Category Archives: Decision Modeling

Challenge March-2020: Paid Sick Leave Requirements

Posted on February 19, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Employers are required to provide paid sick leave to workers following very complex regulations defined by states, and adjusted by counties, cities, unions, and other entities. Our March-2020 Challenge asks you to define and implement decision services that support a relatively … Continue reading →

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How Digital Decisioning drives AI and ML Success

Posted on December 19, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

James Taylor published an article “How to Succeed with AI & ML in 2020“: “It’s clear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are going to have a huge impact on businesses in the coming years. Yet most companies … 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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DMN 1.3 Approved

Posted on December 10, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The new version 1.3 of the Decision Modeling and Notation (DMN) standard was approved by the OMG AB on Dec. 9, 2019. Apart from numerous corrections and clarifications, it gives us visual grouping, temporal reasoning, and better examples. It should … Continue reading →

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DMN Can Execute Machine Learning Models

Posted on November 1, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bruce Silver: “The ability to execute machine learning models is a standard feature of DMN.  From the start, the DMN spec said that in addition to the normal value expressions modeled in FEEL, decisions can execute machine learning models packaged … Continue reading →

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New Vendor’s Corner

Posted on October 29, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Following the initiative of DecisionCAMP-2019, we decided to introduce a Vendor’s Corner where all BR&DM vendors may share their latest news. If you represent a vendor of Business Rules and Decision Management tool, feel free to send your latest news to … Continue reading →

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Flash Points: Business Rules, Events, and Integrity

Posted on August 6, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Ron Ross just published “Flash Points: Business Rules, Events, and Integrity“: “Flash points are the specific events when a rule needs to be evaluated based only on the semantics of the rule itself. For a behavioral business rule, flash points … Continue reading →

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The Future of DMN: an interactive discussion at DecisionCAMP-2019

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Gary Hallmark, the author of DMN FEEL and a co-chair of the DMN standard committee, will run an interactive discussion “DMN 2.0?” at DecisionCAMP in September.  “In DMN’s 8 year lifespan from RFP to version 1.3, many features, changes and … Continue reading →

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Java Solver: Modeling and Solving Decision Optimization Problems

Posted on May 16, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Dr. Jacob Feldman announced availability of a new open source product “Java Solver” that provides a very simple API for modeling and solving optimization problems in Java. This is probably the simplest API for adding optimization components to business decisioning … Continue reading →

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Ron Ross: Response to Solutions for the “Recreational Fee” Challenge

Posted on May 6, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Ron Ross provided a response to 5 already submitted solutions to our Apr-2019 Challenge “Recreational Fee” and to several posted comments. You may read Ron’s response here. If you have new comments, please post them here as well. Note that … Continue reading →

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