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From: chanl@TEKCHIPS.UUCP (Chan Lee)
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Subject: Re: Query -- Rete Algorithm
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The Rete algorithm is described in detail on the article(by C. Forgy)
"Rete: A Fast Algorithm for the Many Pattern/Many Object Pattern Match Problem",
Artificial Intelligence, Vol 19, Num 1, Sep 1982.
You can find a lot of relevant papers in the reference of this paper.
Among them, McDermott, Newell and Moore's paper on the "Efficiency of certain
production system implementation" seems very helpful.

chan lee