Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Languages for Automation

  • Book
  • © 1985

Overview

Editors:
  1. Shi-Kuo Chang

    1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Management and Information Systems (MIS)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Office Automation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Office Information Systems Overview

      • Clarence A. Ellis
      Pages 3-26

    3. Logic Programming Tailored for Office Procedure Automation

      • Klaus D. Günther
      Pages 27-66

    4. opal: An Office Procedure Automation Language for Local Area Network Environments Via Active Mailing and Program Dispatching

      • K. Kishimoto, K. Onaga, H. Utsunomiya
      Pages 67-93

    5. Tools for Forms Administrators

      • James A. Larson, Jennifer B. Wallick
      Pages 95-105

    6. A Form-Based Language for Office Automation

      • S. Oyanagi, H. Sakai, T. Tanaka, S. Fujita, A. Tanaka
      Pages 107-122

  3. Query Languages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N1-N1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Requirements for Developing Natural Language Query Applications

      • Yannis Vassiliou, Matthias Jarke, Edward Stohr, Jon Turner, Norman White
      Pages 123-141

    3. Semantic Representations for Natural Language Query Processing

      • Stephen D. Burd, Shuh-Shen Pan, Andrew B. Whinston
      Pages 143-162

    4. Design of an Easy-to-Use Query Language for Office Automation

      • Kazuo Sugihara, Tohru Kikuno, Noriyoshi Yoshida
      Pages 163-178

  4. Data Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N3-N3
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Structure of Abstract Document Objects

      • Gary D. Kimura, Alan C. Shaw
      Pages 179-196

    3. An Object Management System for Office Applications

      • Stanley B. Zdonik
      Pages 197-222

    4. tm—An Object-Oriented Language for CAD and Required Database Capabilities

      • J. Miguel Gerzso, Alejandro P. Buchmann
      Pages 223-244

    5. A CAD/CAM Database Management System and Its Query Language

      • Y. C. Lee, K. S. Fu
      Pages 245-273

    6. Self-Describing and Self-Documenting Database Systems

      • Nick Roussopoulos, Leo Mark
      Pages 275-295

  5. Communication Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N5-N5
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Message Management in Office Information Systems

      • S. K. Chang, P. Chan, T. D. Donnadieu, L. Leung, F. Montenoise
      Pages 297-322

    3. Audio-Document Teleconferencing in the Automated Office

      • Kazunari Nakane, Hiroshi Kotera, Masao Togawa, Yoshinori Sakai
      Pages 323-333
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Two central ideas in the movement toward advanced automation systems are the office-of-the-future (or office automation system), and the factory­ of-the-future (or factory automation system). An office automation system is an integrated system with diversified office equipment, communication devices, intelligent terminals, intelligent copiers, etc., for providing information management and control in a dis­ tributed office environment. A factory automation system is also an inte­ grated system with programmable machine tools, robots, and other pro­ cess equipment such as new "peripherals," for providing manufacturing information management and control. Such advanced automation systems can be regarded as the response to the demand for greater variety, greater flexibility, customized designs, rapid response, and 'Just-in-time" delivery of office services or manufac­ tured goods. The economy of scope, which allows the production of a vari­ ety of similar products in random order, gradually replaces the economy of scale derived from overall volume of operations. In other words, we are gradually switching from the production of large volumes of standard products to systems for the production of a wide variety of similar products in small batches. This is the phenomenon of "demassification" of the marketplace, as described by Alvin Toffier in The Third Wave.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

    Shi-Kuo Chang

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation