• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.2
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• pp.93-102
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• 2010

There are many complicated situations which could be occurred in users' surroundings, so it is required to develop automation services to provide users with appropriate services in ubiquitous computing environments. However, most of the current context-aware workflow systems express context-aware services only with a single workflow. Therefore, they have difficulties in providing users with various and composite services by combining different workflows. In this paper we propose a CAWL-based context-aware workflow system, where CAWL is a context-aware workflow language to express a composite workflow model by describing individual service workflows. The proposed system can provide users with various composite workflow services based on a service scenario, which is described with CAWL. And by reusing a number of single workflows to construct composite workflow services, it is possible to save time and effort to develop context-aware workflows.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.5_6
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• pp.214-227
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• 2007

A context-aware service in ubiquitous computing environments aims to supply services according to users' situation information that is dynamically occurring. The existing context-aware workflow systems, such as FollowMe and uFlow, provide context-aware services based on a workflow, which uses users' situation information as transition conditions of a service. But they can't apply users' new service demands, which may dynamically occur even when a workflow is on going, to a workflow scenario. In this paper we propose a context-aware workflow system, which can reapply users' new service demands into an initial workflow without interrupting or deleting the workflow. The proposed system can provide context-aware services without interrupting of service by recognizing exactly a place holder that has to be changed in a workflow scenario and by reconstructing only the changed parts through an incremental parsing method. Therefore, a user can immediately apply his new service demands to an on-going workflow scenario, and he can be guaranteed continuous executions of context-aware services according to a workflow scenario, which includes new service demands.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.145-157
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• 2009

In recent years, there have been several researches applying workflow technologies for service automation on ubiquitous computing environments. However, most context-aware workflow languages have difficulties in supporting composite workflows composed of single workflows, because these languages are still in its early stage and they only provide single workflow services to their users. This paper introduces CAWL, which is a context-aware workflow language. CAWL is for describing individual service workflows to make integrated service workflows. By using CAWL, service developers are able to reuse existing workflows to develop new context-aware workflow services. Therefore, development efforts and time can be saved and workflow resusability also increased. CAWL is expected to make it easy to develop applications related to context-aware workflow services on ubiquitous computing environments.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.121-130
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• 2020

In order to provide customized services according to a specific user or environment, various service scenarios should be developed based on context-aware workflow model. As the context-aware workflow model is constructed using limited context information and service information in the service domain, overlapping elements can occur in many service scenarios. The repetitive work process that results from these overlapping elements delays the development process of the service scenario. Therefore, the elements of the context-aware workflow model must be reused to solve the unnecessary work processes of service scenario development. In this paper, we propose a reuse method XML Object in context-aware workflow model to improve the process of service scenario development. The proposed method documents and manages the independent XML Object of the context-aware workflow model and reuses it by invoking the unit document in the service scenario development process. It can also be applied to new service scenarios by changing the attribute values of reusable elements. Experiments show example that the development process of the service scenario is simplified by reusing the elements of the context-aware workflow model.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.11_12
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• pp.617-628
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• 2005

The services for ubiquitous computing environments have to provide automatically user-specific adaptive services in dynamically changed environments with many informations provided by both a user and his/her environment. Workflows used in business and distributed computing environments support service automation by connecting many tasks with rules or orderings of tasks. Therefore we must specify context information on transition condition to support context-aware services by adapting a workflow to ubiquitous computing environments. In this paper, we present a structural context model to specify context information on transition constraints of the workflow. And we propose an uWDL Ubiquitous Workflow Description Language) based on web services, which provides web service interfaces which are standardized and independent on heterogeneous and various platforms, protocols, and languages. The uWDL tan be interpreted and executed by a workflow engine, and provide users autonomic services based on context-awareness.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.240-250
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• 2010

A URC, which is a Ubiquitous Robot Companion, provides services to users in ubiquitous computing environments and has advantage of simplifying robot's hardware and software by distributing the complicated functionality of robots to other system. In this paper, we propose SOWL, which is a software architecture for URC robots and a mixed word of SOMAR and CAWL. SOWL keeps the advantages of URC and it also has the loosely-coupled characteristics. Moreover it makes it easy to develop of URC robot software. The proposed architecture is composed of 4 layers: device software, robot software, robot application, and end user layer. Developers of the each layer is able to build software suitable for their requirements by combining software modules in the lower layer. SOWL consists of SOMAR and CAWL engine. SOMAR, which is a middleware for the execution of device software and robot software, is based on service-oriented architecture(SOA) for robot software. CAWL engine is a system to process CAWL which is a context-aware workflow language. SOWL is able to provide a layered architecture for the execution of a robot software. It also makes it possible for developers of the each layer to build module-based robot software.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.469-477
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• 2009

This study is about Augmentative and Alternative Communication as handicapped people actively pursue their life. Especially, although there are many ways and devices for communicating the same as a normal person, descriptive supplementation and sustaining studies are needed for perfect communication as a normal person. The purpose of the paper is to help handicapped people who have hardships about communication. This study develops the function of Smart Workflow AAC(Augmentative and Alternative Communication) and IR sensor_based context aware function that can offer services convenient to classified handicapped people for helping them to communicate effectively. This system from an experimental basis has improved efficiency to communicate more harmoniously within individual handicapped situations to schedule management and communication of handicapped people.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.676-686
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• 2010

An URC (Ubiquitous Robot Companion) is aimed for providing the best service according to situational information that it recognizes. In order to offer human-friendly and intelligent services, a robot middleware requires the technique to automate and control URC service processes, which are based on context-awareness. In this paper, we propose a context-aware workflow system to provide web services based URC services according to situational information. The proposed system offers a platform-independent command object model to control heterogeneous URCs, and supports web services based context-aware URC services. Therefore, the proposed system can increase the reliability of URC services in ubiquitous network environment, on which the diverse URC robots and platforms exist. And it can enhance the flexibility and adaptability of the functional and structural changes of URC systems.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.309-316
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• 2013

There are many actively researched works on context-aware workflows for developing intelligent robot services. It is possible to describe not only the definition of robot services but also the contextual information of user's surroundings which can be used as the transition conditions for executing those robot services. Therefore it is required to prepare a context-aware workflow document to support the intelligent robot services. In this paper, we propose a development tool which enables robot service developers to describe context-aware workflow documents and execute them. The tool users can write robot service workflows easily by using intuitive GUI of the tool. In the experiment, we showed processes of writing robot service workflows in scenario format, then automatically documenting and executing them.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.90-93
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• 2014

상황인지 기술은 사용자 주변의 정보를 이용하여 사용자의 현재 상황을 판단하는 기술로써 사용자의 요청 없이 최적화된 시점에 서비스를 제공하기 위한 것이다. 이러한 상황인지 기술은 일반적으로 별도의 추론 과정을 거쳐 응용 서비스에 적용된다. 본 논문에서는 서비스를 제공하기 위한 상황정보 비교 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 상황인지 워크플로우 언어로 표현한 상황정보와 센서로부터 발생한 컨텍스트에 바탕을 둔 상황정보를 비교한다. 이를 통해 사용자 주변의 상황을 판단할 수 있으며 적합한 응용 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 실험에서는 RDF 기반의 고수준 상황정보를 포함하고 있는 제약조건 테이블을 이용하여 상황정보의 비교 과정을 보인다.