Category Archives: Decision Models

How to Share Beer Fairly

Posted on November 23, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Equity and fairness have been studied from different point of views in philosophy, political science and economics, game theory, optimization, telecommunications, so pretty much everyone can find something to chew on. The following blog-post is about three weary wanderers who … Continue reading →

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Exceptions in Business Rules are Not Exceptions

Posted on November 17, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Handling exceptions in your business logic is one of the most typical and non-trivial problem in decision management.  There are two new posts Can you Override that Rule? and Are the Rules the Same for Everyone? from Carole-Ann Matignon of Sparkling Logic that provide dos … Continue reading →

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First 3 Solutions for Sep-2015 Challenge

Posted on September 8, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The interest to Decision Management in general and to the DMCommunity.org grows every day. During the first (Labor Day) week of September we received 3 solutions for the Sep-2015 Challenge “Collections of Cars“: the first one using R, the second … Continue reading →

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Using R Language for Decision Modeling

Posted on September 2, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The R is a highly popular free programming language that provides a powerful array of development tools in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With growing popularity of business analytics in general, the popularity of the R language can only be … Continue reading →

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Decision Modeling With Collections of Objects

Posted on September 1, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Real-world decision models frequently deal with collections of business objects. Some of our previous challenges and their solutions already demonstrated several use cases. The challenge “Make a Good Burger” even includes a DMN FEEL solution that for the first time … Continue reading →

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Poll: Should DMN Cover Business Glossary?

Posted on August 20, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

See the LinkedIn discussion about the absence of the concept “Business Glossary” in the DMN standard and vote your opinion:

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Challenge August-2015: Find Duplicate Product Lines

Posted on August 4, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This month you need to build a decision model that is capable to decide which product lines inside sales orders are duplicate. The duplicate product lines can be recognized by user-defined similarity rules – read more here. In general, this challenge is supposed … Continue reading →

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The Purpose of Analytics

Posted on July 30, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jean-Francois Puget from IBM (ILOG) published an interesting article that in particular says: “The purpose of an analytics solution is to enable business decisions based on data.  It does not necessarily mean that such solutions must compute decisions.  It means that whatever … Continue reading →

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Process is Important, Decisions are Critical

Posted on April 4, 2015 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Tom DeBevoise posted an interesting article about importance of good decisions (DMN) in business process management (BPMN). A quote: “Decisions are instantaneous choices while the process models the actions: a coordination of interactions, over time among participants”. Read more

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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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