1999 Harrison St., Suite 1100
Oakland, California 94612

Business rules are everywhere. Different stakeholders in business and IT organizations have different viewpoints on a given rule. A rule can have different representations in a given viewpoint and between viewpoints. Different senses of a rule are available. Besides a rule itself, there are rules about rules -- whether, why, when, where, who, and how to enforce them, with what consequences for failed obligations.
This session will give you a perspective on business rules from an Enterprise Architecture viewpoint. Using a standard architecture framework, corresponding manifestations of a rule are traced through different architectural viewpoints. Stan will discuss how different linguistic transformations of a rule statement -- changing its mood, modality, and tense -- conveys different senses of a rule, and how applications that "execute" a rule use a different sense from that of its original business author. The logical form of a rule can also change between specification and implementation to accommodate the limitations of different rule engine and rule enforcement technologies -- though not always without some change in rule meaning as well.

Finally, the representation of a rule can change drastically -- from English to a programming language. Language differences and the transformations between an English business rule statement and the system code that executes the rule become problematic in attempting to establish the validity of the code.

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Added by FullCalendar on May 22, 2008

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