JOINING BUSINESS RULES AND BUSINESS PROCESSES

In today's world, the spheres of business rules and business processes are too loosely coupled. From our point of view, an appropriate joining of both spheres would prove beneficial for various application domains. Therefore, we propose an integrated approach to join rules and processes in a business-aware manner from a modeling and execution perspective. Our developed solution consists of four steps: (1) enhancement of classical business processes with SBVR annotations, (2) automatic integration of SBVR vocabulary into the business process world using domain-specific language transformations, (3) transformation of business rules to OCL constraints, and (4) manual mapping of domain-specific concepts to Web-service data structures. Based on our developed approach, several advantages arise, e.g., the independent modification of business rules without touching the business process structure or the runtime adaptation of rules. Our proposed solution is completely realized within the Open Service Process Platform.