Intelligent robots in ubiquitous computing environment should be able to receive a variety of surrounding informa tion and provide users with appropriate services. A developer can describe the robot services that are ...Intelligent robots in ubiquitous computing environment should be able to receive a variety of surrounding informa tion and provide users with appropriate services. A developer can describe the robot services that are proper to users＇ envir onments by using his or her various environments, and process them through the execution engine. However, it is difficult for a developer to describe and develop robot services, who knows all surrounding information which is called context infor mation. If there is a method for describing and documenting robot services in intuitive expressions, that is to use graphical user interfaces（GUls）, it would be very helpful. This paper suggests that robot service developers describe robot services us ing intuitive GUls with contextawareness. And the services can be automatically generated into workflow documents. Robot services that robot service developers have made with intuitive GUIs can be automatically generated into workflow docu ments by using the object modeling technique（OMT）. Developers can describe robot services based on contextaware work flow language（CAWL ）. For testing, scenariobased robot services are described using CAWLbased development tool, and their workflow documents are automatically generated.展开更多
The issue of document management has been raised for a long time, especially with the appearance of office automation in the 1980s, which led to dematerialization and Electronic Document Management (EDM). In the same ...The issue of document management has been raised for a long time, especially with the appearance of office automation in the 1980s, which led to dematerialization and Electronic Document Management (EDM). In the same period, workflow management has experienced significant development, but has become more focused on the industry. However, it seems to us that document workflows have not had the same interest for the scientific community. But nowadays, the emergence and supremacy of the Internet in electronic exchanges are leading to a massive dematerialization of documents;which requires a conceptual reconsideration of the organizational framework for the processing of said documents in both public and private administrations. This problem seems open to us and deserves the interest of the scientific community. Indeed, EDM has mainly focused on the storage (referencing) and circulation of documents (traceability). It paid little attention to the overall behavior of the system in processing documents. The purpose of our researches is to model document processing systems. In the previous works, we proposed a general model and its specialization in the case of small documents (any document processed by a single person at a time during its processing life cycle), which represent 70% of documents processed by administrations, according to our study. In this contribution, we extend the model for processing small documents to the case where they are managed in a system comprising document classes organized in subclasses;which is the case for most administrations. We have thus observed that this model is a Markovian <i>M<sup>L×K</sup>/M<sup>L×K</sup>/</i>1 queues network. We have analyzed the constraints of this model and deduced certain characteristics and metrics. <span style="white-space:normal;"><i></i></span><i>In fine<span style="white-space:normal;"></span></i>, the ultimate objective of our work is to design a document workflow management system, integrating a component of global behavior prediction.展开更多
In an asynchronous cooperative editing workflow of a structured document, each of the co-authors receives in the different phases of the editing process, a copy of the document to insert its contribution. For confiden...In an asynchronous cooperative editing workflow of a structured document, each of the co-authors receives in the different phases of the editing process, a copy of the document to insert its contribution. For confidentiality reasons, this copy may be only a partial replica containing only parts of the (global) document which are of demonstrated interest for the considered co-author. Note that some parts may be a demonstrated interest over a co-author;they will therefore be accessible concurrently. When it’s synchronization time (e.g. at the end of an asynchronous editing phase of the process), we want to merge all contributions of all authors in a single document. Due to the asynchronism of edition and to the potential existence of the document parts offering concurrent access, conflicts may arise and make partial replicas unmergeable in their entirety: they are inconsistent, meaning that they contain conflictual parts. The purpose of this paper is to propose a merging approach said by consensus of such partial replicas using tree automata. Specifically, from the partial replicas updates, we build a tree automaton that accepts exactly the consensus documents. These documents are the maximum prefixes containing no conflict of partial replicas merged.展开更多
基金The MKE(The Ministry of Knowledge Economy),Korea,under the ITRC(Infor mation Technology Research Center)support programsupervised by the NIPA(National ITIndustry Promotion Agency)(NIPA-2012-H0301-12-2006)
文摘Intelligent robots in ubiquitous computing environment should be able to receive a variety of surrounding informa tion and provide users with appropriate services. A developer can describe the robot services that are proper to users＇ envir onments by using his or her various environments, and process them through the execution engine. However, it is difficult for a developer to describe and develop robot services, who knows all surrounding information which is called context infor mation. If there is a method for describing and documenting robot services in intuitive expressions, that is to use graphical user interfaces（GUls）, it would be very helpful. This paper suggests that robot service developers describe robot services us ing intuitive GUls with contextawareness. And the services can be automatically generated into workflow documents. Robot services that robot service developers have made with intuitive GUIs can be automatically generated into workflow docu ments by using the object modeling technique（OMT）. Developers can describe robot services based on contextaware work flow language（CAWL ）. For testing, scenariobased robot services are described using CAWLbased development tool, and their workflow documents are automatically generated.
文摘The issue of document management has been raised for a long time, especially with the appearance of office automation in the 1980s, which led to dematerialization and Electronic Document Management (EDM). In the same period, workflow management has experienced significant development, but has become more focused on the industry. However, it seems to us that document workflows have not had the same interest for the scientific community. But nowadays, the emergence and supremacy of the Internet in electronic exchanges are leading to a massive dematerialization of documents;which requires a conceptual reconsideration of the organizational framework for the processing of said documents in both public and private administrations. This problem seems open to us and deserves the interest of the scientific community. Indeed, EDM has mainly focused on the storage (referencing) and circulation of documents (traceability). It paid little attention to the overall behavior of the system in processing documents. The purpose of our researches is to model document processing systems. In the previous works, we proposed a general model and its specialization in the case of small documents (any document processed by a single person at a time during its processing life cycle), which represent 70% of documents processed by administrations, according to our study. In this contribution, we extend the model for processing small documents to the case where they are managed in a system comprising document classes organized in subclasses;which is the case for most administrations. We have thus observed that this model is a Markovian <i>M<sup>L×K</sup>/M<sup>L×K</sup>/</i>1 queues network. We have analyzed the constraints of this model and deduced certain characteristics and metrics. <span style="white-space:normal;"><i></i></span><i>In fine<span style="white-space:normal;"></span></i>, the ultimate objective of our work is to design a document workflow management system, integrating a component of global behavior prediction.
文摘In an asynchronous cooperative editing workflow of a structured document, each of the co-authors receives in the different phases of the editing process, a copy of the document to insert its contribution. For confidentiality reasons, this copy may be only a partial replica containing only parts of the (global) document which are of demonstrated interest for the considered co-author. Note that some parts may be a demonstrated interest over a co-author;they will therefore be accessible concurrently. When it’s synchronization time (e.g. at the end of an asynchronous editing phase of the process), we want to merge all contributions of all authors in a single document. Due to the asynchronism of edition and to the potential existence of the document parts offering concurrent access, conflicts may arise and make partial replicas unmergeable in their entirety: they are inconsistent, meaning that they contain conflictual parts. The purpose of this paper is to propose a merging approach said by consensus of such partial replicas using tree automata. Specifically, from the partial replicas updates, we build a tree automaton that accepts exactly the consensus documents. These documents are the maximum prefixes containing no conflict of partial replicas merged.
