The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenges faced with the initial introduction and use of workflow for underwriting in an insurance company and how these challenges were overcome when the company was faced with the requirement to upgrade the system. Early workflow systems, including one of the original FileNet WorkfloTM system, offered the promise of easy to change, work assignment...

With this paper we present a brief overview of selected promi­ nent approaches to rule frameworks and formal rule languages for the representation of and reasoning with uncertain or imprecise knowledge. This work covers selected probabilistic and possibilistic logics, as well as implementations of uncertainty and possibilistic reasoning in rule engine

Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) is a new standard from the OMG that combines aspects of ontologies and of rule systems. This paper summarizes SBVR, reviews some possible use cases for SBVR, and discusses ways that vocabularies and rules given in SBVR could relate to established ontology standards, to rules technologies, and to other IT implementation technologies. It also desc...

We propose an IDE – Integrated Development Environment to model SBVR (Semantic of Business Vocabulary and Business Rule) compliant business rules [2] extracted from business contract of services and store them in an ontological structure of rules, facts and terms as defined in the SBVR metamodel. Business rules are based on principles of deontic logic for treating expressions in the form of nor...

Business rules are generally expressed in natural language, although some rules are at times illustrated graphically. SBVR is not a logic language for restating business rules in some other language that business people don’t use. Rather, SBVR provides a means for describing the structure of the meaning of rules expressed in the natural language that business people use. SBVR calls this “semant...