Authors: John Krogstie
Tags: 2008, conceptual modeling
In organizations, goals and rules on different levels ranging from visions, to strategies, tactics, and operational goals have been expressed for a long time. In the information systems field, the interest on goals and rules has come from two directions. A) Business goals for use in requirements specification. B) Rule-based (expert) systems, focusing on automation of rule-execution. Using the modeling language EEML we are able to bridge these usage areas, and link business and executable rules with more traditional process modeling. The paper presents the use of this technique through a case study with the Norwegian State Loan fund. The results from the case are evaluated using SEQUAL, a semiotic quality framework for the evaluation of models, modeling languages and modeling environments. The result from the evaluation is promising in addressing the diverse needs of goal, rule and process modeling in analysis and design of information systems.Read the full paper here: https://www.emmsad.org/archive/2008
