Proposal of Business Process and Rules Modeling with the XTT Method

The paper deals with the problem of modeling business processes and business rules (BR). Business rules are becoming an important solution for knowledge modeling. The paper presents the challenges of BR modeling, shows some disadvantages of existing and commonly used methods, such as the BPMN. As a solution, an approach based on the XTT (extended tabular trees) expert system design and implementation method is outlined and discussed. It improves the design and modeling of BR, leading to a more complete, and transparent representation of the rule base.