workshops

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This workshop is for people interested in improving approaches to business object design and implementation through use of patterns, interoperable components, object-oriented workflow, and Internet strategies for distributed enterprise systems.

Of particular interest are heterogeneous distributed workflow systems for operation of enterprises over intranets and extranets. These systems need to provide business object solutions for mobile agents, process engines, and systems that exhibit emergent behavior. Interactive, autonomous business object components may be intelligent agents roaming the net, performing complex tasks. Workflows in such systems must be managed in a different manner than the kind of systems being standardized by the Workflow Coalition of the OMG. Such systems exhibit complex behaviors, catastrophic events, and chaotic interactions. These phenomena have been studied under the umbrella of "Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)" and are under intensive research for use in predictive economic simulations, the building of artificial life, computer models that can independently adapt and evolve, and "avatars" that can personally represent the creator in Internet transactions.

It would be useful to adapt the concepts in CAS research to the development of enterprise business object component systems. These ideas can help organize our discussion of business object systems.

Organizer:

Jeff Sutherland, IDX Systems Corporation
Email: jeff.sutherland@computer.org

Cory Casanave, Data Access Corporation
Haim Kilov, Merrill Lynch
Joaquin Miller, SHL Systemhouse
Dilip Patel, South Bank University