Monthly Archives: September 2018

Tim Berners-Lee: Game On!

Posted on September 29, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web  Sir Tim Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among … Continue reading →

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Amazon automates buying and stocking decisions

Posted on September 26, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Machines are beating people at the critical inventory decisions that separate the winners and losers in retail. For the staffers deciding how many books, games or plastic pool toys to peddle, the tradeoff can be stark: Order too little and … Continue reading →

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Lifetime Achievement Award in Decision Management goes to Dr. Charles Forgy

Posted on September 19, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The first Lifetime Achievement Award in Decision Management goes to Dr. Charles Forgy, the father of rule engines! It was just announced at DecisionCAMP-2018 – see the presentation. Congratulations and a big THANK YOU to Dr. Forgy from all members of … Continue reading →

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DecisionCAMP-2018 and LuxLogAI start on Sep. 17

Posted on September 15, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DecisionCAMP-2018 starts at the Luxembourg on Sep. 17. The 3-days program is available here. It will feature well-known DM experts and practitioners.  The QnA panel “Real-world Business Decision Modeling” will be held on Sep. 18. The instructions for attendees can … Continue reading →

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Sparkling Logic is our new sponsor

Posted on September 12, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DMCommunity welcomes a new premium sponsor Sparkling Logic Inc., a California-based company leading technology innovation in Decision Management. The most recent Sparkling Logic SMARTS Rio release empowers business and data analysts to discover, test, simulate, deploy and continuously improve data-informed business decisions. As usability, … Continue reading →

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Challenge Sep-2018 “Balanced Assignment”

Posted on September 11, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This challenge deals with assignment of people to certain activities, for instance: assigning students to project groups or assigning professors to offices.  We are using the problem formulation and test data provided by Prof. Robert Fourer (AMPL). We expect that not … Continue reading →

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Google’s What-If Tool for Machine Learning Models

Posted on September 11, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Building effective machine learning (ML) systems means asking a lot of questions. It’s not enough to train a model and walk away. Instead, good practitioners act as detectives, probing to understand their model better: How would changes to a datapoint affect … Continue reading →

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How DMN could help to explain ML outcome

Posted on September 7, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Dr Jan Purchase just published an article “Better AI Transparency Using Decision Modeling“, in which he describes several possible ways to provide reasonable explanations to the outcome of machine learning algorithms. Jan without hesitations describes practical limitations of the described approaches.  Jan … Continue reading →

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Launch of Dataset Search

Posted on September 6, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Google launched Dataset Search, which can help researchers, scientists, and others around the world find open datasets! Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher’s site, a digital library, or an author’s personal web page. The … Continue reading →

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Double-Axis Decision Tables

Posted on September 5, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

FICO Blaze Advisor 7.5 introduced the ability to create a double-axis decision table. Here is an example:

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