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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Challenges
7 posts
One More Time About Declarativity
Most experts and practitioners had agreed long ago that decision models should be declarative, meaning a user specifies WHAT the decision problem is and provides test cases with…
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.
Trying to find an optimal decision without an optimization engine
All provided solutions to the DMCommunity April 2025 Challenge “Case Assignment” use an optimization engine. The OpenRules solution utilized Rule Solver. I decided to try to solve…
OpenRules Solution to Feb-2025 Challenge “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”
DMCommunity.org posted the challenge “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”. I applied Rule Solver to demonstrate how to solve this challenge using several decision tables. Link Then I…
English-like Expressions inside Decision Tables
OpenRules Release 10.3 adds an ability to create complex English-like expressions inside your decision tables. With new predefined functions for lists and arrays of business…
Helping ChatGPT to Build a Working Decision Model
These days only lazy people don’t write about ChatGPT and large language models (LLM). Vendors are trying to be the first to announce a ChatGPT integration even when they don’t…