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2026

  1. OpenRules Offers Free Decision Model Development
  2. OpenRules.com → OpenRules.ai
  3. Rules and Constraints Working Together
  4. Notes from DecisionCAMP 2026
  5. Announcing DecisionCAMP 2027
  6. Democratizing Optimization through Decision Intelligence Platforms
  7. OpenRules AI Assistant in the Release 12.1.0
  8. Business Rules with Probabilities
  9. AI-Friendly Decision Services
  10. Agentic Medical Services
  11. Peter Norvig about LLMs
  12. New Tools and Skills Shift
  13. Making a Good Burger with Decision Playground
  14. Selecting Website Features with Decision Playground
  15. Selecting Preferred Loan with Decision Playground
  16. Making a good production decision with Decision Playground
  17. From Solvers to Decision Factories
  18. Again about Sanity Checkers for AI-based Decisions
  19. OpenRules Release 11.2.1
  20. LLM Decision Modeling: From 2023 To 2026
  21. Decision Playground

2025

  1. Preview: OpenRules Decision Playground with Decision Pool
  2. Happy Holidays!
  3. DecisionCAMP 2026
  4. Decision Model Tolerance
  5. One More Time About Declarativity
  6. Solutions for Oct-2025 Challenge
  7. Finding decisions for complex problems with multiple interdependent sub-problems
  8. Making Operational Repetitive Decisions Under Uncertainty
  9. DecisionCAMP-2025
  10. Advanced Rule Learner: Building Decision Models from Examples
  11. Why Decision Optimization Remains Underutilized
  12. Business Rules with Regular Expressions
  13. OpenRules Release 11.0.0 is publicly available
  14. Solving Challenge “Risky Stocks”
  15. From Low-Code to No-Code to No-Logic?
  16. Resolving Conflicts among Business Rules
  17. Trying to find an optimal decision without an optimization engine
  18. Assigning Cases to Analysts
  19. New book “Business Decision Modeling with OpenRules”
  20. OpenRules Solution to Feb-2025 Challenge “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”
  21. Discovering Rules From Examples
  22. OpenRules and SharePoint Integration
  23. OpenRules Presentations and Publications
  24. Decision-Making Systems: Continuing Education
  25. AI for Decisions: a look from 2017 and today
  26. Futuristic Poetry and ChatGPT

2024

  1. Happy 2025!
  2. Christmas Word Search
  3. Intelligent Perpetually Running Decision Services
  4. Movie Production Scheduler
  5. Integrating Rule Engine and Constraint Solver
  6. Glossary and JSON Interface
  7. OpenRules Training/Consulting
  8. DecisionCAMP-2024 is in history books
  9. New Rule Scheduler
  10. OpenRules Lifetime Release Policy
  11. OpenRules Decision Models as WAR Files
  12. Decision Modeling: Iterating over Collections
  13. How decision models deal with fairness
  14. Decision Models for DMCommunity Challenge “Smart Marriages”
  15. Lookup Tables
  16. Decision Model Interruptions
  17. English-like Expressions inside Decision Tables
  18. Machine Learning inside Decision-Making Applications: Practical Use Cases
  19. Free POC Development
  20. Sorting Collections of Objects in OpenRules
  21. New RuleSolver’s Modeling Facilities
  22. OpenRules New Release 10.1

2023

  1. Integrated Use of Rule Learner and Rule Engine
  2. Solutions for Challenge “Soldier Payment Rules”
  3. Sanity Checkers for AI-based Decisions
  4. Generative AI at DecisionCAMP
  5. Solving DMCommunity Challenge “Coins”
  6. Declarative Decision Modeling with OpenRules Solver
  7. DecisionCAMP-2023 starts on Sep 18
  8. OpenRules Award
  9. Big Decision Tables
  10. Custom Template for Nested Loops
  11. Rules as Preferences (Miss Manners Advanced)
  12. Composite Decision Variables
  13. Declarative Decision Model “Flight Rebooking”
  14. Declarative Decision Model “Miss Manners”
  15. Sudoku Decision Model
  16. Unconscious Thoughts
  17. Pattern Matching in OpenRules Decision Tables
  18. Nested Attributes in OpenRules Glossary and Tests
  19. Nested Loops in OpenRules Decision Models
  20. Decision Model “Permit Eligibility”
  21. Helping ChatGPT to Build a Working Decision Model
  22. Happy 20th Birthday, OpenRules!
  23. OpenRules + Apache Spark: 2.5M Decisions per Second!
  24. We Know More Than We Can Tell
  25. LLM and Decision Modeling
  26. OpenRules is Shining in the Serverless World
  27. OpenRules 9.1.0 with Friendly Iterations
  28. ChatGPT Producing Simple Decision Models

2022

  1. Christmas Model in JavaSolver
  2. Happy Holidays
  3. New Major Release OpenRules-9: Happy Thanksgiving!
  4. Extensible DMN
  5. Using a Decision Model for Orchestration of Decision Models
  6. Decision Modeling: Declarative vs Procedural
  7. Business Rules and SQL: Competitors or Partners?
  8. Dealing with Nested Loops
  9. OpenRules 8.5.3
  10. @BBC-2022
  11. Decision Models for Medical Claim Processing
  12. Fast Live Support
  13. How Decision Tables work with Big Datasets
  14. Decision Services Handling Large Payloads
  15. OpenRules Debuggers
  16. Handling Large Payloads with OpenRules-based AWS Lambda
  17. RESTful Decision Services: Error Handling with OpenRules
  18. OpenRules Decision Tables

2021

  1. Mitigating Log4J Security Vulnerability
  2. Advancing AWS Lambda Decision Services
  3. Using Decision Variables in String Expressions
  4. Decision Services: Free POC Development
  5. OpenRules Release 8.4.2 improves Validation and Consistency Checking of Rule Repositories
  6. A simple decision model dealing with dates
  7. When to use Machine Learning, Optimization, and/or Business Rule Engines
  8. Using CSV Files in OpenRules
  9. Using DecisionData Tables in OpenRules
  10. Continuous Digital Decisioning
  11. Titanic Booking Service
  12. Operational Decision Microservices in the CI/CD World
  13. Securing OpenRules Decision Services
  14. Glossary: Controlling Decision Model Input and Output
  15. Glossary at the Heart of the Decision Model
  16. OpenRules POC: Implementation Roadmap
  17. OpenRules Decision Manager 8.4.0
  18. Where is Gold?
  19. Rules-based Machine Learning
  20. Comparing Rule Engines Performance
  21. OpenRules Growing Popularity
  22. Benchmarking Decision Service
  23. ProcessCon-21
  24. Rule Debugger for Business Users
  25. March 5 Webinar
  26. Upcoming OpenRules Webinars
  27. New Release 8.3.0 with Graphical Explorer
  28. Using Formulas in Glossary

2020

  1. New Year Gift for OpenRules Customers
  2. Java API for Decision Service Invocation
  3. Text Interpolation in OpenRules
  4. Partnership with ProcessMaker
  5. RuleDB.com – Accessing Database from Business Rules
  6. Rules-based Service Orchestration
  7. Compressing Decision Tables
  8. SaaS Rule Learner
  9. Self-Learning Decision Models
  10. Using Rule Learner to Identify Unfriendly Robots
  11. New Rule Learner for Ever-Learning Decision-Making Systems
  12. Using Templates to Create Domain-Specific Decision Tables
  13. Stateful Loan Approval Process with AWS Lambda+EventBridge+SNS+SQS
  14. Incorporating Optimization Engines in Business Decision Models
  15. Solution for DMCommunity Challenge “Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Rules”
  16. OpenRules Decision Manager Release 8.2.0
  17. OpenRules: Enhanced Testing Capabilities
  18. Decision Model Execution: Improved Explanations
  19. Goal Invocation using “ActionGoal”
  20. DecisionMicroservices.com
  21. Development and Run-Time Licenses
  22. Big Decision Tables
  23. OpenRules: Performance goes 10x Up, Cost goes 10x Down!
  24. Inside/Outside Production Planner
  25. Building a Live Worker Scheduler
  26. Deploying Decision Optimization Models as AWS Lambda Microservices
  27. Immediate Assistance with Your Decision Services
  28. Deploying Decision Models to AWS EC2 Instance
  29. Packaging Decision Models into an Executable JAR
  30. Deploying Decision Models as AWS Lambdas
  31. Deploying Business Decision Models with OpenRules Decision Manager 8.1.1
  32. OpenRules SaaS Rule Engine
  33. Nim Game
  34. OpenRules Release 8.1.0
  35. Deploying Decision Models as RESTful Web Services and Docker Containers
  36. Our new partner FocusCXM
  37. Regression Testing
  38. Debugging Business Decision Models

2019

  1. OpenRules 2019 Highlights
  2. Superfast Performance Confirmed
  3. Creating numerical Haiku and Tanka poems with JavaSolver
  4. Business Decision Modeling with Rule Engines and CP/LP Solvers
  5. Another Solution for DMCommunity Challenge “Recreational Fee”
  6. Notes from DecisionCAMP-2019
  7. One-Click AWS Lambda Deployment
  8. Solving the DMC Challenge “CrackTheCode” with JavaSolver
  9. Stateful Decisioning and State Machines
  10. Now Business Analysts can Deploy their Business Decision Models on Amazon Cloud
  11. Decision Manager 8.0.1: AWS Lambda Deployment
  12. Rules Debugger for OpenRules Business Decision Models
  13. Open-Source BR Vendors Moving to the Serverless World
  14. Decision Manager – Introduction Video (3 mins)
  15. Automatic Generation of Java Interfaces for Tested Decision Models
  16. OpenRules Java API became even Simpler
  17. OpenRules Decision Manager
  18. Vertical and Horizontal Decision Tables
  19. How to build Decision Microservices with OpenRules, SpringBoot, and Docker
  20. Can ML help with Compression of Large Rulesets?
  21. OpenRules at AWS
  22. Java Solver: Modeling and Solving Optimization Problems
  23. Decision Microservices with Spring Framework and OpenRules
  24. Integrated Use of Rule Engines and Constraint/Linear Solvers
  25. Building Decision Models for DMCommunity.org Challenge “Balanced Assignment”
  26. Decision Model for DMCommunity Challenge “Recreational Fee”
  27. A Formal Definition of Operational Business Decision
  28. A New Book “Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling with OpenRules”
  29. Using OpenRules with RESTful Web Services
  30. Building and Using Domain-Specific Libraries of Decision Models
  31. My New Year Letter to OpenRules Customers
  32. Which changes we may expect in 2019

2018

  1. Migrating to OpenRules
  2. Model-based Optimal Solutions for Flight Rebooking Challenge
  3. Model-based Solutions for Advanced Vacation Days Challenge
  4. “Model-based” vs. “Method-based” Approaches to Decision Modeling
  5. Winning 2018 Business Rules Excellence Award
  6. Notes from DecisionCAMP-2018
  7. OpenRules customer selected as worldwide Awards Finalist
  8. OpenRules Presentations at DecisionCAMP and LuxLogAI-2018
  9. DMCommunity Challenge July-2018 “Zoo, Buses, and Kids”
  10. Decision Automation and Explanations
  11. Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling with OpenRules-7
  12. OpenRules will Present and Exhibit at BBC-2018 in November
  13. Keep DMN Simple
  14. Old Decision Model “Credit Card Application” Implemented with New OpenRules-7
  15. DMCommunity Challenge April-2018 “Up-Selling Rules”
  16. Decision Management and Semantic Reasoning
  17. DMCommunity Challenge Feb-2018
  18. Happy 15th Birthday, OpenRules!
  19. A New Look of OpenRules.com
  20. Introducing DMN to Business Analysts in 15 Minutes
  21. Decision Model for Sales Order Promotions

2017

  1. OpenRules Solution for the Christmas Challenge
  2. OpenRules Release 6.4.3
  3. Decision Modeling: LEGO Style
  4. OpenRules Knowledge Repository for both QA and Production Processes
  5. Defining DMN Knowledge and Information Requirements Automatically
  6. Calculating Aggregated Values for Collections of Business Objects
  7. Book “DMN in Action with OpenRules” – Free Chapters
  8. Transforming DMN XML to OpenRules
  9. Loosely Coupled Decision Models for Loan Origination
  10. Presenting at DecisionCAMP and BBC 2017
  11. Solving Flight Rebooking Challenge With and Without Programming Constructs
  12. DMN: Iterating Over Arrays Without Explicit Loops
  13. Raymond Smullyan’s Retro-Analysis and Decision Modeling
  14. Happy 14th Birthday, OpenRules!
  15. A new book “DMN in Action with OpenRules”
  16. OpenRules Implementation of the Loan Approval Challenge

2016

  1. New OpenRules Release 6.4.1 with DMN Why-Analyzer
  2. Building a Custom Scheduler with OpenRules and JSR-331
  3. BBC 2016
  4. Dealing With Unknown Data
  5. Developing Custom Decision Modeling Languages with Enhanced DMN
  6. OpenRules Release 6.4.0 Supports DMN FEEL and DMN Interchange
  7. OpenRules Wins 10th International Rule Challenge Award
  8. DecisionCAMP 2016
  9. DMN Interchange
  10. OpenRules at BBC 2016
  11. Business Rules and Tacit Knowledge
  12. After bpmNEXT-2016
  13. Decision Models: Finding Alternative and Optimal Decisions
  14. RuleML and DecisionCAMP 2016
  15. “Monkey Business” Analyzed
  16. bpmNEXT 2016
  17. Decision Model for Vacation Days Calculation

2015

  1. OpenRules 6.3.4 Introduces What-If Analyzer of Decision Models
  2. Automatically Learned Business Rules: Should We Understand Them?
  3. OpenRules at BBC-2015
  4. “Old” and “New” Business Rules Approaches
  5. Identification of the Executed Rules
  6. Predictive Analytics is Becoming Mainstream
  7. Don’t Program a System, Educate It!
  8. OpenRules Dialog Questions in Multiple Tables
  9. OpenRules Business Glossary in Multiple Tables
  10. Presentation at BBC-2015: Good Old UServ Product Derby in the Brave New World of Decision Management
  11. Decision “Make a Good Burger”
  12. DMN 1.1 Issues: Aggregation
  13. DMN 1.1 Issues: Multi-Hit Decision Tables
  14. Enhanced Live Catalogs at DMCommunity.org
  15. Decision Model “Vehicle Insurance – UServ Product Derby”

2014

  1. Decision “Determine a Killer of Aunt Agatha”
  2. Resolving Conflicts among Business Rules
  3. Decisions with Mitigation Criteria
  4. A Little Story From OpenRules Trenches
  5. OpenRules at 2014 Fall Conferences
  6. OpenRules Test Harness
  7. Learning Business Rules from Data at RuleML-2014
  8. OpenRules Sandbox
  9. Can a Decision Model Define Uniqueness of Objects inside a Collection?
  10. Using Macros inside OpenRules Expressions
  11. Another DMN Decision Model (executable!)
  12. My LinkedIn Discussions
  13. 2013 => 2014

2013

  1. API for Generation of OpenRules Decision Tables in Excel
  2. Live Catalogues of Decision Management Tools
  3. OpenRules at Decision CAMP 2013
  4. OpenRules in Japan
  5. Solving Rule Conflicts – Part 2
  6. Solving Rule Conflicts – Part 1
  7. Upcoming Events
  8. Building a Maintainable Product Catalogue with OpenRules Dialog
  9. Webinar: Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models with DecisionsFirst Modeler and OpenRules
  10. Converting Decision Tables from PDF to OpenRules
  11. Determine the Risk of Meeting a Werewolf
  12. Combining Constraint Solving with Business Rules and Machine Learning – CoCoMiLe 2013
  13. Rule Violations and Over-Constrained Problems
  14. Decision Execution Reports
  15. How to compact large decision tables

2012

  1. 2012 in review
  2. Search and Replace in Multiple Excel Files with IceTeaReplacer
  3. Deploying OpenRules Applications on Cloud
  4. Customizing OpenRules Decisions
  5. Fall 2012 – Time for Conferences
  6. A stable gain in popularity
  7. Fischer vs. Kasparov vs. Karpov
  8. Rule Engines: RETE and Alternatives
  9. Modeling Decisions for Scheduling and Resource Allocation Problems
  10. In memory of Eliyahu Goldratt
  11. Different Decision Tables for a Very Simple Use Case

2011

  1. Dynamic Decision Glossaries
  2. Representing and Solving Rule-Based Decision Models with Constraint Solvers
  3. Rules vs. Decisions
  4. Fall-2011 Business Rules Conferences
  5. OpenRules 6.1.1 is available for downloads
  6. Forrester about OpenRules
  7. James Taylor blogs about OpenRules
  8. About OpenRules Scalability
  9. OpenRules at Business Analyst World in PA on April 4-7, 2011
  10. OMG Decision Model Notation (DMN)
  11. New decision model videos are available
  12. A newly redesigned website
  13. OpenRules 6 Announced
  14. Connecting The Dots
  15. A major new release 6 is on the way

2010

  1. Rule Solver is now JSR-331 Compliant
  2. RulesFest-2010

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