Towards a Generic Resource Booking Management System

摘要

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.