RE: what is a rule?

From: Wagner, G.R. ([email protected])
Date: 03/04/03

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    > One additional point I would make is that "reaction" rules, like
    > Gerd's example:
    > 
    > > "If any 3 of the named analysts report a strong buy on the same 
    > > stock within the same day and before the market closes, 
    > then buy 1000 units  of that stock."
    > 
    > seem to be mixing up several elements: monitoring/sensory input,
    > reasoning about the current state, action outputs. 
    
    Not "mixing them up", but combining them in a rule statement.
     
    > I would suggest that sensing and acting simply be ruled out of scope -
    > as Pat points out, going down that road soon leads to having a fully
    > fledged programming language. We can then concentrate on suitable
    > languages for dealing with the middle part - reasoning about some
    > given state - which is the same regardless of how the premises are
    > derived (via sensing or whatever). 
    
    The state of a (e.g. web application) system consists of persistent
    information/belief items and of transient event perceptions (e.g.,
    in the form of incoming messages). It is not a good idea to mix
    these things up. (Also, ontologically, they are very different.)
    
    -Gerd
    


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