SBEAVER: a tool for modeling business vocabularies and business rules

  • Authors:
  • Maurizio De Tommasi;Angelo Corallo

  • Affiliations:
  • e-Business Management School – ISUFI, University of Lecce, Lecce, (Italy);e-Business Management School – ISUFI, University of Lecce, Lecce, (Italy)

  • Venue:
  • KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Methodologies in software development are typically applied when a problem is already formulated and described. Software developers transform requirements into code with a relatively repetitive process. The actual difficulty lies in describing business needs and expected functionalities. Stakeholders involved in software development can express their ideas using a language close to them, but they usually are not able to formalize these concepts in a clear and unambiguous way. In this paper, we introduce a new tool intended primarily for business analysts and modelers who want to formalize their business knowledge using a business oriented notation based on natural language and fact-oriented approach. Moreover, the capability to map models to formal logic allows automatically generation of IT system design artifacts bridging the existing language gap between business and IT.