OpenRules Offers Free Decision Model Development
Like other Decision Intelligence (DI) platforms, OpenRules helps organizations build, deploy, and maintain complex, AI-ready decision services. But we also recognize a paradox:…
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Decision Modeling
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Rules and Constraints Working Together
We published an article that makes the case that rules are excellent for expressing business logic, constraints are excellent for defining and searching the space of feasible…
LLM Decision Modeling: From 2023 To 2026
In this LinkedIn post, I compared the 2023 and 2026 results of using LLMs to generate decision models from plain English descriptions. Here is the conclusion: Three years ago, I…
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…
Finding decisions for complex problems with multiple interdependent sub-problems
After I wrote about "Making Operational Repetitive Decisions Under Uncertainty," I found several interesting descriptions of how optimization experts, Adam DeJans Jr. and Helmut…
Making Operational Repetitive Decisions Under Uncertainty
While just completed DecisionCAMP-2025 was dominated by the integrated use of Generative AI (LLMs) and Symbolic AI (Rules, Machine Learning, Optimization), in my closing notes I…
Why Decision Optimization Remains Underutilized
Adam DeJans just posted: "Most people don’t realize how much of the world runs on a math method called Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP). It is how airlines schedule…
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…
OpenRules and SharePoint Integration
OpenRules announced a new Release 10.5.0 that integrates its Decision Intelligence Platform with Microsoft SharePoint. This development came in response to our large corporate…
AI for Decisions: a look from 2017 and today
After listening to the latest talk of Prof. Bob Kowalski on What is AI?, I remembered his talk about logical AI at the joint session of DecisionCAMP and RuleML+RR in 2017 in…
Christmas Word Search
DMCommunity.org offered a relatively simple challenge "Christmas Word Search" for holidays. My first inclination was to ask an LLM to solve it. I certainly was impressed that…
Movie Production Scheduler
This year OpenRules was approached by a film production company that wanted to optimize their movie production scheduling process. They wanted us to build a scheduler that…