A RULE-BASED APPROACH AND FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING BEST PRACTICES - An XML-based Management using Pure Database System Utilities

Essam Mansour, Hagen Höpfner

2009

Abstract

Best practice refers to the best way to perform specified activities. In this paper we present our SIM approach that incorporates best practices as skeletal plans from which several entity-specific (ES) plans are generated. The skeletal and ES plans represent the complex information incorporating the best practices into organization activities. The paper also presents the SIM framework for managing complex information through three phases: specifying the skeletal plans, instantiating ES plans, maintaining these ES plans during their lifespan. The paper outlines an implementation, a case study and the evaluation of the SIM approach and framework.

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Mansour E. and Höpfner H. (2009). A RULE-BASED APPROACH AND FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING BEST PRACTICES - An XML-based Management using Pure Database System Utilities . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 109-115. DOI: 10.5220/0001976801090115


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner},
title={A RULE-BASED APPROACH AND FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING BEST PRACTICES - An XML-based Management using Pure Database System Utilities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={109-115},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001976801090115},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A RULE-BASED APPROACH AND FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING BEST PRACTICES - An XML-based Management using Pure Database System Utilities
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Mansour E.
AU - Höpfner H.
PY - 2009
SP - 109
EP - 115
DO - 10.5220/0001976801090115