📄️ Business rule examples
Here are some examples of business rules. They have things in common, but they are also very different:
📄️ The world of rules
Why business rules?
📄️ Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR)
Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) is a formal specification by Object Management Group. It was first published in January 2008 and reached version 1.5 in December 2019.
📄️ Enterprise Ontology
Enterprise Ontology is a comprehensive framework for understanding human organisations as organisms. It offers clear principles for business modelling. Dr. Jan L.G. Dietz published a seminal book on Enterprise Ontology in 2006. More recent publications incorporate later developments particularly at the TU Delft university in the Netherlands and around the DEMO group ("enterprise engineering", www.demo.nl), for example Dietz, Jan L.G., Enterprise Ontology. Theory and Methodology, Springer 2010, and Dietz, Jan L.G. and Hans B. F. Mulder, Enterprise Ontology. A Human-Centric Approach to Understanding the Essence of Organisation, Springer 2020.
📄️ Rules rely on concept structure
In USoft, the meaning of business rules depends crucially not just on what the rules themselves have to say, but also on concept structure and on definitions.
📄️ A business rules primer
Business rules
📄️ Rules and definitions are interrelated
In 2012, long before the 2020 Covid crisis, a Dutch public network published the following item: