Category Archives: DMN

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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Decision Model for Order Promotions

Posted on January 20, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Our Jan-2018 Challenge deals with a popular business decision problem:  help merchants to define various promotions for their sales orders and to automatically decide which orders are eligible to which promotions. A simple example of promotion: reduce the total cost of … Continue reading →

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Core DMN Components

Posted on January 16, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

According to James Taylor, “The vast majority of the business logic in a decisioning system can be defined using the two core DMN components: Decision Requirements Diagrams structure decision problems, break them into coherent pieces. They show where data is … Continue reading →

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Best Challenges/Solutions of 2017: Poll Results

Posted on January 8, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We received 91 votes for our 2017 Community poll. The challenges/solutions which collected the most votes are presented in the following table: As all votes were anonymous, it’s hard to tell how objective these results are: we do not know … Continue reading →

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Seven Reasons to Model Your Business Decisions

Posted on October 12, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jan Purchase just published an article “Decision Modeling: The Bottom Line“. In particular, he writes: “Decision Models are not just about requirements. The precision of the decision logic view means that decision models can be directly executed. Therefore they can be tested … Continue reading →

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DMN TCK Shows Momentum

Posted on September 7, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bruce Silver posted his comments about DMN Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK), which provides an ever-enlarging suite of DMN models, including test input values and expected outputs.  In July the TCK website had 4 DMN tools listed, and now it has 6 … Continue reading →

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Cross Vendor DMN Collaboration

Posted on August 13, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

At the recent RuleML+RR+DecisionCAMP event in London several vendors presented their common work that demonstrated “The Effectiveness of DMN Portability“. This paper introduces DMN with a focus on the portability of its executable profile across computational platforms. The paper proposes a cross … Continue reading →

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Submit Solutions to Challenge “DMN Chapter 11 Example” by 08/31/2017

Posted on July 30, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

So far, we received 4 solutions for the June-2017 Challenge.  During DecisionCAMP-2017 a lot of people expressed their eagerness to see the voting results. Based on requests from practitioners, we decided to give people more time to prepare and submit … Continue reading →

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Notes from DecisionCAMP-2017

Posted on July 24, 2017 by jacobfeldman

According to many people who attended DecisionCAMP on July 12-14 in London, it became a real success. Let me start with a few quotes from attendees: “Congrats on a very good Decision Camp event. This was a great stimulating event … Continue reading →

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Decision Modeling Sessions at RuleML+RR 2017

Posted on June 25, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This year DecisionCAMP is again co-located with the RuleML+RR conference devoted to the semantic-technology & business rules. Here are the finalized schedules for both events: RuleML+RR 2017 Schedule DecisionCAMP 2017 Schedule Below is the list of RuleML+RR sessions related to decision … Continue reading →

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