A Formal Definition of Operational Business Decision
Dr. Bob Moore in his DMCommunity.org post "What is a ‘Decision’?" considers different definitions of a "Business Decision" and "Business Decision Logic", which Bob, Ron Ross, and…
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Decision Modeling
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A New Book “Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling with OpenRules”
In February-2019 I published a new book "Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling with OpenRules" available from Amazon. It explains the goal-oriented approach to business decision…
Building and Using Domain-Specific Libraries of Decision Models
Our customers frequently build not one but multiple decision models for their business domains like property and casualty insurance, loan origination, medical guidelines, etc.…
Model-based Optimal Solutions for Flight Rebooking Challenge
During the closing discussion at the DecisionCAMP-2018, I promoted a new "model-based" approach to decision modeling that contrary to the commonly used "method-based" approach…
Model-based Solutions for Advanced Vacation Days Challenge
I provided two solutions for DMCommunity.org Challenge “Vacation Days Advanced”. So far, all decision models submitted as solutions for the old Jan-2016 Challenge and the new…
OpenRules Presentations at DecisionCAMP and LuxLogAI-2018
OpenRules was well presented at the major technical business decision management event DecisionCAMP-2018. Here are the presentations directly related to OpenRules: Goal-Oriented…
DMCommunity Challenge July-2018 “Zoo, Buses, and Kids”
The July’s challenge "Zoo, Buses, and Kids" deals with a very simple optimization problem: "300 kids need to travel to the London zoo. The school may rent 40 seats and 30 seats…
Decision Automation and Explanations
Prof. Gene Freuder wrote a position paper "Complete Explanations" for The Second Workshop on Progress Towards the Holy Grail that will be held on Aug 27, 2018 during CP 2018 in…
Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling with OpenRules-7
The major Release 7.0.0 is making OpenRules even more user-friendly without losing any of the sophistication of already proven decision modeling technology. Our customers don’t…
Keep DMN Simple
People who started decision modeling standardization years ago were all agreed that the DMN standard is supposed to be oriented to subject matter experts, should be simple,…
Old Decision Model “Credit Card Application” Implemented with New OpenRules-7
The latest June-2018 DMCommunity Challenge"Credit Card Application" gives me a good chance to demonstrate the new upcoming OpenRules Release 7.0.0. I remember that Nick Broom was…
DMCommunity Challenge April-2018 “Up-Selling Rules”
In this post we will provide a response to the DMCommunity.org Apr-2018 Challenge "Up-Selling Rules" that deals with two decision tables: 1) up-selling rules that offer new…