Purpose – To provide comprehensive literature review on the utilisation of intelligent agent technology in the library environment. Design/methodology/approach – Research papers since 1990 on the use of various intelligent agent technologies in libraries are divided into two main application areas: (1) Digital Library (DL), including agent-based DL projects, multi-agent architecture for DLs, in...

The purpose of this article is to consider how ethical principles can inform the effective design and implementation of technology-based interventions that aim to promote the well-being of socially isolated older adults. We evaluated a new iPad application with small groups of older adults. In this article, we reflect on the ethical issues encountered at each stage of the research process. Draw...

a new intelligent photovoltaic (PV) panel structure to extract the maximum power in mismatch irradiance is proposed. In conventional structures, difference of irradiance between series panels can cause the deviation of maximum power point. In this condition tracking MPP becomes difficult and reduces efficiency. Improvements in power electronics and its effects in PV industrial technology, devel...

Transformer is the power equipment of power system core. Intelligent monitoring and operation of transformer can not only monitor the full range of the transformer, the realization of state evaluation, it should be required repair, maintenance required good, but also on the latent fault early diagnosis and prediction. Research on transformer intelligent monitoring and operating technology of sa...

From the viewpoint of knowledge and intelligence, to bridge data mining and agents, this paper deal with an efficient way that is building intelligent systems by means of meta-synthesis proposed by Chinese scientists, which is used multiple human intelligence implantations for intelligent system, take full advantage of agents as well as analysis and meta-synthesis. Such systems combine the qual...

We have technology now to design networks of small intelligent units capable of competing and/or co-operating with each other on specified tasks and making decisions under conditions of uncertainty through a process of negotiation. In highly dynamic environments, such distributed systems are capable of achieving considerably better results in terms of performance/cost ratio and reliability than...

Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) is the integration of various pieces of information and computer technologies to the transportation elements in order to obtain a more productive transportation system. The five major components of IVHS are the Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS), Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS), and Advanced Public Transportation systems (APTS). This pa...

Agent technology is one of the most widely discussed topics in information systems and computer science literature. New software products are being introduced each day. A growing number of computer information professionals recognize that there are definite issues surrounding intelligent agent terminology. These must be resolved if agent technology is to continue to develop and establish. Curre...

The dramatic changes in integrated-circuit technology over the last two decades have been of great benefit to countries such as Zimbabwe. High volume production of VLSI chips has produced a supply of intelligent, versatile electronic processing devices at very low cost. In particular the facilities of the microcontroller have steadily developed to the accompaniment of a reduction in price. Sinc...