Decision Model for Vacation Days Calculation
This month DMCommunity.org asked to present the best design of the notorious decision tables offered by Prof. Jan Vanthienen. It should implement the following business logic:
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OpenRules 6.3.4 Introduces What-If Analyzer of Decision Models
On December 28, 2015 we published a new OpenRules release 6.3.4 that introduces What-If Analyzer, the first tool of this type in the Decision Management domain. Its main purpose…
Predictive Analytics is Becoming Mainstream
"Big Data" have brought "Predictive Analytics" (long-time available but hidden in the academic world under the names "Machine Learning" and "Data Mining") to the spotlight of the…
Don’t Program a System, Educate It!
Modern decision management techniques enable business decisions by supporting a path from data to decisions and actions. Wherever people use stand-alone Business Rules, Complex…
OpenRules Dialog Questions in Multiple Tables
If you have too many questions in your OpenRules Dialog project, you may want to split a large table "questions" into several tables.
Enhanced Live Catalogs at DMCommunity.org
A few years ago, I wrote a web application that allowed professional communities to support Live Catalogs of different software tools. The "live" means that a product catalog is…
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…
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…
OpenRules Test Harness
A new OpenRules Release 6.3.1 enhances its Test Harness with automatic comparison of expected and actual decision execution results.
Learning Business Rules from Data at RuleML-2014
This year RuleML-2014 will be held in Prague on Aug 18-20. For the first time it will include a special track called "Learning Business Rules from Data". As a member of the…
OpenRules Sandbox
To simplify an evaluation of the OpenRules BDMS we’ve created an OpenRules Sandbox – see http://openrules.com/sandbox.htm. So, you do not have to download or install any software…
Can a Decision Model Define Uniqueness of Objects inside a Collection?
This question was asked by Antonio Plais – see the LinkedIn discussion. Several practical variations of this question were mentioned: 1) Define if the same product appears more…