Category Archives: Decision Modeling

Challenge June-2024 “Stable Marriage Problem”

This challenge deals with the famous stable marriage problem:  Given n men and n women, where each person has ranked all members of the opposite sex in order of preference, marry the men and women together such that there are no two people of opposite … Continue reading

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DM Vendors adding GenAI to their Products

Sparkling Logic announced the launch of AI Assistant, that leverages a large language model (LLM) form of generative AI pre-trained on various decision management tasks. Users will be able to interact with AI Assistant using natural language to create and … Continue reading

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Challenge Apr-2024: Lookup Tables in Decision Models

Business decision models frequently use lookup tables that may contain thousands of data rows. There are at least two issues to be addressed when representing lookup tables: 1) users need to be able to modify the table data without modifications … Continue reading

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Challenge March-2024 “Analyzing Employees”

Decision models (similarly to databases) frequently deal with analysis of collections of objects. This month’s Challenge deals with such a situation: you need to help an HR office create a rules-based service to analyze its employees. Each employee  has a … Continue reading

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Continuous Decisioning

Arash Aghlara started a good discussion at LinkedIn: “Many times, based on the decisions that we execute on a specific case, we influence the future of the case. Although the case is the same but, it belongs to an altered … Continue reading

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Arash Aghlara: What is a Decision Model

“A decision model is a roadmap and blueprint of a business decision that depicts a holistic view of how a business decision is made. At its core, this blueprint is an executable artifact that uses multiple composite techniques to bring … Continue reading

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Linear Regression in DMN

In his recent post Bruce Silver wrote: “DMN is not optimized for machine learning algorithms, but it’s good enough for simple problems such as fitting a straight line to a set of data points, known as linear regression.  In this … Continue reading

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Are we solving the correct problem?

Deepak Mehta: “As problem-solvers, we have all been there. You find the perfect solution to a problem, only to realize that the problem you were trying to solve was different from the one you were presented with. Or worse yet, … Continue reading

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Learning Decision Rules with GPT

On Feb 26 Simon Vandevelde, a frequent presenter at DecisionCAMPs, will talk about how to combine learning and reasoning in AI. Register for this free webinar. Here is his abstract: “Operational decisions are an important part of knowledge-intensive organizations, as these … Continue reading

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IBM Business Automation Manager Open Edition 9.0

IBM presented BAMOE 9.0 – watch a webinar on Dec 13. It introduces new IBM Decision Manager and Process Automation Manager Open Editions that replace the corresponding Red Hat products: Tim Wuthenow explained that BAMOE is going to be a … Continue reading

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