Zentrader wrote: >> and then choose the solution with the >> shortest number of terms or something > > Experience says that one should not assume that there is a one to one > relationship, ("the" solution). Some event can trigger more than one > combination of the 6 binary input variables. And experience says that > the business users are not aware of all of the possible outcomes or > that there may be some one-to-many relationships, which may be why > they want the computer to do it. This is a problem that occurs > everywhere. There are various decision table techniques, but good > algorithms seem to be in short supply. in practice the decisions are mostly singletons and I'm fairly sure which order they have to be made in. -- Robin Becker
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