Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic transaction system which can perform the comprehensive substitution of an actual transaction state in regard to a method that judges whether coincidence is recognized between the request of a customer and the proposal of a supplier. SOLUTION: This system includes a step to receive the request of a customer having a feature data element (PD) that can be updated and includes the constraint condition data (CST) showing a set of features of a product and the address data with which a trader device can acquire the current specifications of variable features from a customer device (a), a step to compare the data (CST) with the feature data (P) (b), a step to repeat negotiation for acquiring the current specifications of the element (PD) that is proposed by a supplier and can be updated and also the current specifications of the element (PD) with which the customer's request can be updated until the negotiation success condition or negotiation end condition is satisfied (c) and a step to judge whether the customer's request is coincident with the supplier's proposal (d).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved workflow system and its method capable of offering further flexible and customized countermeasures to a complicated workflow problem. SOLUTION: A workflow system comprises a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the task query based on one or more properties associated with each task definition and provides one or more of the task definitions to the workflow as offers based on the evaluation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for automatic identification of an insertion point in a first model stored in system memory (3) for a predetermined element t of a second model. A comparison of the first and second models, defining the correspondence between elements of the models, is provided in the memory (3). The sequence order of elements in the second model is analyzed to identify predecessor and successor elements (Ps, Ss) of the element t in the second model. The comparison is then used to identify a set of transferred predecessors (Ptrans), comprising elements of the first model which correspond to said predecessor elements (Ps) in the second model, and a set of transferred successors (Strans) comprising elements of the first model which correspond to said successor elements (Ss) in the second model. Then, for pairs of adjacent elements x, y in the first model, the positions of the elements x, y in the sequence order of the first model are compared with the positions of elements in the sets of transferred predecessors and successors (Ptrans, Strans). An edge between the elements x and y is identified as an insertion point if the position of the edge relative to the transferred predecessors and successors (Ptrans, Strans) is not inconsistent with the sequence order of the element t and the predecessor and successor elements (Ps, Ss) in the second model.