Category Archives: Case Studies

Challenge Apr-2024: Lookup Tables in Decision Models

Posted on April 5, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Business decision models frequently use lookup tables that may contain thousands of data rows. There are at least two issues to be addressed when representing lookup tables: 1) users need to be able to modify the table data without modifications … Continue reading →

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Practical Applications, Use Cases, and Testing (DC2023 Notes Part 3)

Posted on September 25, 2023 by jacobfeldman

As usual, DecisionCAMP included presentations devoted to practical applications and case studies of decision modeling and decision optimization. Testing rules-based decision services is extremely important topic in practical decision management especially in the modern CI/CD world. No wonder we had … Continue reading →

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Challenge July-2023 “Rules as Preferences”

Posted on June 29, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In the real world not all rules can be satisfied and we may consider them as preferences. For example, our June-2023 Challenge “Miss Manners” used well-tuned data with equal numbers of males and females at each party. Of course, real data is not like … Continue reading →

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UK Student Loan Policy: Model – Execute – Visualize

Posted on December 17, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Decision modeling is a powerful means of representing a business policy in a way which can readily understood by business subject matter experts and – once approved – be directly executed as part of automated decision making within a company. … Continue reading →

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Book “Business Rules: Management and Execution”

Posted on October 18, 2019 by jacobfeldman

This book “Business Rules: Management and Execution” has been just published at Amazon.  It consists of 2 parts: Part 1: Business Rules Management Part 2: Execution. Award Winning Case Studies Link

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Similarity in Machine and Human Decision Making

Posted on April 25, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In his new post “Artificial and Human Intelligence” Alain Chabrier from IBM describes decisions the members of his own  family make while packing for vacation. In simple terms Alain nicely explains how we use 3 major Decision Management techniques (Rules, … Continue reading →

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Challenge March-2019 “Organ Transplant Decisioning”

Posted on February 18, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The development of techniques for organ transplant means that now one person’s death may lead to a lifesaving operation for another. This challenge considers one of the many crucial decision-making processes involved in this miracle of modern medicine. Possible solutions to … Continue reading →

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DMN for Clinical Decision Support

Posted on July 7, 2018 by jacobfeldman

Can DMN be used for creating shareable knowledge artifacts for Clinical Decision Support (CDS)? This paper considers different options. “If so, then we can take advantage of many of the DMN tools to author knowledge artifacts and implement CDS services … Continue reading →

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Business Rules Excellence Awards

Posted on March 29, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Do you have an interesting Business Rules Use Case?  Submit it for the opportunity to win a highly prestigious award and publication in the next book on BR to be published within 12 months following the Awards Ceremony at BBC-2018. The Business Rules Excellence … Continue reading →

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Decision Model for Order Promotions

Posted on January 20, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Our Jan-2018 Challenge deals with a popular business decision problem:  help merchants to define various promotions for their sales orders and to automatically decide which orders are eligible to which promotions. A simple example of promotion: reduce the total cost of … Continue reading →

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