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    Vol. 5, issue 3

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    Geek the Library Jazz and world music collection Laptop Central … as busy as ever! Bryant’s newest author… John Duke Logan, class of 2016! 2 portable glass boards! Spotlight on Student Employee Melanie DeBarros — Class of 2014 Information Services Technology Fair What’s NEW in Graphic Novels ... The Architecture of Bryant - Past and Present Information Literacy Month Proclamation - 201

    Vol. 4, issue 2

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    The George E. Bello Center for Information and Technology Turns Ten New Technology Available at the Circulation Desk! Ernest E. Stempel Foundation Funds New Enhanced Databases e-Portfolio Assistance Virtual Library Tour Celebrate INFORMATION LITERACY MONTH with us! New Staff Member: Annette Feldman When Librarians Party

    Enhancement-led institutional review : Edinburgh College of Art

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    An Approach to Agent-Based Service Composition and Its Application to Mobile

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    This paper describes an architecture model for multiagent systems that was developed in the European project LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform). Its main feature is a set of generic services that are implemented independently of the agents and can be installed into the agents by the application developer in a flexible way. Moreover, two applications using this architecture model are described that were also developed within the LEAP project. The application domain is the support of mobile, virtual teams for the German automobile club ADAC and for British Telecommunications

    Event-driven industrial robot control architecture for the Adept V+ platform

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    Modern industrial robotic systems are highly interconnected. They operate in a distributed environment and communicate with sensors, computer vision systems, mechatronic devices, and computational components. On the fundamental level, communication and coordination between all parties in such distributed system are characterized by discrete event behavior. The latter is largely attributed to the specifics of communication over the network, which, in terms, facilitates asynchronous programming and explicit event handling. In addition, on the conceptual level, events are an important building block for realizing reactivity and coordination. Eventdriven architecture has manifested its effectiveness for building loosely-coupled systems based on publish-subscribe middleware, either general-purpose or robotic-oriented. Despite all the advances in middleware, industrial robots remain difficult to program in context of distributed systems, to a large extent due to the limitation of the native robot platforms. This paper proposes an architecture for flexible event-based control of industrial robots based on the Adept V+ platform. The architecture is based on the robot controller providing a TCP/IP server and a collection of robot skills, and a high-level control module deployed to a dedicated computing device. The control module possesses bidirectional communication with the robot controller and publish/subscribe messaging with external systems. It is programmed in asynchronous style using pyadept, a Python library based on Python coroutines, AsyncIO event loop and ZeroMQ middleware. The proposed solution facilitates integration of Adept robots into distributed environments and building more flexible robotic solutions with eventbased logic

    A Question of Empowerment: Information Technology and Civic Engagement in New Haven, Connecticut

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    Extravagant claims have been made for the capacity of IT (information technology) to empower citizens and to enhance the capacity of civic organizations. This study of IT use by organizations and agencies in New Haven, Connecticut, 1998-2004, tests these claims, finding that the use of IT by nonprofits is selective, tending to serve agencies patronized by community elites rather than populations in need. In addition, the study finds that single interest groups are far more effective in using IT than more diverse civic and neighborhood groups.This publication is Hauser Center Working Paper No. 30. The Hauser Center Working Paper Series was launched during the summer of 2000. The Series enables the Hauser Center to share with a broad audience important works-in-progress written by Hauser Center scholars and researchers

    Access in a Networked World: Scholars Portal in Context

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