Monthly Archives: September 2017

Business Rules & Decisions Forum at BBC-2017 in Orlando on Nov 6-10

Posted on September 30, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The Business Rules & Decisions Forum delivers the insights, technologies and techniques business analysts need to know to be  in control of their operational business rules and decisions. The event will take place in Orlando on Nov. 6-10, 2017. Vendors exhibitions … Continue reading →

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Typical Example from Machine Learning Practice

Posted on September 22, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“I was asked to help sell machine learning to a bank. They asked us to have a look at predicting failures of their payment system.  They had previous attempts with various technologies and various consulting companies, but they all failed.  … Continue reading →

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Built for Change: Interview with Alan Trefler

Posted on September 19, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Pegasystems has experienced tremendous success in recent years. The stock is up more than 100 percent in the past year, and it is tempting to think of the company as a start-up, perhaps run by a 20-something entrepreneur in the Bay … Continue reading →

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The Google Brain Team’s Approach to Research

Posted on September 13, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On Sep 13 Jeff Dean, one of the most famous Google researchers, shared this post: “About a year ago, the Google Brain team first shared our mission ‘Make machines intelligent. Improve people’s lives.’ In that time, we’ve shared updates on our work to … Continue reading →

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MWD Advisors Report “Decision Management Drives Disruption”

Posted on September 11, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Derek Miers from MWD Advisors just published a new report devoted to DMN. He writes: “With decision modelling, you now have way of visualising the future – using models to express strategies, goals, processes, policies, rules and constraints – and then driving … Continue reading →

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DMN TCK Shows Momentum

Posted on September 7, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bruce Silver posted his comments about DMN Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK), which provides an ever-enlarging suite of DMN models, including test input values and expected outputs.  In July the TCK website had 4 DMN tools listed, and now it has 6 … Continue reading →

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Challenge Sep-2017 “Classify Department Employees”

Posted on September 3, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Our Challenge Sep-2017 asks you to help a human resource office to create a decision model that for each department calculates minimal, maximal, and average salaries along with a number of high-paid employees using rules like “Salary > 85000”. Use any Business … Continue reading →

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Lying with Statistics

Posted on September 3, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Lying with statistics has been a thing for a long time, but charts tend to spread far and wide these days. There’s a lot of them. Some don’t tell the truth. Maybe you glance at it and that’s it, but a … Continue reading →

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Machine Learning Humor

Posted on September 1, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The current machine learning hype makes some people believe that pouring data into a “big pile of linear algebra” will produce the answers you want. The more data you pour the better answers you get. Contrary, to get useful answers … Continue reading →

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