Publisher's Synopsis
Physicians, lawyers, engineers, architects, financial analysts, and other professionals articulate an increasing need for support by intelligent workstations for decision making, analysis, communication, and other activities. "Intelligent Workstations for Professionals" is the collection of papers presented at an symposium and workshop. Requirements from potential users, studies of their behavior as well a approaches and aspects fo technical realization of "intelligent" functions are introduced. Eight contributions deal withlatest findings of the UNIS (User's Needs for Intelligent Systems) project with intends to identify needs and wishes from professionals for intelligent support systems and the potential adoption of such systems. Other papers concentrate on new approaches and techniques that enhance the "intelligence" of future workstations. They tackle issues like architectural trends in workstation design, the combination of workstations with HDTV and speech processing, automatic reading and understanding of documents, the automated development of software or the processing of inexact knowledge. With a look onthe broad spectrum of aspects treated i this book it is suitable for research and development, sales and marketing,and for ambitious users of workstations who want to catch an impression of features that will be common in future systems.
