The new book is now available at Amazon: https://lnkd.in/ef-ygpJg. This book is oriented to subject matter experts who want to build operational decision models for their business environments. No programming skills are required. The objective is to help readers learn quickly how to apply the decision modeling approach to building real-world decision models. This book will guide readers through practical examples, starting with simple business problems and moving to complex ones. After learning how to create decision models, readers may also test, debug, modify, and analyze them using freely downloadable OpenRules software and familiar tools such as Microsoft Excel (http://OpenRules.com).

Instead of traditional step-by-step instructions, this book is written more like a freely conducted discussion. It consists of eight dialog sessions, during which AUTHOR and READER try to build working decision models. They are freely discussing why and how better to do it, not avoiding possible missteps, pitfalls, and alternative approaches.
From one decision model to another, the AUTHOR will lead the inquisitive and receptive READER to different decision modeling concepts and notions, emphasizing and/or demystifying especially complicated aspects. He brings the reader’s attention to special situations from real-world decision modeling. Learning by example is the quickest and easiest way to learn fundamental decision-modeling techniques. They give readers working prototypes for their custom decision models.

After reading the book, you will end up with a deep understanding of practical decision-modeling techniques. You will learn how to apply Business Rules, Machine Learning, and Optimization tools to build your domain-specific decision models.

I’d like to thank my OpenRules colleagues and the multiple users of OpenRules software with whom I was fortunate to work developing complex business decision models, optimization, and machine learning applications over the last several decades.

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