SBVR use cases

Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) is a new standard from the OMG that combines aspects of on-tologies and of rule systems. This paper summarizes SBVR, reviews some possible use cases for SBVR, and discusses ways that vocabularies and rules given in SBVR could re-late to established ontology standards, to rules technologies, and to other IT implementation technologies. It also de-scribes experience with an SBVR prototype that transforms a subset of SBVR rules types to several types of runtime implementations. SBVR The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) (Object Modeling Group, 2007c) standard is very new, so it may be useful to summarize it for the benefit of readers who are unfamiliar with it. The standard specification document is very large at 422 pages, of which about half are normative and half are supporting and explanatory ma-terial. The length of the standard is due to the fact that it combines ideas from multiple topics, including modeling, ontologies, mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics. More accessible descriptions of SBVR are available a