Category Archives: Challenges

Challenge April-2015: Patient Diagnosis Decision

Posted on March 25, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We’ve just published a new challenge problem for April 2015. This problem belongs to a highly popular predictive analytics domain and deals with a patient diagnosis decision. Looking forward to various solutions using modern decision management systems.

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Feb-2015 Challenge

Posted on February 1, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This month we published a simple challenge problem: How can a given amount of money be made with the least number of coins of given denominations? We expect to see how your favorite DM tool would address this challenge.

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UServ Product Derby Solutions

Posted on February 1, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We have received 5 solutions for the Dec2014-Jan2015 Challenge ( in order of submission): Blueriq – submitted by Maarten Schadd from http://www.blueriq.com Corticon – submitted by Michael Parish from Progress Corticon IBM ODM – submitted by Rafael Ortiguela from DECIDE Sapiens – submitted by Gil Segal from www.sapiensdecision.com OpenRules – … Continue reading →

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The first solutions for “UServ Product Derby”

Posted on January 14, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Maarten Schadd from http://www.blueriq.com has submitted the very first solution for the  January-2015 challenge “Vehicle Insurance – UServ Product Derby”. The second solution was submitted by Mike Parish from Corticon. More solutions are on the way.

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RuleML Rulebase Competition

Posted on January 14, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

RuleML Inc announced a US$500 Award for the best RuleML Rulebase of 2015. Read more here

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Modeling Decisions with Complex Logic

Posted on November 29, 2014 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We posted a summary of the Nov-2014 Challenge at the LinkedIn Group “Business Rules“.

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UServ Product Derby is Getting Second Life as a DM Challenge

Posted on November 25, 2014 by decisionmanagementcommunity

10+ years ago BR vendors had a chance to demonstrate their product capabilities at Business Rules Forums (now BBC) using the same highly popular use case known as “UServ Product Derby”.  We decided to revive the derby as a DM Challenge for … Continue reading →

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Christmas Challenge from FICO

Posted on November 25, 2014 by decisionmanagementcommunity

FICO, one of the major commercial DM vendors, runs predictive modeling competitions and even offers rewards to the winners. For the upcoming holidays FICO offered a challenge called “Jingle bells, Santa tells…”.  

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Nov-2014 Challenge – First two solutions

Posted on November 2, 2014 by decisionmanagementcommunity

November just started but we’ve already received two solutions to the “Who Killed Agatha” problem submitted by Mike Perish and Hakan Kjellerstrand. They both are confident that Aunt Agatha committed suicide. Do you have a different opinion or a different approach to … Continue reading →

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Six Solutions for Oct-2014 Challenge

Posted on October 30, 2014 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We want to thank everybody who provided solutions to Challenge Oct-2014. They used six different BR tools. We would appreciate if our readers compare these solutions and post their comments. A new Challenge Nov-2014 is underway.

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