Towards a Framework for Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management.
Matthias Kaiser, Jens Lemcke · 2008
Service-oriented architectures have brought significant progress for more flexible realization of business processes integrating functionality from heterogeneous sources. While more and more businesses adopt the new technology it be-comes obvious that many questions are still not addressed to make it keep its promises, especially in the area of human efforts involved in business process composition. We intro-duce a framework for a possible next generation enterprise software based on, but going beyond that of service-oriented architectures utilizing logic programming taking advantage of formalized explicit policies as substantial constituents of enterprise systems.