Business rule mining from spreadsheets

Business rule mining from spreadsheets

Roy, S.

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Computer Technology

2015-05-18

Business rules represent the knowledge that guides the operations of a business organization. They are implemented in software applications used by organizations, and the activity of extracting them from software is known as business rule mining. It has various purposes amongst which migration and generating documentation are the most common. However, apart from conventional software, organizations also use spreadsheets for a large part of their operations and decision-making activities. Therefore we believe that spreadsheets are also rich in business rules. We thus propose to develop an automated system for extracting business rules from spreadsheets in a human comprehensible natural language format. This position paper describes our motivation, the problem description, related work, and challenges we foresee.

end-user computing
business rule mining
spreadsheets
knowledge mining

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b1ee8801-0825-4858-980f-d2dc39d892cd

CEUR-WS

1613-0073

Proceedings of the 2nd Ceur Workshop 1355: Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheets, SEMS 2015, Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015. Eds.: Hermans, F., Paige, R.F., Sestoft, P.

Institutional Repository

conference paper

(c) 2015 Roy, S.