Information systems supporting business process are mostly very complex. If we have to ensure that certain business rules are enforced in a business process, it is often easier to ...
Kees M. van Hee, Jan Hidders, Geert-Jan Houben, Ja...
Service based architectures are a powerful approach to meet the fast evolution of business rules and the corresponding software. An active functionality service that detects event...
The inherent distributed structure of business rules shows a high affinity to the execution of business processes across the internet, as needed for e-business and e-commerce. Howe...
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
We present experience with improving the requirements engineering process for a telecommunications electronic clearinghouse that connects multiple trading partners. Software failu...
There are various mechanisms for creating an application object model. These mechanisms are used for modeling the application Meta model and the user models. Some of the mechanism...
it’s hardly Earth-shattering: abstracting your business services and separating them from your applications can yield an overall system that’s easier to build, maintain, and ex...
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become increasingly mature, but this maturity does not make the traditional Object Oriented (OO) approaches obsolete. On the contrary, building MAS i...
Many object-oriented software applications contain implicit business rules. Although there exist many approaches that advocate the separation of rules, the rules' connections ...