MSpace: An Emergent Approach, Modelling and Exploring Mutable Business-Entities
Mohamed Dbouk, Hamid Mcheick, Ihab Sbeity · InTech eBooks · 2012
Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing 116Typical cases -Environmental related issues: risk management; flooding, forest (trees, etc.) evolutions, administering and monitoring agricultural practices, etc.Educational monitoring and tracking: here we talk, for example, about the educational policies within a private university or within the entire country (ministry of education).Students and their activities are subject of investigation and analysis.Site /City histories: modern city, archaeological site, construction site, volcanic site, etc., may have continuous stories and histories (images, video, maps, etc.); they evolve continually against key-features such as time and civilizations.Such information could be recorded and archived; it may become critical and useful for a certain application domains, e.g.Tourism.Enterprise productivity inspection and tracking: in order to improve productivity, enterprises elaborate strategies and executive plans; they apply some kind of business intelligent human resource tracking.People (employees) within the enterprise could evolve by years and become more experimented and productive.Employees indeed could follow some policies and elaborated schemes.Marine navigation tracking: merchant ships are for example considered as moving entities following pre-elaborated/evolutive trajectories.Ships may be equipped with dedicated materials and tools.Consequently, trajectories may be correlated / adjusted according to instantaneous and punctual analysis.Biomedical treatments and experiments, etc...The ultimate goal of the approach called "MSpace", that we propose, is to enable entity (individual space's element) evolution tracking and monitoring.We are going in this approach to elaborate a tool with OLTP and OLAP double roles and responsibilities, leading to analyse business entities' histories, managing entities' transitions and interactions between each other, observe and track current and up-to-date business entities' states in a multi-aspect/dimensional space, etc.The duty is to predict, direct and ultimately correlate entities' behaviours and any new and future activities.To conclude, the approach, which we work on, represents a long research project, related models and tools are under elaboration and validation by referring to BI-like technologies and using Microsoft and Java platforms.The rest of the chapter is organized as follows: in section 2 an overview of related works is discussed, and then the ancestor approach of MSpace is highlighted in section 3.In section 4, MSpace foundations and basis as well as software solution are established and deeply considered.Also, prototyping and validation issues are presented in this section.Finally, the outlines of future directions and conclusion are drawn in section 5.