Reducing the Gap Between Business and Information Systems Through Complex Event Processing

ezillon Abstract. According to the Object Management Group, a rule is a proposition that is a claim of obligation or of necessity. The concept of rule is usually employed in the context of business process to manage companies operations. While a work- ow solution for the implementation of business rules. However, the connection between the business rules and their implementation through event- driven programming has been made in an ad-hoc and unstructured manner. This paper proposes a methodology to tackle such a problem by systematically moving from business rules described in natural language toward a concrete implementa- tion of a business process. We use complex event processing (CEP) to implement the process. CEP relies on the event driven paradigm for monitoring and process- ing events. The methodology allows for the active participation of business people at all stages of the renement process. Throughout the paper, we show how our methodology was employed to implement the operations of the World Bank.