Modeling business rules with situation/activation diagrams

Author

Lang, P. ; Obermair, W. ; Schrefl, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Wirtschaftsinf., Linz Univ., Austria

fYear

1997

fDate

7-11 Apr 1997

Firstpage

455

Lastpage

464

Abstract

Business rules are statements about business policies and can be formulated according to the event-condition-action (ECA) structure of rules in active database systems. However, modeling business rules at the conceptual level from an external user´s perspective requires a different set of concepts than currently provided by active database systems. This paper identifies requirements on the event language and on the semantics of rule execution for modeling business rules and presents a graphical object-oriented language, called situation/activation diagrams, meeting these requirements

Keywords

active databases; business data processing; database languages; diagrams; object-oriented languages; object-oriented methods; visual languages; active database systems; business policy statements; business rule modelling; conceptual level; event language; event-condition-action structure; external user´s perspective; graphical object-oriented language; rule execution semantics; situation/activation diagrams; Authorization; Calendars; Clocks; Contracts; Database systems; Monitoring; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering, 1997. Proceedings. 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Birmingham

ISSN

1063-6382

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7807-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.1997.582006

Filename

582006