Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals

Index

Acceptance testing, 235, 236

Access. See Microsoft Access

Active Server Pages (ASP), 187

Activity diagrams, 38

Actor catalog, 48

Actors

questioning, 86

roles and, 47–50

as subjects, 86–87

Agents, software, 280–282

Alexander, Christopher, 277

Analysis workshops, 117–119

“And”

logic function, 327

using, 83

Architectures, 22–24, 171

See also under type of

Associations, 31–32

Assumptions, questioning basic, 80

Attributes, 30, 32–33

Authentication, 193

Author role, 134, 144

Automated rule discovery, 110, 119–121

Automation, to manage rules, 233–235

Automation systems, 105

Availability management, 240

Basic constraint pattern, 69

Behavioral rules, 103

Blackboard systems, 276

Boole, George, 304

Business architecture, defined, 22–23

Business architecture, ...