Issues and challanges in business rule-based information systems development

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bajec, Marko ^a   Krisper, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business rule approach; Business rule based information systems development; Business rules

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS RULES; CHALLANGES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; RULE BASED;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871027657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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