Category Archives: Challenges

Monkey Business

Posted on October 30, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We’ve just published Nov-2015 Challenge called “Monkey Business“. Use any Decision Management tool (or none) to solve it.

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We Prolonged Sep-2015 Challenge

Posted on September 30, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We prolonged the Sep-2015 Challenge “Collections of Cars” until October 31. We consider this challenge to be quite important from the real-world decision modeling perspective. We already received 5 solutions that allow DM practitioners to see how to handle collections of objects in various … Continue reading →

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Join INFORMS-2015 Hackathon

Posted on September 17, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Attend INFORMS-2015 on Nov. 1-4, 2015 in Philadelphia and/or join Hackathon! You may demonstrate the power of your favorite Decision Optimization tool by solving a problem from a major US airline and winning the Grand Prize of $600.

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First 3 Solutions for Sep-2015 Challenge

Posted on September 8, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The interest to Decision Management in general and to the DMCommunity.org grows every day. During the first (Labor Day) week of September we received 3 solutions for the Sep-2015 Challenge “Collections of Cars“: the first one using R, the second … Continue reading →

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Using R Language for Decision Modeling

Posted on September 2, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The R is a highly popular free programming language that provides a powerful array of development tools in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With growing popularity of business analytics in general, the popularity of the R language can only be … Continue reading →

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Decision Modeling With Collections of Objects

Posted on September 1, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Real-world decision models frequently deal with collections of business objects. Some of our previous challenges and their solutions already demonstrated several use cases. The challenge “Make a Good Burger” even includes a DMN FEEL solution that for the first time … Continue reading →

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Solutions for Aug-2015 Challenge

Posted on August 31, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We have received 3 solutions for the Challenge August-2015 “Find Duplicate Product Lines“.  Two solutions use BR products (OpenRules and Corticon) and one solution is based on the R language and RStudio.

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Challenge August-2015: Find Duplicate Product Lines

Posted on August 4, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This month you need to build a decision model that is capable to decide which product lines inside sales orders are duplicate. The duplicate product lines can be recognized by user-defined similarity rules – read more here. In general, this challenge is supposed … Continue reading →

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Challenge June-2015: Make a Good Burger

Posted on May 30, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

As the owner of a fast food restaurant with declining sales, you know that your customers are looking for something new and exciting on the menu.  Your market research indicates that they want a burger that is loaded with everything … Continue reading →

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No solutions for a simple predictive analytics challenge?

Posted on May 26, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Surprisingly we haven’t yet received a single solution for the April-May 2015 Challenge. Nowadays there are so many papers and posts about predictive analytics and… no solutions for a relatively simple problem? If not vendors then consultants could at least use some … Continue reading →

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