Decision Models: Finding Alternative and Optimal Decisions
People frequently assume that a good, consistent decision model should produce one and only one decision (solution) for any valid input. However, in real-world applications we…
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RuleML and DecisionCAMP 2016
This year OpenRules will sponsor the 10th International Web Rule Symposium RuleML that will take place at the Stony Brook University, New York on July 6-9, 2016. RuleML is…
“Monkey Business” Analyzed
I decided to add the decision model "Monkey Business" to our new What-If Analyzer. It brought several considerations missed by other solutions. In this post I will discuss my…
bpmNEXT 2016
This year OpenRules will participate in the bpmNEXT 2016 that will take place at Santa Barbara, CA on April 19-21, 2016. This is a very selective conference that does not allow…
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:
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…
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…
OpenRules at BBC-2015
Since its incorporation in 2003, every year OpenRules, Inc. attends, sponsors, and presents at the Business Rules Forums. This year OpenRules will again be a sponsor and a…
“Old” and “New” Business Rules Approaches
The recent LinkedIn discussion "What rules representation to choose for which audience?" came to the question about business analysts handing their business rules written in plain…
Identification of the Executed Rules
Our customers often want to identify the actually executed rules. By default they may look at the automatically generated execution reports in the HTML format
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…