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Despite the advances on business rules theory and the increasing number of large enterprises doing efforts to model their business rules, there is still a lack for a meaningful integration between business analysis and process modeling activities. The event-driven paradigm has been shown to be an effective solution for the implementation of process rules. However, the connection between the business side of the rules and their software implementation has been made in an ad-hoc, unstructured manner. In this paper, we propose a methodology to tackle such a problem by naturally moving from informal business rules toward the implementation of a business process using complex event processing. The methodology allows for the active participation of business people at all stages of the refinement process. This is important to guarantee the correct alignment between information systems and business needs. Throughout the paper, we present an example to illustrate the application of the methodology. The methodology was applied to implement a real process of a building company.
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Silva, N.C., Sabat, C.L., Oliveira, C.A.L., Lima, R.M.F. (2011). Integrating Business Process Analysis and Complex Event Processing. In: Lee, R. (eds) Computer and Information Science 2011. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21378-6_9
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