A rule-based analysis method for cooperative business applications

The existing CBD development methods deal with the analysis phase in a superficial manner. Applying such a superficial analysis to cooperative business applications with a number of distributed sub-components makes analysis models be inconsistent with levels and styles, only depending on experiences of the analysts. In this paper, we propose a rule-based analysis method that provides an analysis template for cooperative business applications. This method analyzes the concepts of cooperative business applications by using external events and internal rules that process the events. Employing this method, a huge business application can be developed by a couple of co-analysts who work together in a consistent and systematic manner. This paper also provides an efficient way to apply the rule-based analysis method to UML Component development methods.