Principles of the Business Rule Approach (Paperback)

Table of Contents

Preface.

I. THE BUSINESS PROBLEM: WHY BUSINESS RULES?: READINGS FOR BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS.

1. What's This about Business Rules?: The Problem and the Fix in a Nutshell.
2. Areas of Opportunity: Changing the Face of Business.
3. Serving Up Knowledge: The Need to Know.
4. What about IT Projects?: Where the Rubber Meets the Road.

II. BUSINESS RULE CONCEPTS: THE MECHANICS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS.

5. Organizing Basic Business Knowledge: What You Need to Know about Terms and Facts.
6. Exercising Control: What You Need to Know about Rules.
7. Doing Work: What You Need to Know about Processes.

III. BEST PRACTICES FOR EXPRESSING RULES: BRS RULESPEAK.

8. Expressing Rules: The Dos and Don'ts.
9. Developing Rule Statements: The Basics of BRS RuleSpeak.
10. Functional Categories of Rules: The BRS Rule Classification Scheme.
11. Sentence Patterns for Rule Statements: The RuleSpeak Templates.
12. Expressing Business Logic by Using Decision Tables: The RuleSpeak Approach.

IV. WHAT IS THE BUSINESS RULE APPROACH?: READINGS FOR IT PROFESSIONALS.

13. More Principles of the Business Rule Approach: A New View of Business Logic.
14. More about Fact Models: Structuring the Basic Business Knowledge.

V. A THEORY OF BUSINESS RULES: A TUTORIAL ON THE FORMAL BASIS FOR BUSINESS RULES AND BUSINESS RULE NOTATION.

15. Three Perspectives on Business Rules: A Framework for Formal @AHEADS = Discussion.
16. The Theoretical Foundation of Rules: About Formal Constraints.
17. The Theoretical Foundation of Facts: About Predicates.
18. Higher-Order Rules: Pattern-R Rule Types.
Appendices for Part V.
Glossary.
Bibliography

目錄

前言。

I. 商業問題：為什麼需要商業規則？：針對商業專業人士的閱讀材料。

1. 關於商業規則的內容：問題和解決方法。
2. 機會領域：改變商業的面貌。
3. 提供知識：需要了解的內容。
4. IT專案怎麼辦？：實際操作。

II. 商業規則概念：商業系統的運作機制。

5. 組織基本商業知識：關於術語和事實的內容。
6. 控制執行：關於規則的內容。
7. 工作執行：關於流程的內容。

III. 表達規則的最佳實踐：BRS規則語言。

8. 表達規則：應該和不應該做的事情。
9. 制定規則陳述：BRS規則語言的基礎。
10. 規則的功能類別：BRS規則分類方案。
11. 規則陳述的句型：規則語言模板。
12. 使用決策表表達業務邏輯：RuleSpeak方法。

IV. 商業規則方法是什麼？：針對IT專業人士的閱讀材料。

13. 商業規則方法的更多原則：商業邏輯的新觀點。
14. 關於事實模型的更多內容：結構化基本商業知識。

V. 商業規則的理論：商業規則和商業規則符號的形式基礎教程。

15. 關於商業規則的三個觀點：形式討論的框架。
16. 規則的理論基礎：關於形式約束。
17. 事實的理論基礎：關於謂詞。
18. 高階規則：模式-R規則類型。
附錄V。
詞彙表。
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