Open Your Business Rules!
Rules-based
Operational Decision Services
Presentations and Publications
Declarative Decision Modeling with Rule Solver, presented at DecisionCAMP-2023 on September 19, 2023 watch
Decision Modeling: Good, Bad, Ugly, presented at DecisionCAMP-2022 on September 27, 2022 watch
How Business Analysts Represent and Debug Complex Decision Services, presented at Building Business Capability Conference (BBC-2022) on June 30, 2022
How Decision Tables work with Big Datasets, June 3, 2022
Decision Services Handling Large Payloads, Webinar, Webinar on April 20, 2022 Watch
Continuous Digital Decisioning or Operational Decision Microservices in the CI/CD World, DecisionCAMP-2021
Decision Modeling with OpenRules Decision Manager - Introduction, Webinar on Feb 5, 2021
How to Integrate Business Rules and Decision Management Into Your Workflows, Process Maker + OpenRules Demonstration, recorded on Nov 12, 2020
Building, Deploying, and Orchestrating Complex Decision Services,
presented at Building Business Capability Conference
(BBC-2020) on Oct. 22, 2020
Video
Self-Learning Decision Models, presented on
September 4, 2020 at the DecisionCAMP Channel,
Video
Developing Decision Optimization Microservices for real-world decision-making applications,
Jacob Feldman,
DecisionCAMP-2020,
recording
Creating Intelligent Perpetually Running Applications with Business Rules,
Jacob Feldman,
BBC-2019, November 11-15, 2019,
The Diplomat Beach Resort Hollywood, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Business
Decision Modeling with Rule Engines and CP/LP Solvers,
Jacob Feldman, October-2019
Building Operational Decision Services with OpenRules + AWS Lambda + AWS API Gateway,
OpenRules Tutorial, September-2019
Creating
OpenRules Decision Microservices with Maven, SpringBoot, and Docker,
OpenRules Tutorial, July-2019
Book "Goal-Oriented
Decision Modeling with OpenRules: a practical
guide for development of operational business decision
models using OpenRules and Excel" by Jacob Feldman,
ISBN 978-1794498693, Feb-2019. Available from Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NZ2BMJH
Replacing Legacy Bank Account Management System Using Business Rules, Erik Maritian, Jacob
Feldman,
Business Rules and Decisions Forum
at BBC-2018,
Nov. 6- Nov 9, 2018,
San Antonio, TX.
Goal-Oriented Business Decision Modeling, Jacob
Feldman,
DecisionCAMP 2018,
Sep. 17-19, 2018,
Luxembourg.
Building and Analyzing Goal-Oriented Decision Models, Jacob
Feldman, Proceedings of the RuleML+RR
2018 Challenge
Building and Executing Decision Models with
OpenRules 7, an introductory presentation, Aug.
10, 2018, OpenRules, Inc.
How Business Analysts Build Executable Decision Models
Using DMN Without Programming, Dr. Jacob
Feldman,
Business Rules and Decisions Forum 2017
at BBC,
Nov. 6- Nov 10, 2017,
Orlando, FL.
Decision Modeling in Action with DMN and OpenRules, Dr. Jacob Feldman,Business Rules and Decisions Forum 2017 at BBC, Nov. 6- Nov 10, 2017, Orlando, FL.
Decision Modeling with DMN and OpenRules, J.Feldman, Tutorial at RuleML+RR 2017
The Effectiveness of DMN Portability, by M.Proctor, E.Tirelli, D.Sottara, B.Silver, J.Feldman, M.Gauthier, Proceedings of RuleML+RR 2017
Book "DMN in Action with OpenRules" by Jacob Feldman, ISBN 978-1-5206053-8-9, Feb-2017. Available from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06W579JYM
"Using
Machine Learning for Compression of Large Classification
Rulesets
"WHY" and "WHAT-IF" Buttons
for Business Decision Management, Jacob
Feldman,
BBC-2016, Nov 1-4, 2016, Las Vegas, NV.
What-If Analyzer for DMN-based
Decision Models, Jacob Feldman,
Proceedings of the RuleML 2016 Challenge (RuleML
and DecisionCAMP-2016), July 6-9, 2016, New York, NY.
See the
presentation.
This paper won
the 10th International Rule Challenge Award
Using Machine Learning, Business Rules, and
Optimization for Flash Sale Pricing,
Igor Elbert, Jacob Feldman,
DecisionCAMP-2016, New York
Decision Modeling and Optimization: Finding Alternative and Optimal Decisions, J.Feldman, BPM and Case Management Global Summit 2016, June 27-29, 2016, Washington DC.
Dynamic Decision Models: Activation/Deactivation of Business Rules in Real-Time, Jacob Feldman, bpmNEXT-2016, Santa Barbara, CA - watch video
Good Old UServ Product Derby in the Brave New World of Decision Management, Jacob Feldman and James Taylor, BBC-2015, Nov 2-6, 2014, Las Vegas, NV - see presentation and demo
Developing Complex-enough Decision Models Using DMN/BPMN Standards, Gil Ronen and Jacob Feldman, Business Analyst World, May 4-5, 2015 Washington, DC
Practical Techniques for Resolving Conflicts among Business Rules, Jacob Feldman, BBC-2014, Nov 2-6, 2014 Fort Lauderdale, FL
Building Domain-Specific Decision Models, Jacob Feldman, DecisionCAMP-2014, Oct 13-15, 2014, San Jose, CA
Developing a highly dynamic web application for a large bank using rules-based technology. Erik Marutian, DecisionCAMP-2014, Oct 13-15, 2014, San Jose, CA
The Decision Table Template For Geospatial Business Rules, Alex Karman, Revolutionary Machines, DecisionCAMP-2014, Oct 13-15, 2014, San Jose, CA
Decision Modeling for Simpler, Smarter, More Agile Processes, James Taylor, CEO at Decision Management Solutions, bpmNEXT-2014, March 25-27, 2014, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA. A live demonstration of DecisionsFirst Modeler, a DMS collaborative cloud-based environment for decision modeling, integrated with OpenRules BDMS using the DMN Primer: watch image1 image2 image3
Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models,
James Taylor (Decision Management Solutions) and Dr. Jacob
Feldman (OpenRules), Modern
Analyst,
February 09, 2014
How to Build Smarter Decision Models Capable To Make Optimal Decisions, Jacob Feldman, DecisionCAMP-2013, Nov 4-6, 2013, San Jose, CA
Rule-based Mobile Resource Learner for Field Scheduling Applications, Evgeny Selensky (Trimble), DecisionCAMP-2013, Nov 4-6, 2013, San Jose, CA
JSR331 Standard: Current State and Future Plans, Jacob Feldman, The 19th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming CP-2013, September 16-20, 2013, Uppsala, Sweden
Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models with DecisionFirst Modeler and OpenRules, James Taylor (Decision Management Solutions) and Jacob Feldman, Webinar May 7, 2013
Using Decision Tables to Model and Solve Scheduling and Resource Allocation Problems , Business Rules Forum 2012, October 28 - November 2, 2012, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Modeling and Solving Decision Optimization Problems, IntelliFest 2012, October 22-26, 2012 San Diego, CA.
JSR331 "Constraint Programming API", Jacob Feldman, JavaOne 2012, Oct. 1, 2012, San Francisco, CA. See YouTube's recording made by OracleLearning
Using Constraint Solvers as Inference Engines to Validate and Execute Rules-based Decision Models, Rules Fest 2011, October 24-27, 2011, Burlingame, CA
Representing and Solving Rule-Based Decision Models with
Constraint Solvers,
Jacob Feldman, RuleML
2011 - America, LNCS 7018, pp. 208-221, 2011,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011,
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-24908-2_23
Creating, Testing, and Executing Decision Models with
OpenRules-6,
Jacob Feldman,
OMG Decision Modeling Information Day,
March 23, 2011, Washington DC
A Simple Inference
Framework for Connecting the Dots,
Jacob Feldman, Rules
Fest, October 11-14, 2010 San Jose, CA.
Developing Large Scale
Intelligent Checklists with OpenRules BRMS
Bill
Zemlak, Jacob Feldman,
The 13th International Business Rules
Forum,
October 17-21,2010 Washington
DC.
An Integrated Business
Rules and Constraints Approach to Data Centre Capacity
Management
Roman van der Krogt, Jacob Feldman, James
Little, David Stynes,
CP-2010: 16th International Conference
on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
,
September
6-10, 2010
St. Andrews, Scotland
CP Standardization
Discussion
chaired by Jacob Feldman,
CP-2010: 16th International Conference
on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming,
September
6-10, 2010
St. Andrews, Scotland.
A Generic Visualization
Platform for CP
H.Simonis, P.Davern, J.Feldman, D.Mehta,
L.Quesada, M.Carlsson,
CP-2010:
16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of
Constraint Programming,
September
6-10, 2010
St. Andrews, Scotland.
JSR-331: Early Draft
Review
Jacob Feldman at
the workshop "Open
Source Tools for Constraint Programming and Mathematical
Programming",
CP-AI-OR 2010:
Seventh International Conference on Integration of AI and OR
Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial
Optimization Problems,
June
14-18, 2010, Bologna, Italy
Using Hard and Soft
Rules to Define and Solve Optimization Problems
Barry O'Sullivan and Jacob Feldman,
The 12th International Business Rules
Forum, November 1-5, 2009 Las Vegas, NV. See
presentation.
Rules Violations and Over-Constrained Problems
Jacob Feldman,
October Rules Fest,
October 26-30, 2009 Dallas, Texas
CP-INSIDE: Embedding
Constraint-based Decision Engines in Business Applications
Jacob Feldman, Eugene Freuder and James Little,
CP-AI-OR 2009: Sixth
International Conference on Integration of AI and OR
Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial
Optimization Problems, May 27-31, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
A Unified Business Interface for Modeling and Solving
Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Jacob
Feldman,
OMG Technical Meeting,
Santa Clara, CA, December 8-12, 2008
Integrated Business Rules and Constraint Programming Technologies for EDM
Jacob Feldman, Eugene Freuder, The 11th International Business Rules Forum and The First EDM Summit, Orlando, FL, October 26-30, 2008
Applying Business Rules to Complex Patent Data Processing -
EPO Experience
Rex Bosma, Jacob
Feldman,
The 11th International Business Rules
Forum and The First EDM Summit, Orlando, FL,
October 26-30, 2008
Using Constraint Programming in Business Rules Environments
Jacob Feldman,
October Rules Fest, Dallas,
October 22-25, 2008
CP-based Social Scheduling
Jacob Feldman,
Eugene Freuder, Leonid Ioffe, James Little, Oscar Manzano.
The International Conference on
Automatic Planning and Scheduling, Sydney,
September-2008. Watch
video
Integrating Business Rules and Machine Learning Technologies
Jacob Feldman, Ian Graham. A presentation at
the 10th International Business Rules
Forum, October-2007, Washington, DC.
Business Rules Forum 2006 Vendor Panel ~ The Future is Now
Business Rules Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2
(Feb. 2007), URL: http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2007/b329.html
Configuring Complex On-Demand Services with Business Rules
George Sallivan, Jacob
Feldman. A presentation at
the 9th International Business Rules
Forum,
November-2006, Washington, DC.
OpenRules - Open Source Business Rules Management System, November-2004, Las Vegas, NV
Rules-Based Interaction Processes
J.Feldman,
I.Khlystov, S.Meshcheryakov, S.Shor.
The 6th International Business Rules
Forum, November-2003, Nashville, TN
Workflow, Rule, and Optimization Engines: Working Together
Jacob Feldman. The 5th International Business Rules Forum
2002 Conference, November-2002, New Orleans
Interactive Constraint Propagation
Jacob Feldman.
INFORMS,
November-1999, Philadelphia.
Practical Patterns for Constraint
Programming
Jacob
Feldman, Didier Vergamini, PACP-98, The International
Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of
Constraint Technologies and Logic Programming, 1998, London
Building Maintainable Scheduling & Resource Allocation
Engines
Jacob Feldman.
INFORMS 1998, Montreal.
Travel Time Optimization for Public
Utility Job Scheduling
J.Feldman, N.Sekas, ILOG User's
Conference, 1997, Paris.
Virtual Loader: a development
environment for load planning systems
Jacob Feldman, Walter Maximuck, ILOG
User's Conference, 1995, Paris.