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...
In E-commerce processes, various rules and constraints regarding product specifications, pricing, terms and conditions are exchanged between vendors and buyers. Developing a forma...
Mizuho Iwaihara, Masayuki Kozawa, Jun Narazaki, Ya...
The trend towards highly specialized solution providers cooperatively offering configurable products and services to their customers requires the extension of current (standalone)...
Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Ja...
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...
The emergence of the Internet has changed the way in which many aspects of business are conducted. One such aspect, that of resource discovery, is being changed by the development ...
Carlos N. Cumberbatch, Suzanne M. Embury, Carole A...
The development of the Semantic Web proceeds in layers. Currently the most advanced layer that has reached maturity is the ontology layer, in the form of the DAML+OIL language whic...
This paper presents the "situation manager" rule language. The situation manager is a tool that includes both a language and an efficient runtime execution mechanism, aim...