Monthly Archives: April 2025

Explaining Solutions of Combinatorial Optimization

Posted on April 30, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DecisionBrain is actively investigating the topic of explaining Combinatorial Optimization results. Drawing from principles in both Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, they highlighted two key types of explanations, contrastive and counterfactual explanations, and discussed their relevance in decision-support systems. Link

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Rule Challenge at Declarative AI

Posted on April 29, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This year DeclarativeAI  (that includes DecisionCAMP as a co-event) will run the 19th International Rule Challenge, fostering friendly competition among innovative rule-oriented tools, prototypes, and applications tailored to research, industry, and government. Participants are invited to showcase their solutions to self-defined … Continue reading →

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Resolving Conflicts among Business Rules

Posted on April 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Ron Ross again brought up the question of “Exceptions to Business Rules” to light (https://lnkd.in/eyemPWF2). Ron defines an exception to the rules as a foreseen, explicit set of circumstances in which different-than-normal guidance is to be followed. He gave an … Continue reading →

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“Expert Systems Will Lead the Next Chapter of AI”

Posted on April 18, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Clive Spenser pointed to a very interesting Oct-2024 article by Martin Milani that makes the case for coupling deep learning with expert systems. “In the next generation of AI, advanced expert systems will serve as the core “intelligence,” acting as … Continue reading →

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True Art of Software Development

Posted on April 12, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Stéphane Dalbera posted today: “This quote elegantly describes the true art of software development. It’s not enough to dream up bold strategies or to architect utopias on whiteboards. The challenge lies in translating those strategic desires into tactical realities – … Continue reading →

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Did GenAI kill Cyc?

Posted on April 11, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Cyc was a “child” of Doug Lenat, who devoted 40 years to trying to make AI more human. David Reed just blogged about it: “Is Cyc dead, as the obituary here claims? Did Deep Neural Nets kill it? I think … Continue reading →

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Programming in Natural Language

Posted on April 5, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Stephane Dalbera: “The fantasy of programming in natural language didn’t emerge with Large Language Models; it’s been a topic of discussion for decades. It’s interesting to note that Edsger W. Dijkstra’s 1978 critique remains, in many aspects, highly relevant today. … Continue reading →

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Challenge April-2025 “Case Assignments”

Posted on April 2, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

An analytical firm assigns different cases to its analysts using the following rules: Given a list of analysts with their current workload and a list of new cases, you need to help the firm to decide which analysts should be … Continue reading →

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Streaming intelligible speech from the brain in real time

Posted on April 2, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis. This work solves the long-standing challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses, the time lag between when … Continue reading →

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