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Disambiguation of DMN Decision Tables

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The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is a specification for the design of decision models. The logic of those decisions can be expressed in standardized decision tables. The standard allows to create tables that contain overlapping rules. This leads to ambiguities and we argue that such tables are hard to understand and unsuitable for analysis tasks. This paper describes an algorithm to transform ambiguous DMN decision tables to equivalent ones that only contain exclusive rules, thereby resolving ambiguities. We implemented our algorithm and evaluated it against a set of synthetic decision tables.

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  1. Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Kimon Batoulis & Mathias Weske

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  1. Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

    Adrian Paschke

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Batoulis, K., Weske, M. (2018). Disambiguation of DMN Decision Tables. In: Abramowicz, W., Paschke, A. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93931-5_17

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