Toward intelligent business objects
Zakaria Maamar, Jeff Sutherland · Communications of the ACM · 2000
With the increasing development of information and communication technologies, users are becoming more and more demanding on companies, requiring new types of specialized tools and advanced services. To cope with these growing and complex requirements, system designers and developers need new, advanced approaches to support their work. Such approaches range from design methods to programming languages. As an emerging technology, Business Objects (BOs) seem to be a good candidate and a promising approach. BOs should be able to provide an insight into what aspects of a business should be delegated, how these aspects may evolve and what will be the effect of specific changes. Currently, BOs seem to meet the requirements of the organizational field. However, BOs could be leveraged in order to be applied to other completed fields, such as cooperative manufacturing systems. Leveraging BOs with techniques borrowed from advanced research domains, is an avenue needing investigation. In order to regulate their interactions it is important to define the behavior of multiple BOs.