Re: JESS: New article available

2009-02-10 Thread Samson Tu
The article should have mentioned that predicate logic uses the "open-world assumption" while JESS has negation-as-failure semantics. It's a fundamental difference between predicate logic and Jess - predicate logic is monotonic while JESS is not. Statements that are true in Jess may not be true

Re: JESS: New article available

2009-02-10 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
Sorry. It's linked from the "docs" page (http://www.jessrules.com/jess/docs/index.shtml ). The PDF of the article is at http://www.jessrules.com/jess/docs/PropPred.pdf On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Hal Hildebrand wrote: Can you post the link to this article? I can't seem to find where you'v

Re: JESS: New article available

2009-02-10 Thread Hal Hildebrand
Can you post the link to this article? I can't seem to find where you've posted it. Thanks. On Feb 10, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote: I've posted a new article on the Jess web site: "Predicate Calculus and Jess," by Wolfgang Laun. This paper shows how Jess can be used to i

JESS: New article available

2009-02-10 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
I've posted a new article on the Jess web site: "Predicate Calculus and Jess," by Wolfgang Laun. This paper shows how Jess can be used to implement concepts from Propositional Logic and First Order Predicate Calculus. It's perfect for anyone coming to Jess from a background in computer scienc

Re: JESS: Backward chaining problem

2009-02-10 Thread ANA TANASESCU
Hello Ernest,   I have simplified my program so that I could send you in email. The more I think about it the more I believe that you are right I didn’t choose the right solution. My program has 5 templates: - fact that are either imported or read from the user; - question used fo