Adoption and use of open source library management systems in Indian libraries is gaining momentum. Koha is the first free and open source library automation package. Its excellent features have made it popular among the user community within a short span of time. This paper provides a brief picture of Koha software adoption and the users’ perceptions about it in the Indian library scenario and...

CONVENTIONAL SURFACE INSPECTION We have developed a new apparatus to cope W I T H LASER BEAM. with the surface inspection of products having even undulating or stepped surfaces. To realize such surface inspection, we combined the three dimensi~nal shape measurement through laser beam scanning and the flaw and defwct identification t h m u g h diffraction light pattern analysis. This combination...

Medical records are crucial resources for every aspect of healthcare practice. The amount and complexity of the information they bear require the use of automation. In this paper we propose a method for separating and classifying the information available in medical records, drawing on Karl Popper philosophical theories. We test this method by using descriptions of clinical cases within the sco...

In this paper we present an abstract semantic representation that is suitable for complex buildings. Facades with high-level detail are required in several domains, e.g. visualization of architectural settings and archaeological sites as well as computer animations. In order to support the user’s modeling task, besides geometrical data structural information like spatial relations is required. ...

To improve solution efficiency and automation of assembly sequence planning, a symbolic ordered binary decision diagram (OBDD) technique for assembly sequence planning problem based on unordered partition with 2 parts of a positive integer is proposed. To convert the decomposition of assembly liaison graph into solving unordered partition with 2 parts of positive integer N, a transformation met...

The level of automation employed in semi-automated assembly systems is crucial, both to system performance and cost. This paper presents a methodology to enable selection of the right Level of Automation. The method thoroughly maps existing product and information flows as well as the automation level in separate parts of the system. It then analyses and identifies future automation possibiliti...

Many of the tasks that are potential candidates for automation involve grasping. We are interested in the programming of robots to perform grasping tasks. To do this, we propose the notion of “perceptual programming,” where the key idea is to enable a system to observe a human performing a task, understand it, and perform the task with minimal human intervention. This allows the programmer to e...

In this study, we investigate the association between information technology (IT) spending and future firm performance. Critics contend that greater expenditures on IT rarely lead to superior financial results, citing studies that compare firm performance to current IT spending. But valuation and stock-return studies have found a positive association between the market value of firms and their ...

Workkow management systems provide functions for process modeling, implementation and automation. Many systems do not allow modeling organizational goals and relating these goals with the processes which enable them. The method OSSAD provides models and project management guidelines to this eeort. But this method is not suucient to fully support workkow management. In order to do so, we deene W...

With the advances in e-Sciences and the growing complexity of scientific analyses, more and more scientists and researchers are relying on workflow systems for process coordination, derivation automation, provenance tracking, and bookkeeping. While workflow systems have been in use for decades, it is unclear whether scientific workflows can or even should build on existing workflow technologies...