Decision Table for Port Clearance Rules

The Decision Management Community provides resources for DM practitioners, listing tools, news, providing examples, and also giving a monthly challenge. As a vendor that always seek improvement, we took the March challenge using Trisotech DMN Modeler.

The Challenge

The March challenge is to create the best possible decision model to decide if a ship can enter a Dutch port on a certain date. The rules for this challenge are inspired by the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code.

The rules for the clearance to enter the Dutch port are:

• The hold of a ship must be considered clean if the hold does not contain remainders of cargo.
• An unloaded ship may only enter a Dutch port if the ship complies with the requirements of the Inspection for unloaded ships.
• A ship must comply with the requirements of the Inspection for unloaded ships if the ship complies with all of the following:
  a) the ship meets the safety requirements for unloaded ships;
  b) the ship has a certificate of registry that is valid.
• A ship must be categorized as large if the total length of the ship is at least 80 meters.
• A ship’s hold contains remainders of cargo if the residual cargo measurement is higher than 0.5 mg dry weight per cm².
• A ship only meets the safety requirements for unloaded ships if the ship complies with at least one of the following:
  a) the ship meets the safety requirements for small unloaded ships;
  b) the ship meets the safety requirements for large unloaded ships.
• A ship only meets the safety requirements for large unloaded ships if the ship complies with all of the following:
  a) the ship is categorized as large;
  b) the hold of the ship is clean;
  c) the hold of the ship is double hulled.
• A ship only meets the safety requirements for small unloaded ships if the ship complies with all of the following:
  a) the ship is categorized as small;
  b) the hold of the ship is clean.
• A ship must be categorized as small if the total length of the ship is less than 80 meters.
• A ship’s certificate of registry must be considered valid if the date up to which the registration is valid of the certificate of registry is after the current date.

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