A demand-driven AI production system utilizing a RETE network for comparison matching in a condition/data match, rule-selection, and rule- firing execution cycle in which the RETE network is modified to maintain a list of instantiations satisfying the match conditions expressed in each node of the RETE network, passing of tokens to descendant nodes upon a comparison match, maintaining patterns to all ancestor nodes through which the tokens have passed, and traversing the patterns as a path for avoiding those RETE pattern matchings redundant between a previous match and a current match in progress.
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