scholarly journals Business rules specification and business processes modeling

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Rábová
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
System Development ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Rule ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

Up to date business is managed by large-scale different rules that regulate how the business acts and how it is structured. We find the rules in law, regulation, business policy document, procedures manual, system documentation, memoranda etc. These reference resources may provide the specific basis for a rule or offer a background, context or explanation of the business rule. In the recent years, it has been discovered that business rules constitute an entire body of knowledge that has not been adequately addressed in either the analysis or design phases of the information system development. Typically, business rules have been buried in the program code or in the database structures. The article deals with the business rules approach and rule technology and helps to identify the business and technical opportunities they afford to the company. It offers the business process model and its integration with business rules. This approach could provide business analysts with an essential approach to understanding, redesigning and communicating what really happens in the business processes (in agricultural area). It serves to understand the business impact of any change in small and medium-sized organizations. We use the UML notation and its business model extension.

scholarly journals Dynamic Adaptation Method of Business Process Based on Hierarchical Feature Model

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Le Zhang ◽  
Qi Gao ◽  
Tingyu Li
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Dynamic Adaptation ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Business Application ◽  
Adaptation Method

With the continuous complexity and frequent changes in business application scenarios, companies urgently need to establish a flexible business process management mechanism that includes dynamic rules, in which dynamic adaptation methods of business processes play a vital role. Aiming at the problem that the current methods only use the preset process template and the decision-making database, it cannot respond quickly to business changes and reconfigure the business process. This research proposes a dynamic adaptation method of business process based on the hierarchical feature model, builds a hierarchical feature model of complex processes, then establishes a hierarchical business policy set to achieve an agile response to business emergencies. By constructing a mapping model, the feature model is associated with the BPMN model to realize the rapid execution of the reconfiguration process model. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are verified by process examples and the developed business process dynamic adaptation tool.

scholarly journals Modeling Business Rule Parallelism by Introducing Inclusive and Complex Gateways in Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-295
Author(s):  
Irene Tangkawarow ◽  
◽  
Riyanarto Sarno ◽  
Daniel Siahaan ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Formal Description ◽  
Object Management Group ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Rule ◽  
Management Group ◽  
Object Management

The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) standard was developed by the Object Management Group (OMG) for business purposes. SBVR is used for transformation of business vocabulary and business rules into business processes. Gateways are used for regulating the divergence and convergence of flow objects in the business process. The existing business rules in SVBR do not support all gateways in BPMN, whereas there are conditions where branching situations in business rules occur. This article introduces parallelism rules (OR rules) and complex rules to increase 50.6% usage of the existing AND rules and XOR rules in SBVR. The main contribution of this research is to introduce new formal model of inclusive gateway (OR) and complex gateway that allow parallelism and branching to be modeled using SBVR. Thus, this study increases coverage of the usage gateway in SBVR achieved 66.7%. The authors provide branching cases with various levels of complexity, i.e. nested conditions and non-free choice conditions, using the formal description of SBVR.

scholarly journals Design of Decision Service Using Cause-and-Effect Business Process Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Olga Levina
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Process Variations ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Business Process Analysis ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Design of Decision Service Using Cause-and-Effect Business Process AnalysisBusiness processes are executed according to a specific business logic that can be formulated as business rules. Often decisions are taken during the course of the process to fulfill conditions or exceptions leading to process variations. These decisions are meant to support business process operations and are composed of a set of business rules, additionally being based on a solid process relevant knowledge and know-how. These processes are here referred to as decision knowledge intensive processes. In this paper the question of how business rules and consequently operational decisions can be derived from the business process model is addressed. The therefore necessary business process analysis and decision identification are performed using the cause-and-effect approach. Service-oriented implementation of the found decisions is suggested and outlined.

Business Rules Management for Business Processes

2010 ◽  
pp. 540-563
Author(s):  
Marwane El Kharbili
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Rule ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Rule Management

The power of rule-based solutions has been demonstrated over a wide range of domains and a number of industrial-scale solutions and business rules have now proven their usability in complex real world scenarios. But the use of business rules in conjunction with business process management is still a young research field. Business process management (BPM) is a new paradigm for companies to carry out their value-creating activities. Bringing agility and flexibility to business process management is one of the most pressing challenges we are facing today. In this chapter, we make the case for rule-enabled BPM by motivating the need for introducing business rules in BPM and studying the possible advantages of combining business rule management (BRM) and BPM techniques. A discussion of possible uses of business rules (BRs) in business processes (BPs) is made. Furthermore, we also propose a lifecycle for BPM-oriented business rule management, and illustrate this using a business scenario. Hence, the aim of this chapter is to provide readers with insights into issues conceptual BRM applied to BPM in a business context, not from a formal, but from a methodological point of view.

Towards a Flexible and Adaptable Modeling of Business Processes

2014 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
Khadhir Bekki ◽  
Hafida Belachir
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Separation Of Concerns ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Rule ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Eca Rules ◽  
Post Condition

This article proposes a flexible way in business process modeling and managing. Today, business process needs to be more flexible and adaptable. The regulations and policies in organizations, as origins of change, are often expressed in terms of business rules. The ECA (Event-condition-action) rule is a popular way to incorporate flexibility into a process design. To raise the flexibility in the business processes, the authors consider governing any business activity through ECA rules based on business rules. For adaptability, the separation of concerns supports adaptation in several ways. To cope with flexibility and adaptability, the authors propose a new multi concern rule based model. For each concern, each business rule is formalized using their CECAPENETE formalism (Concern -Event-Condition-Action-Post condition- check Execution- Number of check -Else-Trigger-else Event). Then, the rules based process is translated into a graph of rules that is analyzed in terms of relations between concerns, reliably and flexibility.

scholarly journals A Process Mining Based Service Composition Approach for Mobile Information Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengxi Huang ◽  
Hongming Cai ◽  
Yulai Li ◽  
Jiawei Du ◽  
Fenglin Bu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
System Development ◽  
Medical Application ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Mobile Information ◽  
Mobile Information Systems

Due to the growing trend in applying big data and cloud computing technologies in information systems, it is becoming an important issue to handle the connection between large scale of data and the associated business processes in the Internet of Everything (IoE) environment. Service composition as a widely used phase in system development has some limits when the complexity of relationship among data increases. Considering the expanding scale and the variety of devices in mobile information systems, a process mining based service composition approach is proposed in this paper in order to improve the adaptiveness and efficiency of compositions. Firstly, a preprocessing is conducted to extract existing service execution information from server-side logs. Then process mining algorithms are applied to discover the overall event sequence with preprocessed data. After that, a scene-based service composition is applied to aggregate scene information and relocate services of the system. Finally, a case study that applied the work in mobile medical application proves that the approach is practical and valuable in improving service composition adaptiveness and efficiency.

AN EXPLANATION FACILITY FRAMEWORK FOR RULE-BASED SYSTEMS

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250013 ◽  
Author(s):  
BOJAN TOMIĆ ◽  
BORIS HORVAT ◽  
NEMANJA JOVANOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Rule ◽  
End User ◽  
Inference Process ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Rule Management ◽  
Rule Based Systems

Rule engines, business rule management systems and other rule-based systems used today widely utilize methods, techniques and technologies from the era of expert systems. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case when it comes to explanation facilities. Nowadays, the use of explanation facilities seems more important than ever. Business rule management systems control or constrain the behavior of business processes through business rules and an explanation of the inference process intended for the end user would be more than welcome. An explanation facility framework which was created in order to remedy this situation is presented in this paper. It is written in Java and is supposed to be a generic solution for modern rule-based systems. Besides being free and open-source, it is simple to use and can generate explanations in the form of natural language like sentences. Internationalization is also supported and explanations can be saved as textual, XML or PDF reports.

scholarly journals Business rules in knowledge management and in information systems – methodology of mining business rules and knowledge

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Rábová ◽  
Michal Hodinka
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Logic ◽  
Business Rule ◽  
Systems Methodology ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Business Knowledge ◽  
Application Logic

Every organisation works according to principles which define business logic that controls all business processes. However, lot of basic rules of business logic are hidden in companies’ guidelines and directives, in informal techniques of experts, processes owners and specialists. The aim of all managers should be a replacement of this incoherent set of information by set of clear and unambiguous terms which describe the way the company is controlled from inside. This notion is a ground of control and administration of business knowledge.Contemporary practises in development of informational systems demand openness and availability to correspond to constant changes. With the complexity of information system grows the amount of work and its level of difficulty. The rules of business logic are transferred to application logic and implemented into a source code. Therefore, change of the business rule needs change of the code. This means compilation or replacement of the code. Adoption of this new approach would mean more effective possibilities in adjustment of the information systems to environment dynamics thanks to the change of the rules. The article deals with mining methods and subsequent structure of business rules for easier implementation into information system. Business rules base is at the same time business knowledge base which can serve for different purposes then development and use of information systems.

Towards a Flexible and Adaptable Modeling of Business Processes

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Khadhir Bekki ◽  
Hafida Belachir
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Separation Of Concerns ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Rule ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Eca Rules ◽  
Post Condition

This article proposes a flexible way in business process modeling and managing. Today, business process needs to be more flexible and adaptable. The regulations and policies in organizations, as origins of change, are often expressed in terms of business rules. The ECA (Event-condition-action) rule is a popular way to incorporate flexibility into a process design. To raise the flexibility in the business processes, the authors consider governing any business activity through ECA rules based on business rules. For adaptability, the separation of concerns supports adaptation in several ways. To cope with flexibility and adaptability, the authors propose a new multi concern rule based model. For each concern, each business rule is formalized using their CECAPENETE formalism (Concern -Event-Condition-Action-Post condition- check Execution- Number of check -Else-Trigger-else Event). Then, the rules based process is translated into a graph of rules that is analyzed in terms of relations between concerns, reliably and flexibility.

Verification of e-Commerce Business Processes

2011 ◽  
pp. 105-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Feja ◽  
Andreas Speck ◽  
Elke Pulvermüller ◽  
Marcel Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
System Development ◽  
Real System ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Formal Requirement ◽  
Different Types

Nevertheless distinctive improvements are necessary before this technology can be applied in the real system development. Graphical formal requirement notations for different kinds of process model notations as representations of the specification of rules are also crucial, along with the ability to present the positive and especially negative results to the different types of stakeholders. And finally, the model checking technique has to be improved in order to deal with different types of model elements which are typical for business process models.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document