Category Archives: Trends

Remember When People Laughed at the ATLAS Robot? WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?!

Posted on September 10, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“It seems like just yesterday that ATLAS was stumbling over a simulated debris field, and now we see it balancing on one foot on the edge of a thin sheet of plywood. It’s like putting a crawling infant on the … Continue reading →

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What is Blockchain? Part 1

Posted on September 3, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Blockchain technology may revolutionize the world. A decision management expert Dan Selman promises to explain the technology in his blog-posts. The Part 1 provides a simple introduction with a smart contract example: 

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Explanations for Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence

Posted on August 15, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Eugene Freuder will present position papers “Explanations for Human-Aware Constraint Programming (CP)” and “CP and AI” at CP 2016 on Sep 5-9 at Toulouse, France. “A key aspect of human-awareness is the ability of our machines to explain their behavior and … Continue reading →

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Serverless Architectures

Posted on August 3, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Serverless architectures refer to applications that significantly depend on third-party services (knows as Backend as a Service or “BaaS”) or on custom code that’s run in ephemeral containers (Function as a Service or “FaaS”), the best known vendor host of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Helps Users Improve Their Writing

Posted on August 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Microsoft wants to go far beyond the current spelling and grammar capabilities and focus more on what you did wrong in your writing and how it should be fixed. One new feature in MS Word 2016, called “Editor”, will help … Continue reading →

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Move Application Development From Programming to Training

Posted on July 25, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Rob Thomas and Jean-Francois Puget published an interesting article “A Practical Guide to Machine Learning: Understand, Differentiate, and Apply“. In particular,  they write: “Machine Learning  moves application development from programming to training: instead of writing new code, the application developer trains the … Continue reading →

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Managing Structured and Unstructured (Tacit) Knowledge

Posted on July 14, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Ron Ross today tweeted a quote from a very interesting Harvard Business Review’s paper Managing your Mission-Critical Knowledge: “Speeding up codification will increase the value of knowledge. But making the tacit explicit can also be dangerous. The more codified the knowledge … Continue reading →

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Pokemon Go and the Traveling Salesman Problem

Posted on July 13, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

These days you may have heard stories of people hunting down Pokémon on their office desks, in hospital rooms, and even in bathrooms. Read about the brilliant mechanics of Pokémon Go. Do you want to catch them all? As quickly as … Continue reading →

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Will EU Law Restrict Automated Decision-Making?

Posted on July 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A new article EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation” talks about the potential impact that the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation will have on the routine use of machine learning algorithms. Slated to take … Continue reading →

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Decision Fundamentals: Building Institutional Memory

Posted on June 22, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

FICO published an interesting post about Institutional Memory that is critical in operationalizing data-driven decision-making. Unless you intend to rely on “matriarchs” who have been around for 30+ years, you’re going to need a system for this, and the system requires … Continue reading →

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