The quality of software engineering projects often suffers due to the large gap between the way stakeholders present their requirements and the way analysts capture and express tho...
Service-oriented development offers a novel architectural approach that addresses crucial characteristics of modern business process development such as dynamic evolution, intra- ...
: Adaptivity in software is important since business processes, business rules and business terms constantly evolve. A radical solution is described that makes use of the inherent ...
A very active field of research of Database Management Systems (DBMS) is concerned with an augmentation of DBMS by rules. Passive rules (constraints) were the first to be investig...
Abstract. This paper provides a novel mechanism to check whether business processes are compliant with business rules regulating them. The key point is that compliance is a relatio...
Abstract. While XQuery is becoming a standard, the W3C is currently discussing the features of an update language for XML, and its requirements. Therefore, time is ripe for designi...
When modeling business processes, we often implicity think of internal business policies and external regulations. Yet to date, little attention is paid to avoid hard-coding polici...
Business rules are an important element of information systems. The notion business rule encompasses different phenomena; therefore, some classification criteria are presented and...
Holger Herbst, Gerhard Knolmayer, Thomas Myrach, M...
This paper reviews the state of the art on application knowledge acquisiton from existing software systems and defines the role of business rules. It then goes on to present a met...
It is today widely acceptedthat "Business Rules Independence" is required for information systemsto better and more rapidly adjust to changesin thebusinessenvironment,Th...