Title :
A policy framework for Business Activity Management
Author :
Jeng, Jun-Jang ; Chang, Henry ; Chung, Jen-Yao
Author_Institution :
IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Business Activity Management (BAM) is becoming one of the most critical areas to transform a business into an adaptive enterprise. However, to manage business activities and the related resources is a very complex task because of the potentially large number of business rules and unpredictable changes of business situations. Policy-based approach is essential to make such challenging tasks practical and feasible. We present a policy framework for the BAM domain. We will cover the conceptual model, policy specification, policy architecture, and a case study for the framework and related components. Comparison with other similar works is also given at the end of the paper.
Keywords :
business data processing; enterprise resource planning; formal specification; BAM; BAM domain; Business Activity Management; adaptive enterprise; business resource management; management agent; policy architecture; policy framework; policy management; policy meta model; policy-based BAM; policy-based management; supply chain management; Control systems; Job shop scheduling; Magnesium compounds; Manufacturing processes; Real time systems; Resource management; Semiconductor device manufacture; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Yield estimation;
Conference_Titel :
E-Commerce, 2003. CEC 2003. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1969-5
DOI :
10.1109/COEC.2003.1210255
