THE IMPORTANCE OF PATTERN ORDER.pptVIP

EXPERT SYSTEMSFinal Report 0523026陳瑩融 0523036彭源勇 THE IMPORTANCE OF PATTERN ORDER Programmers new to rule-based language often have misconceptions about the importance of ordering the patterns in rules correctly for both speed and memory efficiency. Since the Rete algorithm saves state from one cycle to the next, it is very important to make sure that rules do not generate large number for partial matches. (deffacts information (find-match a c e g) (item a) (item b) (item c) (item d) (item e) (item f) (item g)) (defrule match-1 (find-match ?x ?y ?z ?w) (item ?x) (item ?y) (item ?z) (item ?w)