A methodology and tool support for managing business rules in organisations

Bajec, Marko; Krisper, Marjan

doi:10.1016/j.is.2004.05.003

Cited by 91 publications

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“…Our system should ensure that the complete set of business rules includes only the rules that are consistent and do not conflict among themselves. A possible way is to group the rules by the objects they constrain or actions they trigger and to check if there are any conflicts [32].…”

Section: E Business Rules Consistency Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Agents into a Collaborative Knowledge-based System for Business Rules Consistency Management

Houari¹,

Taghezout²

2016

IJIMAI

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-Capitalization and reuse of expert knowledge are very important for the survival of an enterprise. This paper presents a collaborative approach that utilizes domain ontology and agents. Thanks to our knowledge formalizing process, we give to domain expert an opportunity to store different forms of retrieved knowledge from experiences, design rules, business rules, decision processes, etc. The ontology is built to support business rules management. The global architecture is mainly composed of agents such as Expert agent, Evaluator agent, Translator agent, Security agent and Supervisor agent. The Evaluator agent is at the heart of our functional architecture, its role is to detect the problems that may arise in the consistency management module and provides a solution to these problems in order to validate the accuracy of business rules. In addition, a Security agent is defined to handle both security aspects in rules modeling and multi-agent system. The proposed approach is different from the others in terms of the number of rule's inconsistencies which are detected and treated like contradiction, redundancy, invalid rules, domain violation and rules never applicable, the collaboration that is initiated among business experts and the guarantee of security of the business rules and all the agents which constitute our system. The developed collaborative system is applied in an industrial case study.

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Section: E Business Rules Consistency Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Agents into a Collaborative Knowledge-based System for Business Rules Consistency Management

Houari¹,

Taghezout²

2016

IJIMAI

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“…Second, the methodology proposed in [17] has been used to help business experts and developers to link the business rules at the business level with the rules that are implemented at the system level. In order to lead into the formalization of the business environment to the extent required for business rule management, the business modeling technique has been identified in the BRME (business rule management in enterprises) project.…”

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“…The modeling has been based on agents to increase the execution speed of processes and the effective response, and to guarantee the collaboration between business experts. Our contributions are not restricted to this objective, as we were inspired by all of the works cited below [10,16,17] and our study covered the following key-points:…”

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A Novel Approach for Integrating Security in Business Rules Modeling Using Agents and an Encryption Algorithm

2016

J Inf Process Syst

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Our approach permits to capitalize the expert's knowledge as business rules by using an agent-based platform. The objective of our approach is to allow experts to manage the daily evolutions of business domains without having to use a technician, and to allow them to be implied, and to participate in the development of the application to accomplish the daily tasks of their work. Therefore, the manipulation of an expert's knowledge generates the need for information security and other associated technologies. The notion of cryptography has emerged as a basic concept in business rules modeling. The purpose of this paper is to present a cryptographic algorithm based approach to integrate the security aspect in business rules modeling. We propose integrating an agent-based approach in the framework. This solution utilizes a security agent with domain ontology. This agent applies an encryption/decryption algorithm to allow for the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of the most important rules. To increase the security of these rules, we used hybrid cryptography in order to take advantage of symmetric and asymmetric algorithms. We performed some experiments to find the best encryption algorithm, which provides improvement in terms of response time, space memory, and security.

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“…Além de estarem de acordo com o negócio, as regras não devem ser codificadas em aplicações, pois não pertencem ao sistema de informação. Essas são definidas/gerenciadas pela empresa e podem ser usadas para ajudar a manter o sistema de informação, refletindo os negócios da empresa [5].…”

Section: Regra De Negóciounclassified

Repositório para o rastreamento de requisitos funcionais derivados de regras de negócio

Melo

Silva

2014

Revista Brasileira De Computação Aplicada

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Resumo: As mudanças nos negócios de uma empresa levam à adaptação das regras de negócio e dos sistemas de informação. Mas antes de executar as mudanças deve-se identificar o que precisa ser alterado no sistema e estimar o tempo e o custo para efetuar a manutenção. A rastreabilidade de requisitos auxilia a análise das consequências das mudanças e a verificação de inconsistências entre os requisitos. Porém, nos sistemas em que as regras de negócio e os requisitos são implementados juntos dificulta-se a rastreabilidade, pois as regras ficam escondidas nos requisitos e os detalhes de implementação são conhecidos apenas pelos seus desenvolvedores. Este trabalho propõe um repositório de requisitos de software, restrito aos funcionais, que permite relacionar as decisões e as regras de negócio e os requisitos de software, possibilitando rastrear os requisitos e sua origem nos negócios. Com a história dos requisitos documentada, incluindo as definições de negócio, é possível atribuir responsabilidades e efetuar avaliações de modificações futuras e de desenvolvimento de novos sistemas. A partir de um protótipo ilustra-se a aplicabilidade do repositório proposto nas áreas de negócio e de sistema. Palavras-chave: Rastreabilidade de requisitos. Regras de negócio. Requisitos funcionais. Abstract: Changes in a company's business lead to an adaptation of business rules and information systems. But before performing these changes one must identify what needs to be modified in the system and estimate the time and cost for performing maintenance. Requirements traceability assists the analysis of consequences of changes and the verification of inconsistencies

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A methodology and tool support for managing business rules in organisations

Cited by 91 publications

References 16 publications

Integrating Agents into a Collaborative Knowledge-based System for Business Rules Consistency Management

Integrating Agents into a Collaborative Knowledge-based System for Business Rules Consistency Management

A Novel Approach for Integrating Security in Business Rules Modeling Using Agents and an Encryption Algorithm

Repositório para o rastreamento de requisitos funcionais derivados de regras de negócio

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