Data for Manners 2009

Greetings:

OK, here it is.  As you can see, we have to possibility of adding some complexity regarding the teachers and socialites.  BUT, we'll do that only if the times are extremely low.

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Num,Profession,SubProf,Gender,Hobby1,Hobby2,Hobby3

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1,Politician,Democrat,F,4,1,2

2,Politician,Democrat,F,1,2,4

3,Politician,Democrat,F,5,1,3

4,Politician,Democrat,F,3,4,2

5,Politician,Democrat,F,2,5,3

6,Politician,Democrat,F,4,3,5

7,Politician,Democrat,M,4,1,2

8,Politician,Democrat,M,4,1,3

9,Politician,Democrat,M,2,3,4

10,Politician,Democrat,M,1,2,4

11,Politician,Democrat,M,5,3,1

12,Politician,Democrat,M,4,3,5

13,Politician,Republican,F,3,4,2

14,Politician,Republican,F,3,5,4

15,Politician,Republican,F,3,1,4

16,Politician,Republican,F,1,3,4

17,Politician,Republican,F,2,4,3

18,Politician,Republican,F,4,1,5

19,Politician,Republican,M,1,3,2

20,Politician,Republican,M,5,3,4

21,Politician,Republican,M,5,4,2

22,Politician,Republican,M,2,3,1

23,Politician,Republican,M,2,4,1

24,Politician,Republican,M,4,5,1

25,Doctor,Pediatrician,F,3,4,1

26,Doctor,Pediatrician,F,2,5,3

27,Doctor,Pediatrician,F,2,5,3

28,Doctor,Pediatrician,F,1,3,5

29,Doctor,Pediatrician,F,1,2,3

30,Doctor,Pediatrician,F,1,1,5

31,Doctor,Pediatrician,M,4,5,3

32,Doctor,Pediatrician,M,3,1,5

33,Doctor,Surgeon,F,2,3,1

34,Doctor,Surgeon,F,3,5,1

35,Doctor,Surgeon,F,5,4,1

36,Doctor,Surgeon,F,5,3,4

37,Doctor,Surgeon,M,2,4,1

38,Doctor,Surgeon,M,2,5,3

39,Doctor,Surgeon,M,4,3,2

40,Doctor,Surgeon,M,1,3,5

41,Doctor,Osteopath,F,4,3,2

42,Doctor,Osteopath,F,4,1,3

43,Doctor,Osteopath,M,5,4,1

44,Doctor,Osteopath,M,2,1,3

45,Doctor,Osteopath,M,2,5,3

46,Doctor,Osteopath,M,3,2,5

47,Doctor,Osteopath,M,5,4,3

48,Doctor,Osteopath,M,5,4,1

49,Sports,Basketball,F,1,3,5

50,Sports,Basketball,F,3,5,1

51,Sports,Basketball,F,5,1,3

52,Sports,Basketball,F,4,2,1

53,Sports,Basketball,M,2,1,4

54,Sports,Basketball,M,5,1,4

55,Sports,Basketball,M,4,5,1

56,Sports,Basketball,M,3,5,2

57,Sports,Football,M,4,3,2

58,Sports,Football,M,3,2,4

59,Sports,Football,M,5,3,2

60,Sports,Football,M,2,3,4

61,Sports,Football,M,4,1,2

62,Sports,Football,M,1,5,2

63,Sports,Football,M,3,5,1

64,Sports,Football,M,2,3,1

65,Sports,Football,M,3,4,5

66,Sports,Football,M,5,3,4

67,Sports,Football,M,2,1,3

68,Sports,Football,M,2,4,3

69,Sports,Baseball,M,2,5,4

70,Sports,Baseball,M,2,3,1

71,Sports,Baseball,M,4,2,3

72,Sports,Baseball,M,3,1,4

73,Teacher,Math,F,4,5,2

74,Teacher,Math,F,3,4,2

75,Teacher,Math,M,4,4,3

76,Teacher,Math,M,2,1,3

77,Teacher,Math,M,3,5,2

78,Teacher,Math,M,5,2,3

79,Teacher,Math,M,4,2,3

80,Teacher,Math,M,1,4,3

81,Teacher,English,F,3,5,4

82,Teacher,English,F,4,3,1

83,Teacher,English,M,4,3,5

84,Teacher,English,M,1,2,3

85,Teacher,Science,F,4,2,1

86,Teacher,Science,F,3,2,1

87,Teacher,Science,M,1,3,5

88,Teacher,Science,M,1,5,3

89,Teacher,Sports,F,5,3,2

90,Teacher,Sports,F,2,5,3

91,Teacher,Sports,M,1,4,2

92,Teacher,Sports,M,1,4,5

93,Teacher,History,F,1,5,3

94,Teacher,History,F,1,3,5

95,Teacher,History,M,4,1,2

96,Teacher,History,M,4,3,2

97,Programmer,MacIntosh,F,2,4,3

98,Programmer,MacIntosh,F,4,5,1

99,Programmer,MacIntosh,F,5,3,1

100,Programmer,MacIntosh,M,2,5,3

101,Programmer,MacIntosh,M,4,1,3

102,Programmer,MacIntosh,M,5,4,3

103,Programmer,MacIntosh,M,4,3,1

104,Programmer,MacIntosh,M,1,5,4

105,Programmer,Windows,F,5,4,3

106,Programmer,Windows,F,2,4,3

107,Programmer,Windows,F,1,5,4

108,Programmer,Windows,F,2,4,5

109,Programmer,Windows,F,4,2,3

110,Programmer,Windows,F,1,3,2

111,Programmer,Windows,M,4,3,2

112,Programmer,Windows,M,3,4,1

113,Programmer,COBOL,F,4,1,3

114,Programmer,COBOL,F,5,2,1

115,Programmer,COBOL,M,2,3,4

116,Programmer,COBOL,M,2,3,5

117,Programmer,COBOL,M,4,5,1

118,Programmer,COBOL,M,3,2,5

119,Programmer,COBOL,M,2,4,5

120,Programmer,COBOL,M,4,2,1

121,Socialite,Republican,F,4,5,3

122,Socialite,Republican,F,1,3,5

123,Socialite,Republican,F,2,2,3

124,Socialite,Republican,F,1,3,5

125,Socialite,Republican,F,3,2,4

126,Socialite,Republican,F,3,2,1

127,Socialite,Democrat,F,5,2,3

128,Socialite,Democrat,F,5,4,3

129,Socialite,Democrat,F,1,5,2

130,Socialite,Democrat,F,1,4,5

131,Socialite,Democrat,F,5,4,1

132,Socialite,Democrat,F,4,1,2

133,Socialite,Democrat,F,1,3,5

134,Socialite,Democrat,F,1,4,5

135,Socialite,Democrat,F,2,5,1

136,Socialite,Democrat,F,1,4,5

137,Socialite,Democrat,F,3,4,1

138,Socialite,Democrat,F,2,5,3

139,Socialite,Republican,M,3,1,5

140,Socialite,Republican,M,1,2,3

141,Socialite,Republican,M,1,5,3

142,Socialite,Republican,M,4,2,3

143,Socialite,Democrat,M,4,1,2

144,Socialite,Democrat,M,1,5,3

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Benchmarking at ORF 2009

Greetings:

There have been many suggestions as to the problems for the vendors at October Rules Fest this year.  I have submitted one already (Einstein's Puzzle) and the "beginning" of another (Miss Manners 2009) but I have not done the data on the last one.  I really was hoping that an enterprise-size vendor (FICO, ILOG, Haley, Pega, ???) would find someone on staff that is not too busy and task them with this simple but time consuming job.  Didn't happen.

Geoffrey De Smet suggested that we use the benchmark problem from the ITC competition, http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/itc2007/index.htm that had to do with Exam Registration.  On the benchmarks page they said that it was running between 300 to 500 seconds on a "modern PC using Windows XP."  I would think that 5 - 10 minutes would be a bit long for my tastes but you never can tell.  Personally I prefer old-fashioned Unix (or UNIX if you're that old) rather than Windoze or even Linux.  

I have looked at this particular problem / benchmark and it appears to be more of an Operational Research (OR) problem in optimization than a rulebase problem.  We "could" require that the solution be done in a rulebase but those who have OR engines would scream bloody murder if we did.  

However, I leave it with you in the interim to determine what should be a good rulebase problem and what does not lend itself to simple "data smashing" of a typical "business" problem.  The problem should be fairly complex and require a bit of work on the part of the engine itself rather than depending on the operating system and database to do the work.  Please either comment (or if you have authorship privileges then blog) some kind of response to this.  Whatever is decided should be a problem that is long on complexity and short on blandness.  

SDG

jco

ORF 2009 Abstracts Due in One Week

Greetings:

Short blog:  There is only one more week until the Abstracts are due for October Rules Fest 2009.  We have received about 11 or 12 right now and we have enough to do the conference with some really long session times.  :-)

BUT, we need more quality presentations.  We have five more persons that have promised abstracts by the 30th of April but we need to get those in so that the committee can review them without being too rushed.  It should not take more than five minutes or so to write up the abstract once the thought process of considering what to do and how to do it are completed.

What happens is that we should get about 30 abstracts in, cull out five or so that aren't actually applicable to the conference - although what we have so far is looking great - and then five or so will pull out before the actual white paper is due on July 1st.  After that, if the white paper has been submitted, they speakers usually complete the overheads without much of a problem.  Even if we get 30 or 40 that are good, we will have the time to present them.

So, get busy and get the abstracts submitted ASAP.  Thanks,

SDG

jco

ORF 2009 Now Accepting Registrations

Greetings:

Great News!!  You can now register and get the Early Bird Discount at http://www.OctoberRulesFest.org and click on Registration.  If you are interested in sponsoring, PLEASE fill out the for for Sponsor interest.  

Also note that we are filling up the speaker slots so if you have a talk PLEASE send that in to jco@kbsc.com ASAP.  thanks,

SDG

jco