A microprocessor manipulated program which extracts the data inherent in the cognitive process leading to the spoken or written word and converts that data into business models capable of defining the interrelationship and functions of a business. The program models the business and the data thus generated is used to produce application software program code capable of controlling and/or performing all functions of the business. The system springs from The Connected Development Process of Four Dimensional Cognitive Modeling using the four basic linguistic entities of PROCESS and its attendant adjuncts of DATA, CONTROL and SUPPORT.
Commands are entered in a video game by the player to determine an action of a player character for thereby determining an action and an image of at least one opponent character. A plurality of icons representing respective commands for the player character and a movable cursor are displayed on a displayed image, and the movable cursor positioned on one of the icons is detected. Then, the one of the icons is enlarged in size based on the detected movable cursor to assist the player of the video game in entering the command represented by the one of the icons.
An apparatus and method for identifying and transmitting time critical or high priority files from an on-board monitor aboard a vehicle. During operation of the vehicle, the on-board monitor collects and stores operational parametric information in the form of data files. The data files are transmitted to a remote site on a periodic basis or in response to certain predetermined conditions above the vehicle. To reduce the latency and delay times with transmitting the high priority files, those files are merged and transmitted before the transmission of relatively lower priority data files.
A computer method and apparatus for generating and maintaining a structured collection of documents describing a desired system is provided. A conceptual model of the desired system includes entities and relationships among the entities. An entity-relationship diagram is representative of the desired system. Documents are categorized and subsequently maintained with respect to the entities in the entity-relationship diagram. A hierarchy of process-message matrices is employed to determine the communications or dynamic exchanges of message entities in the modeled system and reflected in the entity-relationship diagram. A relational database implements the model and holds document contents (i.e., actual information) needed to automatically generate the collection of documents in a complete formatted manner for printing and/or compiling through word processing and/or compilation and linking means. The database further enables automatic hypertext generation by mapping interdependencies (relationships) between the entities into interdependencies (links) between the documents. One application of the invention automatically generates and maintains a collection of hypertext documents describing a business system.
A job model with which an organization model representing an organization structure, a document model representing a document structure, and a work model representing a work procedure are correlated, is stored independent from a service model defining each service. When a service is performed, with reference to the job model corresponding to the service model, a service executing module causes a tool control module to control a tool. Thus, the required service is accomplished.
A knowledge based planning and analysis system (30) is provided which includes a toolset (32) of expert systems and a knowledge base, or object repository (40). The system (30) assists a user in developing, customizing and analyzing reusable objects which are used to build model businesses. The models include data objects and activity objects which are decomposed in parallel until they can no longer be decomposed or until the process is terminated by the user.
