JPH01180048A - Information processing system by data driving process - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the number of processes for an information processing and to execute a data drive not to lose important information by detecting the feature of input data, automatically continuously driving the process, which can work the data, and promoting the drive of the other process with the output result of one process. CONSTITUTION:To the input data to be inputted to a data area 1, a demon 5 to be always activated in a computer system detects the condition of the header of the data in the area 1 with using a detector 2. To the detected header, the demon 5 compares a usage list and a form list as process attribute information. The process corresponding to these usage list and form list is loaded to a process executing area 6 with using a loader 8. The output of this area 6 is data-read 3 out of the area 1 and the prescribed header is added to a processed result and outputted to the area 1 with using a data writer 4. The demon 5 repeats these works and continues it up to a condition that the process to be driven is not found in a process storing area 9.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to information processing performed in a computer system, and relates to a series of procedures that can read, process, and write data automatically and independently of other processes. The present invention relates to an information processing method using a data-driven process that accomplishes a desired task without programming the task using a plurality of independent processes.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, information processing procedures for processing information for each job on a computer system have been realized by explicitly providing them in the form of programming. In this method, all calculation processing steps are given to the input data by programming the output results and the procedures in between, or an executable format that can execute a series of procedures is registered as a command, and the type of input data and the procedures in between are registered as commands. Because it was necessary to judge the application and manually input and drive a series of commands to perform the required information processing, the number of man-hours required for programming or the judgment of process selection that matches the input data and its drive were reduced. The amount of time it takes to interact with a computer increases the cost of information processing and is an obstacle to widespread use.

On the other hand, in the UNIX operating system developed by AT&T as a method to reduce programming man-hours in recent years, this command is concatenated with the minimum number of files in memory. , a high-speed and efficient information processing method consisting of a complex process is known.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

According to the method described above, in order to perform information processing, multiple executable procedures are linked and used depending on the content and purpose of the input data, thereby achieving the same effects as with conventional programming. However, in order to obtain the desired output results from input data, it is necessary to manually select and run executable commands that perform intermediate information processing. It couldn't be avoided. In addition, in order to respond to the recent need for a processing procedure that executes multiple information processes on a single piece of information and obtains a desired output result, there are many executable commands available. Although the number of combinations of drive orders is large, there is a drawback that the drive order that produces the important output result may be overlooked.

The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate such conventional drawbacks,
An object of the present invention is to provide a one-line information processing method using a data-driven process to reduce the number of steps for information processing and to process information without losing important information.

[Means for solving problems]

The information processing method using the data-driven process of the present invention detects the characteristics of input data and automatically continues to drive a process that can process the data.
The output result of the process also drives other processes, and as a result, the output result equivalent to that of a conventional programmed business system is obtained.

[Effect]

In the present invention, a process that can process input data is automatically driven, so there is no need to interactively drive an executable command as in the conventional method. Furthermore, the disadvantage of overlooking the processing order that brings out the most information latent in input data is eliminated.

〔Example〕

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment, and assumes that input data is input into data area 1. A header with the contents shown in Table 1 is added to this data as information indicating its own characteristics.

Using detector 2, a process called a daemon, which is always running in a computer system, always detects the header shown in Table 1 of the data in data area 1 in response to input data entered into the data area of Table 1. The state of is being detected. The daemon 5 compares the detected header with a usage list and a format list as process attribute information as shown in Table 2.

The process corresponding to the usage list/format list is loaded into Loader 8.
Load it into the process execution area 6 using . The loaded process reads input data from the detected data area 1 using the data reader 3, adds the header shown in Table 1 to the processing result, and writes it to the data area 1 using the data writer 4. do.

The daemon 5 repeats these operations until the process to be driven is not found in the process storage area 9. At this time, the daemon 5 notifies the human being of the completion of processing via the computer system, and enters a standby state until the next input data is input.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The difference between the present invention (shown in FIG. 1) and the conventional information processing method will be exemplarily shown. One of the expected effects is a reduction in man-hours, but considering that in the conventional interactive method it takes t seconds to select and run one executable command, it is possible to reduce the number of man-hours by connecting n processes. If information processing is realized, it will lead to a reduction of nt seconds. Furthermore, the second expected effect is that the data generated in data area l in Figure 1 is the result of processing through a group of processes that depend on the characteristics of the input data, so all the data derived from the input data By covering the machining steps, the disadvantage of overlooking process combination steps required to produce several possible output results is eliminated.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1... Data area, 2... Detector, 3... Data reader, 4... Data writer, 5... Demon,
6... Process execution area, 7... Process detector,
8...Loader, 9...Process storage area. Agent Patent Attorney Susumu Uchihara

Claims (1)

[Claims] For data input into a computer system, multiple processes can independently and automatically process input data by recognizing the characteristics of that data and driving another process that is adapted to the data. It is characterized by being able to process information automatically, automatically obtain different processing procedures for each job, and process information at a level equal to or higher than a specially programmed process. An information processing method using data-driven processes.