Towards a flexible deployment of business rules

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 385-394

  Rosca, Daniela ^a   Wild, Chris ^b  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECS Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Business rules; Decision support systems; Decision tree learning; Enterprise modeling; Inconsistency; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LIFE CYCLE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS RULES;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036836957     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(02)00074-X     Document Type: Short Survey

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