Business Rules with Probabilities
Real-world business decision models frequently contain both hard rules and soft rules that can be violated when necessary. Representing and maintaining such rules becomes even…
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Business Rules
22 posts
Solving Challenge “Risky Stocks”
In this post, I describe a solution to the DMCommunity May 2025 Challenge and briefly analyze different approaches to rules with exceptions and conflicts.
Resolving Conflicts among Business Rules
Ron Ross again brought up the question of "Exceptions to Business Rules". Ron defines an exception to the rules as a foreseen, explicit set of circumstances in which…
Discovering Rules From Examples
Watch this short Richard Feynman’s video about Discovering Rules of Chess. He used a chess analogy to explain what we are doing in trying to understand nature: “Imagine that the…
Sorting Collections of Objects in OpenRules
We added more user-friendly sorting capabilities to the Release 10.1.0 of OpenRules. There are no need to use Java to define objects in the array of list of business objects that…
Solutions for Challenge “Soldier Payment Rules”
The DMCommunity’s Aug-2023 Challenge brought serious discussions at LinkedIn about the integrated use of SQL and Rule Engines. Instead of making generic statements about which…
Sanity Checkers for AI-based Decisions
"When it comes to AI, expecting perfection is not only unrealistic, it’s dangerous.Responsible practitioners of machine learning and AI always make surethat there’s a plan in…
Composite Decision Variables
In real-world decision models, you may want to write business rules that refer to combinations of two or more individual decision variables called composite decision variables.…
Business Rules and SQL: Competitors or Partners?
IEEE Spectrum just published the article "The Rise of SQL" about the recent SQL’s comeback caused not only by the ever-increasing use of databases, but also by the use of SQL…
OpenRules Debuggers
OpenRules Decision Manager provides two Decision Model Debuggers: Graphical Debugger included in OpenRules Explorer Command Line Debugger described in this post. While the…
Where is Gold?
In this post I describe an OpenRules solution to the puzzle offered as DMCommunity.org June-2021 Challenge:
Rules-based Machine Learning
The integrated use of Rule Engine and Machine Learning (ML) products becomes more and more popular. OpenRules Rule Learner is a good example of such integration. While there are…