Comments on: Backward Chaining on a Rete Network

By: Under my nose « Nothing Fancy

Under my nose « Nothing Fancy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:22:37 +0000

[...] my nose Well, the first article listed in my last SoC post seems to have just what I am after, I just hadn’t read it/didn’t have the necessary [...]

By: peter lin

peter lin — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:42:55 +0000

I would recommend Paul Haley’s article to anyone interested in backward chaining and subgoaling. it’s an excellent paper.

By: davidhilton

davidhilton — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:45:53 +0000

I found a reference to an index of various papers on inference engines, many of which may be relevant.

http://www.kbsc.com/whitePapers.html

By: davidhilton

davidhilton — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:42:03 +0000

Associations with backward chaining on Rete:
Paul Haley
– afore-mentioned paper
Dr. Charles Forgy
– inventor of the Rete, Rete II and Rete III algorithms
Ernest Friedman-Hill
– creator of Jess

By: davidhilton

davidhilton — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:21:05 +0000

Peter Lin just contacted me. He recommends the article by Paul Haley. He also mentioned that Paul Haley, Dr. Charles Forgy, and Earnest Friedman-Hill know more than he does about backward chaining. Dr. Forgy came up with the "Rete II" algorithm. From what I can infer from wikipedia and a post by Peter Lin, it seems to be a (modified?) Rete network with backward chaining.