Monthly Archives: October 2025

Solvers are like cars: focus on driving in the right direction, before you worry about speed

Posted on October 25, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This is a quote from Geoffrey De Smet’s post, “What stops Operations Research from being widely adopted?” His answers:

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Decisions vs Policies

Posted on October 23, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The latest post by Adam DeJans Jr. is so important that we decided to reproduce it here. He questions whether we always need a model to make a decision and describes the essential difference between decisions and policies. “A decision … Continue reading →

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 “AI is going to make everything better!”

Posted on October 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity
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Challenge Oct-2025 “Decision with two objectives”

Posted on October 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This challenge is offered by Dr. Meinolf Sellmann. A freelance webpage developer received a task. A client has a budget of $10,000 and wants a webpage developed with as many features as possible while maximizing the total value of these features. … Continue reading →

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Prof Warren Powell: What is a decision?

Posted on October 17, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. W. Powell announced his newest webpage, “What is a decision?” covering these headings: 1)    What is a decision?2)    What types of decisions are there?3)    What does a decision do?4)    We make decisions to solve a problem, but what do we mean by a … Continue reading →

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Why Ontology driven (LLM-free) AI systems are needed

Posted on October 11, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On 7 October 2025, Bas van der Raadt presented “Ontology and business rules in practice” at VU Amsterdam where he talked about:– Problems with code based systems– Why ontology driven AI systems are needed– What is an ontology?– How to … Continue reading →

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LION20: The 20th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference

Posted on October 9, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The 20th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION) will be held on 15-19 June 2026, in Milan, Italy. It will include a special session: LEARNING AND OPTIMIZATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY FOR DYNAMIC AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION. https://www.lion20.org/

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Decision Agents Today

Posted on October 7, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Right after DecisionCAMP-2025, where James Taylor was the moderator of the Expert Panel, he posted a nice presentation, “Building Decision Agents with LLMs & Machine Learning Models,” about Decision Agents within modern decision intelligence platforms. A brief summary:

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DecisionCAMP-2025 Poll Results

Posted on October 3, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

During DecisionCAMP-2025, we conducted the poll “Using LLM-based tools in the Decision Intelligence Context“. This poll pertained solely to Operational Repetitive Business Decisions. It contained 13 questions about the use of LLMs for the various decision automation tasks. Here are the … Continue reading →

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Making Operational Repetitive Decisions Under Uncertainty

Posted on October 1, 2025 by jacobfeldman

While just completed DecisionCAMP-2025 was dominated by the integrated use of Generative AI (LLMs) and Symbolic AI (Rules, Machine Learning, Optimization), in my closing notes I concentrated on the topic of making repetitive operational decisions in the real-world, frequently uncertain environments. In this article, I … Continue reading →

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