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Almost at every tier of software architecture, business rules crosscut several parts of process management such as workflows, task assignments, and business transactions. Managing business rules on its own hence improves the dynamism of processes in the sense of modeling, implementing, executing, and even maintenance. Moreover, seamless integration with the rest of the picture may offer further dynamism, but this requires smart and reasonably reflective application frameworks for industrial systems. Here, aspect orientation comes to rescue since it mainly aims the separation of crosscutting concerns such as business rules. This paper presents a practical Aspect-Oriented Framework for rule-based business process management where all aspects, facts, rules and rule-sets can be defined and managed dynamically by means of a GUI console. Moreover, this lightweight framework has been implemented in conformance to Adaptive Object Model to facilitate the process dynamism through declarative techniques for design and bytecode engineering for seamless integration.
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Cetin, S., Altintas, N.I., Solmaz, R. (2006). Business Rules Segregation for Dynamic Process Management with an Aspect-Oriented Framework. In: Eder, J., Dustdar, S. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11837862_20
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