!!! note inline end "About the term "decision tree""
In machine learning, a decision tree usually refers to a model learned from
data through statistical analysis. That’s not what SSVC uses the term for. In
the original SSVC documentation, decision tree referred to the
operations-research concept: a hand-crafted structure that encodes deliberate
choices, not a model inferred from datasets.
Starting in SSVC v2025.9, we shifted to the term decision table to avoid
confusion with the ML meaning. For more information, see
[ADR-0014](../adr/0014-use-decision-table-terminology.md).