Automatic window rearrangement using fuzzy rules

Today, it is popular that operating systems load the "window system" as a user interface on small computers such as personal computers, workstations, and so on. In these window systems, the "overlapping multi-window" method is used as a display control method. Although there is much merit in it, some demerits should not be ignored. One of the most undesirable situations is that some other non-active windows may be hidden completely under the active window and become quite invisible when active window is enlarged or opened. In this paper, the "fuzzy control" issue is defined to conquer this situation. That is to say, the issue of recovering the windows which have fallen into a "disadvantageous" status by window (it is active) manipulation to the most "advantageous" status. And a new method of automatic window rearrangement using fuzzy inference is proposed. Finally, the effect of the proposed method is verified in several experiments.