Languages for Automation

1. Front Matter

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2. Office Automation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   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

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   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

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   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

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   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

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.

• automation
• control
• data structures
• design
• language
• logic programming
• management
• Petri net
• Processing
• programming
• programming language
• robot
• robotics
• simulation
• Turing

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

  Shi-Kuo Chang

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