Process support systems, such as workflows, are being used in a variety of domains. However, most areas of application have focused on traditional production-style processes, which are characterised by predictability and repetitiveness. Application in non-traditional domains with highly flexible process is still largely unexplored. Such flexible processes are characterised by lack of ability to...

The bolt joint is the key component connecting rigid moving base body and flexible manipulator. dynamic characteristics of manipulator under elastic constraint are analyzed, action mechanism on frequency vibration mode revealed. Considering effects line torsion constraint, model established. Based principle virtual work, boundary constraints end free established, analytical equation expression ...

This paper discusses the effects of asset price volatility on loan and aggregate output in a utility-based approach. In a real dynamic economy with heterogeneous agents, the creditdebt relationship is endogenously determined, given that borrowers are more productive but subject to collateral constraints. Resource allocation among borrowers and lenders affects the aggregate output as well as ass...

Sentence compression is important in a wide range of applications in natural language processing. Previous approaches of Japanese sentence compression can be divided into two groups. Word-based methods extract a subset of words from a sentence to shorten it, while bunsetsubased methods extract a subset of bunsetsu (where a bunsetsu is a text unit that consists of content words and following fun...

Flexible collaboration is a notable attribute of Web 2.0, which is often in the form of multiple users participating different activities that together complete a whole business process. In such an environment, business processes may be dynamically customized or adjusted, as well as the participants may be selected or attend uncertainly. So how to ensure the legitimacy of a business process for...

This paper describes a flexible framework and an efficient algorithm for constraint-based spatiotemporal configuration problems. Binary constraints between spatio-temporal objects are first converted to constraint regions, which are then decomposed into hierarchical data structures; based on this constraint decomposition, an improved backtracking algorithm called HBT can compute a solution quit...