Collaborative narratives for business rule elicitation

Business rules are a form of knowledge that expresses policies being practiced throughout the organization. The set of business rules represents part of important collective knowledge, therefore enterprises are likely to have them explicited and documented. The Story Mining Method was proposed previously for the extraction of business process elements from collaborative narratives; however, process models and rules are complementary forms of knowledge that represent organizational knowledge as a whole. This paper presents an extension of the Story Mining method and the collaborative supporting application, expanding the scope of the method for business rules extraction.