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…
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Rule Engines
22 posts
Machine Learning inside Decision-Making Applications: Practical Use Cases
Machine Learning (ML) tools have been successfully used for decision-making applications for many years. Despite many success stories, ML popularity in enterprise-level software…
Integrated Use of Rule Learner and Rule Engine
Nowadays we are experiencing an interesting phenomenon: the more people talk about Generative AI, the more interest we see in the integration of Rule Engines and traditional…
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…
Decision Modeling: Declarative vs Procedural
The ultimate objective of Business Decision Modeling: A business analyst (subject matter expert) defines a business problem, and a smart decision engine solves the problem by…
Where is Gold?
In this post I describe an OpenRules solution to the puzzle offered as DMCommunity.org June-2021 Challenge:
New Rule Learner for Ever-Learning Decision-Making Systems
OpenRules, Inc. was among first BR vendors who introduced the integrated Machine Learning and Business Rules approach back in 2007. Over the years, our Rule Learner was…
Business Decision Modeling with Rule Engines and CP/LP Solvers
There are two major types of decision engines utilized by different Business Rules and Decision Management systems to execute business decision models: 1. Traditional rule engines…
Integrated Use of Rule Engines and Constraint/Linear Solvers
Operational business problems can be defined by a set of decision variables and a set of rules that specify relationships between these variables – see the formal definition. This…
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…
Automatically Learned Business Rules: Should We Understand Them?
Question: Should we worry that we’re building systems whose increasingly accurate decisions are based on incomprehensible foundations? I’ve just posted an article with the same…
Decision “Determine a Killer of Aunt Agatha”
Could we use decision tables to represent and solve complex logical problems? An example of such problem was offered by the DMCommunity.org in the Nov-2014 Challenge called "Who…