A Metamodel for Business Rules with Access Control

Lex Wedemeijer

2016

Abstract

Business rules outline the way of working with data in today's organizations. We present a metamodel to support and underpin the rule-oriented language to capture business rules that we developed earlier. Like the language, our metamodel is founded on Relation Algebra. The metamodel is compact, and enables the rule designer to record the business rules in their exact details, and to examine the data of the organization for rule violations. Even though such violations should be signalled to the appropriate stakeholders in the business, the access to such signals is subject to access controls, which constitute a special type of business rule. We account for this requirement in our metamodel, so that it captures regular business rules and access permissions alike, and enables to monitor them for violations. A prototype implementation demonstrated the feasibility of our approach.

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Wedemeijer L. (2016). A Metamodel for Business Rules with Access Control . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-190-8, pages 46-53. DOI: 10.5220/0006222100460053


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@conference{bmsd16,
author={Lex Wedemeijer},
title={A Metamodel for Business Rules with Access Control},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2016},
pages={46-53},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006222100460053},
isbn={978-989-758-190-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - A Metamodel for Business Rules with Access Control
SN - 978-989-758-190-8
AU - Wedemeijer L.
PY - 2016
SP - 46
EP - 53
DO - 10.5220/0006222100460053