Verification of business rules programs [electronic resource] / Bruno Berstel-Da Silva.
2014
HF54.56 .B477 2014eb
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Title
Verification of business rules programs [electronic resource] / Bruno Berstel-Da Silva.
Author
Berstel-Da Silva, Bruno.
ISBN
9783642400384 electronic book
3642400388 electronic book
9783642400377
3642400388 electronic book
9783642400377
Published
Heidelberg [Germany] : Springer, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-642-40038-4
Call Number
HF54.56 .B477 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
025.0665
Summary
Rules represent a simplified means of programming, congruent with our understanding of human brain constructs. With the advent of business rules management systems, it has been possible to introduce rule-based programming to nonprogrammers, allowing them to map expert intent into code in applications such as fraud detection, financial transactions, healthcare, retail, and marketing. However, a remaining concern is the quality, safety, and reliability of the resulting programs. This book is on business rules programs, that is, rule programs as handled in business rules management systems. Its conceptual contribution is to present the foundation for treating business rules as a topic of scientific investigation in semantics and program verification, while its technical contribution is to present an approach to the formal verification of business rules programs. The author proposes a method for proving correctness properties for a business rules program in a compositional way, meaning that the proof of a correctness property for a program is built up from correctness properties for the individual rules"thus bridging a gap between the intuitive understanding of rules and the formal semantics of rule programs. With this approach the author enables rule authors and tool developers to understand, express formally, and prove properties of the execution behavior of business rules programs. This work will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in the areas of program verification, enterprise computing, database management, and artificial intelligence.
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Rules represent a simplified means of programming, congruent with our understanding of human brain constructs. With the advent of business rules management systems, it has been possible to introduce rule-based programming to nonprogrammers, allowing them to map expert intent into code in applications such as fraud detection, financial transactions, healthcare, retail, and marketing. However, a remaining concern is the quality, safety, and reliability of the resulting programs. This book is on business rules programs, that is, rule programs as handled in business rules management systems. Its conceptual contribution is to present the foundation for treating business rules as a topic of scientific investigation in semantics and program verification, while its technical contribution is to present an approach to the formal verification of business rules programs. The author proposes a method for proving correctness properties for a business rules program in a compositional way, meaning that the proof of a correctness property for a program is built up from correctness properties for the individual rules"thus bridging a gap between the intuitive understanding of rules and the formal semantics of rule programs. With this approach the author enables rule authors and tool developers to understand, express formally, and prove properties of the execution behavior of business rules programs. This work will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in the areas of program verification, enterprise computing, database management, and artificial intelligence.
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Table of Contents
Chap
1
Introduction
Chap
2
Related Work
Chap
3
Syntax of Rules and Rule Programs
Chap
4
States and State Assertions
Chap
5
Operational Semantics of Rule Programs
Chap
6
Correctness of Rule Programs
Chap
7
Correctness of Programs: A Comparison
Chap
8
Main Steps in Rule Program Verification
Chap
9
A Verification Method for Rule Programs
Chap
10
Specialized Proof Rules
Chap
11
Conclusion
Appendix A
Verification in an Industrial Business Rules Management System
List of Proof Rules
Index.
1
Introduction
Chap
2
Related Work
Chap
3
Syntax of Rules and Rule Programs
Chap
4
States and State Assertions
Chap
5
Operational Semantics of Rule Programs
Chap
6
Correctness of Rule Programs
Chap
7
Correctness of Programs: A Comparison
Chap
8
Main Steps in Rule Program Verification
Chap
9
A Verification Method for Rule Programs
Chap
10
Specialized Proof Rules
Chap
11
Conclusion
Appendix A
Verification in an Industrial Business Rules Management System
List of Proof Rules
Index.