Hello everyone!

I have recently fallen in love with the Rete algorithm initially developed from Charles Forgy.

After having implemented it (with my own personal vision) in Elixir and having it working for some basic cases, I would like to develop this further and have it ready for production for companies that want to use Rete as part of their system. Maybe even implement a DSL so that it is easier to use it.

I would like to know if anyone is keen to help me develop and design more feature for this interesting AI project in Elixir (there isn’t any open source expert system built in Elixir, that I am aware of).

Also, would be great to know if anyone may need a rule engine built with Elixir in their system so I can help you implement it and see what extra feature would be needed.

So any feedback and suggestion is very welcome. This is the source code for now https://github.com/lorenzosinisi/retex (feel free to open issues and PRs on the Github repo)

This is the paper from Forgy http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Technical/RETE%20Match%20Algorithm%20-%20Forgy%20OCR.pdf

And this is YouTube video explanation about Rete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxHPJTAF3I and how it can be used in the real world.

Note: I am not an expert of AI so please bear with me if the initial implementation is not complete or completely correct, I just needed to “make it work” first in order to “make it beautiful” (and I need help for that)