Declarative Decision Model “Miss Manners”
This problem used to be one of the popular benchmarks for rule engines 20 years ago. And now DMCommunity.org brings it back to see how modern decision engines can represent and…
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Sudoku Decision Model
Everybody is familiar with Sudoku: you need to fill a 9×9 grid in a such way that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes (also called blocks) contains the digits…
Unconscious Thoughts
Today Yann LeGun tweeted: "Thought != Language" in response to this Einstein’s quote: "I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words…
Pattern Matching in OpenRules Decision Tables
OpenRules allows non-technical users to easily compare different strings with certain values. Decision table conditions may use simple operators such as "Is", "Is One Of", "Starts…
Nested Attributes in OpenRules Glossary and Tests
In real-world decision models, our customers deal with complex business glossaries. In particular, it is quite common when one business concept refers to other business concept…
Nested Loops in OpenRules Decision Models
Iterating over collections (arrays) of decision variables is a frequent need in real-world decision models. For example, the following decision table defines if a company has…
Decision Model “Permit Eligibility”
In this post we describe an OpenRules decision model that addresses DMCommunity.org Mar-2023 Challenge “Permit Eligibility”. The Challenge asks to implement this rule: “An…
Helping ChatGPT to Build a Working Decision Model
These days only lazy people don’t write about ChatGPT and large language models (LLM). Vendors are trying to be the first to announce a ChatGPT integration even when they don’t…
Happy 20th Birthday, OpenRules!
OpenRules, Inc. is now 20 years old! Our team met this anniversary in the best possible way – we did not notice it! We are so busy with adding new powerful capabilities to…
OpenRules + Apache Spark: 2.5M Decisions per Second!
Our customers frequently select OpenRules for their decision management needs because of two important factors: 1) Ease of Use; and 2) Performance and Scalability. We have large…
We Know More Than We Can Tell
Living through the ChatGPT boom, it is interesting to read this article "Is ChatGPT Aware?": "Polanyi’s paradox, named in honor of the philosopher and polymath Michael Polanyi,…
LLM and Decision Modeling
ChatGPT has the public excited, but the experts are reserved in their praise. Thinking about a practical application of the Large Language Models (LLM) to decision modeling this…