Business Rules: Capturing the Most Elusive Information Asset

Sandifer, Alice; Halle, Barbara von

doi:10.1201/9781420031560-11

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“…Business rules often represent the strategic or tactical decisions of a business (Rosca et al, 2002). Business experts usually specify business rules in natural language (Sandifer & Von Halle, 1993;Von Halle, 2002) so that they can provide complete and appropriate business requirements without being restricted by the models of the existing databases. This results in a "semantic gap" between business rules and the data mod-els.…”

Section: Importance Of Business Rule Sourcingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In much of the current literature (Sandifer & Von Halle, 1993;Von Halle, 2002), the expressiveness of business rules is limited to whatever can be expressed in the ER-model. Some other studies including Halpin (2001), Ram and Khatri (in press), Rosca et al (2002), andRoss (1997) try to capture business rules using a more general, conceptual modeling methodology.…”

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An Agent-Based Approach for Sourcing Business Rules in Supply Chain Management

Ram

2005

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

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In recent years, business rule management has become an important component of enterprise information systems. Business rules represent guidelines about how an enterprise should conduct its business and provide better service for customers. Business rules are being widely deployed in supply chains to support real-time decision making. The research reported in this paper is aimed at designing a dynamically adaptable data-sourcing service for deploying business rules effectively in supply chain management. Such a data-sourcing service is important since execution of business rules requires data to be retrieved from various data sources spread across the enterprise, including the enterprise data warehouse. We propose a semantics-based approach to implement the data-sourcing service for business rules. Our approach captures semantics of business rules and provides an agent-enabled mechanism that dynamically maps business rules to the enterprise data model. A prototype system is implemented to illustrate our sourcing service and demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.

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Section: Importance Of Business Rule Sourcingmentioning

confidence: 99%