Building a process layer for business applications using the blackboard pattern
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Software Engineering 2007: Beiträge zu den Workshops – Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik. ed. / Stefan Böttinger; Ludwig Theuvsen; Susanne Rank; Marlies Morgenstern. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2007. p. 145-156.
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T1 - Building a process layer for business applications using the blackboard pattern
AU - Kleine Stegemann, Stefan
AU - Funk, Burkhardt
AU - Slotos, Thomas
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 156
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Contemporary business applications often employ a process layer in order to coordinate automated activities. One option to build such a layer is to use a workflow management system. But the all-or-nothing fashion of such systems makes them sometimes hard to integrate. In such cases, custom development is an alternative. Yet concepts for the micro-architecture of process layers in business applications are rare. We argue that the blackboard pattern, which is known to be suitable for knowledge intensive artificial intelligence applications, can provide an solid basis also for constructing process layers with workflow capabilities. This paper shows how the essential building parts of workflows are realized in a blackboard architecture. In this context, an in-depth discussion of important design and implementation tasks to be solved is given.
AB - Contemporary business applications often employ a process layer in order to coordinate automated activities. One option to build such a layer is to use a workflow management system. But the all-or-nothing fashion of such systems makes them sometimes hard to integrate. In such cases, custom development is an alternative. Yet concepts for the micro-architecture of process layers in business applications are rare. We argue that the blackboard pattern, which is known to be suitable for knowledge intensive artificial intelligence applications, can provide an solid basis also for constructing process layers with workflow capabilities. This paper shows how the essential building parts of workflows are realized in a blackboard architecture. In this context, an in-depth discussion of important design and implementation tasks to be solved is given.
KW - Business informatics
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 978-3-88579-200-0
SP - 145
EP - 156
BT - Software Engineering 2007
A2 - Böttinger, Stefan
A2 - Theuvsen, Ludwig
A2 - Rank, Susanne
A2 - Morgenstern, Marlies
PB - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
CY - Bonn
T2 - Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik
Y2 - 27 March 2007 through 30 March 2007
ER -