The Idea of iADempiere
Please notice that all of the following goals and plans are mid to long-term ones.
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The Idea
I'm planning of a new division (department or lab) of ADempiere which shall manage all AI related issues such as RE integration, Data Mining and Machine Learning and etc., each of which will be integrated into ADempiere by the lab in case they prove to be useful and of course, possible to integrate. The final goal is to reach a state in which we can release a version of ADempiere called -- iADempiere -- (Intelligent ADempiere).
The Applications
The highest priority is belonged to RE integration for which I am not going to write here once again what we discussed about in RE integration proposal.
The next one is Data Mining by which ADempiere will be able to provide managers with decision support system, simplifying and making the decisions more accurate by classifying the data. It will help managers make more precise decisions in areas, such as "From which vendor the client should buy material?" or "On which BPartner to investigate?" (Perhaps we can build BI upon it.)
And, by far, the last one: Machine Learning by which ADempiere will learn the user's frequent sequences of windows and processes and pre-cache the required data from DB in order to increase the performance.
The Overall Plan
- In case nobody sees a problem with this idea, first we will begin by writing technical papers and some tutorials and guides for beginners about the subject, since it's not recommended to dive into something prior to careful analysis. This will result in a wealth of technical information after a while and also will encourage the community to participate.
- Some implementation may begin in the midst of the analysis phase whose feedback will enrich our knowledge and improve our designs and plans.
These two steps will run concurrently, forming spiral collaboration between design and implementation phases.
The Worst Case
Assuming that there is not an active community around the lab to implement the designs, we will have a repository of business-oriented AI papers, as stated above, which will be referenced by academies and universities around the world improving the ADempiere's prosperity.
The Best Case
It's obvious! We will have iADempiere, the next generation of ERP solutions on the planet, equipped with business rules management system, decision support system and learning behaviour.
Some Points I Have to Mention
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." -Confucius
This is a long process, requiring us to be patient and productive.
There will be an urge to embedding AI concepts into business solution, looking ahead in the future, as Angeli has correctly mentioned. We ought to ask him for his advice therefore an organised and systematic effort should be launched to utilise his advices at the best degree.
See Also
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Further Reading
- I found this paper proposing a somewhat similar idea: The Application of Data Mining Technology for Intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (Ruey-Shun Chen, Yung-Shun Tsai)
