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Upon receiving an official appointment to the faculty of the National University, dealing with both higher education and basic research, the following responsibilities regarding computer and electronic media R&D in education were undertaken; e.g. attainments in the fields of advanced educational environments and software engineering R&D on high quality software using intelligent design schemes and design aids. Especially, research based items such as newly developed system design processes initiated by upper software for the purposes of higher functionality (software dominated) and multidisciplinary R&D on electronic media introducible environments into higher educational situations, along with education based items such as on-site case studies for pedagogical methods and electronic media materials applications to meet internationally accredited engineering education qualifications were daily requirements of this position. Afterwards, practical applications for cost effective educational environments and feasible types of verification including evolutionary R&D, along with pedagogical analyses based on multimedia quantitative data and fundamental practices in highly structured network environments were researched: i.e. distance education and learning, local media to hypermedia, electronic reading, paper to electronic books based on mobile phones, next generation web platforms and so on. Incidentally, works on distance learning research integration in international conferences and societies, reviews of accomplishments in cooperation with USA/ European professionals, paper publications on distance learning with related activities and also international collaborative work on multimedia materials used in higher education in the US continue to be conducted.

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With the use of expert system technologies, our aim is to construct an interactive design aid environment with a highly semantic description facility and a logically effective verification facility for increasing software productivity oriented toward reutilization. This paper discusses current design issues and expert system technologies introduction to its design method in large scale engineering system, especially from the viewpoint of software conceptual design. Some simulation results applied in an expert system for conceptual design which was developed in the research for reducing the restriction of conventional software data design process found as a typical design issue, are shown as an application example, including next forthcoming directions of intelligent design aids research based on highly parallel network concept (CSP based) for efficient process communication.

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