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Welcome to the European region of BRCommunity, the world's most trusted resource for Business Rules and Enterprise Decisioning professionals. Here you will find links to events, announcements and articles of the BRJournal that are especially relevant for the European community.

Regional Editor: Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg

Procedural Logic in the Reasoning Process
By Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg

This column is the next in a series that will provide the reader with best practices on using or choosing a rules engine. The target audience for this series is typically the user of a rule engine, i.e., a programmer or someone with programming skills. In this month's issue of the 'Rule Observatory', Silvie Spreeuwenberg describes a general approach for using procedural logic during the inference processing.
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What about Methods in Rules?
By Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg

This column is the next in a series that provides the reader with best practices on using or choosing a rules engine. The target audience for this series is typically the user of a rule engine, i.e., a programmer or someone with programming skills. All coding examples should be read as pseudo-code and should be easily translated to a specific target syntax for a rule engine that supports backward and forward chaining in an object-oriented environment. In this month's issue of the 'Rule Observatory', Silvie Spreeuwenberg discusses the question of when are method-calls useful in combination with logic expressed as declarative rules.
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Hooray, SBVR has arrived!
By Dr. Sjir Nijssen

On December 11, 2007, SBVR became an official OMG specification -- an OMG standard, just like the successful predecessor standards UML and XMI. In this month's issue of the 'Semantics for Business', Sjir Nijssen shares his perspective on this important milestone.
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Rule History and Versioning (Part 3)
By Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg

In this month's issue of the 'Rule Observatory', Silvie Spreeuwenberg presents the third of her series on best practices in using or choosing a rules engine. Last time she discussed an alternative, more efficient solution to her original rule versioning problem. That declarative solution was one that could be used when rules are versioned on a small number of dates. In this column she discusses a strategy for dealing with rule versions that is efficient and works if there are lots of different new versions of rules.
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50 Ways to Represent your Rule Sets
By Jan Vanthienen

As the number of business rules we model increases, effective means to capture, visualize, and manage entire sets of rules at a time become more important for the business. A significant number of rules share the same subject, have similar evaluation terms, or similar outcomes. Although each business rule can (and should) be considered on its own, there are good reasons to study an entire set of rules. The representation of a set of rules is important for various quality reasons -- specifying the rules, verifying the specification, and maintaining the rules. In his inaugural column, Jan Vanthienen illustrates how not every representation is equally suited for each of these purposes.
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BUSINESS RULE FAQs
a one-stop source for the basics of business rules
Be sure to check out this spectacular online reference. The Business Rules FAQs is a one-stop source for the basics of business rules. FAQ Editor: Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg. A FREE service of the European Regional SubCommunity.
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BUSINESS RULES JOURNAL
The Official Online Publication Of The Business Rules Community
Don't miss a single issue of The Business Rules Journal, the acclaimed online publication of the Business Rules Community. Each month this online publication is available free of charge to all registered BRCommunity.com members.
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RULE FORUM
A Community Roundtable For Business Rule Professionals
Got a question you just can't find an answer to? Looking for more information on the Business Rules Manifesto? Or perhaps you're just looking for a place to talk about business rules with like minded professionals? Be sure to check out the online Rule Forum, an online place for to ask all your questions. FREE access is available to all registered members of the Business Rules Community.
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28 February 2006
END USERS, SCIENTISTS AND VENDORS COLLABORATE IN A DUTCH BUSINESS RULES WORKGROUP
The first track on business rules in the Dutch local event on IT and business Architecture has inspired Alcedo Coenen from ING.
B He noticed that the increasing importance of business rules is not automatically reflected in the business and IT architectures that became common for banks and insurance companies the last couple of years. It is obvious that the increasing amount of regulations for financial institutions ask for a business rule approach, but how is that to be reflected in the front-mid-back-office architectures, in service oriented architectures, and in the IT organisations themselves, that tend to support traditional coding and are not used to isolate business rules.

These kind of questions will be dealt with in a new workgroup for business rules at the NAF (Dutch Architecture Forum) see www.naf.nl.

Already several vendors, end-users and scientists will join the first meeting on the group. For more information see: http://www.naf.nl/nl/werkgroepen/business_rules.html.

2 October 2005
BUSINESS RULES MANIFEST IS NOW AVAILABLE IN FIVE LANGUAGES
The Business Rules Manifest, stating the principles of rule independence, is translated to several world-languages to widen the audience for this excellent piece of work. Now available: translation in English, French, Dutch, German and Turkish. Expecting soon: translation to Japanese, Spanish and Afrikaans.