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Understanding Decision Model and Notation: DMN Research Directions and Trends

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2019)

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Decision Model and Notation provides a modeling notation for decisions, supports decision management, and business rules specification. In this paper, we identify research directions concerning DMN standard, outline classification of DMN research areas and perspectives of this relatively new formalism.

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Notes

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    See: https://methodandstyle.com/dmn-tools-current-state-market/.

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    We rejected the papers where DMN has a different meaning, e.g. a model compound 2,6 -dimethynaphthalate, dichotomous markov noise, default mode networks, etc.

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Kluza, K., Adrian, W.T., Wiśniewski, P., Ligęza, A. (2019). Understanding Decision Model and Notation: DMN Research Directions and Trends. In: Douligeris, C., Karagiannis, D., Apostolou, D. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29551-6_69

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