Business Process Integration by Using General Rule Markup Language

Authors:
Milan Milanovic;Nima Kaviani;Dragan Gasevic;Adrian Giurca;Gerd Wagner;Vladan Devedzic;and Marek Hatala
Affiliations:
University of Belgrade, Serbia;Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada;Athabasca University, Canada;Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany;Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany;University of Belgrade, Serbia;Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Venue:
EDOC '07 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
Year:
2007

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Abstract

A business process usually includes multiple busi- ness partners that use systems with their business log- ics represented in different rule (or policy) languages. The integration of business processes is a major goal followed by business enterprises and involves the in- terchange of business rules and policies between part- ners. However, the variety of business rules employed by the partners presents a significant burden to the integration of collaborating business systems. In this paper, we propose a solution that enables translating rules and policies defined in different rule languages into a single general rule language (REWERSE I1 Rule Markup Language - R2ML) and processing them in a uniform manner. This provides a unified view of different partners' business rules in an integration process, while permitting the partners to continue to leverage their own business rules without changing their technologies. We show how the concepts of the KAoS policy language can be transformed to R2ML and then from R2ML to the other rule (or policy) lan- guages.