文档介绍：USING BUSINESS RULES TECHNOLOGIES TO BRIDGE
THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS
Marko Bajec, Rok Rupnik, Marjan Krisper
University of Ljubljana, Faculty puter and Information Science
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Abstract are often found responsible for many IS project
Business rules represent a significant aspect of every failures [12, 13, 14].
business environment, since they define and constrain
business processes in enterprises. Therefore, many Therefore, a lot of effort has been put into developing
business-governing rules have to be implemented in applications, which would be flexible and easier to
business-supporting applications, in order to reflect change and adapt, if possible without any developers’
the real business environment. In fact, software involvement. Most of today’s applications do not
engineers have been doing that, for as long as the apply to the above characteristics, demanding to
applications have been built. However, not every implement changes by modifying low-level program
approach is appropriate. For example, if business rules code.
are buried into program code, applications e
very difficult to maintain when business changes. This According to the various discussions [1,3,4,6,9],
paper examines business rules from the applic