DEONTIC PROTOCOL MODELLING - Modelling Business Rules with State Machines

Ashley McNeile, Nicholas Simons

2006

Abstract

State machines can be used as a means of specifying the behaviour of objects in a system by describing their event protocols, this being the relationships between the states that the object may adopt and the ability of the object to respond to events of different types presented to it. We describe an extension to this approach whereby different machines in the composition of a single object have different deontic semantics; covering necessary behaviour, encouraged behaviour and discouraged behaviour. This provides a language that has the expressive power to model the way software interacts with the domain in which it is embedded to encourage or discourage behaviours of the domain.

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McNeile A. and Simons N. (2006). DEONTIC PROTOCOL MODELLING - Modelling Business Rules with State Machines . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 489-492. DOI: 10.5220/0002491804890492


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Ashley McNeile and Nicholas Simons},
title={DEONTIC PROTOCOL MODELLING - Modelling Business Rules with State Machines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={489-492},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002491804890492},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - DEONTIC PROTOCOL MODELLING - Modelling Business Rules with State Machines
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - McNeile A.
AU - Simons N.
PY - 2006
SP - 489
EP - 492
DO - 10.5220/0002491804890492