Active Business Objects (ABOs): A novel paradigm for building (and using!) Business Information System
Dimitri Konstantas, Jean‐Henry Morin, Orly Barziv, Adamantios Koumpis, Christian Kobel · Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) · 1999
Abstract. The ABO project aims in the design and development an agent plat-form where mobile agents represent business processes. These agents encapsulate the policies, business practices and models of different business activities (like order management, payroll, warehouse and stock control). The aim of ABO is to provide a new paradigm of Business Information System design and use. 1 Introduction – background of the idea The objective of the ABO project is to support enterprises capitalise on the benefits of the information society, by enabling the adoption of a new paradigm of Business Infor-mation Systems (BIS). Instead of reactively responding to needs for information and data exchange amongst intra- and inter-enterprise structures (e.g. networks of contract-