Rete algorithm
Algoritmo Rete
- Date
- 1974 · confidence high
- Place
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Credited to
- Charles Forgy
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A pattern-matching algorithm for rule-based systems that efficiently applies many rules to many facts in a knowledge base, designed by Charles Forgy at Carnegie Mellon University.
What it led to
- Rule and inference engines in expert systems
- Basis for business rule languages (Drools, CLIPS)
- Optimized reasoning in symbolic artificial intelligence