This collection of papers presents state of the art work on Business Objects and their management presented at Business Object Design and Implementation held at the last three OOPSLA conferences. Business objects are established and widely used in industry. This collection of papers includes a contribution of experiences and research by both academics and practitioners who are renowned in this area. The emphasis of the book is on establishing Business Objects Standards, applications of Business Objects and systems and workflow systems.

The NCITS Accredited Standards Committee H7 Object Information Management, now part of NCITS T3 Open Distributed Processing, and the Object Management Group BUsiness Object Domain Task Force (BODTF) jointly sponsored the Fifth Annual OOPSLA Workshop on Business Object Component Design and Implementation. The focus of the workshop was on design and implementation of business object component frameworks and architectures. Key aspects discussed included: What is a comprehensive definition of a business object component'? Are the four layers (user, workspace, enterprise, resource) presented at...

Over the last several years, manufacturers have expressed increasing interest in reducing their energy consumption and have begun to search for opportunities to reduce their energy usage. In this book, the authors explore a variety of opportunities to reduce the energy footprint of manufacturing. These opportunities cover the entire spatial scale of the manufacturing enterprise: from unit process-oriented approaches to enterprise-level strategies. Each chapter examines some aspect of this spatial scale, and discusses and describes the opportunities that exist at that level. Case studies...