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Why Explainable AI Must Be on the CEO's Agenda By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Oct. 2020 | Vol. 21, Iss. 10

What Is XAI? Why and How Transparency Increases the Success of AI Solutions By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Nov. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 11

What Is XAI? The Ethics of XAI By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Oct. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 10

What Is XAI? What Makes an Explanation Good? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Sep. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 9

What is XAI? How to Apply XAI By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jul. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 7

What is XAI? Six Characteristics of XAI By Silvie Spreeuwenberg May 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 5

What Is AI Not? — AI Is Not IT By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 3

What Is AI? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Feb. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 2

Explainable AI: Why Is XAI Important? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jan. 2019 | Vol. 20, Iss. 1

How to Close the Strategy/Execution Gap By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Sep. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 9

The Rules of Happiness By Silvie Spreeuwenberg May 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 5

How do you play the Game of Rules? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jan. 2018 | Vol. 19, Iss. 1

Advice Without Explanation Is Not Very Intelligent By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 3

Do Business Rules Eliminate the Need for Processes? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Aug. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 8

Business Rules in Scrum Projects A Golden Marriage or a Divorce Battle? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Apr. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 4

Getting a Green Light with Business Rules and Connected Things By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Feb. 2016 | Vol. 17, Iss. 2

Being Agile with Rule-based Standard Software By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jul. 2015 | Vol. 16, Iss. 7

Zero, One, or More Testable Requirements By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Dec. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 12

What Is the Color of your World? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Apr. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 4

Interview with Rob van Haarst, Author of the Recently-published Book "SBVR Made Easy" By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2014 | Vol. 15, Iss. 3

Patterns and the Capture of Business Rules By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Oct. 2013 | Vol. 14, Iss. 10

Rules that Give You Too Much Freedom By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jun. 2012 | Vol. 13, Iss. 6

Use the Right Tool for your Job By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Nov. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 11

Learn from the Expert (Part 3): Get Organized in your Rule Thinking By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jul. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 7

Learn from the Expert (Part 2) - Textual rules: Out of fashion or a Classic? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg May 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 5

Learn from the Expert (Part 1) — A Business Analyst must ask "Why?" By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2011 | Vol. 12, Iss. 3

Count your Rules! By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Oct. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 10

How to Deal with Exceptions in Software Support By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jan. 2010 | Vol. 11, Iss. 12

Exceptions are just 'some more rules' By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Dec. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 12

Rule Authoring Is a Creative Process By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Sep. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 9

What happened to the B and the M of BRM? ... and how the new notion of business rules documentation got introduced By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2009 | Vol. 10, Iss. 3

The Liberty of Rules By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Oct. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 10

The Inference Task By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Aug. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 8

Organizing a Set of Rules By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jul. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 7

Procedural Logic in the Reasoning Process By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jun. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 6

What about Methods in Rules? By Silvie Spreeuwenberg May 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 5

Different Kinds of Rules and How to Write Them Properly By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Apr. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 4

SBVR: Observations from Initial Experiences By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 3

Rule History and Versioning (Part 3) By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jan. 2008 | Vol. 9, Iss. 1

Rule History and Versioning (Part 2) By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Dec. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 12

Rule History and Versioning (Part 1) By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Nov. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 11

Flexibility and Business Rules By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Sep. 2007 | Vol. 8, Iss. 9

A World without Rules By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2006 | Vol. 7, Iss. 3

The Semantic Web and the Business Rules Approach ~ Differences and Consequences By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Nov. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 11

The Semantic Web and the Business Rules Approach ~ Differences and Similarities By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jul. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 7

Observations on the Semantic Web By Silvie Spreeuwenberg May 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 5

End-user Programming By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 3

Secret Rules By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Jan. 2005 | Vol. 6, Iss. 1

Observations on Business Rules in Europe and the U.S. By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Nov. 2004 | Vol. 5, Iss. 11

Using Verification and Validation Techniques for High Quality Business Rules By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Feb. 2003 | Vol. 4, Iss. 2

About Silvie Spreeuwenberg :

Silvie Spreeuwenberg Founder / Director, LibRT

Silvie Spreeuwenberg has a background in artificial intelligence and is the co-founder and director of LibRT. With LibRT, she helps clients draft business rules in the most efficient and effective way possible. Her clients are characterized by a need for agility and excellence in executing their unique business strategy or policy. Silvie's experience has resulted in the development of tools and techniques to increase the quality of business rules. She writes, "We believe that one should focus on quality management of business rules to make full profit of the business rules approach." LibRT is located in the Netherlands; for more information visit www.silviespreeuwenberg.com & www.librt.com

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Advice Without Explanation Is Not Very Intelligent By Silvie Spreeuwenberg Mar. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 3

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Who (or What!) Makes Your Operational Business Decisions? By Ronald G. Ross Mar. 2017 | Vol. 18, Iss. 3

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