The Decision-Scope Approach to Specialization of Business Rules: Application in Business Process Modeling and Data Warehousing

It is common in organizational contexts and in law to apply a decision-scope approach to decision making. Higher organization levels set a decision scope within which lower organization levels may operate. In case of conflict the regulations and rules of a higher level (e.g. European Union) take precedence over those of a lower level (e.g. a member state). This approach can also be beneficially applied to the specialization of the most important kind of business rules in information systems, action rules. Such rules define under which conditions certain actions may, must not, or need to be taken. Applying the decision scope approach to business process modeling based on BPMN means that business rules should not be buried in decision tasks but be made explicit at the flow level. This requires a rethinking of the current BPMN modeling paradigm in that several aspects in conditional flow so far modeled jointly are separately captured: (a) potential ordering of tasks, (b) conditions ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2013
• Where: APCCM
• Authors: Michael Schrefl, Bernd Neumayr, Markus Stumptner
• Keywords: APCCM 2013, Knowledge Management