Business Rules

Books

Ross, Ronald G. The Business Rule Book: Classifying, Defining and Modeling Rules. Houston: Business Rule Solutions, LLC, 1997. Dense but thorough. Nearly 100 rule types with multiple examples of each.

Von Halle, Barbara. Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rule Approach. New York: Wiley, 2002. Focuses on the methodology of applying business rules.

Magazine and Web Articles

Buckley, Alex. 9-Oct-02. Profit from Events and Patterns (Part 2). Web article: http://www.brcommunity.com/cgi-bin/x.pl/print/p-b113b.htm.

Kim, Eugene E. Dec 2001. The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. Web Techniques: http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=4181/new1013635633/index.html.

Lin, Nelson. 9-Oct-02. Alternatives for Rule-Based Application Development. Web article: http://www.brcommunity.com/cgi-bin/s.pl/resources/n007.htm.

Schacher, Markus. 9-Oct-02. Business Rules and Prolog. Web article: http://www.brcommunity.com/cgi-bin/x.pl/print/p-b118.htm. Prolog is an older AI language that is not used as widely now.

20-Dec-01. What Is Business Logic? Web article: http://wysiwyg://26/www.versata.vjsp?pageid=370.

11-Apr-02. Leading the Way in the Business Rule Approach. Web article: http://www.brsolutions.com.

7-Jun-03. The Rule Markup Initiative. Web article: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de.ruleml/. Rules in XML.

29-Oct-01. Model-Driven Development Can Add Years to Business Applications. Web article: http://anaystq.ebizq.net/insider/102901.html. Some insight as to what aspects of model-based systems can lead to long-living applications.