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Decision Optimization Technologies

Nine Solutions for Sep-2024 Challenge “Rental Boats”

This challenge is about a decision model that can help a boat rental company purchase different boats while satisfying seating, manufacturers, and limited budget requirements. We received 9 solutions and 3 of them used LLMs. Link

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Challenge Sep-2024 “Rental Boats”

In this challenge you need to help a boat rental company to purchase different boats while satisfying seating, manufacturers, and limited budget requirements. Your solution should maximize the expected profit. Link

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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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Solutions for July-2024 Challenge “Smart Investment”

We received 9 solutions for our July-2024 Challenge “Smart Investment”.Used decision optimization tools:– IBM CPLEX– Llama3/CPLEX/watsonx– Corticon– Prolog– ChatGPT/Zimpl– IPython/ortools– cDMN– Excel Solver– OpenRules Rule Solver.

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The seven levels of artificial intelligence by Warren B. Powell

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Solving Decisioning Problems Sequentially over Time

Prof. Warren Powell wrote: “I recently came to the realization that all the motivating applications of linear programming used by Dantzig were in fact fully sequential (and stochastic). Which means, you do not just solve a single linear program – … Continue reading

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Smarter Decisions for a Better World

Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS) is the computer science technology with probably the most impressive real-world success stories in decision optimization. However, being “too scientific”, OR/MS remains a well-kept secret for many years. The Institute for OR/MS, known … Continue reading

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Practical Applications, Use Cases, and Testing (DC2023 Notes Part 3)

As usual, DecisionCAMP included presentations devoted to practical applications and case studies of decision modeling and decision optimization. Testing rules-based decision services is extremely important topic in practical decision management especially in the modern CI/CD world. No wonder we had … Continue reading

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Novel Decision Modeling Techniques (DC2023 Notes Part 2)

There were two presentations at DecisionCAMP-2023 devoted to new ideas that extend traditional Decision Modeling and DMN-like tools in new directions: 1) Probabilistic reasoning when a decision model deals with uncertain facts about which we know only their probability; 2) Declarative … Continue reading

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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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