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Languages for automation / edited by Shi-Kuo Chang.
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed. 1985.
Published/Created
New York : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, [1985]
©1985
Description
1 online resource (XI, 520 p. 23 illus.)
Availability
Available Online
Springer Book Archive - Computer Science
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Subject(s)
Automation
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Office practice
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Automation
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Editor
Chang, Shi-Kuo
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Series
Management and information systems.
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Management and Information Systems
Summary note
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.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
English
Contents
I Office Automation
1. Office Information Systems Overview
2. Logic Programming Tailored for Office Procedure Automation
3. opal: An Office Procedure Automation Language For Local Area Network Environments Via Active Mailing and Program Dispatching
4. Tools for Forms Administrators
5. A Form-Based Language for Office Automation
II Query Languages
6. Requirements for Developing Natural Language Query Applications
7. Semantic Representations for Natural Language Query Processing
8. Design of an Easy-to-Use Query Language for Office Automation
III Data Management
9. The Structure of Abstract Document Objects
10. An Object Management System for Office Applications
11. tm—An Object-Oriented Language for CAD and Required Database Capabilities
12. A CAD/CAM Database Management System and Its Query Language
13. Self-Describing and Self-Documenting Database Systems
IV Communication Management
14. Message Management in Office Information Systems
15. Audio-Document Teleconferencing in the Automated Office
16. Module Level Communication Protocol Specifications of Applications Software for Distributed Computing Systems
17. The GCP Language and its Implementation
18. A Language for the Description of Concurrent Systems Modeled by Colored Petri Nets: Application to the Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
V Robotics and the CAD/CAM Languages
19. Introduction to Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing
20. Perceptual Robotics: Toward a Language for the Integration of Sensation and Perception in a Dextrous Robot Hand
21. Production Systems for Multirobot Control: A Tutorial
22. A Programming Language for Sophisticated Robot Sensing and Sensor-Based Control
23. Computer-Aided Design of Digital Systems: Language, Data Structures, and Simulation
VI Management and Automation
24. Implications of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing for Corporate Strategy, Capital Budgeting, and Information Management
25. Decision Support Systems and Management.
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ISBN
1-4757-1388-6
OCLC
1251440651
Doi
10.1007/978-1-4757-1388-6
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