Monthly Archives: March 2017

IBM Launches Decision Composer on Bluemix

Read this announcement of March 29, 2017: “IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new, experimental capability on Bluemix, IBM’s Cloud platform, which gives developers of varying skill sets the ability to create apps that can instantly personalize a user’s experience – without the need … Continue reading

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DecisionCAMP Lined Up for Success in London on July 13-14

DecisionCAMP-2017, sponsored by DMCommunity.org, just announced a great lineup of presenters including leading decision management authorities, book authors, vendors, and practitioners: Presenters        Program      Schedule A special pre-conference event “All About DMN” have been added on July … Continue reading

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Retrograde Analysis and Decision Modeling

The retrograde analysis was introduced by the famous Prof. Raymond Smullyan using chess as an example when you think backward from the position, rather than forward. Similar analysis can be successfully used for business decision modeling when we know the … Continue reading

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A New Music Album from DMN Guru Alan Fish

You can listen a new music album written by Alan Fish, one of the creators of the DMN standard. You may meet Alan in July at DecisionCAMP-2017 where he will present the latest news in the DMN 1.2 and will … Continue reading

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DMN 1.1 XML: from Modeling to Automation

Thierry Biard summarized his experience with DMN Interchange Format in this article. He analyzes DMN 1.1 XML implementations provided by Signavio Decision Manager and Drools 7.0 from the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) perspective.

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Andrew Ng is Leaving Baidu

Andrew Ng, a leading figure in the world of artificial intelligence, is leaving his post as chief scientist at China’s Baidu and says he wants to find ways of advancing AI beyond the technology world. Here is his own statement. … Continue reading

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Neil Raden: I think it’s time to disband IT

Neil Raden posted this comment to the LinkedIn article “Business is from Mars and IT from Venus“: I believe the term “the business” is a trope that was developed by IT specifically to create distance between themselves and the rest of … Continue reading

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Tim Burners-Lee Concerns about the Web’s Future

It’s been 28 years since Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for the worldwide web. Now he has three major concerns over the state of the web. Read More

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Decision Management Solutions is our New Sponsor

DMCommunity.org welcomes a new premium sponsor Decision Management Solutions (DMS). Led by James Taylor, a well-known expert in the field of Decision Management and the decision modeling, DMS helps organizations harness data-driven decision making by applying analytics, business rules and associated … Continue reading

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Challenge March-2017: Online Dating Services

Dear Business Rules Vendors and Consultants! Consider the following situation. You have been approached by an online dating service that wants to use a rules engine to improve its process for matching people. A brief explanation of “business logic” behind … Continue reading

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