Some comments on the use of ambiguous decision tables and their conversion to computer programs
Preston King, Roger G. Johnson · Communications of the ACM · 1973
This paper comments upon recently published work on decision table translation using methods similar to the rule-mask technique. The applicability of these methods under various possible conventions on overall table meaning is discussed, and it is argued that there is a place both for the multi-rule and the single-rule (or action set) convention in decision table usage.