Abstract According to the Business Rules Group, "a business rule is a statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the business. It is intended to assert business structure or to control or influence the behavior of the business". [sic] Therefore business rules [BR] comprise the set of corporate policies, laws and industry standards, government regulations that are needed in order to properly run a business. The business rules can be enforced by...

Abstract Inter-organizational workflows represent one possible technology that supports the implementation of the business-to-business integration concept. The concept has been emphasized by the continuously growing e-commerce applications. One important aspect of e-commerce is the ability to rapidly react to changes imposed by trading partners, or market environments. Therefore, we need to represent workflows that allow for a quick implementation of change. In this thesis we focus on the ...

Abstract Real-time systems (RTS) scheduling is an important component in real-time systems education and research. Dozens of well-known scheduling algorithms are introduced in many textbooks. It is desireable that, given a set of real-time task specifications, a dedicated software tool carries out the schedulability analysis and schedule generation. This thesis presents the design and development of such a tool. The tool implements some most popular RTS scheduling algrorithms, such as the...