2012 in review
Happy 2013 to all OpenRules customers, colleagues, and friends! The WordPress.com prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
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Search and Replace in Multiple Excel Files with IceTeaReplacer
I believe that OpenRules users will find that a new free tool called "IceTeaReplacer" can be very useful for doing search&replace in OpenRules repositories. Here is a functional…
Deploying OpenRules Applications on Cloud
A week ago at JavaOne Conference in San Francisco I had a chance to talk directly with several providers of cloud deployment solutions for Java applications. I was really…
Customizing OpenRules Decisions
The new release 6.2.2 of OpenRules allows a user to customize decisions and decision runs, to create custom decision tables, and to incorporate decisions in web dialogs. Read more…
Fall 2012 – Time for Conferences
As usual, every fall OpenRules participates in major international conferences devoted to intelligent decision making. Here is a list of this year conferences from our website:
A stable gain in popularity
While I usually prefer to stay away from marketing discussions, I cannot help noticing that during these hard economical times open source business rules products gain in…
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…
In memory of Eliyahu Goldratt
Today searching web for goal programming sources I suddenly learned that last year Eliyahu Goldratt died. He was 64. I remember how impressed I was with his books "The Goal" and…
Different Decision Tables for a Very Simple Use Case
The responses to the RFP of OMG DMN (Decision Model and Notation) standard are scheduled to arrive in May of 2012. Trying to keep this process as close as possible to the everyday…
Dynamic Decision Glossaries
OpenRules decisions use business glossaries that are usually presented in Excel tables that may look like this table "glossary":