OpenRules in Japan
I’ve just returned from my first ever trip to Japan. I am coming back home to the US with very bright impressions of the Japanese culture and people. I was especially impressed by…
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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…
Upcoming Events
This fall there will be several international events related to Decision Management:
Building a Maintainable Product Catalogue with OpenRules Dialog
This year I will chair a workshop "CPSOLVERS-2013" at the major Constraint Programming conference "CP 2013". Preparing the workshop, we’ve decided to create an industrial overview…
Webinar: Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models with DecisionsFirst Modeler and OpenRules
Watch Recorded Webinar We are pleased to announce a joint free webinar organized by Decision Management Solutions and OpenRules.
Converting Decision Tables from PDF to OpenRules
There is a free tool called "pdftoexcel" that allows you to convert tables from a PDF format to Excel. This tool can safe you a lot of retyping if you have many rules tables in…
Determine the Risk of Meeting a Werewolf
Today there was a post at the LinkedIn group "Looking for a simple example of representing calculations in a Decision Model" with this problem description:
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…
Rule Violations and Over-Constrained Problems
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." – Pablo Picasso Practical people know that one of the most important property of a business rule is its ability…
Decision Execution Reports
OpenRules Release 6.2.3 adds an ability to generate decision execution reports in the HTML format. These reports help a rule designer to analyze which rules were actually executed…
How to compact large decision tables
A well-known problem with decision tables is that they frequently become too big and too difficult to manage. It is also well-known that OpenRules utilizes Excel-based decision…