Category Archives: Challenges

Challenge Aug-2016: Greeting a Customer with Unknown Data

Posted on July 28, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We expect BR&DM vendors will provide their solutions to our Aug-2016 Challenge “Greeting a Customer with Unknown Data“. This is a variation of the “Hello World!” use case when a decision model automatically generates greetings like “Good Morning, Mrs. Robinson!” doing its … Continue reading →

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Solve Family Riddle – Challenge June-2016

Posted on June 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Our June-2016 Challenge deals with a notorious Family Riddle. You need to define ages of boys and girls in two families based on some known relationships. Can you build a decision model that finds one or several solutions of this … Continue reading →

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DMN Interchange Challenge

Posted on March 29, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

One of the main advantages of decision modeling standardization is a potential interchange of decision models between different DMN-compliant tools. DMN 1.1 includes a new interchange format – you may find its description in the Bruce Silver’s book “DMN Method … Continue reading →

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Challenge Mar-2016 “Port Clearance Rules”

Posted on February 25, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The March-2016 Challenge deals with a decision model that is capable to decide if a ship can enter a Dutch port on a certain date. The rules for this challenge are inspired by the international Ship and Port Facility Security Code.

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And the Oscar Goes To…

Posted on February 23, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Jan Vanthienen took time to carefully analyze all 19 solutions submitted for our Jan-2016 Challenge. The results of his analysis are now available in this report. Here is a summary: We want to thank Prof. Vanthienen for his thorough analysis. To … Continue reading →

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We Received 19(!) Solutions for the “Vacation Days” Challenge

Posted on January 30, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This month we challenged our community to submit solutions for notorious decision model “Calculate Vacation Days”.  We’ve already received 19 solutions using 9 different products! So, now we all will wait for Prof. Jan Vanthienen to provide his analysis of these solutions and … Continue reading →

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Vacation Days Challenge

Posted on January 24, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jan-2016 Challenge “Vacation Days” generates a lot of interest among practitioners and experts. We’ve already received various solutions from 4 sources: OpenRules, DMN/Oracle, Progress Corticon, and Trisotech. You still have time to submit your solution that may become a choice for Prof. … Continue reading →

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What Constitutes a Good Decision Table? Challenge Jan-2016

Posted on December 28, 2015 by jacobfeldman

What constitutes a good decision table? There are many recommendations provided by well-known experts such as  Prof. Jan Vanthienen.  But it’s always a good idea to see at least one specific example and to analyze its different representations. So, we published a … Continue reading →

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Holiday Challenges

Posted on November 28, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The holiday season is around the corner and our challenges should be more fun than mind-blowers – the Nov-Challenge received only two solutions so far. In December we decided to offer a fun-challenge to our readers: it is  a math problem that was given to a … Continue reading →

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Exceptions in Business Rules are Not Exceptions

Posted on November 17, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Handling exceptions in your business logic is one of the most typical and non-trivial problem in decision management.  There are two new posts Can you Override that Rule? and Are the Rules the Same for Everyone? from Carole-Ann Matignon of Sparkling Logic that provide dos … Continue reading →

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