Decision Management and Semantic Reasoning
Considering the upcoming conferences, I was asked by Harold Boley to write about a possible integration of Semantic Reasoning and Business Decision Management. Today I posted an…
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Decision Management
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Happy 15th Birthday, OpenRules!
Today is exactly 15 years since OpenRules, Inc. was incorporated on Feb. 24, 2003. It’s a quite serious milestone, so I decided to write a few words for this occasion. A year ago,…
Decision Modeling: LEGO Style
Recently I helped one of our larger customers to build a set of their business decision models. At the end I said that now they can continue to assemble new decision models…
OpenRules Knowledge Repository for both QA and Production Processes
I’d like to share experience of large OpenRules customers who create and maintain enterprise-level knowledge repositories. Such repositories usually contain two major components:…
Transforming DMN XML to OpenRules
OpenRules already can read and execute decision models represented in the DML XML format. To test new DMN-to-OpenRules capabilities I decided to implement DMCommunity’s June-2017…
Loosely Coupled Decision Models for Loan Origination
DMCommunity.org June-2017 Challenge is looking for the best decision models that implement a well-known Loan Origination problem described in in the Section 11 of the DMN…
Solving Flight Rebooking Challenge With and Without Programming Constructs
DMCommunity.org announced its Challenge "Rebooking Passengers from Cancelled Flights" in Oct-2016 and until now 4 different solutions have been submitted. It is a relatively…
DMN: Iterating Over Arrays Without Explicit Loops
I consider myself among the initiators and big supporters of the DMN standard, and I do my best to help bringing the standard to the real-world business decision modeling.…
Raymond Smullyan’s Retro-Analysis and Decision Modeling
When I learned that the famous Prof. Raymond Smullyan passed away this February at the age of 97, I felt grateful to the man whose books and puzzles my friends and I enjoyed…
A new book “DMN in Action with OpenRules”
This month I published a new book “DMN in Action with OpenRules” at Amazon. This is a practical guide for people who want to understand how to create and maintain business…
OpenRules Implementation of the Loan Approval Challenge
In Dec-2016 DMCommunity.org published a new Challenge called "Loan Approval". This challenge actually was proposed by myself based on real-world experience with one of our…
New OpenRules Release 6.4.1 with DMN Why-Analyzer
“Imagine you had a Why Button handy whenever you encountered some disconnect in day-to-day business operations. Hit the Why Button and presto – answers appear in the form of…