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Benefits of Using Decision Tables

Using a decision table instead of a set of production rules can offer the following benefits:

• It is easier to ensure completeness and consistency, and to avoid redundancy in specifying a discreet set of conditions and test values, and relating those conditions to a set of actions.
• Aion decision tables include a runtime algorithm to optimize the execution of the decision table rule by ignoring conditions that do not contribute to determining a specific action.

Decision tables are generally favored over rules by domain experts, because decision tables provide a simple view, or "full picture," that may not be easily gleaned from a list of discreet production rules.