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Rules are becoming more and more important in business modeling and systems engineering and are recognized as a high-level programming paradigma. For the effective development of rules it is desired to start at a high level, e.g. with graphical rules, and to refine them into code of a particular rule language for implementation purposes later. An model-driven approach is presented in this paper to transform graphical rules into executable code in a fully automated way. The focus is on event-condition-action policies as a special rule type. These are modeled graphically and translated into the PonderTalk language. The approach may be extended to integrate other rule types and languages as well.
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Romeikat, R., Sinsel, M., Bauer, B. (2009). Transformation of Graphical ECA Policies into Executable PonderTalk Code. In: Governatori, G., Hall, J., Paschke, A. (eds) Rule Interchange and Applications. RuleML 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5858. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04985-9_19
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