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Russ Abbott wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">Hi,<br>
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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?<br>
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As someone not familiar with Drools I did my best to find out by
looking at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/docs/drools-expert/html_single/index.html"
target="_blank">Drools Expert User's Manual</a>. From what I could
tell, the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/docs/drools-expert/html_single/index.html#d0e5774"
target="_blank">Template feature</a> 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.
<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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Thanks for your help.<br>
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-- Russ Abbott<br>
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P.S. If Drools would not be a good choice, is there some other system
that you could recommend?<br>
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