A methodology and tool support for managing business rules in organisations

Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 423-443

  Bajec, Marko ^a   Krisper, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business rule; Business rule management; Enterprise modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUSINESS RULE MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS RULES; ENTERPRISE MODELING; ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP MODEL (ERM);

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944388317     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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