Affiliations: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100 Bolzano, Italy. Dmitry.Solomakhin@stud-inf.unibz.it, {Franconi,Mosca}@inf.unibz.it
Note: [] This work has been supported by the ONTORULE project, funded by the EC Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2009-2011 grant agreement 231875. Address for correspondence: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Note: [] This work has been supported by the ONTORULE project, funded by the EC Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2009-2011 grant agreement 231875.
Note: [] This work has been supported by the ONTORULE project, funded by the EC Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2009-2011 grant agreement 231875.
Abstract: Automated support to enterprise modeling has increasingly become a subject of interest for organizations seeking solutions for storage, distribution and analysis of knowledge about business processes. This interest has recently resulted in approving the standard for specifying Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR). Despite the existence of formally grounded notations, up to now SBVR still lacks a sound and consistent logical formalization which would allow developing automated solutions able to check the consistency of a set of business rules. This work reports on the attempt to provide logical foundations for SBVR by the means of defining a specific first-order deontic-alethic logic (FODAL). The connections of FODAL with the modal logic QK and the description logic ๐โ๐๐ฌโ have been investigated and, on top of the obtained theoretical results, a special tool providing automated support for consistency checks of a set of ๐โ๐๐ฌโ-expressible deontic and alethic business rules has been implemented.
Keywords: business rules, deontic rules, consistency, reasoning, ORM2
