A modern manufacturing facility typically contains several distributed control systems, such as machining stations, assembly stations, and material handling and storage systems. Integrating Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into these control systems provides a basis for monitoring and configuring their components in real-time. With the right structural modelling, it is then poss...

A new concept is appearing in the field of Man-Machine interaction : the design of "intelligent" interfaces. The aims of this paper are threefold, first to show what an "intelligent" interface is and present a five step design process for such an interface specifically: (i) Man-Machine system analysis, (ii) operator, task and process modelling, (iii) specifying those assistance tools that form ...

After twenty years, Extenics made great progress in innovation theory, formal method and real application. Through the formalized research for its logical cell basic-element, the information-knowledge-strategy formalized system, extension analysis methods, extension transformation methods and superiority evaluation methods are set up. We introduce Extenics theory to describe, analyze and evalua...

Current workflow management systems still lack some important features, esp. intelligent failure handling mechanisms. This is due to the static and only implicitly defined meta model of these systems. We argue that intelligent failure handling needs semantically enriched workflow models. We, therefore, propose a meta level architecture for WFMSs providing an explicit and dynamic meta model. Thi...

Current workkow management systems still lack some important features, esp. intelligent failure handling mechanisms. This is due to the static and only implicitly deened meta model of these systems. We argue that intelligent failure handling needs semantically enriched workkow models. We, therefore, propose a meta level architecture for WFMSs providing an explicit and dynamic meta model. This c...

This paper describes a study investigating the potential for two user modelling systems: a location-aware user modelling system providing easy access to applications, files and course materials commonly used by an individual student in different locations; and a mobile open learner model for consultation by a student away from the intelligent tutoring system in which the learner model was gener...

Distributed Learning Automata is automata based modelling approach for solving stochastic shortest path problems. The DLA can be applied to road networks to find shortest path that provides a spatial approach to bottom-up modelling of complex geographic systems that are comprised of infrastructure and human objects. Route finding is a popular Geographical Information System (GIS) application un...

In this short paper, the basic ideas behind a project on the application of Knowledge Representation formalisms and technologies for Conceptual Modelling and Query Management are presented. It is argued that good Conceptual Modelling is required to support powerful information access through Intelligent Navigation, a fundamental task in Digital Libraries.

In this paper, the modelling problem of nonlinear systems with dead-zone input is considered. To solve this problem, an evolving intelligent system is proposed. The uniform stability of the modelling error for the aforementioned system is guaranteed by means of a Lyapunov-like analysis. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is verified by simulations. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reser...