DMN Interchange in Action

Posted on June 24, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The DMN Standard is already supported by different vendors and it means that real (not theoretical) interchangeability of the same DMN-based business decision models became a reality – see examples at this article. If you attend the RuleML+RR+DecisionCAMP conference in London in July, you will see a live demonstration of how DMN XML decision models can be created using Trisotech or Signavio DMN modelers and then executed by Drools or OpenRules rule engines.

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bpmNEXT-2017 videos are now available

Posted on June 20, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

bpmNEXT-2017 was held in April and included many interesting presentations. You can watch them all from here.  Don’t miss Decision Management related presentations:  Continue reading →

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The First Solution for June-2017 Challenge – More on the Way

Posted on June 20, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DMN-LoanOriginationWe have received the first decision model for the June-2017 Challenge implemented by Mike Parish using Corticon. More decision modeling practitioners informed us that they are working on their best decision models for the same problem (described in the Section 11 of the DMN Spec). Please submit your decision models by July 1 but not later than the start of DecisionCAMP in London on July 12.

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Business Analysis on One Page

Posted on June 13, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Kevin Brennan tried to present on one page “what the core of business analysis is”:

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Automating Logical Reasoning

Posted on June 13, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“For many years, computer scientists have sought to create decision making tools based on the way humans reason.  Early expert systems in the 1980’s and 1990’s were quite limited, but they were central to the first wave of commercial success of Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Outgrowths of that technology,  business rules and decision trees, have become well established as distinct market sectors.  Now ubiquitous, they automate millions of mission critical business processes every day.  But automation of more complex human reasoning and knowledge remained illusive, due to technical limitations.” This paper claims game-changing advances that have come in the form of a knowledge representation and reasoning language called Rulelog. Attendees of RuleML+RR and DecisionCAMP  will be able to listen its presentation by Coherent Knowledge in London next month.

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Is Data Science Dead?

Posted on June 11, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This new article insists it is. “Data Science is dead. It is quickly getting replaced by stuff great data scientists built. Every big cloud vendor is doing it. Need to do a churn analysis? Done. Need to predict energy efficiency? Done. Want a recommendation engine? Done. Need to process genders, age and emotion from images? Done. From video? Done. Need to recognize certain logo’s in images? Done. Need to understand sentiment? Done. Need to translate text or summarize text? Done.”  J-F Puget tweeted: “I disagree but this is an interesting read. We still need data scientists to cover the 20% not covered by precanned models.” What are your thoughts?

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Kasparov’s Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Posted on May 30, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Garry Kasparov’s 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. For the first time Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story in this breakthrough book. Read also this May-24 interview.

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Challenge June-2017: Loan Origination Example – DMN Section 11

Posted on May 30, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DMN-LoanOriginationThis challenge is intended to demonstrate different decision modeling approaches using the same well-known business use case.  The Loan Origination problem described in in the Section 11 of the DMN specification is probably the most discussed use case. However, the specification itself uses this case only to demonstrate possible implementations of DRDs, BKM, decision tables, and other DMN features but not the best decision modeling practice. Continue reading →

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DMN RTF Meeting at DecisionCAMP-2017 on July 12

Posted on May 20, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

OMG DMN Revision Task Force will hold a technical meeting at DecisionCAMP-2017 on July 12, 2017 at Birkbeck University of London. It will be another important event related to the DMN standard. You may see all events between July 12 and 14 in this Schedule.  Additionally James Taylor and Jan Purchase will run Decision Modeling Masterclass at the same location on July 11. If you haven’t registered for DecisionCAMP yet, please do it ASAP – the registration fee is only 50 GBP.

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A Practical Guide to Machine Learning

Posted on May 19, 2017 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Rob Thomas and Jean-François Puget published “A Practical Guide to Machine Learning: Understand, Differentiate, and Apply“. Along with typical Machine Learning traps, it provides practical advises, e.g.: 1) “Move application development from programming to training: instead of writing new code, the application developer trains the same application with new data.” 2) “Learn continuously by monitoring the effectiveness of predictions and retraining when needed.” The guide is short but meaningful.

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