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Shi-Kuo Chang
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Office Automation
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- K. Kishimoto, K. Onaga, H. Utsunomiya
Pages 67-93
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- James A. Larson, Jennifer B. Wallick
Pages 95-105
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- S. Oyanagi, H. Sakai, T. Tanaka, S. Fujita, A. Tanaka
Pages 107-122
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Query Languages
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- Yannis Vassiliou, Matthias Jarke, Edward Stohr, Jon Turner, Norman White
Pages 123-141
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- Stephen D. Burd, Shuh-Shen Pan, Andrew B. Whinston
Pages 143-162
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- Kazuo Sugihara, Tohru Kikuno, Noriyoshi Yoshida
Pages 163-178
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Data Management
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- Gary D. Kimura, Alan C. Shaw
Pages 179-196
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- J. Miguel Gerzso, Alejandro P. Buchmann
Pages 223-244
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- Nick Roussopoulos, Leo Mark
Pages 275-295
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Communication Management
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- S. K. Chang, P. Chan, T. D. Donnadieu, L. Leung, F. Montenoise
Pages 297-322
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- Kazunari Nakane, Hiroshi Kotera, Masao Togawa, Yoshinori Sakai
Pages 323-333
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
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Shi-Kuo Chang