• 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.

• 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: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 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.916-919
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• 2009

현재, 분산 및 비즈니스 프로세스 환경을 위한 워크플로우 모델링 기술을 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 워크플로우 모델 설계에 적용하려는 다양한 연구가 시도되고 있다. 그러나, 유비쿼터스 환경에서의 워크플로우는 상황정보 기반의 서비스 흐름을 표현해야 하기 때문에, 기존 환경의 워크플로우 모델을 수정 없이 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에 적용하기에는 제약 점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 발생 가능한 다양한 형태의 서비스 흐름을 표현할 수 있는 새로운 상황인지 워크플로우 모델을 제안한다. 제안하는 모델은 서비스 전이조건으로써 상황정보의 효율적인 표현이 가능하고, 다수의 개별적인 상황인지 서비스를 하나의 워크플로우로 표현할 수 있다. 따라서, 제안하는 워크플로우 모델은 유비쿼터스 환경에서 개발자가 원하는 다양한 형태의 상황인지 워크플로우 응용서비스 개발을 위한 설계 기술로써 유용할 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.714-717
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• 2008

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅(Ubiquitous Computing) 시대에 기업의 사무 환경은 다양한 정보들과 많은 사용자들이 유기적인 관계를 형성한다. 이러한 관계에서 접근 제어는 다양한 정보 객체에 허가된 사용자만이 접근할 수 있는 권한을 갖는 기능을 제공하는 것이고, 사무 환경에서 보안상 필수적이며 중요한 역할을 한다. 하지만 기존의 접근 제어 모델들은 상황 정보를 고려하지 않아 동적인 접근 제어를 하지 못하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문은 워크플로우 기반의 오피스 환경에서 동적이고 능동적인 접근제어 관리를 제공하기 위한 상황 정보와 역할 기반의 워크플로우 데이터 접근제어 모델을 제안한다. 이 모델은 수많은 상황 정보 및 사무 정보와 사용자가 동적으로 변화하는 사무환경에서 사용자에게 접근을 제어하기 적합하다.