Business rules are nothing new. They are used by every organisation to state their practices and policies.
Every business application contains many business rules.
Analysis and design models specify business rules without explicitly indicating them. Actual tools and environments for building business applications, however, provide little or no support to deal explicitly and automatically with business rules during the software life cycle. This workshop focuses on tools and environments that handle the semantic content of business rules in an object-oriented environment. Last modified on July 6, 1998.