Resolving Conflicts among Business Rules
Contradictory business rules occur in normal business situations, and maintaining rules with exceptions is a very typical example of rule conflicts. Is it possible to…
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Rule Engines
22 posts
Solving Rule Conflicts – Part 2
“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”, Francisco Goya Defeasible Logic and Business Rules with Probabilities Modern rules and decisions management systems provide effective…
Solving Rule Conflicts – Part 1
Representing Contradictory Rules with Single-Hit and Multi-Hit Decision Tables Modern rules and decisions management systems provide effective mechanisms for development of good…
Combining Constraint Solving with Business Rules and Machine Learning – CoCoMiLe 2013
The integration of different decision making techniques finally is finding its home under the roof of the Decision Management movement. I am glad that an integrated Constraint…
Fischer vs. Kasparov vs. Karpov
On a long flight back to the US I had a few hours to kill. So, I decided to implement one of my favorite modeling tests that I used to give to my students and they always enjoyed…
Rule Engines: RETE and Alternatives
The famous RETE algorithm was invented by Dr. Charles Forgy more than 30 years ago and it still remains the foundation for most implementations of inferential rule engines.…
Modeling Decisions for Scheduling and Resource Allocation Problems
“Reality is built in wonderful simplicity”, Eliyahu Goldratt “The Choice” Scheduling and Resource Allocation are traditionally considered as very complex business problems. They…
Representing and Solving Rule-Based Decision Models with Constraint Solvers
The latest rules conferences RulesFest-2011, BBC-2011, and RuleML-2011 were really great events in general and for OpenRules in particular. We announced a new constraint-based…
Forrester about OpenRules
On July 5, 2011 Forrester Research published a report "Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011". Here is what it says about OpenRules: "OpenRules have the most-aggressive…
About OpenRules Scalability
Being in real-world production environment for many years, OpenRules Engine has a proven record of high efficiency and scalability. Several years ago some of our customers (a…