Category Archives: Decision Modeling

Decision as a Service (DaaS) by Trisotech

Posted on April 19, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Denis Gagné presented the latest version of Trisotech DMN Modeler at bpmNEXT-2018 as a complete modeling environment for DMN including execution, testing, searching, deployment as a decision service, collaboration, and more. It includes a Centralized Dictionary that is actually an … Continue reading →

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DMN Cookbook

Posted on April 17, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bruce Silver and Edson Tirelli just published a new DMN book available from Amazon. You may download (for free) many Decision Models described in the book and import/modify/execute them using Trisotech DMN Modeler.

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Does Real-World Decision Management Need Inference?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A set of recent articles by Paul Haley again brings attention to this important question. Paul insists that “It’s time to trade rule technology dating back to the 80’s for state of the art AI” and points that “BRMS are incapable … Continue reading →

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Open the Machine Learning Black Box with Rule-based Decision Automation

Posted on March 27, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Francis Friedlander from IBM just published an article with this title. In particular, it says: “Machine learning is best in class to derive customer insight from customer data. Rules consume customer insight and are best in class to make justified … Continue reading →

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Automating Scheduling and Resource Allocation Decisions

Posted on March 20, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Decision Optimization frequently deals with scheduling and resource allocation problems. One of the best-known software package for modeling and solving scheduling problems was ILOG Scheduler. This month IBM published a very detailed article “20+ years of scheduling with constraints at … Continue reading →

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Building Stateful Decision Services

Posted on March 19, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Sometimes a decision service needs to consider information or context from previous invocations of the service. For example, you might want to award a customer discount if they purchased more than two items in one week. The information you keep … Continue reading →

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Decision Management and Semantic Reasoning

Posted on March 16, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“This September DecisionCAMP and RuleML+RR will be co-located again for the third time during the Logic for AI 2018 summit in Luxembourg. These two events represent two different but closely related fields of the knowledge representation movement: Business Rules & Decisions … Continue reading →

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The Usefulness of Imperfection

Posted on March 13, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Today Tallys Yunes shared his thoughts about Theory versus Practice in creating real-world decision models. A few quotes: “models aren’t perfect, and that’s perfectly OK. There’s a reason why business analytics is known as “the science of better” rather than “the … Continue reading →

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Strange Feelings about DMN FEEL

Posted on February 19, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In Sep-2017 Keith Swenson who leads the efforts around DMN TCK, shared an interesting  post titled “A Strange FEELing about Dates“. In particular, he wrote: “The new expression language for Decision Model and Notation standard is called the Friendly Enough Expression Language (FEEL).  … Continue reading →

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Explainable Decisions

Posted on February 12, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Majority of decision modeling experts agree that decision models producing business decisions should be able to explain why these decisions were made. Silvie Spreeuwenberg even wrote that “Advice Without Explanation Is Not Very Intelligent“. Tomorrow FICO will run a special … Continue reading →

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