A fact-oriented approach to business rules

  • Authors:
  • Terry Halpin

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Corporation

  • Venue:
  • ER'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual modeling
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Effective database applications, business rules management, data warehousing, enterprise modeling and re-engineering all depend on the quality of the underlying data model. To properly exploit relational, object-relational or object database technology, a clear understanding is needed as to how to create conceptual business models, transform them to logical database models for implementation on the chosen platform, and query the populated models. Fact-orientation provides a truly conceptual way to accomplish these tasks, facilitating communication between the modeler, the domain expert and the application. This presentation provides insights into the fact-oriented approach for modeling and querying information systems, focusing on verbalization and instantiation of data use cases for capturing business rules, including recent work on negative and default rule verbalizations.