摘要:
Techniques are provided for discovering services available in accordance with an information network. For example, the invention provides methods and apparatus for dynamic service discovery from at least one chain of one or more service description documents employing one or more of automatic change detection of the chain, result aggregation and caching capability. The invention enables businesses to easily retrieve up-to-date web services linked and nested multi-level deep in the service description documents.
摘要:
An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing business process environment such that the new activity is a “plug-in” into an action manager by implementing a standard adaptation layer. Activity integration is implemented in the principle of “on-demand” because it is invoked as required, so the communication and collaboration between partners become much more flexible.
摘要:
Techniques are provided for creating and/or customizing protocols for use in applications such as on-demand business collaboration. For example, in a first aspect of the invention, a technique for use in creating and/or customizing a business collaboration protocol comprises the following steps/operations. One or more new data entities to be associated with the business collaboration protocol are added. One or more new messages usable to communicate between a plurality of data entities, including at least a portion of the one or more new data entities, are added. One or more collaboration primitives comprising a set of messages, including at least a portion of the one or more new messages, are created. One or more business constructs comprising a set of collaboration primitives, including at least a portion of the one or more created collaboration primitives, usable for attempting to substantially achieve a business goal, are created.
摘要:
Hyperchain information management techniques are provided for use in applications such as on-demand business collaboration. In accordance with such techniques, a hyperchain annotation methodology is provided. Such an annotation methodology enables interaction between loosely-coupled business processes or interacting partners and business entities. Annotated information components and process components for collaboration may be expressed as links. Further, techniques for realizing an on-demand message exchange, embedded status/state information, flexible collaborative business message exchange patterns, and a collaborative directory are provided.
摘要:
Techniques are provided for product life cycle management over an information network. More particularly, techniques are provided for decision support activation and management in accordance with a product life cycle management process such as a collaborative design process. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for managing at least one collaborative process performed in accordance with a first entity and at least a second entity, comprises the following steps/operations. Information associated with the at least one collaborative process is obtained. Based on at least a portion of the obtained information, an information structure (e.g., a context pyramid) representative of the collaborative process is dynamically maintained so as to assist at least one of the first entity and the second entity in managing at least a portion of the collaborative process.
摘要:
Resource allocation techniques are provided for use in managing escalation of on-demand business processes. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for managing escalation of a business process comprises the following steps/operations. A request is obtained from a business process, the business process having one or more tasks associated therewith. The one or more tasks are mapped to one or more roles. One or more available resources are allocated for the one or more roles. At least one communication session is launched such that data associated with the business process may be transferred to the one or more allocated resources.
摘要:
A computer model for facilitating computer assisted design includes data structures which are flexibly organized by storing of information in accordance with entities or simulations thereof (including symbolic layer entities, area entities, area spec entities and area spec usage pattern entities), which are hierarchically associated both by relationships between them at a given level of abstraction of the physical entity they represent and by various attributes that correspond to different levels of abstraction in graphs. The graphs are freely mappable onto any desired fixed data structure such as a hierarchical area tree. Each hierarchical level and particularly the symbolic layer entity within the computer model provides data hiding at each lower level thereof and thus provides data hiding in the fixed data structure by virtue of the mapping function in order to reduce data processing overhead for manipulation of the fixed data structure. Further spatial restriction within one or more symbolic layers is provided by means of an applications window entity. Data compaction is provided by provision of data sharing of area spec entities by plural area entities which are otherwise uniquely maintained.