1st World Congress on Decision Tables (WCDT 2010)
Tabular Decision Modeling for Business Rules and Processes
Thursday Oct 21, 2010 - Washington DC
Part of the Business Rules Forum, at the Building Business Capability event
What this congress is about:
When modeling and managing the business logic in complex decision situations, an overview picture is worth a thousand words.
Whether it is about the outline of a set of business rules, or the consistent specification of decisions for a business process model, decision tables have proven a valuable business-friendly notation that guarantees conciseness, completeness, correctness and consistency.
Why decision tables for Business Capability:
Decision tables are not new and are so natural that they keep being reinvented. A lot of expertise is however available in this domain. This congress brings you up to date.
Started in the early days of software design, tabular notations have a long history and their strengths are increasingly relevant: the ability to deal with complexity and their appeal to a business audience to increase business capability.
It is therefore not a surprise that well-designed decision tables fit nicely with the areas of business rules, business decisions, and business processes.
In rule management, we want to ensure the quality of a set of business rules from the start. Decision tables have proven a powerful technique to represent a set of related business rules in the form of tables. Because of their overview and communication abilities, decision tables are used in various rule-intensive areas: standard operating procedures, legislation, health care, insurance, credit scoring, social security, tax, … Business decisions have to be modelled, communicated and executed in clear, unambiguous ways. Decision tables can also be used in combination with business analytics, as a means to communicate decision paths, as a complete set of test cases, as a vehicle for automation, etc. In Business process management, modeling default and exceptional process flows encompasses a lot of decisions. Isolating the decision rules from the process requires a notation for decision models. Decision tables are a good candidate in this respect.
Decision tables can act as the spreadsheets of sharable decision rules. With all the business advantages of spreadsheets, but without the disadvantages of merely listing rules in spreadsheets, such as redundancies, inconsistencies, missing cases, inflexibility …
What you will take away:
An overview of notations and best practices for tabular representations Modeling solutions: a roadmap to better decision models The importance of semantics (SBVR) Real cases in business and government Some background: kinds of tables, relations between decision elements, table hierarchies, factoring and normalization, semantics, optimizations Tools and implementation Business capability by business people in real business situations
Congress Chair: Jan Vanthienen; Co-chair: Ronald Ross
Conference committee: under development
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