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Hof, Jacoba Marchiena van den. "System theory and system identification of compartmental systems." [S.l. : [Groningen] : s.n.] ; [University Library Groningen] [Host], 1996. http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/152829512.
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Nikoukhah, Ramine. "System theory for two point boundary value descriptor systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15004.
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Thesis (Elec. E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING
Bibliography: p. 131-133.
by Ramine Nikoukhah.
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MAHMOOD, ASIF. "System of Systems Approach in Production: Theory to Action." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2530093.
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System of Systems (SoS) is a novel approach in practical field which has been widely studied and applied recognizably in military context by department of defense (DoD). But being versatile, the approach has a lot of potential to deliver in various other areas as well, for example, it is now on the verge to transcend the boundaries of defense system, and ready to be applied in industrial sector. This manuscript based dissertation mainly investigates and explores the last phrased facet, and offers a common platform for operational
research and complex System of Systems. At the outset, focus of the study is to understand and pave the way to build theory of SoS. The established thoughts are marshaled
while new insights are developed to shed light on the emerging concept of SoS. It tries to help resolve the identity crisis of SoS by proposing two edges of chaos, that is, SoS
and monolithic systems self-organize at two opposite edges. Upon this understanding, it traces out the incapacitation of traditional military techniques for asymmetric warfare.
The research also spotlights the necessity of creation of a generic System of Systems Architecture Framework (SoSAF) in line with the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
Then the academic research shifts its accent towards production systems. First of all, it attempts to answer the fundamental question whether production system falls under
the scope of SoS or not, by devising and utilizing a general purpose framework for categorizing systems. It applies the SoS concepts in this field using the earlier proposed SoSAF paradigm to introduce a unique architecture for production system in three designing process phases. After that the research moves ahead to come up with a pioneering
approach for managing risks of large complex SoS. The new methodology of System of Systems Axiomatic Risk Management (SoSARM) put forward here is an Axiomatic Risk
(AR) based decomposition for resolving coupled risks. The developed theory and ideas have also been demonstrated for a typical production system following a step by step hierarchical approach which proved to be a very simple yet comprehensive concept to handle interdependent risks of multiple domains.
In order to narrow the research sphere, the dissertation goes on to unearth the need to radicalize Lean Manufacturing (LM) with state of the art SoS concepts. Towards this
objective, a new management framework has been designed and elaborated for an ‘SoS Lean’ or ‘Smart Lean’ system by assimilating SoS approach with LM. Aimed at supplementing
to the SoS Engineer’s repertoire, System of Systems Dynamics-SoSD (adapted from system dynamics) philosophy has also been proposed to model and simulate the aspects of SoS with the expectation to further enrich the notion. Based on the theory and frameworks established, rest of the research exploration focuses specifically on textile industry for their in depth assay and validity by performing two shop floor case studies.
The first case study demonstrates a holistic perspective of a textile weaving mill located in Pakistan using stock and flow diagrams of SoSD. SoSD continuous modeling and simulation interventions proved to be a very effective modus operandi in strategic decision making support for capacity expansion of a weaving company. Then for the second case study accomplished at a spinning mill, a Smart Lean Spinning Framework was envisaged amalgamating SoS ideas with the prudently screened and selected tools of LM that are apt to textile industry. Subsequently, the proposed framework was modeled and simulated through DES to evaluate the impacts of diverse parameters culminating in successful implementation of the Smart Lean.
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Tse, Pak-hoi Isaac. "Dynamical systems theory and school change." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37626218.
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Tse, Pak-hoi Isaac, and 謝伯開. "Dynamical systems theory and school change." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37626218.
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Oswald, W. Andrew (William Andrew). "Understanding technology development processes theory & practice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90699.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Technology development is hard for management to understand and hard for practitioners to explain, however it is an essential component of innovation. While there are standard and predictable processes for product development, many of these techniques don't apply well to technology development. Are there common processes for technology development that can make it predictable, or is it unpredictable like basic research and invention? In this thesis, after building a foundation by looking at product development processes, I survey some of the literature on technology development processes and compare them to a handful of case studies from a variety of industries. I then summarize the observations from the cases and build a generic model for technology development that can be used to provide insights into how to monitor and manage technology projects. One of the observations from the product development literature is that looping and iteration is problematic for establishing accurate schedules which becomes one of the fundamental disconnects between management and engineering. Technologists rely heavily on iteration as a tool for gaining knowledge and combined with other risks, technology development may appear "out of control". To mitigate these risks, technologists have developed a variety of approaches including: building a series of prototypes of increasing fidelity and using them as a form of communication, simultaneously developing multiple technologies as a hedge against failure or predicting and developing technologies they think will be needed outside of formal channels. Finally, I use my model to provide some insights as to how management can understand technology development projects. This gives technologists and non-technical managers a common ground for communication.
by W. Andrew Oswald.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Jackson, Billy Davis John M. "A general linear systems theory on time scales transforms, stability, and control /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5066.
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at, Andreas Cap@esi ac. "Quantum Field Theory as Dynamical System." ESI preprints, 2001. ftp://ftp.esi.ac.at/pub/Preprints/esi1055.ps.
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Islam, Mustafa R. "A hypertext graph theory reference system." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/879844.
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G-Net system is being developed by the members of the G-Net research group under the supervision of Dr. K. Jay Bagga. The principle objective of the G-Net system is to provide an integrated tool for dealing with various aspects of graph theory. G-Net system is divided into two parts. GETS (Graph theory Experiments Tool Set) will provide a set of tools to experiment with graph theory, and HYGRES (HYpertext Graph theory Reference Service), the second subcomponent of the G-Net system to aid graph theory study and research. In this research a hypertext application is built to present the graph theory concepts, graph models and the algorithms. In other words, HYGRES (Guide Version) provides the hypertext facilities for organizing a graph theory database in a very natural and interactive way. An hypertext application development tool, called Guide, is used to implement this version of HYGRES. This project integrates the existing version of GETS so that it can also provide important services to HYGRES. The motivation behind this project is to study the initial criterion for developing a hypertext system, which can be used for future development of a stand alone version of the G-Net system.Department of Computer Science
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Metaxas, Simeon. "An interactive scientific theory revision system." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265055.
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Scientists are often presented with vast amounts of laboratory/observational data which need interpretation. These data can often be generalised to produce theories that can be subsequently used for the classification of unseen data. The construction of theories is a hard task which becomes even harder when new data reveals errors and gaps in the theory, thus requiring appropriate corrections. One case in point is the theory for predicting NMR spectroscopy coupling constants for sugar molecules. Revising this theory is difficult because it requires both NMR and Chemistry expertise, as well as heuristic knowledge of the interpretation of spectra. Moreover, as there are relatively little data, statistical-based analysis cannot be used effectively. Taking these factors into account, we developed a scientific theory revision system, CRITON, to assist NMR domain experts in the correction & maintenance of this theory. The major characteristics of the system include the following: First, the ability to enhance the domain's Concept Description Language (CDL) allows the system to search efficiently in a restricted hypothesis space and automatically adjust its CDL only when the latter is shown to be insufficient, i.e. when it cannot discriminate between two training examples of different classes. Second, the possibility of heuristic knowledge in the form of domain-specific biases which can be customised to the current application; and third, user selection of theory modifications proposed by the system. This characteristic along with the incremental processing of training examples suggests the use of CRITON as an interactive theory exploration tool, a scientific aid. One special aspect of the system is the knowledge representation language which is a hybrid between production rules and a graph representation. This hybrid representation allows CRITON to revise relational theories (e.g. the coupling constant theory) which cannot be succinctly represented as production rules. Although originally CRITON was designed for use in the NMR spectroscopy domain it has evolved to become a domain-independent program; a series of experiments have been run comparing CRITON's performance with those of FOCL and GOLEM. This has led to the claims that CRITON is a general relational learning system.
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Acevedo, Tapia Paul Andrés. "Lp-theory for the boussinesq System." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2015. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/136500.
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Doctor en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Mención Modelación MatemáticaEsta tesis está dedicada al estudio del sistema de Boussinesq estacionario: \begin{subequations}\label{sum_sp:eqn_Boussinesq} \begin{equation} -\nu \Delta\vu +(\vu\cdot\nabla)\vu+\nabla \pi=\theta\vg \text{\quad en $\Omega$,}\qquad \div\;\vu=0 \text{\quad en $\Omega$,} \end{equation} \begin{equation} -\kappa \Delta\theta +\vu\cdot\nabla\theta=h \text{\quad en $\Omega$,} \end{equation} \end{subequations} donde $\Omega\subset\R{3}$ es un conjunto abierto, acotado y conexo; $\vu$, $\pi$ y $\theta$ representan el campo de velocidades, la presión y la temperatura del fluido, respectivamente, siendo éstas las incógnitas del sistema; $\nu>0$ es la viscosidad cinemática del fluido, $\kappa>0$ es la difusividad térmica del fluido, $\vg$ es la aceleración de la gravedad y $h$ es una fuente de calor aplicada al fluido. El objetivo de esta tesis es el estudio de la teoría $L^p$ para el sistema de Boussinesq estacionario considerando dos diferentes tipos de condiciones de frontera del campo de velocidades. En efecto, en una primera etapa, se considerará la condición de frontera de Dirichlet no homogéneo \begin{equation}\label{sum_sp:cond_Dirichlet_velocity} \vu=\vub\text{\quad sobre\quad}\Gamma, \end{equation} donde $\Gamma$ denota la frontera del dominio; mientras que en una segunda etapa, el campo de velocidades tendrá prescrito la condición de frontera de Navier no homogéneo \begin{equation}\label{sum_sp:cond_Navier_velocity} \vu\cdot\vn=0,\quad 2\left[\DT(\vu)\vn\right]_{\vt}+\alpha\;\vu_{\vt}=\bm{a},\text{\quad sobre\quad}\Gamma, \end{equation} donde $\DT(\vu)=\frac{1}{2}\left(\nabla\vu+(\nabla\vu)^T\right)$ es el tensor de deformación asociado con el campo de velocidades $\vu$, $\vn$ es el vector normal unitario exterior, $\vt$ es el correspondiente vector unitario tangente, $\alpha$ y $\vNb$ son una función de fricción y un campo vectorial tangencial definidas ambas sobre la frontera. Además, la condición de frontera para la temperatura será, en las dos primeras partes, la condición de frontera de Dirichlet no homogéneo \begin{equation}\label{sum_sp:cond_Dirichlet_temperature} \theta=\thb\text{\quad sobre\quad}\Gamma. \end{equation} Así, en primer lugar, estudiamos la existencia y unicidad de la solución débil para el problema \eqref{sum_sp:eqn_Boussinesq}, \eqref{sum_sp:cond_Dirichlet_velocity} y \eqref{sum_sp:cond_Dirichlet_temperature} en el caso hilbertiano. Además, la existencia de soluciones generalizadas para $p\geq\frac{3}{2}$ y soluciones fuertes para $1
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Pollack, Robert. "The theory of LEGO." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/504.
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LEGO is a computer program for interactive typechecking in the Extended Calculus of Constructions and two of its subsystems. LEGO also supports the extension of these three systems with inductive types. These type systems can be viewed as logics, and as meta languages for expressing logics, and LEGO is intended to be used for interactively constructing proofs in mathematical theories presented in these logics. I have developed LEGO over six years, starting from an implementation of the Calculus of Constructions by Gérard Huet. LEGO has been used for problems at the limits of our abilities to do formal mathematics. In this thesis I explain some aspects of the meta-theory of LEGO's type systems leading to a machine-checked proof that typechecking is decidable for all three type theories supported by LEGO, and to a verified algorithm for deciding their typing judgements, assuming only that they are normalizing. In order to do this, the theory of Pure Type Systems (PTS) is extended and formalized in LEGO. This extended example of a formally developed body of mathematics is described, both for its main theorems, and as a case study in formal mathematics. In many examples, I compare formal definitions and theorems with their informal counterparts, and with various alternative approaches, to study the meaning and use of mathematical language, and suggest clarifications in the informal usage. Having outlined a formal development far too large to be surveyed in detail by a human reader, I close with some thoughts on how the human mathematician's state of understanding and belief might be affected by possessing such a thing.
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Oates, Kimberly L. "A study of control system radii for approximations of infinite dimensional systems." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10102009-020109/.
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Francis, John Charles. "Qualitative system theory : a systems approach to modelling complex physical processes." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1080.
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Cristiani, Daniel L. "The form of the system : the politics of Luhmann's systems theory /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3089473.
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馮漢國 and Hon-kwok Fung. "Some linear preserver problems in system theory." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3121227X.
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Pierce, Timothy M. Jr. "Mobile Hybrid Power System Theory of Operation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78148.
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Efficiency is a driving constraint for electrical power systems as global energy demands are ever increasing. Followed by the introduction of diesel generators, electricity has become available in more locations than ever. However, operating a diesel generator on its own is not the most energy efficient. This is because the high crest factor loads, of many applications, decrease the fuel efficiency of a hydrocarbon generator. To understand this, we need to understand how an electrical load affects a generator.
Starting with a load profile, a system designer must choose a generator to meet peak demand, marking the first instance where a load profile has influence over a generator. This decision will insure that brownouts do not occur, but, this will lead to poor energy efficiency. We say this because a generator is most energy efficient under heavier loads, meaning, during lighter loads, more fuel will be consumed to produce the same amount of energy.
While this may be fine if the peak load was close to the average load, however, the actual crest factor for a typical residential load profile is much higher. This gap between peak and average load means that a generator will spend most of its time operating at its most inefficient point. To compensate for this, and reduce fuel consumption, the Mechatronics Lab at Virginia Tech has developed a mobile hybrid power system (MHPS) to address this problem. The solution was to augment a diesel generator with a battery pack. This allowed us to constrain the generator so that it only operates with fixed efficiency. It is the theory behind this system that will be covered in this thesis.Master of Science
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Fung, Hon-kwok. "Some linear preserver problems in system theory /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B16121673.
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Jesser, Peter Stewart. "SYSTEM THEORY: APPLICATIONS IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291981.
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Bianchini, Matteo <1988>. "La Nuova manifattura nell'ottica dell'Activity System Theory." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/5384.
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L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è proporre uno strumento per l’analisi dei cambiamenti in atto nel settore manifatturiero, con particolare enfasi sull’individuazione del luogo in cui si manifestano le complessità nell’ambito delle attività umane organizzate.
La prima parte consiste nell’esposizione dei temi connessi alla Neomanifattura. Si è deciso di articolarla in tre parti, a seconda dell’interrogativo a cui si vuole rispondere: in to Make il focus riguarda i motivi che spingono gli individui a porre in essere un processo centrato sul “fare”; in Makers si esamina il tema della comunità e dei vantaggi che emergono nel mettere in relazione gli individui per sviluppare un progetto; Made in si concentra sul tema della località e dove avvenga la realizzazione di un prodotto. Il concetto di “dove” produrre è connesso a “che cosa” realizzare: emergono dei vincoli legati alle caratteristiche del territorio.
Il passo successivo consiste nell’illustrazione del modello del Sistema d’Attività partendo dalle origini fino ai più recenti sviluppi.
Gli argomenti enucleati in precedenza sono stati esaminati con la chiave di lettura offerta dal Sistema d’Attività integrato dall’ARR (Analysis Readiness Review). Sono state sviluppate delle mappe che illustrano i cambiamenti in atto nell’attività umana organizzata nell’ambito del settore manifatturiero, e che permettono di localizzare le tensioni e i paradossi che si possono verificare tra gli elementi dei sistemi esaminati. Il presente lavoro ha evidenziato che tali tensioni sono i principali responsabili che portano allo sviluppo di modelli di attività più avanzati: quando si passa ad uno stadio successivo i rapporti tra gli elementi dell’attività diventano più problematici, i confini più labili, i processi diventano multidirezionali, gli obiettivi sono sfuggenti e le tensioni raggiungono dimensioni sempre maggiori.
I dati alla base dello sviluppo le mappe presenti in questo lavoro derivano dai contributi presenti in letteratura, pertanto non è stato possibile evidenziare tutti gli elementi delle attività esaminate. L’utilizzo congiunto dell’Activity System Theory e dell’ARR in chiave aziendale può diventare uno strumento utile in mano ai manager per mappare le attività e individuare il luogo in cui si manifestano le tensioni e i paradossi al fine di trasformarle nell’ottica dell'innovazione strategica.
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Robles, Gregorio. "Expositive system and legal system in the Communicational Theory of Law." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118170.
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In this study I try to explain the characteristics of the legal system, as it is understood in the framework of the Communicational Theory of Law (TCD). The legal system constitutes a textual totality that reflects another textual totality: the legal order. It is not a positivist reflex, by virtue of which the system would be a mere description of the order, but of a hermeneutic reflex, which supposes that the system constructs the order, and presents its better and more finished version, a more intelligent version. The relationship between order and system is not unidirectional, but between them there is a hermeneutic spiral relationship sustained over time, since they are textual totalities in perpetual change. The ordering / system duality represents the basic axis within a juridical realm, a reality that encompasses all the communicational processes and the texts produced by them: first, the communicational processes generated by the ordination and the ordinary texts; second, the communication processes of legal dogmatic, which generates the various proposals of the exhibition system; third, from the conjunction of dogmatic texts and from the jurisprudence of the courts arise the systemic texts or texts of the legal system; fourth, the communicational processes and the texts that are generated within the scope that, however, do not belong to the order or the system; and fifth, the acts (and omissions) whose legal meaning can only be understood from the frame of reference constituted by the hermeneutic axis of order / system. In all this analysis, it is necessary to differentiate - as has been pointed out - between the didactic-expository system and the legal system itself (or legal system in the strict sense). In order to carry out the proposed task, before entering into the distinction between legal order and legal system, it is convenient to deal with the differentiation between set and order.En este estudio me propongo explicar los caracteres del sistema jurídico, tal como es entendido en el marco de la Teoría Comunicacional del Derecho (en adelante: TCD). El sistema jurídico constituye una totalidad textual que refleja otra totalidad textual: el ordenamiento jurídico. No se trata de un reflejo positivista, en virtud del cual el sistema sería una mera descripción del ordenamiento, sino de un reflejo hermenéutico, lo que supone que el sistema construye el ordenamiento, y presenta de él su versión mejor y más acabada, su versión más inteligente. La relación entre ordenamiento y sistema no es unidireccional, sino que entre ellos se produce una relación en espiral hermenéutica sostenida a lo largo del tiempo, ya que son totalidades textuales en perpetuo cambio. La dualidad ordenamiento/sistema representa el eje básico dentro de un ámbito jurídico, realidad ésta que engloba todos los procesos comunicacionales y los textos producidos por ellos: primero, los procesos comunicacionales que genera el ordenamiento y los textos ordinamentales; segundo, los procesos de comunicación de la dogmática jurídica, generadora de las diversas propuestas de sistema expositivo; tercero, de la conjunción de los textos dogmáticos y los de la jurisprudencia de los tribunales surgen los textos sistémicos o textos del sistema jurídico; cuarto, los procesos comunicacionales y los textos que se generan dentro del ámbito que, sin embargo, no pertenecen al ordenamiento ni al sistema; y quinto, los actos (y omisiones) cuyo significado jurídico sólo es comprensible desde el marco de referencia constituido por el eje hermenéutico ordenamiento / sistema. En todo este análisis, es preciso diferenciar -como ha quedado apuntado- entre el sistema didáctico-expositivo y el sistema jurídico propiamente dicho (o sistema jurídico en sentido estricto). Para llevar a cabo la tarea propuesta, antes de entrar en la distinción entre ordenamiento jurídico y sistema jurídico, es conveniente tratar de la diferenciación entre conjunto y orden.
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Brock, Simon Howard. "The use of type systems and type theory in declarative system architecture." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47788.
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Skild, Fredrik, Men Thai, and Johan Älverdal. "Inter-organisational Application Integration : Developing Guidelines Using Multi Grounded Theory." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-641.
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Background: Information technology (IT) has drastically changed the traditional way to do business. In theory, coordinating information sharing among organisational partners offers notable advantages through cost savings, productivity, improved decision making, and better customer service. Supported by modern information technology, business processes can change and be developed into new more effective forms, both internally and externally. However, as IT facilitates new business opportunities, it requires a steady flow of information and information exchange, both within intra- and inter-organisational contexts where a consensus on terms and definitions coordinating the uniform communication is vital.
Purpose: With the focal point on inter-organisational information exchange, the purpose of the thesis is to define a set of guidelines for AI that can be used and adjusted according to the needs of a specific situation or context.
Method: The thesis was carried out with a Multi Grounded Theory approach. Interviews were conducted at a local IT-company and with an associate professor of Informatics at Jönköping International Business School.
Results: Five categories were discovered which impact AI: integration governance, project management, context, integration content, and testing. The result also implied the importance to distinguish between an operational and strategic level when working with Application Integration.
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Parrish, James. "SENSEMAKING IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS: TOWARD A SENSEMAKING INQUIRING SYSTEM." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3502.
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Complexity and uncertainty have long been problems for organizations of all types. Organizational members do not do a very good job of dealing with the complexity and uncertainty as research shows that when faced with complex situations humans often turn to the same sources of information repeatedly (a practice that will eventually betray them), and/or reduce the amount of scanning that they do (Weick 1995; Boyd and Fulk 1996). Organizations often turn to information systems to help them deal with the complexity, but they often take a techno-centric view of knowledge that does not incorporate the human qualities needed for unstructured decisions (Malhotra 1997; Courtney 2001; Malhotra 2001). Additionally, there are times when the information systems that we are using may hinder the processes of dealing with the complexity (Weick and Meader 1993). Weick's (1995) concept of sensemaking is believed to help us to deal with this complexity. In his work with Meader (1993) he wonders what the effects of a sensemaking support system would have, but he does not have the answer because they state that it has not been asked. This dissertation answers the call of Weick and Meader as well as other scholars that have called for sensemaking and human intuition to be included in our information systems. This is accomplished by viewing sensemaking from an inquiring systems perspective (Churchman 1971) to develop a kernel theory that will be used in the context of design science to develop design requirements and principles for a sensemaking system. These design principles are then used to build an instantiation of the system in the form of SenseMan, a system designed to help a local government agency deal with complexity in the context of software updates. Finally the design is evaluated for its effectiveness in dealing with the complexity of in this context using both quantitative and qualitative methods.Ph.D.
Department of Management Information Systems
Business Administration
Business Administration PhD
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Ahmad, Farooq. "An expert system for computer-aided design of control systems." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357165.
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Meyer, Kyrill, and Michael Thieme. "Theory and Practice for System Services Providers in Complex Value and Service Systems." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-128474.
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In September 2013, the „International Symposium on Service Science (ISSS)“ offered various participants a unique platform for advancing research and discussions in service science for the fifth consecutive year. Being held as part of the “Leipzig Days of Applied Informatics/Leipziger Tage der Angewandten Informatik”, researchers and practitioners alike joined in their effort to better understand the emergence of system services providers in complex value chains and service systems. The proceedings book documents some of their insights and wants to serve as reference for the advancing discussion.
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Sampson, Richard James. "Classroom Application of the L2 Motivational Self System – A Complex Systems Theory Approach." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365925.
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It is well documented that Japanese students of English as a foreign language (EFL) often struggle to find meaning in their learning. In a field dominated by quantitative studies on motivation and demotivation, few studies have examined how strategies that connect learning to self-concept might have positive effects on motivation from students’ perspectives. Similarly, whilst many recent studies have explored the L2 Motivational Self System, a notion of language learner motivation built around the interaction between learners’ self-concepts and the environment (Dörnyei, 2009a), few have focused on the application of this model to improving educators’ understanding of the classroom learning experience and improving its quality.
This research approaches the study of classroom EFL learner motivation from a complex systems perspective. Working from the lived experience of the participants, it uses action research methods to explore the dynamic conditions operating in the foreign language classroom. Complex systems theory is used as a lens through which to examine the interplay between learner-internal and -external elements and their effects on motivation. Drawing on contemporary psychological research into the use of possible selves as a powerful motivational tool, this study investigates the ways classroom environments involving activities that connect learning to future self might encourage students to articulate the complex conditions affecting their motivation to learn English.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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Ladd, Dana Forrest. "Extending Two-Dimensional Knowledge Management System Theory with Organizational Activity Systems' Workflow Dynamics." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3305.
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Between 2005 and 2010 and across 48 countries, including the United States, an increasing positive correlation emerged between national intellectual capital and gross domestic product per capita. The problem remains organizations operating with increasingly complex knowledge networks often lose intellectual capital resulting from ineffective knowledge management practices. The purpose of this study was to provide management opportunities to reduce intellectual capital loss. The first research question addressed how an enhanced intelligent, complex, and adaptive system (ICAS) model could clarify management's understanding of organizational knowledge transfer. The second research question addressed how interdisciplinary theory could become more meaningfully infused to enhance management practices of the organization's knowledge ecosystem. The nature of this study was phenomenological to gain deeper understanding of individual experiences related to knowledge flow phenomena. Data were collected from a single historical research dataset containing 11 subject interviews and analyzed using Moustakas' heuristic framework. Original interviews were collected in 2012 during research within a military unit, included in this study based on theme alignment. Organizational, knowledge management, emergent systems, and cognition theories were synthesized to enhance understandings of emergent ICAS forces. Individuals create unique ICAS flow emergent force dynamics in relation to micro- and macro-meso sensemaking and sensegiving. Findings indicated individual knowledge work significantly shapes emergent ICAS flow dynamics. Collectively enhancing knowledge stewardship over time could foster positive social change by improving national welfare.
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Johansson, Bergholtz Emil. "One-dimensional theory of the quantum Hall system." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Fysikum, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7545.
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The quantum Hall (QH) system---cold electrons in two dimensions in a perpendicular magnetic field---is a striking example of a system where unexpected phenomena emerge at low energies. The low-energy physics of this system is effectively one-dimensional due to the magnetic field. We identify an exactly solvable limit of this interacting many-body problem, and provide strong evidence that its solutions are adiabatically connected to the observed QH states in a similar manner as the free electron gas is related to real interacting fermions in a metal according to Landau's Fermi liquid theory. The solvable limit corresponds to the electron gas on a thin torus. Here the ground states are gapped periodic crystals and the fractionally charged excitations appear as domain walls between degenerate ground states. The fractal structure of the abelian Haldane-Halperin hierarchy is manifest for generic two-body interactions. By minimizing a local k+1-body interaction we obtain a representation of the non-abelian Read-Rezayi states, where the domain wall patterns encode the fusion rules of the underlying conformal field theory. We provide extensive analytical and numerical evidence that the Laughlin/Jain states are continuously connected to the exact solutions. For more general hierarchical states we exploit the intriguing connection to conformal field theory and construct wave functions that coincide with the exact ones in the solvable limit. If correct, this construction implies the adiabatic continuation of the pertinent states. We provide some numerical support for this scenario at the recently observed fraction 4/11. Non-QH phases are separated from the thin torus by a phase transition. At half-filling, this leads to a Luttinger liquid of neutral dipoles which provides an explicit microscopic example of how weakly interacting quasiparticles in a reduced (zero) magnetic field emerge at low energies. We argue that this is also smoothly connected to the bulk state.
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Johnson, Dean S. "Coprimeness in multidimensional system theory and symbolic computation." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1993. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/31933.
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During the last twenty years the theory of linear algebraic and high-order differential equation systems has been greatly researched. Two commonly used types of system description are the so-called matrix fraction description (MFD) and the Rosenbrock system matrix (RSM); these are defined by polynomial matrices in one indeterminate. Many of the system's physical properties are encoded as algebraic properties of these polynomial matrices. The theory is well developed and the structure of such systems is well understood. Analogues of these 1-D realisations can be set up for many dimensional systems resulting in polynomial matrices in many indeterminates. The scarcity of detailed algebraic results for such matrices has limited the understanding of such systems.
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Piboolsravut, Priyanut. "An outline of Buddhist economic theory and system." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24340.pdf.
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Hassan, Hussein. "Contract theory : views from the Islamic legal system." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365481.
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Ladkau, Matthias. "A wide spectrum type system for transformation theory." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/2410.
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One of the most difficult tasks a programmer can be confronted with is the migration of a legacy system. Usually, these systems are unstructured, poorly documented and contain complex program logic. The reason for this, in most cases, is an emphasis on raw performance rather than on clean and structured code as well as a long period of applying quick fixes and enhancements rather than doing a proper software reengineering process including a full redesign during major enhancements. Nowadays, the old programming paradigms are becoming an increasingly serious problem. It has been identified that 90% of the costs of a typical software system arise in the maintenance phase. Many companies are simply too afraid of changing their software infrastructure and prefer to continue with principles like "never touch a running system". These companies experience growing pressure to migrate their legacy systems onto newer platforms because the maintenance of such systems is expensive and dangerous as the risk of losing vital parts of sources code or its documentation increases drastically over time. The FermaT transformation system has shown the ability to automatically or semi-automatically restructure and abstract legacy code within a special intermediate language called WSL (Wide Spectrum Language). Unfortunately, the current transformation process only supports the migration of assembler as WSL lacks the ability to handle data types properly. The data structures in assembler are currently directly translated into C data types which involves many assumptional “hard coded” conversions. The absence of an adequate type system for WSL caused several flaws for the whole transformation process and limits its abilities significantly. The main aim of the presented research is to tackle these problems by investigating and formulating how a type system can contribute to a safe and reliable migration of legacy systems. The described research includes the definition of key aspects of type related problems in the FermaT migration process and how to solve them with a suitable type system approach. Since software migration often includes a change in programming language the type system for WSL has to be able to support various type system approaches including the representation of all relevant details to avoid assumptions. This is especially difficult as most programming languages are designed for a special purpose which means that their possible programming constructs and data types differ significantly. This ranges from languages with simple type systems whose program sare prone to unintended side-effects, to languages with strict type systems which are constrained n their flexibility. It is important to include as many type related details as necessary to avoid making assumptions during language to language translation. The result of the investigation is a novel multi layered type system specifically designed to satisfy the needs of WSL for a sophisticated solution without imposing too many limitations on its abilities. The type system has an adjustable expressiveness, able to represent a wide spectrum of typing approaches ranging from weak typing which allows direct memory access and down casting, via very strict typing with a high diversity of data types to object oriented typing which supports encapsulation and data hiding. Looking at the majority of commercial relevant statically typed programming languages, two fundamental properties of type strictness and safety can be identified. A type system can be either weakly or strongly typed and may or may not allow unsafe features such as direct memory access. Each layer of the Wide Spectrum Type System has a different combination of these properties. The approach also includes special Type System Transformations which can be used to move a given WSL program among these layers. Other emphasised key features are explicit typing and scalability. The whole approach is based on a sound mathematical foundation which assures correctness and integrates seamlessly into the present mathematical definition of WSL. The type system is formally introduced to WSL by constructing an attribute grammar for the language. Type checking and type inference are used to annotate the Abstract Syntax Tree of a given WSL program with type derivations which can be used to reveal and indicate possible typing errors or to infer types if the program did not feature explicit type declarations in the first place. Notable in this approach is also the fact that object orientation is introduced to a procedural programming language without the introduction of new semantics. It is shown that object orientation can be introduced just by adjusting type checking rules and adding some syntactical notations. The approach was implemented and tested on two case studies. The thesis describes and discusses both cases in detail and shows how a migration which ignores type systems could accidentally introduce errors due to assumptions during translation. Both case studies use all important aspects of the approach, Including type transformations and object identification. The thesis finalises by summarising the whole work, identifying limitations, presenting future perspectives and drawing conclusions
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Park, Seongmin. "A hypertext learning system for theory of computation." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/897499.
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The Hypertext concept was introduced about 50 years ago. This thesis presents the development of a reference system using the Hypertext concept. HYATS (HYpertext Automata and Turing Theory Learning 5ys,em) is a system which helps users learn many topics in the area of theory of computation. The system is implemented by Guide which is a general purpose Hypertext system running on PC-Windows environment. HYATS also includes a Turing machine simulating program which was written by Dominique Atger as her Master's Thesis in 1993, so that users can actually experiment with Turing machines learned through HYATS. HYATS will be not only the reference system, but also the complete package of actual learning system. The motivation behind this project is to study basic concepts of a Hypertext system so that it will also contribute to G-Net research. HYATS can be used as a prototype for future development of versions of by using other Hypertext systems such as NoteCards.Department of Computer Science
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El, Nabrawy Iman Mohamed Omar. "Algebraic issues in linear multi-dimensional system theory." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/36004.
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1-D Multivariable system theory has been developed richly over the past fifty years using various approaches. The classical approach includes the matrix fraction description (MFD), the state-space approach etc., while the behavioural approach is relatively new. Nowadays, however there is an enormous need to develop this theory for systems where information depends on more than one independent variable i.e. the n-D system theory (n ≥ 2), due to the vast number of applications for these kind of systems. By contrast to the 1-D system theory, the n-D system theory is less developed and its main aspects are not yet complete, where generalising the results from 1-D to n-D has proved to be not straight forward nor smooth. This could be attributed to the n-D polynomial matrices which are the basic elements used in the analysis of n-D systems. n-D polynomial matrices are more difficult to manipulate when compared to the 1-D polynomial matrices used in the analysis of 1-D systems, because the ring of n-D polynomials to which their elements belong does not possess many of the favourable properties which the ring of 1-D polynomials possesses. The work proposed in this thesis considers the Rosenbrock system matrix and the matrix fraction description approaches to the study of n-D systems.
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Robb, David S. S. "The theory and implementation of a secure system." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13497.
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Computer viruses pose a very real threat to this technological age. As our dependence on computers increases so does the incidence of computer virus infection. Like their biological counterparts, complete eradication is virtually impossible. Thus all computer viruses which have been injected into the public domain still exist. This coupled with the fact that new viruses are being discovered every day is resulting in a massive escalation of computer virus incidence. Computer viruses covertly enter the system and systematically take control, corrupt and destroy. New viruses appear each day that circumvent current means of detection, entering the most secure of systems. Anti-Virus software writers find themselves fighting a battle they cannot win: for every hole that is plugged, another leak appears. Presented in this thesis is both method and apparatus for an Anti-Virus System which provides a solution to this serious problem. It prevents the corruption, or destruction of data, by a computer virus or other hostile program, within a computer system. The Anti-Virus System explained in this thesis will guarantee system integrity and virus containment for any given system. Unlike other anti-virus techniques, security can be guaranteed, as at no point can a virus circumvent, or corrupt the action of the Anti-Virus System presented. It requires no hardware modification of the computer or the hard disk, nor software modification of the computer's operating system. Whilst being largely transparent to the user, the System guarantees total protection against the spread of current and future viruses.
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Sang, Jizhang. "Theory and development of GPS integrity monitoring system." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1996. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36001/7/36001_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis discusses various aspects of the integrity monitoring of GPS applied to civil
aircraft navigation in different phases of flight. These flight phases include en route,
terminal, non-precision approach and precision approach. The thesis includes four
major topics: probability problem of GPS navigation service, risk analysis of aircraft
precision approach and landing, theoretical analysis of Receiver Autonomous Integrity
Monitoring (RAIM) techniques and RAIM availability, and GPS integrity monitoring
at a ground reference station. Particular attention is paid to the mathematical aspects of
the GPS integrity monitoring system.
The research has been built upon the stringent integrity requirements defined by civil
aviation community, and concentrates on the capability and performance
investigation of practical integrity monitoring systems with rigorous mathematical
and statistical concepts and approaches. Major contributions of this research are:
• Rigorous integrity and continuity risk analysis for aircraft precision
approach. Based on the joint probability density function of the affecting
components, the integrity and continuity risks of aircraft precision
approach with DGPS were computed. This advanced the conventional
method of allocating the risk probability.
• A theoretical study of RAIM test power. This is the first time a theoretical
study on RAIM test power based on the probability statistical theory has
been presented, resulting in a new set of RAIM criteria.
• Development of a GPS integrity monitoring and DGPS quality control
system based on GPS reference station. A prototype of GPS integrity
monitoring and DGPS correction prediction system has been developed
and tested, based on the A USN A V GPS base station on the roof of QUT
ITE Building.
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Fong, Nga Hin Benjamin. "Modeling, Analysis,and Design of Responsive Manufacturing Systems Using Classical Control Theory." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27269.
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The manufacturing systems operating within todayâ s global enterprises are invariably dynamic and complicated. Lean manufacturing works well where demand is relatively stable and predictable where product diversity is low. However, we need a much higher agility where customer demand is volatile with high product variety. Frequent changes of product designs need quicker response times in ramp-up to volume. To stay competitive in this 21st century global industrialization, companies must posses a new operation design strategy for responsive manufacturing systems that react to unpredictable market changes as well as to launch new products in a cost-effective and efficient way.
The objective of this research is to develop an alternative method to model, analyze, and design responsive manufacturing systems using classical control theory. This new approach permits industrial engineers to study and better predict the transient behavior of responsive manufacturing systems in terms of production lead time, WIP overshoot, system responsiveness, and lean finished inventory. We provide a one-to-one correspondence to translate manufacturing terminologies from the System Dynamics (SD) models into the block diagram representation and transfer functions. We can analytically determine the transient characteristics of responsive manufacturing systems. This analytical formulation is not offered in discrete event simulation or system dynamics approach. We further introduce the Root Locus design technique that investigates the sensitivity of the closed-loop poles location as they relate to the manufacturing world on a complex s-plane. This subsequent complex plane analysis offers new management strategies to better predict and control the dynamic responses of responsive manufacturing systems in terms of inventory build-up (i.e., leanness) and lead time. We define classical control theory terms and interpret their meanings according to the closed-loop poles locations to assist production management in utilizing the Root Locus design tool. Again, by applying this completely graphic view approach, we give a new design approach that determine the responsive manufacturing parametric set of values without iterative trial-and-error simulation replications as found in discrete event simulation or system dynamics approach.Ph. D.
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Meyer, Tanja. "Discrete and absolute hub location problems theory and algorithms." München Verl. Dr. Hut, 2008. http://d-nb.info/992163579/04.
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Gibbins, Nicholas Miles. "An agent system for query routing search." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247227.
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McQueen, Stephen. "After Nineteen Eighty-Four, After Theory and After Snowden: A World-System Theory Reading." Thesis, McQueen, Stephen (2015) After Nineteen Eighty-Four, After Theory and After Snowden: A World-System Theory Reading. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/30270/.
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This thesis draws on the insights of George Orwell’s (1949[1984]) Nineteen Eighty-Four to explore contemporary surveillance issues. It is argued that Nineteen Eighty-Four can be read from a variety of theoretical approaches that have developed since its publication in 1949. This is demonstrated by drawing on Eagleton’s (2003) After Theory and the parallels the text has with Eagleton’s call for a return to a less reductive and more self-reflexive class based analysis. Research that utilises different theoretical approaches to read Nineteen Eighty-Four is also discussed. The thesis then considers various ways in which the different main characters have been analysed. An alternative reading is then provided, that argues that Winston, Julia and O’Brien can be read as representing aspects of modernism, cultural theory and postmodernism respectively. It is then argued that through their interactions, the text encourages a rapprochement of cultural theory and modernist class based analysis, as a means of resistance to the state. Finally, by drawing on World-system theory, an alternative reading of the global political economy of Nineteen Eighty-Four is employed to explore issues of stability and surveillance in this fictive world. This analysis is then used to explore contemporary surveillance issues after the Snowden revelations, including the role of global capital and the state in employing surveillance to control labour. Issues of resistance are then discussed in terms of the importance for a return to a class based analysis of surveillance that draws on the insights of World-system theory, but which emphasises the insights provided by cultural theory. This includes, for example, how state and capital utilise language to limit the subject positions of citizens to suspect and consumer, as well as enabling a more self-reflexive range of subject positions than those imposed by the state and global capital in the contemporary global political economy.
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Marticello, Daniel Nicholas Jr. "Complexity within the Air Force acquisition system gaining insight from a theory of collapse." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70825.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-129).
Joseph Tainter's theory of societal collapse is applied in an examination of the U.S. Air Force's aircraft acquisition system in order to gain insight into the enterprise's lagging performance. Theories of collapse at both the societal level and the organizational level are reviewed. Tainter's interrelationship between increasing system complexity and diminishing marginal returns is highlighted as especially relevant to the performance of the Air Force aircraft acquisition enterprise. Using Tainter's theory as a framework, evidence is gathered leading to the conclusions that the Air Force aircraft acquisition enterprise is highly complex and as a result is experiencing diminishing marginal returns. Tainter's framework is then also used to explain why past attempts to reform the enterprise have fallen short of their goals. Previous reform efforts, in the form of reorganizations and senior leader initiatives, have been ineffectual beyond the short term because they fail to reduce the underlying level of complexity within the enterprise. The use of workarounds by stakeholders within the enterprise are shown to be efforts to increase marginal returns and avoid overcomplexity. The primary implication of viewing the Air Force aircraft acquisition enterprise through the lens of Tainter's theory of collapse is that in order to be effective, any effort undertaken to improve the performance of the enterprise must reduce the overall level of complexity within the system. Additional insights include the use of current workarounds as leading indicators of complexity or overly burdensome processes. Lastly, senior acquisition leaders should be prepared should a collapse of the enterprise occur. A vision of a much less complex enterprise should be advocated.
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Keil, Markus. "Renormalization group theory for quantum dissipative systems in nonequilibrium." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2001. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2002/keil/keil.pdf.
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Harrison, Peter. "A theory of legislation from a systems perspective /." Canberra, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au/public/adt-AUC20081204.115715/index.html.
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Arney, Dale Curtis. "Rule-based graph theory to enable exploration of the space system architecture design space." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44840.
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NASA's current plans for human spaceflight include an evolutionary series of missions based on a steady increase in capability to explore cis-lunar space, the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and eventually Mars. Although the system architecture definition has the greatest impact on the eventual performance and cost of an exploration program, selecting an optimal architecture is a difficult task due to the lack of methods to adequately explore the architecture design space and the resource-intensive nature of architecture analysis. This research presents a modeling framework to mathematically represent and analyze the space system architecture design space using graph theory. The framework enables rapid exploration of the design space without the need to limit trade options or the need for user interaction during the exploration process. The architecture design space for three missions in a notional evolutionary exploration program, which includes staging locations, vehicle implementation, and system functionality, for each mission destination is explored. Using relative net present value of various system architecture options, the design space exploration reveals that the launch vehicle selection is the primary driver in reducing cost, and other options, such as propellant type, staging location, and aggregation strategy, provide less impact.
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Nasto, Rachel Harte. "Mori projected dynamics on a quantum system." Link to electronic thesis, 2007. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-043007-113236/.
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Emenalo, Chukwunonye Obi-Ogulo. "Institutions and financial system development in Africa." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14436.
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Recent research suggests that financial system development is important for economic development and for reducing financing constraints of firms (Levine, 2005). Consequently, researchers started investigating the factors that determine financial system development. A group of factors that have been identified are institutional factors. Many researchers have investigated the theoretical and empirical links among historical institutional factors, current institutional factors, and financial system development (Beck and Levine, 2005). There are, however, few studies that have investigated extensively the theoretical and empirical links among institutional factors and financial system development within the African context. Africa provides an interesting context to empirically validate and refine many of the theories that have been postulated to explain the relationships among historical and current institutional factors and financial system development. This is because Africa is in the process of developing its institutions and reforming existing ones and offers an opportunity to examine the impact of institutional factors on financial system development in nascent contexts. Therefore, this dissertation investigated the following research question: To what extent are institutional factors determinants of financial system development in Africa? To answer this research question, this study empirically evaluated the effects on financial system development of historical institutional factors that have been identified by four theories: legal origins theory, disease endowment theory, religion-based theory, and ethnic fractionalisation theory. Moreover, current institutional factors identified by the law and finance theory as possible determinants of financial system development were empirically examined. Furthermore, the links among historical and current institutional factors were empirically studied. The results show that the disease endowment variables are the only historical institutional factors that explain cross-country variation in financial system development in Africa. Additionally, this study finds that the institutional enforcement quality and efficiency of the judicial system are the only current institutional factors that explain cross-country variation in financial system development in Africa. Current institutional factors such as the efficiency of the legal property system and the quality of the credit information infrastructure do not appear to have effects on financial system development. Moreover, the institutional enforcement quality seems to be one of the possible channels through which disease endowment affects financial system development in Africa. This study also reveals that there are few statistically significant links among historical and current institutional factors within the African context. To my knowledge, this is the first study to show some of these empirical links among historical institutional factors, current institutional factors, and financial system development for the African context. The main conclusion of this dissertation is that institutional factors seem not to be determinants of financial system development in Africa to a large extent. In essence, institutional factors appear to matter for financial system development in Africa, but not as much as might have been expected judging from many calls for institutional reforms from the World Bank and others. The theoretical and policy implications of the findings of this dissertation are discussed, and future areas of research are also proposed.
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Lee, Taih-Shyun. "Performance analysis and control design for Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems : matched and mismatched case." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/12102.
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Coombs-Reyes, Jerome D. "Customer allocation policies in a two server network stability and exact asymptotics /." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2003. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-03292004-141826/unrestricted/coombs-reyes%5Fjerome%5Fd%5F200312%5Fphd.pdf.
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Chisnall, Anne Clare. "Grounded theory for knowledge acquisition." Thesis, De Montfort University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4140.
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