Simulation-Driven Approach for Business Rules Discovery

Biljana Bajic (1) , Irina Rychkova (2) , Alain Wegmann (1)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2 CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Paris 1

Business rules are everywhere. Some of these rules are implicit and thus poorly enforced, others are written but not enforced, and still others are perhaps poorly written and obscurely enforced [1]. In this work, we propose an interactive, simulation-driven approach for the discovery of business rules. The rules are rst speci ed in a natural language, then translated to the Alloy speci cation language. The Alloy Analyzer tool is used as a platform for rule simulation and discovery: it provides a domain specialist with an instant feedback, helping her to detect the issues with the existing business rules and to discover new rules in a systematic way.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Modeling and Simulation

Biljana Bajic, Irina Rychkova, Alain Wegmann. Simulation-Driven Approach for Business Rules Discovery. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Business/IT-Alignment and Interoperability, Jun 2013, Valence, Spain. ⟨hal-00812268⟩