Business Rules and Services Ontologies Development Environment

In the current globalized world, characterized by strong Web based interactions, relationships between people and governments are subject to fast changes. The increasing demand for new services conducts to the need to create services from scratch and by integrating disparate and heterogeneous legacy systems. The problem is that the form as most of the systems were implemented turns the change excessively slow and expensive. The main identified reasons that explain this problem are: (i) the difficulty in the individualization and separation of business rules from other aspects of the business and of the system, (ii) the rules mechanisms don't accept rules described in friendly languages for business analysts that could be automatically transformed to executable code. This paper proposes an integrated development environment (IDE) consisted by a set of tools to automate the modeling of business rules in the business people's terminology and integration of services. The IDE is based on a set of ontologies to manage metadata of services, vocabularies and business rules, guarantying the necessary support in terms of semantics, persistence and integrity for the manipulated artifacts.