Building a Maintainable Product Catalogue with OpenRules Dialog

This year I will chair a workshop “CPSOLVERS-2013” at the major Constraint Programming conference “CP 2013“. Preparing the workshop, we’ve decided to create an industrial overview of all supported constraint solvers currently available to business application developers.

Webinar: Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models with DecisionsFirst Modeler and OpenRules

Watch Recorded Webinar

We are pleased to announce a joint free webinar organized by Decision Management Solutions and OpenRules.

Converting Decision Tables from PDF to OpenRules

There is a free tool called “pdftoexcel” that allows you to convert tables from a PDF format to Excel. This tool can safe you a lot of retyping if you have many rules tables in PDF and want to convert them to Excel-based OpenRules decision tables.

Determine the Risk of Meeting a Werewolf

Today there was a post at the LinkedIn group “Looking for a simple example of representing calculations in a Decision Model” with this problem description:

Combining Constraint Solving with Business Rules and Machine Learning – CoCoMiLe 2013

The integration of different decision making techniques finally is finding its home under the roof of the Decision Management movement. I am glad that an integrated Constraint Programming (CP), Business Rules (BR), and Machine Learning (ML) approach is gaining in popularity as well. An interesting workshop “CoCoMiLe 2013 -

Rule Violations and Over-Constrained Problems

Practical people know that one of the most important property of a business rule is its ability to be violated. Here are a few examples:

Decision Execution Reports

OpenRules Release 6.2.3 adds an ability to generate decision execution reports in the HTML format. These reports help a rule designer to analyze which rules were actually executed and in which order.