Category Archives: Decision Models

Challenge Dec-2024: Pricing Policy

Dec-2024 Challenge deals with an order pricing policy that depends on a number of different units, product types (Standard or Premium), country of origin, etc. A seller uses a mixed bracket volume and cost policy for orders with multiple units: … Continue reading

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Decision Model as Approximation for Business Problem

Carlos Armando Zetina: “The model is an approximation for a business’s decision problem because it inevitably needs to make simplifying assumptions such as limited scope, finite horizons, deterministic parameters, and cost approximations to be amenable to solving. Since the optimality … 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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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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From Knowledge Sources to Executable Decision Models (DC2023 Notes Part 1)

Considering the current explosive nature of Generative AI, it was only natural to expect that words such as LLMs, ChatGPT, OpenAI will be dominant at DecisionCAMP-2023 as well. In the world of Decision Modeling, it means that these new GenAI … Continue reading

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DecisionCAMP Day 3 Recordings

Watch recordings of the third day presentations at DecisionCAMP-2023:

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DecisionCAMP-2023 Starts on Sep 18

DecisionCAMP, the major annual Decision Management event for partitioners by practitioners, starts on Monday, Sep 18 (online). With many presentations and discussions about Generative AI and Symbolic AI it promises to become an important milestone on the road to the … Continue reading

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Challenge Mar-2023 “Permit Eligibility”

Ponder our Mar-2023 Challenge: As part of a regulatory process, a government agency introduced a simple rule: an applicant is eligible for a resident permit if the applicant has lived at an address while married and in that time period, … Continue reading

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Deploying Business Decision Models as Amazon Microservices

Nowadays many enterprises are moving their operational decision services to cloud utilizing Microservices and the new Serverless architecture that takes care of high availability, security, and super-fast performance. But how difficult is it to deploy business decision models as cloud-based … Continue reading

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Business Decision Models are moving to Serverless World

In the new cloud-based world, the decision-making applications have new requirements to operational decision services. The traditional monolithic services are being replaced by microservices that requires high availability, security, and super-fast performance. The customers are not satisfied anymore with a relatively … Continue reading

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