being developed to support ofice automation. The emphasis of the paper is on a technology that allows people to automate their ofice and business activities. Specifically, using forms as the interface, the authors propose a powerful data manipulation and restructuring facility that not only allows users to extract and manipulate data in the forms, but can be used to interface between new and ex...

An educational framework for Office Automation (OA) education is presented. It is based on the analysis of educational content as a function of enabling factors, architecture, and range of integration of OA. These factors are embedded into an educational framework that relates the level of user involvement with the modes of interface with office systems. Educational goals for each user (involve...

The cooperative aspect of office work entails developing OIS systems which support office tasks that have to be executed in a collaborative manner. In particular, many systems have been developed using speech act elements as the theoretical underpinnings. Instead of using speech act elements, we USe operators (e.g., send, request and acknowledge) as basic building blocks. We have developed a kn...

PREFACE PREFACE As indicated by its subtitle, this report provides a contemporary introduction into the field of office automation. The adjective " contemporary " indicates that the topics in this introduction focus on modern, integrated computer support for office tasks, as opposed to older work focusing on more isolated support for specific tasks. Also, this introduction covers recent develop...

Homes and offices with smart devices/appliances are soon becoming a reality leading to comfort and automation. The heterogeneity of devices is a critical hurdle in the developing of a system that enables integration and centralized control. Significant literature is available in the area of automation and control of high-end devices and appliances. The nature of the work being proprietary and s...

Electronic Office is a tool which can be used by an organization to automate an unlimited variety of business processes, without having to write a single line of code. The main step in automating a given business process using Electronic Office is essentially to identify the process participants, categorized into originators and resource persons. Thereafter, Electronic Office enables instantiat...

Twenty years ago, fieldbus systems have been developed for the factory floor and are widely introduced in industrial automation installations in the meantime. In the nineties Ethernet-based technologies have been successfully introduced to office automation followed by the usage of Internetbased applications. Today industrial automation is getting penetrated by the same IT technologies used in ...