02924cam a22003737a 4500 17384187 OSt 20150408114201.0 120712s2012 maua f b 001 0 eng d 2011277627 015959177 Uk 9780123850515 (pbk) 0123850517 (pbk) (OCoLC)ocn782206753 AU@ eng AU@ COO COA BTCTA UKMGB YDXCP BWX UBY DLC lccopycat QA76.5913 .W58 2012 651.8 23 WGW Witt, Graham C. 41787 Writing effective business rules : a practical method / Graham Witt. Waltham, Mass. : Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2012. xx, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index. The world of rules -- How rules work -- A brief history of rules -- Types of rules -- The building blocks of natural language rule statements -- Fact models -- How to write quality natural language rule statements -- An end-to-end rule management methodology -- Rule statement templates and subtemplates. Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic templates from which unambiguous natural language rule statements of each type can be generated. A user guide to the SBVR [Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules] specification, it explains how to develop an appropriate business vocabulary and generate quality rule statements using the appropriate templates and terms from the vocabulary. The resulting rule statements can be reviewed by business stakeholders for relevance and correctness, providing for a high level of confidence in their successful implementation. A complete set of standard templates for rule statements and their component syntactic elements A rigorous approach to rule statement construction to avoid ambiguity and ensure consistency. A clear explanation of the way in which a fact model provides and constrains the rule statement vocabulary A practical reader-friendly user guide to the those parts of the SBVR specification that are relevant to rule authoring-- Semantic computing. 41788 Rule-based programming. 41789 Data structures (Computer science) Natural language processing (Computer science) 40479 Electronic data processing. 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc DVD 33030 267530 0 2014-01-08 0 0 651.8 WGW 2014-01-08 CL CL 2014-01-08 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0