Adding constraint tables to the DMN standard: Preliminary results

Abstract

The DMN standard allows users to build declarative models of their decision knowledge. The standard aims at being simple enough to allow business users to construct these models themselves, without help from IT staff. To this end, it combines simple decision tables with a clear visual notation. However, for real-life applications, DMN sometimes proves too restrictive. In this paper, we develop an extension to DMN’s decision table notation, which allows more knowledge to be expressed, while retaining the simplicity of DMN. We demonstrate our new notation on a real-life case study on product design.