Business Rules Resource Page

April 14, 2004 Lecture Notes

• Dr. Kerschberg's Lecture Slides

• Business Rules Manifesto (HTML) and (PDF) Versions.

• Business Rule Group's Motivational Paper in (PDF) format, "Organizing Business Plans: The Standard Model for Business Rule Motivation".

• Guide Business Rule Report (HTML) (PDF) (Third Edition, dated July 2000)

• Dr. Kerschberg's Notes on the Guide Report.

Supplemental Material

• Object Management Group RFP on "Business Semantics of Business Rules".
• Business Rules Group's Response to OMG's RFP.

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• Zachman's Architectural Framework and Wisdom.

• Slides on Business Rule Tracks by Ron Ross

• Slides by Tony Phillips of Versata on Modeling Business Rules in Rational Rose.

• NEW 2003: Versata has various White Papers on the use of its Rules Engine:

  • IBM Redbook: Application Development Using the Versata Logic Suite for WebSphere (HTML) or (PDF at 3.8Meg).
  • Automating Business Processes (PDF)
  • Versata XML (PDF)
  • Versata's Introduction to Web Services (PDF)
  • Verstata Business Logic Designer Tutorial (PDF)
  • Case Study of AMS (PDF)
     

• Dr. Kerschberg's Slides on Knowledge Based Systems and Active Database Systems (updated version).

• References to Active Database Systems.

1. Umeshwar Dayal, Barbara T. Blaustein, Alejandro P. Buchmann, Upen S. Chakravarthy, M. Hsu, R. Ledin, Dennis R. McCarthy, Arnon Rosenthal, Sunil K. Sarin, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny, Rajiv Jauhari: The HiPAC Project: Combining Active Databases and Timing Constraints. SIGMOD Record 17(1): 51-70 (1988) (PDF Version)
2. Michael Stonebraker: The Integration of Rule Systems and Database Systems. TKDE 4(5): 415-423 (1992) (PDF Version)
3. Lawrence A. Rowe, Michael Stonebraker: The POSTGRES Data Model. Research Foundations in OO and Semantic DBS 1990: 91-110 (PDF Version)
4. Stefano Ceri, Roberta Cochrane, Jennifer Widom: Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Success and Lingering Issues (10-Year Award). VLDB 2000: 254-262 (PDF Version)
5. Len Seligman and Larry Kerschberg, "A Mediator for Approximate Consistency: Supporting "Good Enough" Materialized Views," Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, vol. 8, pp. 203 - 225, 1997.

• Links of Interest

• The Business Rules Group

• Business Rule Community

• The Business Process Management Initiative, http://www.bpmi.org, has published some interesting papers:
  • The Business Process Modeling Language, Version 1.0.
  • The Business Process Modeling Notation, Version 0.9.   
  • The Business Process Query Language (html page)

  They also have a Library with some interesting papers to download.