Title
Decision Tables Make for Better Decisions
Catalog Number
500001028
Type
Document
Description
Burt Grad describes how he created and used Decision Tables to help to accurately represent complex decision logic for computer programming and for understanding complicated decision rules. The use of a tabular format rather than flow charts, logic trees or Boolean algebra turned out to be an effective way for program designers to effectively communicate with and record the logic used by engineers, accountants and factory planners. The result was the ability to insure that all possible combinations of decision conditions and the resulting actions were accounted for and that ambiguities and inconsistencies could be identified and corrected.
Date
2016-06
Publisher
Computer History Museum
Format
PDF
Subject
Decision Tables; Evans, Orren; General Electric; Integrated Systems Project; Kavanaugh, Tom; Production Control Services; TABSOL
Credit
Courtesy of Burton Grad