Exactamundo! He (Dr. Forgy) is "very" protective about the Rete 2 algorithm. Seems that he *had* to make the Rete algorithm public since it was funded by the DOD when he was at CMU, but methinks that he wants to make some money with the Rete 2 algorithm. The Rete 2 works on optimizing memory space thereby increasing the speed. Actually, he's working on a Rete 3 but I have no idea what it is; only that it will make the process even faster than Rete 2. Cool....
However, I'll see if we can get his Rete Ph.D. thesis scanned and published - maybe this weekend. If so, I'll send it to Dr. Friedman-Hill to publish on the PST site if he likes. BTW, Dr. Forgy's email is [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) One other thing; I've been going over the various Java systems (Jess, OPSJ, JRules, Advisor and JEOPS) the past couple of weeks and trying to run the manners 128 benchmark on all of them using the same set of data and, basically, the same set of rules. That way only the engine is the difference factor. If anyone already has the JEOPS worked out, I would appreciate it if you would send it to me. I got CLIPS and converted it straight over to Jess - which wasn't terribly difficult since they both seem to be be LISP oriented. (Jim really hates LISP! All those parentheses and special markers for variables and just the jumbled way things are handled...) And I already had the code for OPSJ, Advisor and JRules. JEOPS seems to be a different animal since it is more Java-kinda oriented syntax. Whatever. Just a thought. SDG jco ----------------------------------------- James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > > James, > > > > if you could scan Dr. Forgy's thesis and convert it to pdf, that would be > > great :) > > > > is there also a publication on the Rete II algorithm? > > http://www.pst.com/ > > claims that it would be much faster... > > Nope, it's unpublished and proprietary. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Ernest Friedman-Hill > Distributed Systems Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 > Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 > Org. 8920, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PO Box 969 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov > Livermore, CA 94550 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list > (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
