Intelligence components

Finally the draft regulation requires that active and intelligent packagings are suitable and effective for the intended purpose and that the active and intelligent components are authorised. Authorisation will be granted after a positive opinion of the EFSA and will be valid only to the applicant for an authorisation. The authorisation will be valid for a period of ten years and may be renewed for another period of ten years. The authorisation will be published in a Decision to the applicant. In addition the active and intelligent components will be inserted in a list of authorised components. 

Fig. 17.1 Procedure for application, evaluation and authorisation of active and intelligent components.

The customer s virtual assistant represents the system in the dialogue with the customer and implements the multimodal interface concept for both e-commerce and technical support sections. The role of the multimodal interface is to make the virtual market close to the real world the virtual assistant and the real vendor in the sales process are similar. The customer s virtual assistance also implements the call center capabilities it queries the business intelligence component that decides the type of problem the customer has, calls the technical support and establish the communication between the customer and one of the technical support specialists. 

Such a component server, called Intelligent Component Database (ICDB), and shown in Figure 8, has been developed at UCI [ChGa90]. ICDB can dynamically generate components for a given set of constraints and attributes. 

ChGa90] G.D.Chen, D. D. Gajski, An Intelligent Component Database for Behavioral Synthesis , Proc. DAC, 1990. 

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