When is the book going to be available? Thanks
David Zhu R & D 918-3428673 -----Original Message----- From: Estelle Baer [mailto:etbaer@;pol.net] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JESS: Re: JESS book It would be marvelous to see a preprint of the diagnostic assistant. ------------------ Reply Separator -------------------- Originally From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: JESS: Educational examples in business-consulting Date: 10/24/2002 07:54am I think [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I mean not very big and complex examples from *business-consulting* or > *e-commerce* or *trading* or *marketing* or something like these > problem areas (not monkey-and-bananas or goat-and-cabbage examples). > Thanx once more. > A realistic rule-based system is a complicated thing, and much of the value of such a system as an example is seeing how it fits into its context -- i.e., how it interfaces to other software. Therefore even a smallish example requires a decent amount of documentation to be useful. This probably explains why there have NEVER been any really useful, fully-developed tutorial examples available for ANY rule engine: they just take too much work to assemble. The lack of good examples, and the realization that good examples need a lot of explaining, is what inspired me to write the Jess book, which is a kind of cookbook that spends 500 pages explaining a series of fully-developed examples in realistic contexts. There's an e-commerce system, an information kiosk, a diagnostic assistant, a soft real-time control system, and some business-rules tools including a remote rule server and some XML-related things. The book also has six chapters on the Jess language, and detailed discussions of how Jess can be extended in Java and embedded into Java programs. There's also a lot of material about testing rule-based systems and an example testing framework. The book will be published in April by Manning Press. There may be some preprint material available -- stay tuned for announcements. --------------------------------------------------------- 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 owner-jess- [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] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
