Scalable Uncertainty-Tolerant Business Rules

Business rules are of key importance for maintaining the correctness of business processes and the reliability of business data. When they take the form of integrity constraints, business rules also can help to contain the amount of uncertainty associated to business data and decisions based on those data. However, business rule enforcement may not scale up easily to systems with concurrent transactions. To a large extent, the problem is due to two common exigencies: the postulates of total and of isolated business rule satisfaction. In order to limit the accumulation of business rule violations, and thus of uncertainty, we are going to outline how a measure-based uncertainty-tolerant approach to business rules maintenance scales up to concurrent transactions. The scale-up is achieved by refraining from the postulates of total and isolated business rule satisfaction.