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  title info:
    title: Verification of Business Rules Programs
  name:
    name part: Berstel-Da Silva, Bruno.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 236 p. 18 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Rules represent a simplified means of programming, congruent with our understanding of human brain constructs. With the advent of business rules management systems, it has been possible to introduce rule-based programming to nonprogrammers, allowing them to map expert intent into code in applications such as fraud detection, financial transactions, healthcare, retail, and marketing. However, a remaining concern is the quality, safety, and reliability of the resulting programs. This book is on business rules programs, that is, rule programs as handled in business rules management systems. Its conceptual contribution is to present the foundation for treating business rules as a topic of scientific investigation in semantics and program verification, while its technical contribution is to present an approach to the formal verification of business rules programs. The author proposes a method for proving correctness properties for a business rules program in a compositional way, meaning that the proof of a correctness property for a program is built up from correctness properties for the individual rules—thus bridging a gap between the intuitive understanding of rules and the formal semantics of rule programs. With this approach the author enables rule authors and tool developers to understand, express formally, and prove properties of the execution behavior of business rules programs. This work will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in the areas of program verification, enterprise computing, database management, and artificial intelligence.
  table of contents: Chap. 1 - Introduction -- Chap. 2 - Related Work -- Chap. 3 - Syntax of Rules and Rule Programs -- Chap. 4 - States and State Assertions -- Chap. 5 - Operational Semantics of Rule Programs -- Chap. 6 - Correctness of Rule Programs -- Chap. 7 - Correctness of Programs: A Comparison -- Chap. 8 - Main Steps in Rule Program Verification -- Chap. 9 - A Verification Method for Rule Programs -- Chap. 10 - Specialized Proof Rules -- Chap. 11 - Conclusion -- Appendix A - Verification in an Industrial Business Rules Management System -- List of Proof Rules -- Index. .
  note: by Bruno Berstel-Da Silva.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Computer programming
  subject:
    topic: Computer logic
  subject:
    topic: Database management
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Logics and Meanings of Programs
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  subject:
    topic: Database Management
  subject:
    topic: Programming Techniques
  classification: QA76.9.L63
  classification: QA76.5913
  classification: QA76.63
  classification: 005.1015113
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642400384
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40038-4
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    record creation date: 131220
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