| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M66219/01 |
| Title: |
UNLOCKING BUSINESS RULES FROM LEGACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Gray, Professor A |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
Cardiff University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1999 |
Ends: |
30 November 2002 |
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185,908
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This project will investigate how the business rules that are buried in an organisation's legacy information systems may be unlocked and made available to the current users of the systems. The project will focus on the development of techniques for 1) extracting constraint business rules that are fragmented and scattered across data dictionaries, triggers, stored procedures and application programs; and 2) presenting these business rules to users in their preferred context and format. Prototype software tools will be developed, as proof-of-concept, to demonstrate the value of our techniques. They will be tested and evaluated on selected BT information systems.Unlocking business rules from legacy information systems is an important research problem. The techniques and tools we will develop in this research will be useful to many organisations which have data-intensive applications, as they will let users gain a better understanding of data held in their legacy systems. There is a growing interest in developing techniques to support the specification and implementation of business rules in new information systems, but little has been done so far in trying to extract rules that are buried in legacy information systems. The proposed research will contribute to this area of study.
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http://www.cf.ac.uk |