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Preface
The Business Rules Paradigm
- The Body Analogy
- The Ogranization of Business Operations
- About this Book
Part 1: The Key Ideas
Chapter 1. What You Need to Know About Structured Business Vocabularies
- About Noun Concepts and Terms that Represent Them
- About Connections Between Noun Concepts and Wordings that Represent Them
- Using Graphical Fact Models
- Closing the Communications Gap
Chapter 2. What You Need to Know About Business Rules
- The Basics of Business Rules
- Violation of Business Rules
- Decisioning
Chapter 3. What You Need to Know About Rulebook Management
- General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)
- Smart Covernance
- Re-Engineering the Governance Process
Part 2: Business Vocabularies and Fact Models
Chapter 4. Verb-ish Models for Verbalization
- What It Means to be Verb-ish
- Issues That Can Only Be Handled Well Using Verbs
- More Ways in Which Fact Models are Verb-ish
Chapter 5. Creating a Fact Model
- Forming Definitions
- Capturing Fact Types and Roles
Chapter 6. Special-Purpose Elements of Structure
- Categories and Categorizations
- Properties
- Compositions — Whole–Part (Partitive) Structures
- Classifications
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Part 3: Business Rules
Chapter 7. Business Rules
- What is a Business Rule?
- Behavioral Rules
- Definitional Rules
- More Things You Should Know
- Exceptions
Chapter 8. Business Rules and Events: Flash Points
- Multiple Events for Each Business Rule
- CRUD Events
Chapter 9. The Art of Business Rules
- Business Rule Reduction
- Business Rule Quality
- Decision Tables
Part 4: Enterprise Design
Chapter 10. Smart Architectures and the Point of Knowledge
- The Point of Knowledge
- Point-of-Knowledge Architecture
Chapter 11. Business Rules and Business Processes
- How Business Rules Relate to Business Processes
- Best Practices
Chapter 12. Envisioning Really Smart Systems: Dynamic, Thin, Throwaway Procedures
- Computational Models for Really Smart Systems
- Behavioral Rules in Really Smart Systems
Business Rules Manifesto
The Principles of Rule Independence
Glossary
References
Index
About Ron Ross, BRS, and BRCommunity
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