State SBVR:Fact Activity Type or Service Capability StateSpace

Regulations in the Building Industry are becoming increasingly complex and involve more than one technical area. They cover products, components and project implementation. They also play an important role to ensure the quality of a building, and to minimize its environmental impact. In this paper, we are particularly interested in the modeling of the regulatory constraints derived from the Tec...

Business processes are increasingly being expressed in declarative terms, as business rules which express obligations concerning conduct, action, practice or procedure regarding a particular business activity or sphere of operation. However, the leading standard for business rules, Semantics for Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), leaves certain decisions concerning the precise synta...

This paper describes “dynamic business entities”, ontological classes that dynamically acquire and lose properties and relationships as a function of other aspects of the entities. Specifically, we propose how acquisition and loss instructions for such transient properties may be inherent in the definition of the entities possessing them. We use SBVR to demonstrate the specification of dynamic ...

Supply chains are composed of distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous elements, whose relationships are dynamic. Agricultural supply chains, in particular, have a number of distinguishing features e.g., they are characterized by strict regulations to ensure safety of food products, and by the need for multi-level traceability. Contracts in such chains need sophisticated specification and mana...

This paper gives an overview of a formal semantic-based approach of modeling some regulations in the photovoltaic field to help the delivering of technical assessments at the French scientific center on Building Industry (CSTB). Starting from regulatory texts, we first explicit SBVR rules and then formalize them into ontology-based rules in the SPARQL language. These are exploited in the modeli...

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Efficient organisations need to ensure that their business processes are flexible so that these processes can easily accommodate changes in regulations and policies. Appropriate techniques to model and verify these processes are required. In this paper, we present a rule-based approach, which is built upon the event-condition-action model (ECA) and supported by a rule-based business process def...

nowadays, the status of regulations of securities exchange section in accordance with its huge transactions and its increasing role in countries’ economies has gained particular significance. on the other hand, taking into account that iran is presently an observer member of wto and the necessity of its becoming a permanent one in the near future, it is essential to revise and amend its rules a...