Comments on: Conflict Resolution – Why BRE's Give Different Results http://pathfindersoftware.com/2006/07/conflict_resolu/ The Fastest Way to Launch Successful Software Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Proctor http://pathfindersoftware.com/2006/07/conflict_resolu/#comment-5514 Mark Proctor Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:05:58 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/07/conflict_resolu/#comment-5514 <p>When were were initially trying to get Miss Manners to work in Drools 3 the conflict resolution had some unexpected surprises. For this reason we did a complete paper on the Manners example, which should throw light on the intracacies of the benchmark. This paper shows the problems that conflict resolution and non documented arbitrary behaviour can have on complex problems.<br /> <a href="http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrules/freezone/docs/3.0.2/html_single/index.html#d0e3382" rel="nofollow">http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrules/freezone/docs/3.0.2/html_single/index.html#d0e3382</a></p> <p>Extract from the conclusion:<br /> "What have we learned from this? That Manners was designed to run with OPS5 Recency and that if works with Jess or Clips under Depth then from a user point of view it should be considered purely coincidence - even if the design was by developers intent."</p> <p></p> <p> </p> When were were initially trying to get Miss Manners to work in Drools 3 the conflict resolution had some unexpected surprises. For this reason we did a complete paper on the Manners example, which should throw light on the intracacies of the benchmark. This paper shows the problems that conflict resolution and non documented arbitrary behaviour can have on complex problems.
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Extract from the conclusion:
“What have we learned from this? That Manners was designed to run with OPS5 Recency and that if works with Jess or Clips under Depth then from a user point of view it should be considered purely coincidence – even if the design was by developers intent.”

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