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Ruiz, April M. "Social information gathering in lemurs /." St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/908.
Full textRuiz, April M. "Social information gathering in lemurs." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/908.
Full textShakshuki, Elhadi M. "Cooperative agents for information gathering." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60566.pdf.
Full textRussell, Frank Santi. "Information gathering in classical Greece /." Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University of Michigan press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38802665k.
Full textJakupovic, Edin. "Alternative Information Gathering on Mobile Devices." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-210712.
Full textSökning och insamling av information om specifika ämnen är en tidskrävande, men nödvändig praxis. Med den kontinuerliga tillväxten som gått förbi stationära enheters andel, blir mobilmarknaden ett viktigt område att överväga. Med tanke på rörligheten av bärbara enheter, så blir vissa uppgifter svårare att utföra, jämfört med på stationära enheter. Att söka efter information på Internet är generellt långsammare på mobila enheter än på stationära. De största utmaningarna med att söka efter information på Internet med mobila enheter, är de mindre skärmstorlekarna, och tiden spenderad på att ta sig mellan källor och sökresultat i en webbläsare. Dessa utmaningar kan lösas genom att använda en applikation som fokuserar på relevanta sökresultat och sammanfattar innehållet av dem, samt presenterar dem på en enda vy. Syftet med denna studie är att hitta en alternativ datainsamlingsmetod för attskapa en snabbare och enklare sökupplevelse. Denna datainsamlingsmetod kommer snabbt att kunna hitta och samla in data som begärts via en sökterm av en användare. Därefter analyseras och presenteras data för användaren i en sammanfattad form för att eliminera behovet av att besöka innehållets källa. En undersökning utfördes genom att en mindre målgrupp av användare svarade på ett formulär av frågor. Resultaten visade att metoden var snabb, resultaten var ofta relevanta och sammanfattningarna minskade behovet av att besöka källsidan. Men medan metoden hade potential för framtida utveckling, hindras det av de etiska problemen som associeras med användningen av web scrapers.
Taylor, Todd M. "Internet influence on sports information gathering." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1347737.
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Stranders, Ruben. "Decentralised coordination of information gathering agents." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/172455/.
Full textKassir, Abdallah. "Communication Efficiency in Information Gathering through Dynamic Information Flow." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12113.
Full textArnott, G. "Information gathering and decisions during agonistic encounters." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517073.
Full textBush, Lawrence A. M. "Decision uncertainty minimization and autonomous information gathering." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85758.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283).
Over the past several decades, technologies for remote sensing and exploration have become increasingly powerful but continue to face limitations in the areas of information gathering and analysis. These limitations affect technologies that use autonomous agents, which are devices that can make routine decisions independent of operator instructions. Bandwidth and other communications limitation require that autonomous differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information in a computationally efficient manner. This thesis presents a novel approach to this problem by framing it as an adaptive sensing problem. Adaptive sensing allows agents to modify their information collection strategies in response to the information gathered in real time. We developed and tested optimization algorithms that apply information guides to Monte Carlo planners. Information guides provide a mechanism by which the algorithms may blend online (realtime) and offline (previously simulated) planning in order to incorporate uncertainty into the decisionmaking process. This greatly reduces computational operations as well as decisional and communications overhead. We begin by introducing a 3-level hierarchy that visualizes adaptive sensing at synoptic (global), mesocale (intermediate) and microscale (close-up) levels (a spatial hierarchy). We then introduce new algorithms for decision uncertainty minimization (DUM) and representational uncertainty minimization (RUM). Finally, we demonstrate the utility of this approach to real-world sensing problems, including bathymetric mapping and disaster relief. We also examine its potential in space exploration tasks by describing its use in a hypothetical aerial exploration of Mars. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate future large-scale missions to extraterrestrial objects for the purposes of scientific advancement and human exploration.
by Lawrence A. M. Bush.
Ph. D.
Li, Yuefeng, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Modelling intelligent agents for web-based information gathering." Deakin University. School of Computing and Mathematics, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051201.151125.
Full textPowell, Suzanne Smith. "Infant temperament and cognition: Activity level, information gathering and information processing." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057857675.
Full textGreen, Jonathan Philip. "Information gathering and conflict resolution in Polistes wasps." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39436/.
Full textEvans, Laurel. "Deliberation time-sink : the rationality of gathering information." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55046/.
Full textLiu, X. D. "A NUMERICAL CONTROL AND INFORMATION GATHERING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613186.
Full textThis paper describes a numerical control and information gathering transmission system. The system is designed around an Intel MSC51 single chip microcomputer. The system has proven to be simple and dependable in a user environment. The system is described first, followed by descriptions of the hardware, the memory assignment, and the software strategy.
Khalil, Fahad Ahmed. "Essays on information gathering in principal-agent contracts." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37236.
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Renoux, Jennifer. "Contribution to multiagent planning for active information gathering." Caen, 2015. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01206920.
Full textIn this thesis, we address the problem of performing event exploration. We define event exploration as the process of exploring a topologically known environment to gather information about dynamic events in this environment. Multiagent systems are commonly used for information gathering applications, but bring important challenges such as coordination and communication. This thesis proposes a new fully decentralized model of multiagent planning for information gathering. In this model, called MAPING, the agents use an extended belief state that contains not only their own beliefs but also approximations of other agents' beliefs. With this extended belief state they are able to quantify the relevance of a piece of information for themselves but also for others. They can then decide to explore a specific area or to communicate a specific piece of information according to the action that brings the most information to the system in its totality. The major drawback of this model is its complexity: the size of the belief states space increases exponentially with the number of agents and the size of the environment. To overcome this issue, we also suggest a solving algorithm that uses the well-known adopted assumption of variable independence. Finally we consider the fact that event exploration is usually an open-ended problem. Therefore the agents need to check again their beliefs even after they reached a good belief state. We suggest a smoothing function that enables the agents to forget gradually old observations that can be obsolete
Visuri, A. (Aku). "Smartphone based contextual symptom tracking and data gathering." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201609142777.
Full textMobiililaitteita käytetään suurenevissa määrin henkilökohtaisen terveyden, mielentilan ja fyysisten aktiviteettien seuraamiseen. Modernien laitteiden suorituskykykapasiteetti sallii myös tämänkaltaisen seurannan automatisoinnin. Tämä diplomityö hahmottaa suunnittelun, toteutuksen ja arvioinnin kahden kuukauden mittaisen käyttöönoton avulla järjestelmälle, jonka tarkoitus on auttaa yksittäisiä käyttäjiä ja tutkijoita keräämään tämänkaltaista seuraamistietoa. Työssä esitetyn järjestelmän nimi on LifeTracker. LifeTracker on kaksitasoinen järjestelmä, joka sisältää Android applikaation, jota käytetään tiedon keräämiseen henkilökohtaiseen ja tutkimuskäyttöön, ja Webkäyttöliittymän, jota käytetään tutkimusten parametrien määrittelemiseen. Applikaation fokus on uudenlaisessa syöttömekanismissa seurantatiedolle, joka käyttää ponnahdusikkunoita reaktiivisena syöttömekanismina, jotka esitetään käyttäjille sopivina aikoina. Työ selittää järjestelmän suunnittelun yksityiskohtaisesti käyttötapausten, vaatimusmäärittelyn ja käyttöliittymämallien avulla, ja toteutuksen sekä Web-käyttöliittymälle ja Android applikaatiolle. Android applikaatio arvioidaan käytettävyyden ja tiedonkeruun tehokkuuden suhteen käyttäen käyttäjähaastatteluja ja SUS-menetelmää. Suoritamme myös kvantitatiivisen analyysin koneoppimismalleista, joita käytetään käyttäjän keskeyttämisen ennakoimiseen. Käyttöönoton tulokset kertovat, että käyttäjät joilla on aikaisempaa kokemusta elämänhallintasovellusten kanssa ymmärtävät uudenlaisen syöttömekanismin edut ja vahvuudet. Käyttäjän keskeyttäminen voidaan myös ennakoida riittävällä tarkkuudella, ottaen huomioon muutokset yksittäisten käyttäjien välillä
Aksakal, Baris. "Makeshift Information Constructions: Information Flow and Undercover Police." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4823/.
Full textStalmakou, Artsiom. "UAV/UAS path planning for ice management information gathering." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-13232.
Full textCanevet, Catherine. "Automating the gathering of relevant information from biomedical text." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3849.
Full textStroeymeyt, Nathalie. "Information gathering prior to emigration in house-hunting ants." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529832.
Full textJavdani, Shervin. "Acting under Uncertainty for Information Gathering and Shared Autonomy." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2017. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/1061.
Full textMacaulay, Catriona. "Inside the palimpsest : a study of newsroom information gathering." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2000. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/7241.
Full textTao, Xiaohui. "Personalised ontology learning and mining for web information gathering." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/30278/1/Xiaohui_Tao_Thesis.pdf.
Full textTao, Xiaohui. "Personalised ontology learning and mining for web information gathering." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/30278/.
Full textWebster, Michael Munro. "Foraging behaviour of shoaling fishes : information gathering and prey competition." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29743.
Full textPhelps, John. "Knowledge-Based Task Structure Planning for an Information Gathering Agent." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/phelpsJ2003.pdf.
Full textKaraoguz, Cem [Verfasser]. "Learning of information gathering in modular intelligent systems / Cem Karaoguz." Bielefeld : Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1036111636/34.
Full textCorato, Luca Di. "Essays on information gathering and the use of natural resources." Thesis, University of York, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487841.
Full textFlaspohler, Genevieve Elaine. "Statistical models and decision making for robotic scientific information gathering." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120607.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-107).
Mobile robots and autonomous sensors have seen increasing use in scientific applications, from planetary rovers surveying for signs of life on Mars, to environmental buoys measuring and logging oceanographic conditions in coastal regions. This thesis makes contributions in both planning algorithms and model design for autonomous scientific information gathering, demonstrating how theory from machine learning, decision theory, theory of optimal experimental design, and statistical inference can be used to develop online algorithms for robotic information gathering that are robust to modeling errors, account for spatiotemporal structure in scientific data, and have probabilistic performance guarantees. This thesis first introduces a novel sample selection algorithm for online, irrevocable sampling in data streams that have spatiotemporal structure, such as those that commonly arise in robotics and environmental monitoring. Given a limited sampling capacity, the proposed periodic secretary algorithm uses an information-theoretic reward function to select samples in real-time that maximally reduce posterior uncertainty in a given scientific model. Additionally, we provide a lower bound on the quality of samples selected by the periodic secretary algorithm by leveraging the submodularity of the information-theoretic reward function. Finally, we demonstrate the robustness of the proposed approach by employing the periodic secretary algorithm to select samples irrevocably from a seven-year oceanographic data stream collected at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory off the coast of Cape Cod, USA. Secondly, we consider how scientific models can be specified in environments - such as the deep sea or deep space - where domain scientists may not have enough a priori knowledge to formulate a formal scientific model and hypothesis. These domains require scientific models that start with very little prior information and construct a model of the environment online as observations are gathered. We propose unsupervised machine learning as a technique for science model-learning in these environments. To this end, we introduce a hybrid Bayesian-deep learning model that learns a nonparametric topic model of a visual environment. We use this semantic visual model to identify observations that are poorly explained in the current model, and show experimentally that these highly perplexing observations often correspond to scientifically interesting phenomena. On a marine dataset collected by the SeaBED AUV on the Hannibal Sea Mount, images of high perplexity in the learned model corresponded, for example, to a scientifically novel crab congregation in the deep sea. The approaches presented in this thesis capture the depth and breadth of the problems facing the field of autonomous science. Developing robust autonomous systems that enhance our ability to perform exploratory science in environments such as the oceans, deep space, agricultural and disaster-relief zones will require insight and techniques from classical areas of robotics, such as motion and path planning, mapping, and localization, and from other domains, including machine learning, spatial statistics, optimization, and theory of experimental design. This thesis demonstrates how theory and practice from these diverse disciplines can be unified to address problems in autonomous scientific information gathering.
by Genevieve Elaine Flaspohler.
S.M.
Fabule, Deborah Kory. "Information-gathering and the strategic use of culture in Herodotus." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6853.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this thesis is to examine examples of information-gathering and political intelligence in Herodotus' Histories. In Herodotus' account, dialogues, anecdotes, and even inserted authorial commentary describe how leaders obtain politically relevant and timely information about other individuals and nations (intelligence). Herodotus links political decisions, based on gathered information, with his presentation of historical causation. In his multi-themed account, Herodotus provides tales of commissioned information-gathering missions, espionage, secret messages, and even disguises as nations and political leaders attempt to find out about their enemies and their allies. While the various anecdotes of information-gathering may not be historically precise, they may, in fact, infer real goals and problems of ancient Greek intelligence practices. The second purpose of this thesis is to explore Herodotus' use of cultural information within decision-making and statecraft. Herodotus presents nomos (culture or custom) as a compelling force for human behavior and military action. By articulating the importance of cultural information to political and military intelligence, Herodotus' work foreshadows modern intelligence theories and practices. This nomos-aspect of Herodotus' information-gathering anecdotes is especially relevant to current post-modern trend of culturally-based intelligence solutions to western counter-insurgency efforts.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die hoofdoel van hierdie tesis is om voorbeelde van inligtingversameling en politieke intellegensie in Herodotus se Histories te ondersoek. In Herodotus se verslae, dialoë, anekdotes en selfs ingevoegde ouktoriele kommentaar word daar beskryf hoe leiers polities relevante en aktuele inligting oor ander indiwidue en nasies (intellegensie) verkry. Herodotus verbind politieke besluite, gebaseer op ingewinde inligting, met sy voorstelling van historiese kousaliteitsleer. In sy vertellings met meervoudige temas, verskaf Herodotus verhale van opdragte wat gegee is vir inligtingsinwinningsendings, spioenasiewerk, geheime boodskappe en selfs vermommings waarmee nasionale en politieke leiers gepoog het om uit te vind oor hul vyande en bondgenote. Terwyl die verskeie anekdotes van inligtinginwinning moontlik nie histories presies is nie, is hulle dalk in werklikheid afgelei van regte doelstellings en probleme van antieke Griekse intellegensiepraktyke. Die tweede doel van hierdie tesis is om ondersoek in te stel na Herodotus se gebruik van kulturele inligting in besluitneming en regeerkuns. Herodotus stel nomos (kultuur of gebruik) as ‟n dwingende krag vir menslike gedrag en militêre aksie voor. Deur die belangrikheid van kulturele inligting vir politieke en militêre intellegensie te artikuleer, is Herodotus se werk ‟n voorafskaduwing van moderne intellegensie teorieë en praktyke. Hierdie nomos-aspek van Herodotus se inligtingsinwinningsanekdotes is veral relevant vir die huidige post-modernistiese neiging van kultuur-gebaseerde intellegensieoplossings vir westerse teen-insergensie pogings.
Chung, Timothy Hahndeut Burdick Joel Wakeman Burdick Joel Wakeman Murray Richard M. "Intelligent information gathering : using control for sensing and decision making /." Diss., Pasadena, Calif. : Caltech, 2007. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05312007-024822.
Full textSchultz, James S. "Identifying methods of gathering and sharing hazardous air containment information." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000schultzj.pdf.
Full textDi, Corato Luca. "Essays on information gathering and the use of natural resources." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425994.
Full text聶可欣 and Ho-yan Nip. "Information-gathering strategies in trait diagnosis: the role of implicit theories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31225020.
Full textAlur, Abhijit. "Gathering Information about Network Infrastructure from DNS Names and Its Applications." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18700.
Full textNip, Ho-yan. "Information-gathering strategies in trait diagnosis hthe role of implicit theories /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22826099.
Full textArora, Akash. "Multi-Modal Active Perception for Robotic Information Gathering in Science Missions." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18415.
Full textBostain, Dyanne Strohkorb. "Information gathering by trustees for decision-making: Informal and formal sources." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618597.
Full textAl-Jaljouli, Raja Computer Science & Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "A proposed security protocol for data gathering mobile agents." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Computer Science and Engineering, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23999.
Full textNecşulescu, Silvia. "Automatic acquisition of lexical-semantic relations: gathering information in a dense representation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/374234.
Full textLes relacions lexicosemàntiques entre paraules són una informació clau per a moltes tasques del PLN, què requereixen aquest coneixement en forma de recursos lingüístics. Aquesta tesi tracta l’adquisició d'instàncies lexicosemàntiques. Els sistemes actuals utilitzen representacions basades en patrons dels contextos en què dues paraules coocorren per detectar la relació que s'hi estableix. Aquest enfocament s'enfronta a problemes de falta d’informació: fins i tot en el cas de treballar amb corpus de grans dimensions, hi haurà parells de paraules relacionades que no coocorreran, o no ho faran amb la freqüència necessària. Per tant, el nostre objectiu principal ha estat proposar noves representacions per predir si dues paraules estableixen una relació lexicosemàntica. La intuïció era que aquestes representacions noves havien de contenir informació sobre patrons dels contextos, combinada amb informació sobre el significat de les paraules implicades en la relació. Aquestes dues fonts d'informació havien de ser la base d'una estratègia de generalització que oferís informació fins i tot quan les dues paraules no coocorrien.
Kim, Hyung-Jin 1975. "SeMole : a robust framework for gathering information from the World Wide Web." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80070.
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by Hyung-Jin Kim.
S.B.and M.Eng.
Ayton, Benjamin James. "Risk-bounded autonomous information gathering for localization of phenomena in hazardous environments." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113744.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150).
Exploration of new environments is often conducted in search of some phenomenon of interest. Examples include the search for extreme forms of life in the deep ocean or under the ice on Europa, or localizing resource deposits on the ocean floor. Exploration of all these environments is dangerous because of uncertainty in the environment and poorly characterized disturbances that can damage the exploration vehicle. Autonomous vehicles allows exploration in those environments where it is too dangerous or expensive to send a human-operated craft. Autonomous exploration has been well-studied from the perspective of information maximization, but information gathering has not been considered with the intention of localizing specific phenomena, nor has it been considered in environments where exploration can threaten the vehicle. This thesis addresses both challenges by introducing Risk-Bounded Adaptive Search, which maximizes the number of phenomena located while bounding the probability of mission failure by a user-defined threshold. The first innovation of this thesis is the development of a new information measure that focuses on locating instances of a specific phenomenon. Search for phenomena of interest is framed as a discrete space Markov Decision Process that is solved using forward search and receding horizon planning, with a reward function specified as the information gained about unobserved instances of the phenomenon of interest from measurements. Using this reward function, the number of phenomena located is increased compared to maximizing conventional information, as it steers the agent towards locations where phenomena are thought to exist so they are not bypassed when the belief state is high. The second innovation is a method of applying risk bounds as a function of the expected information gain of a policy over a planning horizon, in contrast to a static bound. This 'Performance-Guided Risk Bounding' system allows an MDP policy to be found that is slightly suboptimal if it has a substantially lower probability of failure, or accept more risk if the reward payoff is large. When applied to information gathering, it allows an autonomous agent to capitalize on high risk and high reward opportunities when they are seen, instead of ignoring them in an effort to conserve risk for the future, when it is ultimately less useful. Since interesting phenomena are often found in risky locations, the ability to take more risk when it is worthwhile results in more phenomena found overall. Finally, a modification to Monte Carlo Tree Search is introduced that implements Performance-Guided Risk Bounding. This allows Risk-Bounded Adaptive Search to be planned in an anytime manner. The output policy is limited to the states that are explored, but risk bounds that scale with the expected information gained over the explored states in the policy are still applied. The resulting policies are shown to converge to the results of forward search, and a few percent differences in phenomena found with an order of magnitude reduction in planning time.
by Benjamin James Ayton.
S.M.
Hudson, Cassie. "Migration Information Gathering by Mexican-origin Immigrants in the Pre-migration Phase." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822813/.
Full textChetzron, Jackie B. "Student Information Gathering: Examining What Happens when School Librarians Attempt to Convey Online Information Search Strategies to Meet Information Needs." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505227/.
Full textLuo, Tong. "Towards Simpler Argument Binding : Knowledge Gathering by Mining Logic Program Repositories." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296131.
Full textGonzalez-George, Victor. "Information retrieval and gathering : an experimental prototype for Mac OS X : undergraduate dissertation." Bath Univ. of Bath, Department of Computer Science, 2006. http://opus.bath.ac.uk/16779/.
Full textTitle appears on item as: Undergraduate dissertation: Information retrieval and gathering: An experimental prototype for Mac OS X. Includes bibliographical references.
Roberg, Abigail M. "Data Visualizations: Guidelines for Gathering, Analyzing, and Designing Data." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524826335755109.
Full textXu, Changxin. "Are you informed?: State information management and autonomy in local China." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108024.
Full textDoes the emergence of these newly informatics practices by the Chinese state indicate a future abolishment of the Xinfang mechanism? In order to answer these questions and foster an understanding of today’s state information management in China, this thesis first employs the method of historical analysis. The thesis provides an initial effort in English literature to answer how and why societal petitioning was gradually translated into state-dominated action and whether or not informational engagement impacted state autonomy. The thesis then moves on to field work conducted in S Province since 2014 through 2017 that counted approximately 20 weeks altogether. With such first-hand empirical evidence, the thesis develops three main arguments as below: First and foremost, I find that there exist an increasing number of information seekers among petitioners from the background databases of both Governor’s Mailbox and the Provincial Bureau for Letters and Calls’ online complaint system. Such informational needs of today’s Chinese public may be in need of higher attention from policy makers and scholars. Second, the leadership, whether at central or any local level, have sought to establish various apparatuses, and charged them with building information channels and providing an information stream for policy making. the apparatuses hereby develop two strategies to draw more societal actors to their offices and guarantee their informational supplies to above. Such competition eventually results in a champion among all the informatics offices in the arena. Last but not least, apparatus autonomy cannot be equated with individual official autonomy. While an office is assigned with increased autonomy, the very officials’ individual autonomy may fall down to a lesser degree
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science