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Fact-Based Declarative Business Rule Modeling for the Static and Dynamic Perspectives in ERP Applications

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Multidimensional Views on Enterprise Information Systems

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The fact-based approach (NIAM, ORM, FCO-IM, CogNIAM) provides modeling constructs for the data- and process-oriented perspectives for domain business rules for ERP requirements determination. The event perspective in business rule modeling has been given less emphasis in the fact-based research community. In this paper we will define a number of modeling constructs that allow us to model ‘event-perspective’ business rule semantics in a declarative way that builds on the existing fact-based modeling constructs for business rules in the data and process perspectives.

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Notes

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    We distinguish insert, update and delete transaction types on the information base [5]. We will further refer to these transaction types as exchange rules [5, 6].

  2. 2.

    It is sufficient to only denote the object type in the event argument. The accompanying naming convention for the object type is captured in the fact-based information diagram (see Fig. 2 for this example).

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Bollen, P. (2016). Fact-Based Declarative Business Rule Modeling for the Static and Dynamic Perspectives in ERP Applications. In: Piazolo, F., Felderer, M. (eds) Multidimensional Views on Enterprise Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27043-2_10

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