| Term | Definition |
| irregularity or abnormality | |
| a rule that is under business jurisdiction | |
| a particular situation | |
| a relevance restriction that warns that if any outcome is provided for some case(s) the outcome cannot be considered necessarily valid | |
| an anomaly in decision logic where two decision rules share the same considerations and cover exactly the same cases, but have mutually-exclusive outcomes | |
| a factor in making an operational business decision; something that can be resolved to two or more cases | |
| one operational business decision being dependent on the outcome of another operational business decision such that the outcome of the latter decision provides or supports one of the considerations for the dependent decision | |
| a restriction that precludes certain ways in which considerations can be combined | |
| a determination requiring know-how or expertise; the resolving of a question by identifying some correct or optimal choice | |
| identifying and analyzing some key question arising in day-to-day business activity and capturing the decision logic used to answer the question | |
| a means to organize specifications pertaining to one or more decision tables | |
| a cell in a decision table where an outcome appears | |
| the set of all decision rules for cases in scope | |
| a business rule that guides the making of an operational business decision; specifically, a business rule that links a case to some appropriate outcome | |
| the Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS) set of conventions, guidelines and techniques for representing operational business decisions in business-friendly fashion, diagramming decision structures, and coordinating them with structured business vocabulary (concept models) | |
| a structured means of visualizing decision rules in rows and columns | |
| constituting an expression or representation that can be either true or false | |
| a case produced from a single consideration | |
| in a decision table, elemental cases for one consideration being repeated within every elemental case of another consideration | |
| see exceptional case | |
| a case in scope that does not use the considerations of a standard case; i.e., a case in scope that is based on some consideration(s) that is/are not among the considerations for a standard case | |
| the TableSpeak convention indicating that no revision (updating) is permitted for a cell in a decision table because a restriction applies | |
| a case representing a combination of one elemental case from each of two or more considerations | |
| accumulated practical skill or expertness; especially technical knowledge, ability, skill, or expertness of this sort | |
| an expression or representation of business rules using the name of something computed or derived by another business rule | |
| an anomaly in decision logic where some case in scope is not addressed by any rule | |
| a determination requiring operational business know-how or expertise; the resolving of an operational business question by identifying some correct or optimal choice | |
| a potential outcome that is deemed appropriate for some case | |
| one operational business decision being dependent on the outcome of another operational business decision such that the outcome of the latter decision dictates some outcome(s) of the dependent decision | |
| a restriction that limits certain cases to a particular outcome, or to some subset of all potential outcomes | |
| a thinking tool that assists in developing business rules from business design artifacts (e.g., business process models, concept models, etc.) | |
| some result, conclusion, or answer that might be deemed appropriate for some case addressed by some decision | |
| a case for which no outcome is meaningful | |
| a relevance restriction that precludes providing any outcome(s) for some case(s) | |
| an expression or representation meant to be included in a series of other expressions or representations to specify a procedure | |
| one operational business decision being dependent on the outcome of another operational business decision such that the outcome of this other decision may eliminate the need for any outcome from the dependent decision | |
| a restriction that either:
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| a business rule that directly governs the integrity (correctness) of a decision table | |
| a guide for conduct or action; a standard on which a decision or judgment may be based | |
| a factor along with some explicit cases identified externally to a decision table to which the decision table is deemed applicable | |
| specifying a business rule only once no matter how many places are affected (e.g., cells in a decision table) or the rule is deployed | |
| the set of terms and their definitions, and all wordings, that organize operational business know-how | |
| the Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS) set of conventions, guidelines and techniques for representing decision tables in the most business-friendly fashion |