Recent efforts focus on representing human/organizational knowledge in a format suitable for machine processing to enable systematic knowledge sharing among collaborating business organizations. Different types of business rules can be used to capture multi-faceted business policies, strategies, regulations and constraints. A structure of such rules can model business procedures and processes. ...

Event-condition-action (ECA) is the basic pattern for business rules implementation in the vast majority of companies dealing with complex set of either industry regulations or internal business processes and policies. For example, financial institutions have common federal and/or state rules of conducting business as well as specific rules, e.g. inside brokerage or insurance industry. The stan...

This article proposes a flexible way in business process modeling and managing. Today, business process needs to be more flexible and adaptable. The regulations and policies in organizations, as origins of change, are often expressed in terms of business rules. The ECA (Event-condition-action) rule is a popular way to incorporate flexibility into a process design. To raise the flexibility in th...

Managing business process compliance is a highly important topic in the financial sector. Various scandals and last but not least the financial crisis have caused many new constraints and legal regulations that banks and financial institutions need to face. Based on a domain-specific semantic business process modeling notation, we propose a new approach to modeling and analysis of business proc...

When modeling business processes, we often implicity think of internal business policies and external regulations. Yet to date, little attention is paid to avoid hard-coding policies and regulations directly in control-flow based process models. The standpoint of this analysis is the role of business rule modeling in achieving business process flexibility. In particular, it is argued that flexi...

Outsourcing parts of a company’s processes becomes more and more important in a globalized, distributed economy. While architectural styles and technologies such as service-oriented architecture and Web services facilitate the distribution of business process over several departments, enterprises and countries, these business processes still need to comply with various regulations. These regula...

Managing business process compliance is an important topic in the financial sector. Various scandals and the financial crisis have caused many new constraints and legal regulations that banks and financial institutions have to face. Based on a domain-specific semantic business process modeling notation we propose generic process compliance business rules that serve as a first step towards the i...

Abstract Introduction: It is obvious that driving without laws and regulations is a threat to every society's order and safety ultimately leading to accidents and loss of life. Several factors play a role in observance of traffic laws and regulations. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of religious beliefs on compliance with traffic laws and regulations that could ...

Information system models commonly describe organizations in terms of the structure of the data they use, the organization of the processes they perform and the operations that will be executed. Yet to date, the models tend to neglect the rules and constraints under which the business operates. Frequently these are not represented or even documented, but hard-coded or hidden into implementation...