Category Archives: Rule Engines and BRMS

Combining LLM and Rule Engine

A few month ago Mario Fusco (Drools project lead) wrote “Combining LLM flexibility and rule engine predictability“: “The power and flexibility that a well-trained Deep Learning model gives you is virtually infinite, but often, at least in some parts of … Continue reading

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Family Riddle

We decided to bring back a classic family riddle as a Jan-2024 Challenge as it requires some logical thinking. It will be interesting to see what our readers could do with such a problem today when along with traditional decision intelligence … Continue reading

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Combining Symbolic AI with LLMs

Dr. Walid Saba makes a compelling case for combining #symbolic #AI with the strengths of large language models. The limitations of current #LLMs are well articulated, especially the lack of explainability and failures in intentional contexts. Moving to a symbolic system could address these issues.  His paper … Continue reading

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Are our Rule Engines Smart Enough?

On Sep 27, 2022 we had several discussions related to this question during the ongoing DecisionCAMP. Are we happy with where we are or should we raise the bar trying to come closer to our long-standing “big” objective when a … Continue reading

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Which rules not to execute

Can a rule engine decide in runtime which rules are not necessary to execute? See an interesting analysis of a quite simple decision model provided by Jack Jansonius in response to our Apr-2021 Challenge Link

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New Vendor’s Corner

Following the initiative of DecisionCAMP-2019, we decided to introduce a Vendor’s Corner where all BR&DM vendors may share their latest news. If you represent a vendor of Business Rules and Decision Management tool, feel free to send your latest news to … Continue reading

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Decision Management: What It Is and Why You Need It

In this webinar Gartner expert Roy Schulte describes the state of the art in decision management and offers guidance on how to get started. Link Gartner is preparing a new report on decision management vendors.

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QnA Panel “Ask a Vendor” at DecisionCAMP

DecisionCAMP will run a QnA Panel “Ask a Vendor” on Sep. 18 at 17:00 – see schedule. The presenting vendors will be given 5 minutes each to briefly describe their latest achievements, next important moves, and answer questions from the … Continue reading

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Opinion: Traditional Rule Engines Outlived their Usefulness

This LinkedIn article “How Traditional Rules Engines Stifle Innovation” states: “AI and advanced analytics are key to life insurance innovation. While the industry tries to make use of these technologies, the insurance application continues to play a central role in … Continue reading

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Moving Drools toward a polyglot world

Mario Fusco, the project lead of highly popular Red Hat open source BRMS Drools, describes “how they are changing Drools to make it part of the cloud and serverless revolution”. “Our main goal was to make the core of the … Continue reading

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