Abstract
Resource booking (the act of reserving of resources in advance) is an important component of planning-related activities. Typically, this is managed by a Booking Management System (BMS) which aims at controlling the access of people to resources at a specified future time. However, an issue common to BMSs is that they are typically modelled and developed to tightly fit the requirements of some specific contexts (use cases). This can lead to lack of reusability of existing BMSs. To address this issue, we propose a set of basic and generic components of BMSs, as well as how these components can be flexibly modelled to satisfy different booking contexts. Such components include resources, bookings, booking constraints, booking workflows, time. We believe that the consideration of these components by developers can lead to implementation of reusable BMSs for organizations whose requirements are not yet satisfied in existing BMSs.
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We would like to thank the members of the Biodiversity Exploratories for making their data available via our data repository, BExIS.
Further, we thank Christiane Fischer giving support through the central office, the Local Management Team, and Markus Fischer, Eduard Linsenmair, Dominik Hessenmöller, Jens Nieschulze, Daniel Prati, Ingo Schöning, François Buscot, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Wolfgang W. Weisser and the late Elisabeth Kalko for their role in setting up the Biodiversity Exploratories project. Among these, special thanks are due to Jens Nieschulze and Ernst-Detlef Schulze for initiating and developing BExIS for the first years of the Exploratories. The work has been (partly) funded by the DFG Priority Program 1374 “Infrastructure-Biodiversity-Exploratories” (BR 2315/7-2).
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Owonibi, M., Petzold, E., Koenig-Ries, B. (2016). Towards a Generic Resource Booking Management System. In: Felderer, M., Piazolo, F., Ortner, W., Brehm, L., Hof, HJ. (eds) Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering. ERP Future 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 245. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32799-0_6
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