The availability from the mid-1960s of powerful mainframe computer systems such as IBM’s System 360 allowed computer specialists and rationalization experts to pursue what appeared to be the logical next step in the evolution of office rationalization: from the automation of clerical routines to the automation of decision-making. This paper argues that despite the rapid diffusion of the idea of...

Document analysis is responsible for an essential progress in office automation. This paper is part of an overview about the combined research efforts in document analysis at DFKI. Common to all document analysis projects is the global goal of providing a high level electronic representation of documents in terms of iconic, structural, textual, and semantic information. These symbolic document ...

Many office buildings today have the serviceableness and comfort of 40 years old standards. Due to limited budget especially the public authorities are not able to change the edificial status very often. However, there are developments of features or devices in modern building automation that can drastically increase the level of safety, security, comfort, energy saving, and other areas. This i...

Automation has revolutionised industry and initiated profound economic change. In the past two decades, manufacturing productivity has seen substantial improvements, yet office productivity has remained practically unaffected. Workflow Automation Systems, a new class of system which focus on automating document flows, promises to redress this imbalance. This study looks at the implication of ad...

Abstract—The development of the new technologies in the field of electronics has brought tremendous changes in the day to day life of every human being. They have entered the fields like industry, medicine, telecommunication and also home automation. This paper introduces the intelligent home automation system (IHAM) which is developed using PIC microcontroller with the ZigBee wireless communic...

The protection of safety-critical and infrastructure systems (such as automation systems for utilities, but also for manufacturing plants) against electronic and communication network based attacks becomes more and more important. This paper investigates how such safety-critical plants and automation systems can be secured against information system and network based attacks. The two common app...

The Plug-And-Play is a synonym for the simple use of computer systems in office applications. This appealing idea also emerges in the branches of robotics and automation. But due to their specific technical and application driven requirements i.e. real-time, determinism, safety... a simple taking over of the technology is not sufficient. Plug-and-Produce extends the “easy to use” for applicatio...

Character recognition systems can contribute tremendously to the advancement of the automation process and can improve the interaction between man and machine in many applications, including office automation, cheque verification and a large variety of banking, business and data entry applications. The main theme of this paper is the automatic recognition of hand-printed Arabic characters using...