This paper presents an approach for the specification and implementation of translating
contracts from a human-oriented form into an executable representation for monitoring. This …

Compliance issues impose significant management and reporting requirements upon
organizations. We present an approach to enhance business process modeling notations …

Key to broad use of process management systems (PrMS) in practice is their ability to foster
and ease the implementation, execution, monitoring, and adaptation of business processes …

XML repositories are now a widespread means for storing and exchanging information on
the Web. As these repositories become increasingly used in dynamic applications such as e …

We introduce the provisional trust negotiation framework PROTUNE, for combining
distributed trust management policies with provisional-style business rules and access …

Business rules change quite often. These changes cannot be handled efficiently by
representing business rules embedded in the source code of the business logic. Efficient …

The Semantic Web is based on XML and RDF as its fundamental standards for exchanging
and storing information on the World Wide Web. Event-condition-action (ECA) rules are a …

Summary Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) middleware is a new class of software
which facilitates data and information communication between automatic identification …

Abstract Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules offer a flexible, adaptive, and modular
approach to realizing business processes. This article discusses the use of ECA rules for …

In natural language, and in some knowledge representation systems, such as extended
logic programs, there are two kinds of negation: a weak negation expressing non-truth, and …