Authors: Andre Flory, Madjid Meziane, Youssef Amghar
Tags: 2000, conceptual modeling
Modeling behavior is an important task ofthe information system engineering process. This task is especially important when information systems are centered on active databases, which allow the replacement of parts of application programs with active rules To relieve programmers from using either traditional or ad hoc techniques to design active databases, it is necessary to develop new techniques to model business rules For that reason, inclusion of rules during analysis and design stages becomes an actual requirement. In this paper, we propose a uniform approach to modeling business rules (active rules, integrity constraints, etc. ). To improve the behavior specification, we extend the state diagrams that are widely usedfor dynamic modeling. This extension is a transformation ofstate transitions according to rule semantics In addition, we outline new functionalities of ComputerAided System Engineering (CASE) to take into consideration the active database specificities In this way, the designer can be assisted to control, maintain, and reuse a set of rules.Read the full paper here: https://www.igi-global.com/journal/journal-database-management
