Re: On production rules and phase I&II

jos.deroo@agfa.com wrote:
> I am not used to reactive rules (still reading Paula's thesis)
> so don't shoot :-)
> What I am used to is
>
> GIVEN
> o a collection of facts as a snapshot of the state of the world
> o a set of entailment rules (horn but with skolem functions) 
>
> DERIVE
> a description of actions such as instatiation, modificatiation, ..
>
> ACT according to the latter derivations (which is completely
> separated from the reasoning but can give rise to new state
> of the world)
>   
I do not see that the deduction rules give a new state of the world:
they specify a state of the world, but do not modify it. That is the
point: there are no state transitions in your excample, I believe.

REgards,

Francois

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2006 13:53:04 UTC