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Business Rules programs encode decision-making processes using “if-then” constructs in a way that is easy for non-programmers to manipulate. A common example is the process of automatic validation of a loan request for a bank. The decision process is defined by bank managers relying on the bank strategy and their own experience. Bank-side, such processes are often required to meet goals of a statistical nature, such as having at most some given percentage of rejected loans, or having the distribution of requests that are accepted, rejected, and flagged for examination by a bank manager be as uniform as possible. We propose a mathematical programming-based formulation for the cases where the goals involve constraining or comparing values from the quantized output distribution. We then examine a simulation for the specific goals of (1) a max percentage for a given output interval and (2) an almost uniform distribution of the quantized output. The proposed methodology rests on solving mathematical programs encoding a statistically supervised machine learning process where known labels are an encoding of the required distribution.
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The first author (OW) is supported by an IBM France/ANRT CIFRE Ph.D. thesis award.
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Wang, O., Liberti, L. (2017). Controlling Some Statistical Properties of Business Rules Programs. In: Battiti, R., Kvasov, D., Sergeyev, Y. (eds) Learning and Intelligent Optimization. LION 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10556. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69404-7_19
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