Pitfalls of JESS for Dynamic Systems.
Rajkumar Thirumalainambi · 2007
We considered different varieties of inference engines for a sub-system of Mission Control Technologies (MCT) being developed at NASA Ames Research center. One inference engine, Jess, is attractive due to its benchmark results, Java API, and being a stable software product. The outstanding issues of Jess with respect to MCT are the way its Java Bean defines ’defclass ’ and slots, and converting between or mapping to MCT interfaces. The slot names and ’defclass’ are static in Jess rules, and at run time in a given knowledgebase it cannot be modified. Distributing Jess to outside federal agencies and licensing is another issue. 1.