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SBEAVER: A Tool for Modeling Business Vocabularies and Business Rules

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2006)

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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.

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  1. e-Business Management School – ISUFI, University of Lecce, via per Monteroni sn, 73100, Lecce, (Italy)

    Maurizio De Tommasi & Angelo Corallo

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK

    Bogdan Gabrys

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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De Tommasi, M., Corallo, A. (2006). SBEAVER: A Tool for Modeling Business Vocabularies and Business Rules. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893011_137

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