DECISION BUBBLES

摘要

The present invention is a method for business users to collaborate on a decision within a decision bubble. A decision bubble is a specifically created environment in which a group of collaborators can interact with the purpose of creating and modifying decisions or business rules, and through which the system captures interactions between collaborators and enables traceability with respect to the resulting decisions. Using a lightweight business process, a decision bubble is initiated by a business user, the bubble owner, and can have in its scope any section of the decisions being managed. The bubble owner may issue invitations to the bubble to collaborators, some of which may be suggested by the system using a reputation system that scores users with respect to types of tasks and entities. The decision bubble contains all the contextual information required for the bubble collaborators to collaborate on the implementation or modifications of the decisions or rules. In one embodiment, only the users within the bubble can see and manage the newly created or modified decisions or rules. When the changes are deemed final by the bubble collaborators, the bubble may be merged back to the current state of the decisions, and the system keeps track of all interactions that led to the changed decisions, as well as all participants to it.