Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Comment on the conversion of decision tables to computer programs
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Use of decision tables in computer programming
Communications of the ACM
Data, documentation, and decision tables
Communications of the ACM
Programming decision tables in FORTRAN, COBOL or ALGOL
Communications of the ACM
Conversion of limited-entry decision tables to computer programs
Communications of the ACM
Conversion of decision tables to computer programs by rule mask techniques
Communications of the ACM
PCDEC, an interactive decision table system for personal computers (abstract only)
CSC '87 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer Science
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
An algorithmic approach to the conversion of decision grid charts into compressed decision tables
Communications of the ACM
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Towards directly applied ontological constraints in a semantic decision table
RuleML'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rule-based modeling and computing on the semantic web
Directly applied ORM constraints for validating and verifying semantic decision tables
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems
Using SOIQ(D) to formalize semantics within a semantic decision table
RuleML'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Rules on the Web: research and applications
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The techniques for minimizing logic circuits are applied to the simplification of decision tables by the combining of decision rules. This method is logically equivalent to the Quine-McCluskey method for finding prime implicants. If some of the decision rules implied in the ELSE Rule occur with low frequency, then the ELSE Rule can be used to further simplify the decision table.Several objectives merit consideration in optimizing a decision table:reducing machine execution time;reducing preprocessing time;reducing required machine memory;reducing the number of decision rules. (This often improves the clarity of the decision table to a human reader.)It will be shown that objectives (3) and (4) can be furthered with the above methods. Objective (1) is also attained if overspecified decision rules are not combined. Objective (2) must be compared against the potential benefits of objectives (1), (3), and (4) in deciding whether to use the above methods.