Enterprise Integrity Constraints Management using Production Rules and Conceptual Schema

Nattawut Vejkanchana, Jane Saetent, Suphamit Chittayasothorn

2012

Abstract

Enterprise software maintenance has been an important issue for over a decade. In conventional software development, integrity constraints including business rules are integrated as parts of application programs. These rules are frequently changed naturally, posing some difficulties for rules and applications maintenance. In fact, it has long been presented that rules are a discrete part of business and technology models and should be separated from processes, not contained in them. Based on the Business Rules Approach and ISO 100% principle, this paper presents an integrity constraint management solution using a combination of Object-Role Modeling (ORM) as conceptual schema and a production rules system for integrity constraint modeling and implementation.

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Vejkanchana N., Saetent J. and Chittayasothorn S. (2012). Enterprise Integrity Constraints Management using Production Rules and Conceptual Schema . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-11-2, pages 150-155. DOI: 10.5220/0003986601500155


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@conference{iceis12,
author={Nattawut Vejkanchana and Jane Saetent and Suphamit Chittayasothorn},
title={Enterprise Integrity Constraints Management using Production Rules and Conceptual Schema},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={150-155},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003986601500155},
isbn={978-989-8565-11-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Enterprise Integrity Constraints Management using Production Rules and Conceptual Schema
SN - 978-989-8565-11-2
AU - Vejkanchana N.
AU - Saetent J.
AU - Chittayasothorn S.
PY - 2012
SP - 150
EP - 155
DO - 10.5220/0003986601500155