BPM&Case Management Global Summit Adopts Decision Modeling

Posted on June 27, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

BPM&Case Management Global Summit starts today in Washington DC. It’s the third year of this annual event that delivers expert guidance from the industry’s most trusted and respected thought leaders, combined with live capability demonstrations of actual solutions from an invite-only set of leading vendors. This year a third of presentations is devoted to Decision Management and DMN.

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DMN 1.1 is Available for Downloads

Posted on June 23, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On June 1, 2016 OMG made the new Version 1.1 of its DMN (Decision Model and Notation) standard officially available for downloads. Here are the proper links:

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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 five things: Continue reading →

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Red Hat is our New Sponsor

Posted on June 20, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DMCommunity welcomes a new premium sponsor Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies. Red Hat’s middleware portfolio includes JBoss BRMS, a business rules management system based on the popular JBoss Drools open source project.  See all current sponsors and sponsorship benefits here.

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Solve Family Riddle – Challenge June-2016

Posted on June 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Our June-2016 Challenge deals with a notorious Family Riddle. You need to define ages of boys and girls in two families based on some known relationships. Can you build a decision model that finds one or several solutions of this popular family riddle?

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What’s in a name?

Posted on June 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet

Analytics, statistics, operations research, machine learning, predictive, prescriptive – which term if any do you prefer to combine all of them? Read more at this SAS post.

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Peter Norvig Highlights Challenges of ML-based Development

Posted on May 26, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research, presented “State-of-the-Art AI: Building Tomorrow’s Intelligent Systems” at the EmTech Digital conference. He compares traditional software programming to machine learning development and highlights the new challenges of debugging and verifying ML-based systems. Continue reading →

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Three Levels of Problem Solving

Posted on May 25, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This post by Laura McLay mentions three levels for modeling that applies to decision-making:

  • LEVEL 1: You solve the problem.
  • LEVEL 2: You solve the problem in a cost-effective manner (e.g., using heuristics to get a quick solution that is “good enough”)
  • LEVEL 3: You solve the problem in a cost-effective manner that a decision-maker will implement.

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DMN Interchange Software

Posted on May 23, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

As a community, we would like to maintain different software pieces that can be shared and reused by vendors and practitioners to promote Decision Management in general and the DMN standard in particular. So, we added a special section “Community Software” to the menu “Resources”. The first piece called “DMN Interchange Software” with all sources has been kindly contributed by OpenRules and is available for free downloads. Consider to expand this piece and to share your own DM related software.

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DMN 1.2 RTF Meeting at DecisionCAMP

Posted on May 12, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The Revision Task Force (RTF) for DMN 1.2 will be meeting in at Stony Brook University, New York, USA, on Wednesday 6th July, the day before DecisionCamp 2016.  The meeting is open only to members of the RTF, but others are welcome to propose issues for discussion though the OMG website (http://issues.omg.org/issues/create-new-issue), and to meet members of the RTF at the conference on 7th and 8th.  Issues currently being discussed include improvements to the notation of DRDs and boxed logic, adding composability to DRDs, representing decisions over lists, and diagram interchange.

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