Applying human-like intelligence to future generation network to improve communication efficiency

Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-257).In recent decades, communications network has evolved at drastic speed to provide advanced and intelligent services. This strengthening service provision owes to the successful establishment of various intelligent networks and the use of artificial intelligence, pervasive computing, and social networking in communications. It has consequently endowed network users with abundant choices of communication services. While these communications services are bringing convenience to human lives, people in turn are performing more tasks. The current network with its large number of available communications services is then often burdening network users with the complexity and inflexibility in using these services. In particular, the network lacks the initiative and the ability to investigate a user’s most recent communication needs and subsequently adjust the manner of service provision according to these needs and user connecting possibilities. The network needs to be more intelligent to handle these problems. We therefore propose importing human-like intelligence into the network to facilitate communication-session processing according to user needs

Towards a Toolbox for Geographic User Interfaces

User interfaces are a prominent part of applications that manipulate graphic data (geography, cartography, CAD/CAM, ...). Although some work has been done recently in this area, each system usually has its own ad hoc user interface built from scratch, and there is no user interface model general enough for customizing the presentation of a specific application which handles graphic data. This paper presents a conceptual model for describing user interfaces of systems manipulating maps in an object-oriented environment. The model proposed here is split into two levels: (i) the Interaction level and (ii) the External Spatial level. The Interaction level deals with high level interface objects, such as windows, as well as the interaction with the end user. In particular, we see the necessity of introducing a new kind of window devoted to map editing. The External Spatial level deals with objects which come from a mapping of the database objects onto objects manipulated by the end user. Th..