Category Archives: Challenges

New Challenge “Recreational Fee”

Posted on April 3, 2019 by

We’ve just published a simple challenge offered by Ron Ross. A city has created a decision table to determine appropriate usage fees for its recreational facilities based on length of usage and when the usage occurs. The city also has … Continue reading →

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SBVR Specification for the Organ Donation Challenge

Posted on March 8, 2019 by

Ron Ross submitted Rule Specification for the Organ Donation Challenge that is based on SBVR/RuleSpeak. “The first and foremost concern is the exact business semantics of the problem. The rule specifications presented below address that fundamentally important objective. The RuleSpeak/SBVR … Continue reading →

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Challenge March-2019 “Organ Transplant Decisioning”

Posted on February 18, 2019 by

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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Challenge Jan-2019 “Identify Unfriendly Robots”

Posted on January 3, 2019 by

Our Jan-2019 Challenge asks you to help a cyber police to specify rules that identify if a robot is friendly or unfriendly. The rules can be expressed in terms of any features you can see in robots, such as the shape … Continue reading →

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Solutions to Nov-2018 Challenge “Vacation Days Advanced”

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

We’ve already received 3 submissions with solutions to our November challenge “Vacation Days Advanced” using different tools: FICO Blaze Advisor, OpenRules, and DT5GL . Contrary to the 2016 challenge “Vacation Days”, this one doesn’t have inter-rules relationships like “apply this rule only … Continue reading →

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Challenge Sep-2018 “Balanced Assignment”

Posted on September 11, 2018 by

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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12th International Rule Challenge 2018

Posted on July 7, 2018 by

During the Logic for AI Summit hosted by the University of Luxembourg in September there will be an International Rule Challenge that seeks to provide competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Business Rules Modeling is among … Continue reading →

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