Re: JESS: Firing order

2005-11-21 Thread James C. Owen
OK, now tell us why you would want to change the default conflict resolution strategy, mainly the one that says that the most recent rule will fire first. Actually, it's a bit more complex than that and the reasoning for using MEA versus LEX versus other methods were explored and answered

Re: JESS: Which comes first, the chicken or the rule?

2005-12-13 Thread James C. Owen
and will be widely accepted) along the way. Then grow gradually, not by leaps and bounds. Bon Chance! SDG jco James C. Owen Senior Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kbsc.com Never give up. Never give up. Never, never, never give up. From a speech by former Prime Minister, Winston

Re: JESS: Jess and deductive databases

2006-02-07 Thread James C. Owen
for the book. Just pointing it out. Performance tests are available at http://www.kbsc.com/ benchmarks2000-2005.xls (available sometime tonight or tomorrow) and (soon - maybe a couple of months) http://www.kbsc.com/ benchmarks2006-2010.xls. Enjoy... SDG jco James C. Owen Senior Consultant

Re: JESS: Benchmarks 2000 - 2005

2006-02-09 Thread James C. Owen
ten by his country after keeping it from being swallowed up by the Nazi Empire during the second world war. On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Hector Urroz wrote:James,Do the numbers on the spreadsheet equal the number of seconds to run each of the benchmarks?Thanks,Hector UrrozOn 2/7/06, James C. Owen [EMAIL

Re: JESS: Research on Ontology + Jess

2006-02-09 Thread James C. Owen
. Well, it's happening now. I'm glad he's not here to see it. And I hope that I never see a Knowledge System without someone to aid in the growth of the system. 2001 (remember HAL) and Terminator are just around the corner. SDG jco James C. Owen Senior Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: JESS: Forgy paper...

1999-01-29 Thread James C. Owen
. List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- ttfn IHN Jim === James C. Owen Senior Knowledgebase Consultant 4817 Buckskin Drive Fort Worth, TX 76137 817.314.0584 Office 817.314.0585 FAX 817.247.8976 Cell Check out this page! http://www.kbsc.com "To

Re: JESS: GUI program to create and edit Jess rules?

1999-02-10 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Keen to learn

1999-03-10 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Modules

1999-04-14 Thread James C. Owen
two at 80 persons. I'm using a new smart indexing system in the Rete memories to get this speed. ttfn IHN Jim ----- James C. Owen Knowledge-Based Systems Corporation 4817 Buckskin Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76137 817.314.0584 Office 817.314.0585 FAX 817.247.8976 Cellul

JESS: Symantec First to Provide Immediate Protection forHigh-Risk, Destructive Worm.ExploreZip Worm

1999-06-11 Thread James C. Owen
This appears to be quite real and extremely deadly. http://www.symantec.com/press/1999/n990610b.html -- ttfn IHN Jim - James C. Owen Knowledge-Based Systems Corporation 4817 Buckskin Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76137 817.314.0584 Office 817.314.0585 FAX

Re: JESS: License question

1999-06-14 Thread James C. Owen
the list. List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Part 1.2Type: application/ms-tnef Encoding: base64 -- ttfn IHN Jim - James C. Owen Knowledge-Based Systems Corporation 4817 Buckskin Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76137 817.314.

JESS: Boolean

1999-06-28 Thread James C. Owen
Sometimes I think that a short course in Boolean Logic might be applicable BEFORE one engages in the task of writing a rulebased routine. Remember, "Boole was no foole." :-) -- ttfn IHN Jim ----- James C. Owen Knowledge-Based Systems Corporation 481

Re: JESS: Pronouncing Rete

1999-10-28 Thread James C. Owen
out loud. American Heritage dictionary gives the pronunciation as ree'tee. Gary Riley I think James C. Owen wrote: Doug: Actually, I asked Dr. Forgy this question and it seems that, even though it's Latin for "network", he pronounces it ree'-tee. However, if you know

Re: JESS: Reasoning over non-Bean objects

2000-09-17 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: serializable respect transient?

2000-11-12 Thread James C. Owen
?I suspect the error is on somebody else, but I just want to check to be sure.Thanks in advance,Ed MeierClark Software Engineering, Ltd.Dayton, OH -- ttfn IHN Jim --------- James C. Owen Knowledge-Based Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895 214.684.KBS

JESS: DFW JUG (Jess Users Group)

2002-01-04 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Who cares about chars?

2002-01-04 Thread James C. Owen
Just my two cents: Returning int or char is far better than returning String. Object creation time is one of our big problems in Java. Right? SDG jco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Jess has its own LISP-like type system, following the one from CLIPS. Jess has one type that Java doesn't

Re: JESS: introspection tools

2002-01-20 Thread James C. Owen
I got no attachments. Did anyone else get the attachment? One affirmative reply will do. :-) SDG jco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Michael Schillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 06.12.2001 you wrote about "JESS: introspection tools": [...] > > I would love to see an example. Would you mind

Re: JESS: publications / Forgy paper

2002-02-01 Thread James C. Owen
reading the good stuff. But, it looks nice on your personal library shelf, right? Just my two cents. :-) SDG jco -- James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895 Agustin Gonzalez

Re: JESS: publications / Forgy paper

2002-02-01 Thread James C. Owen
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

Re: JESS: CORRECTION (on OO-Rete paper)

2002-02-06 Thread James C. Owen
but at a very low level. I really, really need to get up to Circuit City and get that $150 scanner / FAX / printer so I can get the thesis scanned and on-line. BTW, how's Bubba the Rules Cat holding out? :-) SDG jco James C. Owen Senior KE

Re: JESS: CORRECTION (on OO-Rete paper)

2002-02-07 Thread James C. Owen
then. Probably more now. SDG jco - James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895 Dusan Sormaz wrote: I believe that this is the one (second edition, from our library info): Call # QA76.76.E95 G53 1994

Re: JESS: Virus ? (from forte@inext.ro)

2002-02-08 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Foo bar, FUBAR, and the problems of etymology

2002-02-25 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Foo bar, FUBAR, and the problems of etymology

2002-02-25 Thread James C. Owen
Please. Don't confuse them now. :-) rhalsey007 wrote: Hey James, The one phrase that I have not seen used yet (by the PC crowd) is DILLIGAFF. Maybe it takes too much energy to speak it PC-like. Bubba (dee Rules Katt) - Original Message - From: James C. Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: JESS: JESS EJB

2002-02-28 Thread James C. Owen
Well, since we ALL seem to be interested in this, why not just email the Jess Users group? :-) ps - put me on the list as well. -- SDG jco - James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895 Eyassu

Re: JESS: publications / Forgy paper

2002-03-09 Thread James C. Owen
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James C. Owen Sent: vendredi 1 fevrier 2002 23:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: JESS: publications / Forgy paper Exactamundo! He (Dr. Forgy) is very protective about the Rete 2 algorithm. Seems that he *had* to make

Re: JESS: Some JESS characteristics...

2002-03-29 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Creating A Jess Rule using Java API

2002-04-01 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Newbie question

2002-12-28 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Design Problem : Java or not Java ?

2002-12-28 Thread James C. Owen
without changing the code. -- SDG jco - James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895 To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe

JESS: XML, Java and Rules

2003-01-04 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: RE: Jess and C#

2003-01-04 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Proposed feature

2003-01-05 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Re: Proposed feature

2003-01-05 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Re: Proposed feature

2003-01-06 Thread James C. Owen
forty-seven slots that are constantly being modified by unrelated rules) and then explain to me why it's better. I think James C. Owen wrote: OK, now that we're off and running, one-shot seems like it would work for a limited set of circumstances. However, if we use goal-oriented programming

Re: JESS: Proposed feature

2003-01-06 Thread James C. Owen
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: JESS: Proposed feature I think James C. Owen wrote: Ernest: Let me see if I can understand what we're actually saying here: As written below, since ?fact is being modified in the RHS of the rule then the rule will be placed on the agenda as available

Re: JESS: manners and waltz test for Jess

2003-01-07 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: manners and waltz test for Jess

2003-01-07 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: RE: Jess and C#

2003-01-08 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: JDBC ResultSet data

2003-01-07 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: Problem with accessing .clp file in Jess

2003-03-06 Thread James C. Owen
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Re: JESS: seemingly mysterious defquery behavior

2003-03-31 Thread James C. Owen
that does true, full-opportunistic backward chaining at this time. Including Advisor, JRules, OPSJ, JEOPS or Jess. I'm sure that there is one - I just don't know about it. Yet. :-) SDG jco - James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314

Re: JESS: Passing a Java Variable in a Jess Call

2003-03-31 Thread James C. Owen
like it. Enjoy. -- SDG jco - James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895 Christian Loos wrote: Hi Karen, I think your approach should work properly. Do you get any kind of exception? What data

Re: JESS: Is it for me...

2003-04-01 Thread James C. Owen
like ours. Yeah, right. As thought that particular company was really that special. Enough for now. Drop me a line or give me a call if you want more specifics. -- SDG jco - James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX

Re: JESS: Is it for me... (long)

2003-04-01 Thread James C. Owen
be controversial among some rule purists but it has helped me immeasurably. -- SDG jco - James C. Owen Senior KE Knowledgebased Systems Corporation 6314 Kelly Circle Garland, TX 75044 972.530.2895

Re: JESS: doubts on basic usage of Jess from Java

2003-04-02 Thread James C. Owen
, even after all of the research into it. However, Richard Halsey continued this discovery process long after the job petered out. You might check with him as well. I think Xavier Noria wrote: [ Asking about using Jess in an agent framework ] - James C. Owen

JESS: Jess Guys - Beware of Vendor Tests!

2006-03-08 Thread James C. Owen
Check the blog at http://www.kbsc.com/jco for the published version of this:OK, enough is enough.  I've said over and over and over that the tests that are being run on the part of Mr. Jobs are totally unfair; they always compare a dual-core Intel 2GHz to either a single core 1.xGHz G4 or a single

Re: JESS: Adding facts from java

2006-03-10 Thread James C. Owen
RTFM - Read The Fabulous Manual !!! Either the on-line documentation or the book, Jess In Action. The examples in either of these actually work. So, FIRST get something working, then modify, check the problem yourself. THINK! And asking the man who wrote the book on Jess if he knows

Re: JESS: Strings vs. Symbols [tally so far]

2006-03-10 Thread James C. Owen
OK, just to break the tie: An atom can be variable, a String is an atom. I agree that ?foo is not the same thing as foo and is not the same as foo and never should be. JRules, at one time, used the ? identifier in ?foo for variable identification and eventually dropped it. However, to

JESS: ILOG and Jess

2006-04-05 Thread James C. Owen
[I wrote this several days ago and it dropped through the cracks of the email system.  Nevertheless, I think it still needs to be said.]As an independent consultant who uses various rulebased systems, some are called Business Rule Management Systems, or BRMS, I think I'll have to somewhat agree

Re: JESS: Jess and Java Generics

2006-07-02 Thread James C. Owen
As an old Jess programmer and an old C/C++ programmer, I remember the cool part of using STL in C++. Now we have AOP in Java and Java Generics. All of this really is cool and adds power to the programmer. HOWEVER (which means that you can forget all the former platitudes mention before

Re: JESS: Fact definition from Java

2006-07-17 Thread James C. Owen
Speaking of which :-) when is the 2nd edition of Jess In Action coming out? Giarratano and Riley are now into their FOURTH edition since first edition came out in 1989. I think I have all three somewhere - the older ones probably in boxes somewhere but the 3rd edition is pretty well

JESS: More on AI systems

2006-07-29 Thread James C. Owen
Well, updated the link on AI systems today to include a bit about Turing, Gödel and Church.  Some will find it interesting; some won't.  If you do happen to read it and find a mistake, please let me know and I'll correct it.  Oh, yes - one other thing - I also put the links for the Performance for

Re: JESS: Priority/Selection within a match list

2006-08-18 Thread James C. Owen
Stephene et al, As Jason pointed out about salience being used sparingly, there is one other heuristic: If you have more then three levels of salience/ priority then your problem may be better suited for a procedural language. Just a thought... Also, if the rules MUST be done in order,

Re: JESS: certainty/confidence factor

2006-10-17 Thread James C. Owen
of the universe. :-) SDG jco James C. Owen Senior Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kbsc.com To be or not to be. That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or by taking up arms to defeat them. (So saith Shakespeare

Re: JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread James C. Owen
I've been using Mac's since they started using BSD as the foundation for OS X. The bash shell (default) has the up-down arrow commands for history. Mac is ideal for old Unix guys who grew up using the Unix command line and can switch between bash, korn, bourne and c shells. Personally,

Re: JESS: command line behaviour on OSX

2006-11-15 Thread James C. Owen
Or, maybe I just misunderstood the problem. And Ernest had a good suggestion as well... :-) SDG jco Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the

Fwd: JESS: Compiled Sequential rule evaluation

2006-11-18 Thread James C. Owen
I sent Mitchell's request to James Taylor (VP at FIC) for the official answer from FIC. It's below. SDG jco Begin forwarded message: From: Taylor, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 17, 2006 1:42:35 PM CST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James C. Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: JESS

Re: JESS: system for elaboration of scholastic schedules

2007-03-11 Thread James C. Owen
, but it was not the most elegant solution possible. Bottom line: RTFM (Read The Fabulous Manual!) Then ask questions so the our benefactor doesn't have to tell you to look on page such and such and embarrass you in front of the whole world. SDG James C. Owen Senior Consultant / Architect This above all

Re: JESS: Rule refinement base on jess

2007-05-28 Thread James C. Owen
unlikely or might have no bearing on the output - but, on the other hand, they might and should be considered. Like I said, not the best way to do a gap analysis but it works for small rules with few condition elements. SDG James C. Owen Senior Consultant / Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: JESS: Distributed Jess Engine?

2008-02-06 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings: I have a friend who filed a patent on the MVM (Multiple Vitrual Machines) concept that was pioneered by IBM - but at that time software could not be patented, only copyrighted. And you could not copyright nor patent a process such as that. Things change so he patented and

Re: unsure,Re: JESS: White Papers

2008-04-10 Thread James C. Owen
does not exist on this server error. Could you please check on this link? Thanks, Mike Hairfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, James C. Owen wrote: Greetings: I've been promising this for years and years and finally go around to it. I've posted a BUNCH of older white papers on AI

Re: JESS: White Papers

2008-04-11 Thread James C. Owen
/hamlet.1.3.html On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Wolfgang Laun wrote: Thank you! But many links (e.g., to 1998/Miranker, 2004/OMG, 2006/Owen, 2007/ Ansotegui, 2007/Sottara,...) appear to be broken. And: s/Demana/Demand/ Thanks Wolfgang James C. Owen wrote: Greetings: I've been promising

Re: JESS: Survey On Rule Base Development - Methods, Tools and Problems

2008-04-16 Thread James C. Owen
Just an observation: database - one word rulebase - one word SDG jco This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/hamlet.1.3.html On Apr 16,

JESS: October Technical Rules Fest

2008-05-21 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings Jess Users and Abusers: This is kind of early, but you are anywhere near the Dallas / Fort Worth area in mid-to-late October 2008, you might want to attend the October Technical Rules Fest that will be held somewhere in the DFW area - don't have a home for it yet but we're really

JESS: Rete Algorithm

2008-06-04 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings: On Thursday evening at about 7:00 p.m. (CDT) or so, Larry Terril (on of our more advanced members in the Dallas Rules Group) will be presenting a talk on the Rete Algorithm. Should you wish to attend and watch but are unable to come in person, please forward your Skype id to either

Re: JESS: A question of optimisation

2008-07-02 Thread James C. Owen
Just one thought - you might also also modify the care-unit as well to remove the available bed. SDG jco co-founder director Dallas Rules Group sponsor October Rules Fest business rules conference Oct 22-24 Dallas, TX I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen

Re: JESS: Performance question

2008-09-11 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings: I don't normally get all involved with this kind of thing but there is a practical example that shows how easily rule performance can go astray. This is taken directly from Girratano and Riley's book, Chapter 9.12, The Importance of Pattern Order (deffacts information

JESS: October Technical Rules Fest

2008-09-13 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings: Monthly reminder about the October Technical Rules Fest. Check out the site, check out the speakers, check out the agenda, check out the talks... First Class all the way with some of the most interesting speakers in the rulebase space. Note that this is NOT like the Business Rules

JESS: Last Call for ORF

2008-10-06 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings: This is the last call for anyone interested in the October Rules Fest, http://OctoberRulesFest.org - Rooms are reserved for the $149 rate ONLY through October 15th. Also, after October 15th, because of extra bookkeeping and accounting problems that we will incur, conference fees

Re: JESS: how to write If else rule

2009-01-28 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings: I've been criticized by JM recently for not getting more involved in Jess solutions. So, here goes. The example below violates one of the basic principles of all rulebased systems. The logic (i.e., the Conditional Elements, CE) should ALL be in the LHS of the rules. By putting IF

JESS: Sunday Morning, June 6th, 0600 GMT

2010-06-04 Thread James C. Owen
Greetings: I know, I know - this is NOT about rules nor rulebased systems nor anything like that. But, sometimes, we need to reach as many people as possible who may or may not be interested in what we need to say and please forgive me for this minor indiscretion. (But, I'll probably