{"title":"Seal Extraction Based on Local Thresholding Techniques and Color Analysis","authors":"Chengyun Wang, Zhenhua Guo, Youbin Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICSS.2014.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSS.2014.24","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a method to extract seal imprints from bank check images. Because seals are often colorized, we can utilize color information to extract them. Firstly, we make use of local thresholding techniques to distinguish seal imprints from background areas. This step not only reduces the complexity of the extraction problem but also gets clear edges. Secondly, we utilize R and G components to get rid of machine-printed characters and noise. Finally, the results of our method are compared with other traditional methods. The experiments prove that our approach is capable of extracting Chinese seal imprints in most cases.","PeriodicalId":206490,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Service Sciences","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123290714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneous Business Process Consolidation: A Pattern-Driven Approach","authors":"Guosheng Kang, Zhaoyang Tian, X. Zhang, L. Zhang, Lixin Ma, Xiang Gao, Xiaonan Zhang, Zizhe Ding","doi":"10.1109/ICSS.2014.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSS.2014.13","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprises today usually grow through mergers, acquisitions. They are often formed in a bottom-up style, which frequently leads to problems of process heterogeneity, redundancies and inconsistencies. Take a large Chinese communication company as an example, it comprises 31 provincial subsidiaries. Due to the heterogeneity of processes, the number of its Office Automation (OA) process schemas is up to more than 8000. This status poses serious challenges for operational activities, and hinders the company from achieving global strategy. In this paper, we propose a heterogeneous business process consolidation approach based on business patterns in which a business is modeled as the interacting abstract business patterns. Each pattern can be further configured to meet a specific subsidiary's requirements. Considering the execution, each pattern is transformed into a set of connected workflow patterns or operational patterns, thus the proposed approach can be realized on most workflow engines today. To provide the global view of business, we apply Complex Event Processing (CEP) on boundaries of business patterns that are aligned among all configuration of certain business pattern. Empirical study of the proposed approach in a large company reveals positive feedback with respect to process consolidation.","PeriodicalId":206490,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Service Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123315447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Location-Based Services Selection Model and Algorithm with QoS Constraints under Mobile Internet Environment","authors":"Mingjun Xin, M. Lu, Rui Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICSS.2014.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSS.2014.51","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of communication technology and mobile Internet, selecting from mass Location-based Services to meet the needs for different users becomes the research hot spot. First, it starts from QoS constraints as well as user preferences in this paper, then describes a mobile service selection framework. Furthermore, a User Preferences Database is built in modeling user preferences. Users' feedback is adopted to update User Preferences Database, which makes the combination between QoS constraints and user preferences more compact. Then, a LBS selection model and algorithm are proposed separately, which considers the QoS attributes and user preferences. Finally, it takes Online Learning Resources Platform based on mobile terminals as a sample, and designs a mobile course resources selection system on campus. The results show that the proposed algorithm is precision and effective in solving the problem of service selection to support Location-based Services personalization.","PeriodicalId":206490,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Service Sciences","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127790356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}