Study on Development Strategies of Chinese Library Based on Ubiquitous Knowledge Environment

Ubiquitous knowledge environment with five salient features is transferring from concept to reality. The library based on ubiquitous knowledge environment not only faces the rare development opportunities with three levels, but also encounters unprecedented challenges and crises. Building a system with characteristics of high-quality mass knowledge resources, creating a personalized intelligent service system and establishing human values, achieving transfer from the information services to knowledge services, and constructing a highly collaborative library alliance are the only ways for the healthy development of Chinese libraries under ubiquitous knowledge environment

Digital services of regional centers for scientific and technical information in China

The article aims to study the current level of digital services of the regional subsystem of the National System of Scientific and Technical Information of the People's Republic of China and to determine its optimization directions.A content analysis of 28 provincial institutes of scientific and technical information’s official sites was carried out; the most powerful of them were identified in terms of resource and service potential, the level of organization of corporate cooperation based on consolidated digital platforms of multifunctional user service. It is proved that the level of efficiency of digital services of regional scientific and technical information systems directly depends on the level of the province’s economic development and the ability of its government to finance and technologically equip information industry centers activities, and to establish sustainable interaction of all subjects of the information market. Summarizing the results of the content analysis made it possible to identify reserves for improving the service capabilities of the Chinese information industry’s regional clusters, to design vectors for diversifying consulting, expert-analytical, cognitive services of provincial institutes of scientific and technical information, the development of integrated innovation-oriented intelligent service platforms operating based on artificial intelligence technologies

Performance Evaluation of Long Range (LoRa) Wireless RF Technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) Using Dragino LoRa at 915 MHz

Internet of Things (IoT) is a developing concept that introduces the network of physical sensors that are interconnected to each other. Within this smart environment, smart objects use the interconnectivity to process, communicate, and exchange data among themselves without any human interaction. Some sensors are wirelessly connected among themselves and to the internet. Currently, IoT applications demand substantial requirements in terms of Radio Access Network (RAN) such as long-range outdoor coverage, environmental factors, obstructions, interference, power consumption, and many others. Also, the current wireless technologies are not able to satisfy all these requirements simultaneously. Therefore, there is no single wireless standard that would predominate the IoT. However, one relevant wireless radio solution to IoT is known as Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN), which is one of the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies [1]. LPWAN has appeared as a significant solution to offer advantages such as long-range coverage connectivity with low power consumption, an unlicensed spectrum, and affordability. Most likely LoRa with the inherent long-range coverage and low power consumption features will become the “go-to” technology for IoT applications [2]. LoRa is a novel solution that is attracting considerable attention for both academic and industrial purposes [3, 4]. For that reason, the proposed research entails the feasibility analysis and performance evaluation of LoRa communication focusing on the physical layer, which involves the radio configuration parameters such as Spreading Factor (SF), Signal Bandwidth (BW), Coding Rate (CR), and payload size. This experimental work includes connecting to different IoT servers in the cloud, such as “The Things Network” (TTN), “ThinkSpeak”, and integration with “Cayenne”. Therefore, 348 (120 first + 228-second test) different configurations are carried out among SF, BW, CR, and payload in order to measure the impact on Time-on-air (ToA). When a payload size of 25 bytes (2 sensors) was connected to the ThingSpeak server, only 57 out of 120 configurations met the FCC’s requirement on ToA (\u3c 400 ms) [5]. It was observed that the number of configurations reduced further to 23 when the payload size was increased up to 118 bytes (10 sensors)

Identity in research infrastructure and scientific communication: Report from the 1st IRISC workshop, Helsinki Sep 12-13, 2011

Motivation for the IRISC workshop came from the observation that identity and digital identification are increasingly important factors in modern scientific research, especially with the now near-ubiquitous use of the Internet as a global medium for dissemination and debate of scientific knowledge and data, and as a platform for scientific collaborations and large-scale e-science activities.

The 1 1/2 day IRISC2011 workshop sought to explore a series of interrelated topics under two main themes: i) unambiguously identifying authors/creators & attributing their scholarly works, and ii) individual identification and access management in the context of identity federations. Specific aims of the workshop included:

• Raising overall awareness of key technical and non-technical challenges, opportunities and developments.
• Facilitating a dialogue, cross-pollination of ideas, collaboration and coordination between diverse – and largely unconnected – communities.
• Identifying & discussing existing/emerging technologies, best practices and requirements for researcher identification.

This report provides background information on key identification-related concepts & projects, describes workshop proceedings and summarizes key workshop findings

Design and Implementation of CI/CD over LoRaWAN : Continuous Integration and Deployment in LoRaWAN Edge Computing Applications

The recent rise of IoT devices in commercial and industrial spaces has created a demand for energy-efficient and reliable communication solutions. Communication solutions used on IoT devices vary depending on the applications. Wireless Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies have proven benefits, including long-range, low power, and low-cost communication alternatives for IoT devices. These benefits come at the cost of limitations, such as lower data rates. At the same time, the demand for faster, cheaper, and more reliable software deployment is becoming more critical than ever before. This thesis aims to find a way of having an automated process where software could be remotely deployed into LoRa nodes and investigate whether it is possible to implement a DevOps pipeline with both Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) over LoRaWAN. For this thesis, an IoT LoRaWAN Edge computing application was chosen to determine how to design and implement a CI/CD pipeline to ensure a dependable and a continuous software deployment to the LoRaWAN nodes. Designing and implementing a Continuous Deployment pipeline for this IoT application was made possible with the integration of DevOps tools like GitHub and a TeamCity automation server. Additionally, a series of scripts have been designed and developed for this case, including automated tests, integration to cloud services, and file fragmentation and defragmentation tools. For software deployment and verification to the LoRaWAN network, a program was designed to communicate with the LoRaWAN network server over the WebSocket communication protocol. The implementation of DevOps in LoRaWAN applications is affected by the limitations of the LoRaWAN protocol. This thesis argues that these limitations can be eliminated using modular software and file fragmentation techniques. The implementation presented in this work can be extended for various time-critical use cases. The solution presented in this thesis also opens the door to combining LoRaWAN with other LPWAN technologies, like NB-IoT, that can be activated on demand

Cloud manufacturing architecture: a critical analysis of its development, characteristics and future agenda to support its adoption

Purpose: In the last decade, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has attracted considerable attention from academia and industry worldwide. It is widely accepted that the design and analysis of cloud manufacturing architecture (CMfg-A) are the basis for developing and applying CMfg systems. However, in existing studies, analysis of the status, development process and internal characteristics of CMfg-A is lacking, hindering an understanding of the research hotspots and development trends of CMfg-A. Meanwhile, effective guidance is lacking on the construction of superior CMfg-As. The purpose of this paper is to review the relevant research on CMfg-A via identification of the main layers, elements, relationships, structure and functions of CMfg-A to provide valuable information to scholars and practitioners for further research on key CMfg-A technologies and the construction of CMfg systems with superior performance. Design/methodology/approach: This study systematically reviews the relevant research on CMfg-A across transformation process to internal characteristics by integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. First, the split and reorganization method is used to recognize the main layers of CMfg-A. Then, the transformation process of six main layers is analysed through retrospective analysis, and the similarities and differences in CMfg-A are obtained. Subsequently, based on systematic theory, the elements, relationships, structure and functions of CMfg-A are inductively studied. A 3D printing architecture design case is conducted to discuss the weakness of the previous architecture and demonstrate how to improve it. Finally, the primary current trends and future opportunities are presented. Findings: By analyzing the transformation process of CMfg-A, this study finds that CMfg-A resources are developing from tangible resources into intangible resources and intelligent resources. CMfg-A technology is developing from traditional cloud computing-based technology towards advanced manufacturing technology, and CMfg-A application scope is gradually expanding from traditional manufacturing industry to emerging manufacturing industry. In addition, by analyzing the elements, relationships, structure and functions of CMfg-A, this study finds that CMfg-A is undergoing a new generation of transformation, with trends of integrated development, intelligent development, innovative development and green development. Case study shows that the analysis of the development trend and internal characteristics of the architecture facilitates the design of a more effective architecture. Research limitations/implications: This paper predominantly focuses on journal articles and some key conference papers published in English and Chinese. The reason for considering Chinese articles is that CMfg was proposed by the Chinese and a lot of Chinese CMfg-A articles have been published in recent years. CMfg is suitable for the development of China’s manufacturing industry because of China’s intelligent manufacturing environment. It is believed that this research has reached a reliable comprehensiveness that can help scholars and practitioners establish new research directions and evaluate their work in CMfg-A. Originality/value: Prior studies ignore the identification and analysis of development process and internal characteristics for the current development of CMfg-A, including the main layers identification of different CMfg-As and the transformation process analysis of these main layers, and in-depth analysis of the inner essence of CMfg-A (such as its elements, relationships, structure and functions). This study addresses these limitations and provides a comprehensive literature review

Multiplex Communities and the Emergence of International Conflict

Advances in community detection reveal new insights into multiplex and multilayer networks. Less work, however, investigates the relationship between these communities and outcomes in social systems. We leverage these advances to shed light on the relationship between the cooperative mesostructure of the international system and the onset of interstate conflict. We detect communities based upon weaker signals of affinity expressed in United Nations votes and speeches, as well as stronger signals observed across multiple layers of bilateral cooperation. Communities of diplomatic affinity display an expected negative relationship with conflict onset. Ties in communities based upon observed cooperation, however, display no effect under a standard model specification and a positive relationship with conflict under an alternative specification. These results align with some extant hypotheses but also point to a paucity in our understanding of the relationship between community structure and behavioral outcomes in networks.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1802.0039

Functional requirements document for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Scientific Computing Facilities (SCF) of the NASA/MSFC Earth Science and Applications Division, 1992

Five scientists at MSFC/ESAD have EOS SCF investigator status. Each SCF has unique tasks which require the establishment of a computing facility dedicated to accomplishing those tasks. A SCF Working Group was established at ESAD with the charter of defining the computing requirements of the individual SCFs and recommending options for meeting these requirements. The primary goal of the working group was to determine which computing needs can be satisfied using either shared resources or separate but compatible resources, and which needs require unique individual resources. The requirements investigated included CPU-intensive vector and scalar processing, visualization, data storage, connectivity, and I/O peripherals. A review of computer industry directions and a market survey of computing hardware provided information regarding important industry standards and candidate computing platforms. It was determined that the total SCF computing requirements might be most effectively met using a hierarchy consisting of shared and individual resources. This hierarchy is composed of five major system types: (1) a supercomputer class vector processor; (2) a high-end scalar multiprocessor workstation; (3) a file server; (4) a few medium- to high-end visualization workstations; and (5) several low- to medium-range personal graphics workstations. Specific recommendations for meeting the needs of each of these types are presented

Internet of robotic things : converging sensing/actuating, hypoconnectivity, artificial intelligence and IoT Platforms

The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is evolving rapidly and influencing newdevelopments in various application domains, such as the Internet of MobileThings (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous Systemof Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internetof Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influencerepresents new development and deployment challenges in different areassuch as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and manyothers. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication ofmultiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safetyand protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrencyrequire new ideas for integrating the intelligent “devices”, collaborativerobots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configurationand context based IoT systems for service implementation and integrationwith IoT network service composition are of paramount importance whennew “cognitive devices” are becoming active participants in IoT applications.This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage offuture challenges, developments and applications