Scalable Enterprise Systems: More is Different - A Grammatical Approach to Scalable Enterprise Systems

可扩展企业系统：更多即是不同 - 可扩展企业系统的语法方法

• 批准号: 0075396
• 负责人: Moon-Jung Chung
• 金额: $ 14.61万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2002-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0075396&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scalable; Enterprise; Systems; More; Different

This grant provides funding for exploratory research on the development of scalable enterprise systems, with particular emphasis on web-based electronic commerce applications. While transaction volume is one aspect of the problem, scalability also includes the ability of a system to adapt to a changing environment, including new products, processes, technology, markets, and business partners. To address the problem of scalability, a set of interrelated topics will be explored: (1) grammatical models of enterprise workflow; (2) tools for supporting the design of scalable systems; and (3) strategies for actually measuring or predicting scalability. This research will build on an existing prototype system, called MIDAS (Manufacturing Integration and Design Automation System), which provides a grammar-based framework for visualizing and managing work processes. Grammatical models provide the conceptual foundation on which the design tools and measurement strategies will be based.If successful, the results of this research will provide a theory that characterizes system structure and scalability and measures interdependencies among processes. The research will also lead to a prototype of a framework within which such metrics could be validated (through empirical research) and applied (through design methodologies and tools). The theory and the prototype tool will form a foundation for developing a web-based enterprise system that can handle various different yet interdependent, processes. Such an enterprise system will be scalable in terms of not only volume but also variations, and will evolve into a powerful tool to model, configure, and reconfigure a wide variety of processes in relation to e-commerce activities in a virtual community.

这笔赠款为开发可扩展的企业系统的探索性研究提供资金，特别侧重于基于网络的电子商务应用。 虽然交易量是问题的一个方面，但可扩展性还包括系统适应不断变化的环境的能力，包括新产品、流程、技术、市场和业务合作伙伴。 为了解决可伸缩性的问题，一组相互关联的主题将被探讨：（1）企业工作流的语法模型;（2）支持可伸缩系统的设计工具;（3）实际测量或预测可伸缩性的策略。 这项研究将建立在现有的原型系统，称为MIDAS（制造集成和设计自动化系统），它提供了一个基于语法的框架可视化和管理工作流程。 语法模型提供的概念基础上的设计工具和测量strategies将based.If成功，本研究的结果将提供一个理论，表征系统结构和可扩展性和措施之间的相互依赖性的过程。 这项研究还将产生一个框架原型，在这个框架内，可以（通过实证研究）验证和（通过设计方法和工具）应用这些指标。 该理论和原型工具将为开发基于Web的企业系统奠定基础，该系统可以处理各种不同但相互依赖的流程。 这样一个企业系统不仅在数量上而且在变化上都是可伸缩的，并且将演变成一个强大的工具，用于模拟、配置和重新配置与虚拟社区中的电子商务活动有关的各种过程。