Business rules specification and business processes modeling

Towards Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules

While business process models describe business operations in a procedural form, business rules are typically expressed in a declarative fashion. Previous studies have demonstrated that both approaches are complementary as they address distinct aspects of organizational practices. However, both approaches share areas of overlap that allow for the linkage of rule bases and process models. Curren...

Modeling Processes and Workflows by Business Rules

Enriching Business Processes with Rules

BPMN is a leading visual notation for modeling Business Processes. Although it can be efficiently used for modeling workflow structures, it is not suitable for modeling the low-level logic of particular tasks in the process. Recently, Business Rules have been used for this purpose. Such rules are often specified in natural language and in an informal way. In this paper, we consider an approach ...

Business Rules and Decision Processes in Mediated Business Coordination

Business coordination is a very active research area, in which the decision-making process of an enterprise is non-trivial. In this paper, we focus on coordination process that involves a third party or mediator, which we call Mediated Business Coordination (MBC). We argue that business rules play an important role in the decision processes involved in MBC. We describe the decision processes in...

Compliant and Flexible Business Processes with Business Rules

When modeling business processes, we often implicity think of internal business policies and external regulations. Yet to date, little attention is paid to avoid hard-coding policies and regulations directly in control-flow based process models. The standpoint of this analysis is the role of business rule modeling in achieving business process flexibility. In particular, it is argued that flexi...