Business rules engine

Seek business rales in the current actual business process, the process as documented, and rales encoded in existing software systems (from user manuals, database triggers, and batch mainframe programs see Chapter 17, How to Reverse-Engineer Types). Restate these business rules in terms of the following (in descending order of preference) ... 

Inference Engine is a module of an expert system that performs reasoning using rules from the knowledge base and facts from the working memory to process them according to specihed business rules. 

In the traditional approach to model a business into software engineering, a business operation is decomposed into autonomous functional units, the business functional units are mapped to software components, and the interfaces are specified for the software components to receive input data and to produce output data, and all the business rules, functional behavior, and business processes associated with the components are embedded within the functional components. 

Inter-organizational planning of material flows Software that provides multiple data models including the business rules and metrics for the entire supply chain planning process. Algorithms use the business rules and metrics as the drivers for the planning engine 6-Functional supply chain processes (plan) 0 X ... 

Schmidt-Ott evidently approved of the idea to honour military technical services, but opposed giving the task to the KWG, on grounds of military secrecy. Concern about the KWG s discretion seems premature, as von Hamack had not yet delivered his famous critique of wartime profiteering, which was to produce long-lasting animosity in business circles, especially among munitions manufacturers. Besides, the KWG could have created a special commission, whose members were sworn to secrecy. Schmidt-Ott did not advance the more pointed criticism that the KWG lacked experts to evaluate military innovations and inventions. As a rule, the directors of the KWIs were scientists and not technical people or engineers. ... 

This book is unique because it considers issues not usually considered in books about rules of thumb. Most books and articles about rules of thumb focus on processing equipment but effective engineers also need to communicate, work effectively in teams, solve problems and lead. Rules of thumb are summarized for systems thinking and for career skills such as problem solving, creativity, leadership, entrepreneurship and e-business. 

The petitioner. Western Air Lines, Inc., requires that its flight engineers retire at age 60. Although the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 403 29 U.S.C. 621-634, generally prohibits mandatory retirement before age 70, the Act provides an exception where age is a bona fide occupational qualification [BFOQ] reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business. A jury concluded that Western s mandatory retirement rule did not qualify as a BFOQ even though it purportedly was adopted for safety reasons. The question here is whether the jury was properly instructed on the elements of the BFOQ defense. ... 

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