Home // International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, volume 13, numbers 3 and 4, 2020 // View article
Authors:
Sam Leewis
Koen Smit
Keywords: Business Rules Management; Functional Architecture; Functional Requirements
Abstract:
Functional architectures are created to be used as a standard by their respective industry. Organizations use reference functional architectures to guide their development or as a means to become compliant. However, a reference functional architecture to manage business decisions and business logic does not yet exist. One research field that focuses on the management of business decisions and business logic is Business Rules Management (BRM). In this paper, we re-address and - present our earlier work [1] that focuses on the construction of a functional architecture that other organizations could utilize to design BRM solutions. Yet, we extended our previous research with more detailed discussion of the related literature, running cases, and results, which provides a grounded basis from which further research on functional architectures for the design of BRM solutions can be conducted. To do so, we utilized three thematic coding rounds to analyze 536 functional requirements for BRM solutions, resulting in 18 functional categories and mapped the functional categories to the BRM capabilities. The results form a first basis for the construction of a reference functional architecture for BRM capabilities, also identifying multiple directions for future research.
Pages: 226 to 238
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2020. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 30, 2020
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2679