Business Rules Interoperation
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2012
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University of New Brunswick
Abstract
The present report describes the approach and two technical solutions for interoperation
between business rules represented in various formats. Semantic
Web techniques have been deployed to make such interoperation work. One
of the interoperation methods uses the Java Interoperation Object (JIO) described
in the context of Positional-Slotted Knowledge (POSL), which is a
human-friendly variant of the Rule Markup Language (RuleML), and Notation
3 (N3) representations. Details of the connections between these representations
are demonstrated with the use of query-based interoperation
between POSL and N3. Another solution described in the report is conversion
of business rules stored in Microsoft Excel as decision tables into
POSL using OpenL tablets. Although the current business rules interoperation
framework involves three formats (Excel, POSL, and N3), it can be
extended to other representations through appropriate conversions of data in
rule bases and queries.