BoT Applications Research Articles

Development and Implementation of Technology for Creating a Wide Class of Applications Such as Chatbots Based on Formal Models

The article proposes the concept of a platform for the development, accumulation and use of specialized applications – bots that automate functions related to informing, ordering and fulfilling orders, the implementation of multi-stage processes using capabilities of social networks and messenger programs. Individual stages of these processes depend on various circumstances, most important and influential being events and features of participants who are abonents of the said social networks and users of messengers. Differences in such features and circumstances affect complexity, structure and overall composition of the whole application, determining the entire end-to-end flow of the development process. Due to that, creation of the said applications require thorough planning and coherent, thought-out approach to conduction of design work on stages crucial to the whole multistage process. Based on those assumptions, a general approach to creating bots using formal models is described, including usage of state machines, logical models, and descriptions of business processes. Diagram specifications are built based on analysis of business processes to facilitate the conduction of implementation of proposed bot applications. In the platform implementation plan, the practical implementation of the component is proposed, which ensures the construction of the logic for processing user actions within the implementation of the given business process in accordance with the diagram specification. An example of using a practical implementation of a component to create a bot is described to better illustrate peculiarities and features of individual process stages, implementation of bot applications and flow of development as a whole. Development of a platform that is to be composed of such applications is envisioned.

Study on the Development and Implementation of Ubiquitous Bots for the Discord Interface

Over the past few years, Discord’s popularity has grown tremendously, expanding its target user demographic. Discord, in recent times, has broken the walls that they had previously encapsulated themselves within, and are growing to be much more than an application meant exclusively for gamers. Now, colleges, schools, offices, and groups with common interests have come together to establish communities where all parties are benefited. Discord provides a platform for developers to contribute to the community and various guilds with its publicly available Application Programming Interface (API) - called the Discord API. This paper aims to analyse bot applications, taking our own bot created for student communities, called ‘Kanmani’, written in Python, as an example. Development of a bot involves a multitude of steps right from creating an application on the developers’ portal, writing code for the backend of the bot, ensuring maintenance of security features, and hosting it on a platform that allows the service to be always available to Discord servers. Depending on the requirements of a server and its members, an appropriate bot can be developed and added using Discord's API.

A New Task Offloading Strategy for Scheduling BoT Applications in a Mobile Edge Computing Environment

This paper proposes a new metaheuristic algorithm for scheduling BoT applications, consisting of many independent tasks that can be processed in parallel, in a mobile edge computing environment under mobile device’s energy constraint. We formulate this energy-constrained BoT scheduling problem as an integer program. To solve the formulated optimization problem, we propose an efficient scheduling metaheuristic that employs the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) framework to determine the most appropriate task offloading solution. We use a task sequence to represent the offloading solution. The proposed algorithm starts with using the small-size-first policy to generate the initial solution, which is identified as the best individual in the initial whale population. We develop a cost-effective mapping operator to map each whale individual onto a feasible task sequence. We further design a greedy search-based task assignment strategy to determine the assignment of BoT tasks onto MEC servers under the energy constraint, such that the completion time of BoT applications can be determined and used as the fitness value of the corresponding whale individual. Built upon the WOA framework and DM operator, we develop the metaheuristic algorithm to iteratively update the population and explore better solutions. Experimental results show that the proposed scheduling algorithm outperforms the baseline algorithm in terms of both computational efficiency and scheduling performance when scheduling BoT applications in a MEC environment.

Robotyzacja procesów podatkowych w przedsiębiorstwie

Objective: To characterise selected areas of robotic process automation (RPA) for tax processes in Polish enterprises.Research Design & Methods: The article was written on the basis of a literature review, reports from consulting companies and three examples of virtual robot applications in tax processes carried out by enterprises operating in Poland.Findings: The current perception of the goals and methods of implementing tax processes in enterprises is favourable for the application of virtual robots. Practitioners believe the automation of tax processes is a remedy for the challenges that arise in this area: the need for accuracy in determining the tax base and tax liability, the labour required to obtain and report tax information, the need to make accounting and reporting processes repeatable and the significant risk that must be shouldered in the light of errors and non-compliance. An additional factor supporting the development of robotisation is the evolution of tax requirements, in particular the development of electronic reporting and generally available databases, creating new possibilities for verifying this dimension of business activity.Implications / Recommendations: The examples described characterise the RPA used in progressive tax processes in enterprises operating in Poland. They also consider additional organisational factors determining the effectiveness of virtual bot applications. These include incompatibility and the large number of sources necessary that are needed to properly implement tax processes.Contribution: The article looks at modern accounting practices, an area about which too little is known. The study is one of the first to explore the problems of tax process robotisation in enterprises operating in Poland.

Aplikasi Bot Akademik BAAK STMIK Jakarta STI&K Platform Line Messenger Menggunakan Go Languages

BAAK Jakarta STMIK Campus STI & K or the Academic and Student Administration Bureau is a bureau that handles everything related to organizing teaching and learning activities at the STMIK Jakarta STI & K Campus. Problems with the services provided on the site include, among other things, class schedules, exam schedules, academic news, academic calendars, KRS (Study Plan Card) filling schedules and others. The method in this study uses the waterfall in designing BOT applications based on the Line Messenger platform. The results of this study are to facilitate and expand student access to obtain services from BAAK. Not only makes it easy to get information about academics at the STMIK Jakarta STI & K Campus, but also makes it easy to share that information with friends.

On the Potential, Feasibility, and Effectiveness of Chat Bots in Public Health Research Going Forward.

This paper will discuss whether bots, particularly chat bots, can be useful in public health research and health or pharmacy systems operations. Bots have been discussed for many years; particularly when coupled with artificial intelligence, they offer the opportunity of automating mundane or error-ridden processes and tasks by replacing human involvement. This paper will discuss areas where there are greater advances in the use of bots, as well as areas that may benefit from the use of bots, and will offer practical ways to get started with bot technology. Several popular bot applications and bot development tools along with practical security considerations will be discussed, and a toolbox that one can begin to use to implement bots will be presented.

A survey and taxonomy of resource optimisation for executing bag-of-task applications on public clouds

Cloud computing has been widely adopted due to the flexibility in resource provisioning and on-demand pricing models. Entire clusters of Virtual Machines (VMs) can be dynamically provisioned to meet the computational demands of users. However, from a user’s perspective, it is still challenging to utilise cloud resources efficiently. This is because an overwhelmingly wide variety of resource types with different prices and significant performance variations are available.This paper presents a survey and taxonomy of existing research in optimising the execution of Bag-of-Task applications on cloud resources. A BoT application consists of multiple independent tasks, each of which can be executed by a VM in any order; these applications are widely used by both the scientific communities and commercial organisations. The objectives of this survey are as follows: (i) to provide the reader with a concise understanding of existing research on optimising the execution of BoT applications on the cloud, (ii) to define a taxonomy that categorises current frameworks to compare and contrast them, and (iii) to present current trends and future research directions in the area.

On Communication Assistance Via Bots —Towards IMDJ

Communication robots (bots) have been popular in our lives. Actually robots have several shapes and possibilities. In several applications such as SNS, bots with simple pattern matching are installed and they do not provide natural conversation. However users sometimes can enjoy the conversation. There might be a certain shikake in the applications or users can enjoy the vertual conversation as it is.In this paper we investigate what types of bot are preferable in the Human-Computer interaction. We prepare several types of bot to determine the preferable features of bots. From the experiments, we could determine types of words for an enjoyable or comfortable conversation (interaction). Thus we can install such a conversation shikake in the bot applications. In addition, we will give a certain suggestion for the preparation of a certain mechanism for the conversation activation in the Innovators Marketplace on Data Jacket (IMDJ).

BOUNDS ON THE SCALABILITY OF BAG-OF-TASKS APPLICATIONS RUNNING ON MASTER-SLAVE PLATFORMS

Bag-of-Tasks applications are parallel applications composed of independent (i.e., embarrassingly parallel) tasks that do not communicate with each other, may depend upon one or more input files, and can be executed in any order. Each file may be input for more than one task. A common framework to execute BoT applications is the master-slave topology, in which the user machine is used to control the execution of tasks. In this scenario, a large number of concurrent tasks competing for resources (e.g., CPU and communication links) severely limits the scalability. In this paper we studied the scalability of BoT applications running on multi-node systems (e.g. clusters and grids) organized as master-slave platforms, considering two communications paradigms: multiplexed connections and efficient broadcast. We prove that the lowest bound possible on the isoefficiency function for master-slave platforms is achievable by those platforms that have an O(1) efficient broadcast primitive available. We also analyze the impact of output file contention in scalability, under different assumptions. Our study employs a set of simulation experiments that confirms and extends the theoretical results (e.g. by simulating TCP links).