Enterprise integrity constraints management using production rules and conceptual schema

Abstract

Enterprise software maintenance has been an important issue for over a decade. In conventional software development, integrity constraints including business rules are integrated as parts of application programs. These rules are frequently changed naturally, posing some difficulties for rules and applications maintenance. In fact, it has long been presented that rules are a discrete part of business and technology models and should be separated from processes, not contained in them. Based on the Business Rules Approach and ISO 100% principle, this paper presents an integrity constraint management solution using a combination of Object-Role Modeling (ORM) as conceptual schema and a production rules system for integrity constraint modeling and implementation.