels, whose plants can be on different status (for example,
> sprouting, flowering, etc.). These statuses are updated automatically by
> rules, controled by several calendars. In the other hand, the farmer is
> allowed to change the plants' status by hand if he/she observes that real
> plants are in a status in the terrain.
>
> If the farmer set the status before the automatic change, there is no
> problem: the rules corresponding to the new state become active and the
> automatic change has no effect. But if the farmer changed the status after
> the automatic change, how would  I consider the events in the period of
> time
> between automatic and hand changes?
>

Please explain the last sentence in more detail. I don't quite see where the
problem
lies. If the automatic change occurs, does this trigger any rule? Are there
rules
that should be triggered by the subsequent manual change? Which events
arrive
between automatic and hand change?

-W



>
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