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This paper evaluates SnapCheck.io, a smart workflow platform aimed at improving the efficiency of project management in remote work environments. Through the use of AI-driven task scheduling, smart time tracking, and real-time analytics, SnapCheck.io enhances resource utilization and lowers the waiting time for task dependency. A mixed-method study at various organizations showed an improvement in performance by 18%, which was thus corroborated by the increased rate of task completion and quicker workflow execution. The results reveal that the use of intelligent automation in SnapCheck.io not only helps in streamlining the project coordination process but also promotes the ongoing productivity and collaboration of distributed teams.

의사결정자 지원은 문제 인식, 대안 생성, 최적안 선정 등 협의의 의사결정 지원시스템 (Decision Support System, DSS) 뿐 아니라 의사결정자의 일상업무지원과 의사결정 능력 향상을 위한 교육을 포함한다. 본 논문의 목적은 의사결정자를 지워하기 위한 일종의 광의의 의사결정 지원 시스템인 의사결정자 지원시스템(Decision Maker Support System, DMSS)에 대한 개념적 틀을 제시하는 것이다. DMSS는 전통적인 의사 결정 지원시스템, 업무처리 시스템, 가상교육 시스템 및 이들을 통합 관리하여 특정 의사결정자의 요구에 맞게 구성해 주는 DMSS 관리자를 핵심 요소로 하며 원격의 의사결정자 존재를 생각하여 사용자 인터페이스는 웹 기반을 고려하였다. 특히 DMSS의 하위 시스템의 지식을 통합하기 위해 일원화된 지식베이스를 설계하였다. 그리고 DMSS의 가능성을 보이기 위해 가상 시나리오를 통해 설명하였다.

In order to achieve the interconnection between different workflow management systems, it was proposed that all the distributed workflow systems would be encapsulated as web services to perform the entire business process collaboratively by the way of processes’ composition in this paper. By analyzing the comparison between the composition of processes and ordinary Web service, we studied interactive control, the parameters required to be passed through the distributed workflow systems, the workflow system service’s interfaces and its packaging. Furthermore we put forward a general method of the workflow systems interactive interfaces’ extension and the way of the workflow service’s encapsulating and invoking. By this approach, it can easily combine the processes or process fragments which deployed on different workflow systems without other agents and components. It also provides support for the interconnection of the workflow systems in distributed environment, and ultimately achieves a coordinated operation between different workflow engines.

Over the past decade, the rapid development of high-throughput technologies has lead to an explosive growth in biological information. Many molecular biology fields involve in-silico experiments using bioinformatics applications. A workflow can be well-defined model for bioinformatics analysis processes to be performed as a chain of interlinked data process tasks. We have developed a client/server-based workflow system called Bioworks, supporting large-scale analysis through the high performance cluster computing resources. In this paper, we highlight implementation methods in Bioworks, for meeting key requirements of effective workflow systems for bioinformatics analysis processes.

The workflow model is used widely in modern society office, production and manufacturing fields in computer environment. It plays a more and more important role in the office circumstance, industrial and manufacturing domain with the development of computer automation in modern business. Workflow management system is a tool. It is also a platform to develop and implement the workflow. But heterogeneities under distributed network environments hamper the coordination among the tasks in a workflow management system. We propose a new workflow management system based on CORBA and mobile-Agent to solve these problems. And we make the detailed analysis of this system. Firstly, this paper introduces the research background and research status. The second part is the related concepts of workflow management system, CORBA and agent technology under a distributed environment. The third part is the new workflow management system. The last part is the conclusion.

Dispatching automation system is the nerve center of power grid. When using the system, it usually needs grid model diagrams, such as plant station wiring diagram, flow calculation diagram, etc. In addition, the model files are used for grid monitor, dispatching analysis, etc. Thence before use, these files need to be approved strictly for ensuring the security of the running power grid system. This paper briefly describes the dispatching automation master system iES600Pro of Integrated Electronic Systems Lab Co. Ltd. (iESLab). Moreover, it proposes a system optimization scheme based on workflow technology, thus the system can implement complete approval process of model files. The process is flexible, convenient and customizable. Furthermore, it presents the implementation of scheme including the architecture of system after the optimization, the description of interfaces between system components, the design of business data table, a sample of approval process, and finally the testing platform and results. The results show that the proposed scheme improves the system function and approval efficiency. It is more conducive to the security of grid dispatching.

The digital campus information unified portal can provide the services not possessed by traditional campus network. Firstly, the portal technology and the relation with Portlet are analyzed for the secondary development of liferay technology; secondly, the digital campus portal system is realized according to the requirement analysis of the digital campus portal system and the system development principles as well as the system implementation characteristics. Unified portal system, SSO (Single Sing-on) unified identity authentication and campus workflow system are realized in this paper. Meanwhile, this design scheme can not only support the integration of data, contents and information, but also transfer the contents, application programs and services inherited thereby through the customizable portal channel, thus to reduce the operation cost of the campus information portal and improve the working efficiency of the users as well as play an important role in digital campus construction. This portal system design scheme has been applied in the digital campus system of Southwest Petroleum University, and is practicably proven to have certain feasibility and practicability.

본 논문은 Grid상의 workflow 시스템인 Workflow based Grid Portal for PSE(이하 WISE)를 이용한 인공 심장의 3차원 병렬 volume rendering system 디자인과 구현에 대하여 기술한다. Grid는 전 세계에 분산되어 있는 고성능, 대용량 자원들을 고속 네트워크로 연동하여 사용할 수 있게 하는 환경이며, WISE 시스템은 workflow 개념을 도입하여, 이런 자원들의 효율적이고 편리하게 관리해주고 아울러 여러 가지 패턴을 이용해 프로그래밍 할 수 있게 해주는 middleware이다. 본 논문에서는 Grid 상에서 WISE system에서 제공하는 프로그래밍 패턴을 이용하여 구조화되어 있지 않은 인공심장 데이터를 병렬 processing Pipeline 모델을 바탕으로 효율적인 parallel 3차원 가시화를 하기 위한 parallel pipelined volume rendering system을 구현하였다.

본 논문은 Grid상의 workflow 시스템인 Workflow based Grid Portal for PSE(이하 WISE)를 이용한 인공 심장의 3차원 병렬 volume rendering system 디자인과 구현에 대하여 기술한다. Grid는 전 세계에 분산되어 있는 고성능, 대용량 자원들을 고속 네트워크로 연동하여 사용할 수 있게 하는 환경이며, WISE 시스템은 workflow 개념을 도입하여, 이런 자원들의 효율적이고 편리하게 관리해주고 아울러 여러 가지 패턴을 이용해 프로그래밍 할 수 있게 해주는 middleware이다. 본 논문에서는 Grid 상에서 WISE system에서 제공하는 프로그래밍 패턴을 이용하여 구조화되어 있지 않은 인공심장 데이터를 병렬 processing Pipeline 모델을 바탕으로 효율적인 parallel 3차원 가시화를 하기 위한 parallel pipelined volume rendering system을 구현하였다.

워크플로우 관리자는 대량의 계산용 그리드 자원을 데스크탑 컴퓨터에서 개인이 편리하게 워크플로우를 만들고 수행할 수 있게 해주는 유용한 도구이다. 보통 데이터는 스테이지-인, 프로세스, 스테이지-아웃의 순서로 순차적으로 진행되며 워크플로우 시스템은 이 과정을 자동화해준다. 그러나 최근의 e-science에서는 사용되는 데이터 량이 급속하게 증가하고 있고 원하는 출력물을 얻기 위해 여러 번의 과정을 수행하면서 데이터 이동 시간이 전체 수행시간의 많은 부분을 차지하게 되어 스테이징 과정의 개선이 중요한 이슈가 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 스테이징 과정을 개선하고, 이를 이용하여 가능한 한 많은 작업들을 동시 수행시키는 스케줄러를 설계하였다. 또한 모의실험을 통해 제안한 스케줄러의 성능이 10~40%까지 향상됨을 보였다.

The power of computational Grid resources can be utilized on users desktop by employing workflow managers. It also helps scientists to conveniently put together and run their own scientific workflows. Generally, stage-in, process and stage-out are serially executed and workflow systems help automate this process. However, as the data size is exponentially increasing and more and more scientific workflows require multiple processing steps to obtain the desired output, we argue that the data movement will possess high portion of overall running time. In this paper, we improved staging time and design a new scheduler where the system can execute concurrently as many jobs as possible. Our simulation study shows that 10% to 40% improvement in running time can be achieved through our approach.

We address an access control in the mobile agent-based workflow system. The Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is suitable to model the access control for business processes. However, current RBAC models are not adequate to mobile agent-based workflow system. Because separation of duties becomes complicated and it is impossible to perform several workflows at the same time. To solve these problems, we limit the scope of privilege within the specified task. We define considerations, specification of constraints needed in RBAC when tasks are involved. Also, we present an access control scenario and algorithms in the mobile agent-based workflow system.

관점 지향 프로그래밍은 구조적 프로그래밍, 객체 지향 프로그래밍 등 기존 프로그래밍 방법론에서 모듈화하지 못한 여러 요구사항에 걸쳐 있는 부가적인 요구사항을 모듈화 할 수 있는 방법을 제공한다. 모듈화 하기 어려운 요구 사항을 횡단 관심으로 분류하고, 이를 애스펙트 단위로 모듈화하여 재사용성을 극대화시키는 관점 지향 프로그래밍은 새로운 프로그래밍 패러다임으로 활발하게 연구가 진행 중이다. 본 논문에서는 현재 비즈니스 및 분산 컴퓨팅 환경에서 많이 이용되는 워크플로우 표준 언어인 BPEL에 워크플로우 서비스의 전이조건의 재사용성을 극대화하기 위해 관점 지향 프로그래밍 기술을 적용한 워크플로우 서비스 시스템을 제안한다. 본 시스템은 워크플로우에 존재하는 독립적인 웹 서비스들이 실행조건으로 요구하는 동일한 정보에 대한 재사용성의 극대화 방법을 제공하는 장점을 가진다.

Various bioinformatics tools for biological data processing have been developed and most of them are available in public. Most bioinformatics works are carried out by a composite application of those tools. Several integration approaches have been proposed for easy use of the tools. This paper proposes a new multi agent system to integrate bioinformatics tools in the perspective of workflow since the composite applications of tools can be regarded as workflows. For the easy integration, the proposed system employs wrapper agents for existing tools, uses XML-based messages in the inter-agent communication, and agents are supposed to extract necessary information from the received messages. This allows new tools to be easily added on the integration framework. The proposed method allows various control structures in workflow definition and provides the progress monitoring capability of the on-going workflows. In particular, agents in this system have the rule-based architecture which allows the defined rule set to be a special role agent. This feature provides fast and flexible agent development to aid in managing the complexity of bioinformatics application. This system has been partially implemented and has been proven to be a viable implementation for workflow-based bioinformatics tool integration.