Title :
Modeling business rules with situation/activation diagrams
Author :
Lang, P. ; Obermair, W. ; Schrefl, M.
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Wirtschaftsinf., Linz Univ., Austria
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;
Conference_Titel :
Data Engineering, 1997. Proceedings. 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Birmingham
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7807-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICDE.1997.582006
