Although much attention is being paid to business processes during the past decades, the design of business processes and particularly workflow processes is still more art than science. In this workshop paper, we present our view on modeling methods for workflow processes and introduce our research aiming for the development of an “intelligent” software tool for workflow process redesign. This ...

As automation of business processes becomes more complex and encompasses less-structured domains, it becomes even more essential that the knowledge used by these processes is verified and accurate. Most application development is facilitated with software tools, but most business rules and expert systems are developed in environments that provide inadequate verification testing. This paper desc...

With the advent of the Internet, educators now have access over the web to the first artificial intelligence productivity toolsites. This presentation will demonstrate a unique online lesson planning toolsite and a research toolsite where educators actually create documents in the website. Following a process guide, the user applies a natural language retrieval algorithm to locate educational r...

INTRODUCTION In recent years Medical Robotics has seen a transition from systems that have been initially proposed and developed by enthusiastic technologists, towards those that are cost-effective systems that are essential for surgeon application. This change from technology " push " to surgeon " demand " has resulted in a different approach to medical robotic systems, which will hopefully re...

If intelligent virtual agents are to become widely adopted it is vital that they can be designed using the user friendly graphical tools that are used in other areas of graphics. However, extending this sort of tool to autonomous, interactive behaviour, an area with more in common with artificial intelligence, is not trivial. This paper discusses the issues involved in creating user-friendly de...

Component-based problem-solving environments (PSEs) provide scientists and engineers with a framework of integrated problem-solving tools and resources that they can easily compose and apply in their particular task domains. Developing e ective solution strategies within these environments depends on making good choices about the selection, parameterization, and organization of component tools ...

In this paper we address a relatively young but important area of research: the intersection of agent technology and data mining. This intersection can take two forms: a) the more mundane use of intelligent agents for improved knowledge discovery and b) the use of data mining techniques for producing smarter, more efficient agents. The paper focuses on the second approach. Knowledge, hidden in ...

A fundamental task in detecting foreground objects in both static and dynamic scenes is to take the best choice of color system representation and the efficient technique for background modeling. We propose in this paper a non-parametric algorithm dedicated to segment and to detect objects in color images issued from a football sports meeting. Indeed segmentation by pixel concern many applicati...

The method presented in this chapter computes an estimate of the location of a single gas source from a set of localized gas sensor measurements. The estimation process consists of three steps. First, a statistical model of the time-averaged gas distribution is estimated in the form of a two-dimensional grid map. In order to compute the gas distribution grid map the Kernel DM algorithm is appli...

Globalised-civilisation interaction intensity grows exponentially, involving all dimensions and regions of planetary environment. The resulting dynamics of critically high, exploding complexity urgently needs consistent understanding and efficient management. The new, provably universal concept of unreduced dynamic complexity of real interaction processes described here provides the former and ...