Verbalization of Business Rules - Application to OCL Constraints in the Utility Domain

Rayhana Baghli, Bruno Traverson

2014

Abstract

Business rules are defined, specified and validated by business experts but they are designed and implemented by technical implementers. Each of them uses languages adapted to their activity and skill. Verbalization of business rules permits to business experts to get a semi-natural expression of rules designed by technical implementers thus facilitating their task of validation. A transformation tool is proposed to automate verbalization and applied to OCL (Object Constraint Language) constraints in the Utility domain.

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Baghli R. and Traverson B. (2014). Verbalization of Business Rules - Application to OCL Constraints in the Utility Domain . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 348-355. DOI: 10.5220/0004713503480355


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@conference{modelsward14,
author={Rayhana Baghli and Bruno Traverson},
title={Verbalization of Business Rules - Application to OCL Constraints in the Utility Domain},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={348-355},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004713503480355},
isbn={978-989-758-007-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Verbalization of Business Rules - Application to OCL Constraints in the Utility Domain
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - Baghli R.
AU - Traverson B.
PY - 2014
SP - 348
EP - 355
DO - 10.5220/0004713503480355