This paper presents the Modelica Standard Library, an ontology used in modeling and simulation of physical systems. The Modelica Standard Library is continuously developed in the Modelica community. We present parts of the Modelica Standard Library and show an example of its usage. Also, in this paper we focus on the comparison of Modelica, the language used to specify the Modelica Standard Lib...

Spatial analysis of usage data for a new open-access library and information science e-journal indicates that within the US the geographic distribution of page views is similar to the geographic distribution of the sponsoring program’s alumni locations. Outside the US, the geographic distribution of page views was greatest in Europe, followed by Asia, Africa and South America. The top two most ...

The article presents a survey on usage statistics management in academic libraries in France. The objective is to provide empirical evidence on real methods and processes, best practices and problems experienced by librarians. The survey adapted the Baker & Read (2008) methodology to the French context. One third of the French academic libraries answered to the survey. Results show that usage s...

This paper describes the architecture of costa, an abstract interpretation based cost and termination analyzer for Java bytecode. The system receives as input a bytecode program, (a choice of) a resource of interest and tries to obtain an upper bound of the resource consumption of the program. costa provides several non-trivial notions of cost, as the consumption of the heap, the number of byte...

The collaboration of faculty and library in Problem Based Learning (PBL) has led to an abundance of studies in the medical and health sciences. This article reports on the emerging roles of librarians in studies on PBL implementation during the past 10 years. The initial analysis revealed studies which focussed on the effects of PBL on library usage. However the trend has since evolved to studi...

Backward compatibility is a major concern for any library developer. In this paper, we evaluate how stable a set of frequently used third-party libraries is in terms of method removals, implementation change, the ratio of change in old methods to change in new ones and the percentage of new methods in each snapshot. We provide a motivating example of a commercial company which demonstrates seve...

This article uses an evidenced based approach using the finding of the Library Impact Data Project to help market library resources to students at the University of Huddersfield. Initiatives discussed include the roving librarian, desk-top visits and Lemontree (library game). Reading list software is also used to drive usage and the marketing of these services is also discussed. Finally, the pa...