AIM: An XML-Based ECA Rule Language for Supporting a Framework for Managing Complex Information

This paper presents an XML-based event-condition-action (ECA) rule language, AIM, for supporting the SEM framework and approach to the computer-based incorporation of best practice in daily work and the subsequent management of the resulting complex information. SEM framework provides knowledge and information management support in terms of three planes: the specification plane, the execution plane and the manipulation plane. AIM language is an assembly of declarative language modules for supporting the three planes of the SEM framework and envisages its use within the context of XML and databases.