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Intelligent Information Management Tools In A Service-Oriented Software Environment, Jens G. Pohl
Intelligent Information Management Tools In A Service-Oriented Software Environment, Jens G. Pohl
Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center
This paper draws attention to the increasing need for agile and adaptive software environments that are capable of supporting rapid re-planning during the execution of time-critical operations involving commercial end-to-end supply chain transaction sequences, as well as disaster response and military missions. It is argued that such environments are currently best served by information-centric software tools executing within a service-oriented paradigm. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) design concepts and principles are described, with a focus on the functions of the services management framework (SMF) and enterprise service bus (ESB) components. Differentiating between data-centric and information-centric services, it is suggested that only intelligent …