About Rule Application Patterns This blog post is the second in a series which highlight common rule authoring patterns of note. The InRule ROAD Team (Rule Oriented Application Design) has compiled a wide selection of useful rule authoring patterns which we intend to...
Introducing Rule Application Patterns This blog post is the first in a series which will highlight common rule authoring patterns of note. The InRule ROAD Team (Rule Oriented Application Design) has compiled a wide selection of useful rule authoring patterns which we...
Impossible, you say? A computer problem is impossible in this day and age? City of Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel just announced a politically difficult City of Chicago property tax hike, the first in more than a decade. As part of this announcement, Mayor Emmanuel...
On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Charles Babbage,...
For this blog post, I’ve decided to CHALLENGE the readers. We are going to apply the Decision Management Community public challenge to our own InRule blog readers. The challenge for you, dear readers? Create a simple InRule rule application in irAuthor which will...
Fellow InRulian Jim Wray and I were buying our lunches at a nearby downtown Chicago store recently when we discovered some weird inconsistencies in the taxes we paid. If you’ve ever read Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt, or have some familiarity with basic economic...
