A grammar of business rules in Information Systems

There are many situations during information system development (ISD) where there is a need to do modelling on a business level before more detailed and robust modelling are done on the technical system level. Most business level modelling uses some form of natural language constructs which are, on...

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Published in:Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 241 - 276
Main Authors: Joubert, P., De Villiers, C., Kroeze, J.H.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Vanderbijlpark AOSIS 01.12.2013
AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
Subjects:
Business rules
Grammar
Information systems
Information Systems Analysis and Design
Information systems development
Linguistics
Modelling
Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
ISSN:1817-4434, 2415-2005
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Summary:There are many situations during information system development (ISD) where there is a need to do modelling on a business level before more detailed and robust modelling are done on the technical system level. Most business level modelling uses some form of natural language constructs which are, on the one hand, easy to use by untrained users, but which are too vague and ambiguous to be used in subsequent systems level modelling by systems analysts, on the other hand. The goal of this article is to suggest a subset of morphology, syntax and semantics concepts that may be used to analyse texts containing business rules during Information Systems analysis and design. The contribution of this research is to provide a better understanding of the fundamental entities in business and ISD modelling and their relationships in order to improve informal, mostly textual, business modelling.
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ISSN:1817-4434
2415-2005
DOI:10.4102/td.v9i2.206