Business Rules in e-Government Applications
Flavio Corradini, Alberto Polzonetti, Oliviero Riganelli

TL;DR
This paper presents a rule-driven approach to integrating business rules with processes in e-Government applications, aiming to enhance adaptability and consistency in public administration systems.
Contribution
It introduces a methodology for externalizing and managing business rules separately from application code to improve system flexibility and maintainability.
Findings
Business rules influence organizational behavior and citizen relations.
Externalizing rules facilitates easier updates and consistency.
The approach supports adaptable and coherent business process design.
Abstract
The introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into public administrations has been radically changing the way organizations cooperate and, more generally, the way to think about business processes over organizational boundaries. In this paper we describe our approach to combining business processes with business rules in order to integrate effectively single units in an inter- or intra-organizational cooperation. Business rules represent the knowledge that an administration has about its business; with regard to this, they can express strategies, contracts and can influence not only staff relations, but, finally, citizen relations, as well. In other words, business rules are the core of an administration and affect either the business processes or the behaviours of the system participants. They are typically expressed implicitly in business contracts and they are…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBusiness Process Modeling and Analysis · Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
