A transformation model to express business rules from natural language to formal execution: an application to nuclear power plant.

Abstract

Expressing and implementing business rules is a way to enhance product or business models efficiency. However, business rules are made of, by and for the business. Because information system experts do not master business issues and business experts do not master formal languages and computational issues, expressing business rules within an IS system is a challenge. To overcome the semantic part of this challenge, we propose a semantic transformation framework in four steps, from natural language assertions to formal rules. This transformation model uses semantic web technologies. The application domain is the nuclear industry.