Guidelines for Business Rule Modeling Decisions

ABSTRACT Business process models are used heavily in practice as a basis for process improvement, systems development, and understanding business operations. While prior research has identified a clear need for integrating business rules into graphical business process models, there is little guidance on the circumstances under which business rules should be integrated into business process models. Unnecessary integration may hamper business rule reuse, increase business process model complexity, and lead to difficulties with business rule modification, to name a few. Accordingly, it is important to understand when such integration is appropriate. The aim of this article is to address this need for guidance on when business rules should be integrated in process models, and when they should remain separate. To this end, we explain 12 factors posited to influence such modeling decisions, conduct an empirical study to identify their importance, and develop empirically based modeling guidelines that inform business rule modeling decisions.

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