Abstract
Key factors for developing user enhanceable office systems are: (i) an appropriate office model as a basis for office application systems; (ii) easily comprehensible visual formalisms to overcome the need for conventional programming. This paper proposes a method for user enhanceability that uses a distributed agent-based office model and a novel multi-paradigm visual programming language. To support dynamic organizations, the office model focusses on the organizational knowledge necessary to facilitate operative changes such as workload re-distributing and dynamic work-flow management. The visual language is designed to explicitly represent this organizational knowledge during all stages of the development.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on |
| Pages | 673-682 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Volume | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 1994 |
Keywords
- commerce
- information systems
- knowledge representation
- office automation
- software tools
- user interfaces
- visual languages
- visual programming
- ECHOES
- business operation
- changing office needs
- distributed agent-based office model
- dynamic work-flow management
- multi-paradigm visual programming language
- office application systems
- office model
- organizational knowledge
- user enhanceability
- user enhanceable office systems
- visual formalisms
- visual language
- workload re-distributing