Editing OMG OCEB BPM Technical Intermediate (section)

====Ronald G. Ross, '''Business Rule Concepts'''====
* Basic are:
** Semantics of Business Vocabularies and Business Rules (SBVR), standard released 2008 by the OMG
** RuleSpeak, Business Rule Solutions for expressing business rule notation for expressing business rules in structural natural language, one of three reference notations of SBVR
* '''Fact Model''': Structure, the skeleton, is provided by basic noun concepts as represented by terms, and verb-ish connections (ligaments) between those noun concepts as represented by '''wordings'''. 
** A Fact Model structures basic knowledge about business operations from a business perspective. A Fact Model is a structured business vocabulary. In the Fact Model, concepts are represented by Terms. 
** every '''term''' needs requires a careful definition. Terms refer to classes rather than to instances.
** Connections between noun concepts are generally expressed using verbs and verb phrases.  These noun-and-verb constructions are called wordings. The wordings represent types of connections, called '''fact types''', rather than individual connections, called '''facts'''.  Fact types are the classes in the area of wordings. For example, for customer places order an actual fact might be Global Supply, Inc. has placed the order A601288.  Structured business vocabularies are generally more concerned with identifying fact types rather than actual facts. A fact type is always worded with a verb or verb phrase. Fact type and verb concept are synonyms.
** Basic concepts should not change over time (the essence), subjects of change should be a Business Rule.
** Roles are also part of a Fact Model.
** There are unary, binary or N-ary fact types.
* Power, the muscless, is provided by processes, Control and coordination, the nerves, are provided by business rules
** '''Rule Independence''' means seperating Business Rules from processes
** Rules are documented in the General Rulebook System (GRBS)
** Rules build directly on Fact Types
** Rules have to be declarative
** A Rule statement is also the guidance message used for business workers
** Business rule enable decision making
* there are special purpose elements in fact types:
** Categorization
** Property
** Composition
** Classification
* There are two types of Business Rules:
** A Business Rule which can be violated is a '''behavioral''' rule. They carry prohibition or obligation. Keywords are ''must'' or ''only''.
** '''Definitional''' rules carry the sense of neccessity or impossibilities. Keywords are ''always'' or ''never''.
* '''Business events''' should not be part of Business Rules. Consider the rule: ''A customer must be assigned to an agent if the customer has placed an order''. This could be needed to be evaluated by the event ''Customer places an order'' or by the event ''Agent leaves the company''.