Business Rule-Oriented Conceptual Modeling PDF

This book is based on a PhD dissertation which was accepted by the faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

The ideas presented were partially developed in a research project founded by the Swiss National Sci- ence Foundation in 1993 and 1994.

This research project was concerned with evaluating the application of database triggers and active databases for the im- plementation of business rules.

We recognized among other things the lack of a methodology for modeling such business rules on the conceptual level.

Therefore, this became the focus of the follow-up research which resulted in this book.

All this work would not have been possible without the help of several people.

First of all, I would like to give special thanks to my thesis supervisor Prof.

Dr. Gerhard Knolmayer. He not only initiated the research project and found an in- dustry partner, but also provided very valuable ideas, and critically reviewed and discussed the resulting publications.

Furthermore, I would like to express my thanks to the second thesis supervisor Prof.

Dr. Sham Navathe from Georgia In- stitute of Technology who influenced my work with results from a former re- search project and who agreed to evaluate the resulting PhD Dissertation.