Place: San Jose, California
Overview:
Business objects are commonly understood to be objects that represent real-world business concepts represented as objects such as customer, order, department and part. In business applications, these objects participate in the solution of business problems. It is expected that business objects may be shared by multiple applications and multiple enterprises if they provide sufficiently general representations.
The collection of business objects that are developed, shared and standardized for this purpose provides a base model for incorporation of more sophisticated, "intelligent" solutions to business problems. This may include intelligent advisors, expert systems, planning systems, exception recognition/monitoring systems, etc.
Goals:
The goal of this workshop is to identify the opportunities and key success factors for development of sharable, intelligent applications based on a consistent, integrated representation of business enterprises implemented with shared business objects.
Focus:
The workshop will address three fundamental issues: (1) what types of "intelligent" applications will be enabled by consistent business object models, (2) what are the techniques that will be used to solve these problems (e.g., expert systems, logic programming, neural networks), and (3) what are the architectural and language elements or capabilities that are needed to support these solutions. The format of the workshop will include presentations of particular approaches and experiences along with group discussions. The specific agenda will depend on the nature and number of submissions.
Requirements for Attendance:
Potential participants are required to submit a position paper describing a relevant application or architecture that defines an approach to integration of intelligence into business objects. Submissions must be received by August 5. Submitters will be notified of acceptance by August 20. Participants must register for the OOPSLA conference by the day before the workshop (i.e., October 6).
Organizers:
Fred A. Cummins (Electronic Data Systems)
Oliver Sims (Integrated Objects)
Submissions:
Fred A. Cummins, Electronic Data Systems
5555 New King Street
Troy, Michigan 48098 USA
Telephone::
(810)696-2016
Fax::
(810)696-2325
Email::
cummins@ae.eds.com
