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DRIAS, YASSINE. "Web information foraging using Multi-agent System." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/195637.
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Lo scopo principale dei motori di ricerca, che supportano il compito di information retrieval, è quello di fornire agli utenti un metodo facile per trovare informazioni sul Web. Nonostante i loro vantaggi, i motori di ricerca hanno ancora numerosi limiti. Sono state realizzate diverse opere per migliorare i sistemi di accesso alle informazioni e offrire un'esperienza di utilizzo migliore in settori diversi, come distribuite e contestuali information retrieval, link analysis e exploratory search.
Questa tesi si occupa di Web Information Foraging, un paradigma di information access più recente che mira a scoprire i percorsi che portano a informazioni rilevanti sul Web. L'obiettivo principale della ricerca intrapresa durante il Ph.D. è stato quello di progettare e implementare sistemi efficaci ed efficienti di Information Foraging basati sulla tecnologia multi-agent. A questo scopo, abbiamo studiato information foraging in diversi domini, tra cui salute, pubblicazioni scientifiche e social media.
Per affrontare questo problema, abbiamo proposto un'architettura modulare con due fasi importanti per il sistema di Information Foraging. La prima fase è un processo di apprendimento che mira a localizzare le pagine Web più rilevanti che potrebbero interessare l'utente secondo i propri interessi. Questo può essere eseguito su un'istanza fissa del Web. La seconda fase tiene conto dell'apertura e della dinamicità del Web e consiste in un apprendimento incrementale partendo dai risultati della prima fase e ricondizionando i risultati tenendo conto delle modifiche apportate sul Web. L'intero sistema offre uno strumento per aiutare gli utenti a accedere facilmente alle informazioni online. Lo sviluppo del sistema ha attraversato tre importanti passaggi in cui sono stati utilizzati diversi concetti e tecnologie per ottenere efficacia ed efficienza e anche rendere il sistema in grado di operare in diversi ambienti.
Innanzitutto, abbiamo proposto un approccio basato sulla Swarm Intelligence per simulare il processo di foraggicazione come descritto nella Information Foraging Theory. Abbiamo eseguito la nostra proposta utilizzando Bee Swarm Optimization (BSO) per realizzare un processo automatico di information foraging fondato sul comportamento del foraggicazione delle informazioni dell'uomo. Conoscendo che BSO è un approccio di swarm intelligence che coinvolge agenti reattivi e che il concetto di Information Foraging si basa sulla natura, abbiamo pensato che questo potrebbe essere uno dei modi più appropriati per affrontare il problema del Web Information Foraging. Per convalidare la nostra proposta, sono stati condotti esperimenti su MedlinePlus, un sito dedicato al dominio medico e che contiene informazioni su oltre 1000 malattie e condizioni sanitarie. I risultati sono stati promettenti e hanno dimostrato la capacità di Information Foraging di accedere alle informazioni pertinenti sul Web in base agli interessi di un utente.The main purpose of search engines, which support the task of Information Retrieval, is to provide the users with an easy method to find information on the Web. Despite their advantages, Web search engines still have numerous limitations. Several works have been done to enhance information access systems and offer a better user experience in different fields such as distributed and contextual information retrieval, link analysis and exploratory search. This thesis deals with Web Information Foraging, which is a recent information access paradigm that aims at discovering paths leading to relevant information on the Web. The principal goal of the research undertaken during the Ph.D. has been to design and implement effective and efficient Information Foraging systems based on multi-agent technology. For this purpose, we investigated Information Foraging in different domains including health, scientific publications and social media. To address this issue, we proposed a modular architecture with two important phases for the Information Foraging system to be developed. The first phase is a learning process, which aims to locate the most relevant Web pages that might interest the user according to his/her interests. This can be performed on a fixed instance of the Web. The second phase takes into account the openness and dynamicity of the Web and it consists of an incremental learning starting from the results of the first phase and reshaping the outcomes taking into account the changes that occur on the Web. The whole system offers a tool to help users access information online easily. The development of the system went through three important steps, where different concepts and technologies were used in order to achieve both effectiveness and efficiency and also to make the system able to operate on various environments.
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Duffy, Juliet (Juliet Maria). "Information management using Web 2.0 technology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50100.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2009.Includes bibliographical references.
Web 2.0, the ultimate platform for tacit based knowledge work has finally arrived. User driven, collaborative platform based tools including wikis, web mash-ups, discussion boards, linkage based search engines, and tagging have the potential to vastly change how information is managed and how knowledge work is captured. This thesis investigates how the new paradigms and tools of Web 2.0 can be applied to the Pharmaceutical Industry and assist with information management at The Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research (NIBR). Applying Web 2.0 tools to NIBR's chemical compounds, targets, assays, people, and projects in a well thought out framework has the potential to yield tremendous productivity improvements in the drug discovery process. Effectively harnessing the collective intelligence of thousands of scientists within Novartis's worldwide research network will enable a paradigm shift. A large, extremely knowledgeable user community can more effectively annotate metadata, hyperlink to important content, establish tags, and collectively author content. Such activities will not only improve the search ability of information but also allow important scientific connections to emerge linking biology to chemistry and furthering Novartis's understanding of disease.
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Modé, Erik. "Responsive Web Design and Optimizing Loading Times on Mobile Devices for Enhanced Web Presence." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Informationssystem, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-227592.
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Surfing the web has moved from the stationary computers to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. As the technology moves further and more devices comes out on the market this is a trend that will continue. This makes it more important for web developers to adapt and make their websites fit not only for one device. The website needs to fit all devices. Since many of these devices are using wireless connections, the website performance has also become even more important in order to give the users a good experience. Responsive web design is an approach for designing and developing web pages. By using the three techniques of flexible grid layout, flexible images and media, and media queries, websites can get a design that fits all devices. Responsive web techniques will also make the web page perform better on each device since it makes the web page adapt to its environment. There are several performance techniques that can be applied to a website in order to increase performance and loading time. Responsive web design including performance techniques can together make a great impact on a website's loading speed and user experience. This thesis embraces this approach for web development. By developing a design theory, a website emerges where these approaches of web development have been implemented. During the development of the website the experiences implementing this approach and techniques is discussed. The website developed for this thesis was able to finish loading below 4 seconds on a mobile device using a 3G connection. We argue that responsive web design and performance techniques can help a website immensely to increase its user experience and performance.
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Vickers, Mark S. "Ontology-Based Free-Form Query Processing for the Semantic Web." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1353.pdf.
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Jackson, Carolyn M. Rhodes Dent. "The high school library web site scaffolding information literacy skills /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276395781&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202154031&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on February 4, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Dent Rhodes (chair), Tom Crumpler, Cheri Toledo, Bobb Darnell. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-113) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Dotsika, Fefie. "Semantic technologies : from niche to the mainstream of Web 3? : a comprehensive framework for web information modelling and semantic annotation." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2012. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8z712/semantic-technologies-from-niche-to-the-mainstream-of-web-3-a-comprehensive-framework-for-web-information-modelling-and-semantic-annotation.
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Context: Web information technologies developed and applied in the last decade have considerably changed the way web applications operate and have revolutionised information management and knowledge discovery. Social technologies, user-generated classification schemes and formal semantics have a far-reaching sphere of influence. They promote collective intelligence, support interoperability, enhance sustainability and instigate innovation. Contribution: The research carried out and consequent publications follow the various paradigms of semantic technologies, assess each approach, evaluate its efficiency, identify the challenges involved and propose a comprehensive framework for web information modelling and semantic annotation, which is the thesis’ original contribution to knowledge. The proposed framework assists web information modelling, facilitates semantic annotation and information retrieval, enables system interoperability and enhances information quality. Implications: Semantic technologies coupled with social media and end-user involvement can instigate innovative influence with wide organisational implications that can benefit a considerable range of industries. The scalable and sustainable business models of social computing and the collective intelligence of organisational social media can be resourcefully paired with internal research and knowledge from interoperable information repositories, back-end databases and legacy systems. Semantified information assets can free human resources so that they can be used to better serve business development, support innovation and increase productivity.
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Diamond, Marie Malissa. "Older adults, the internet, and health-related information a multiple case study /." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000017.
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Nilsson, Malin, and Louise Lantz. "Product Return Process : Developing a Web-Based Return Form to Improve the Information Flow between an Apparel Company and Its Retailers." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16803.
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Handling product returns has become a critical activity for organizations as the volume of gods flowing back through the supply chain rapidly increases. Few research studies have published specific empirical data concerning the reverse logistics practices of companies. Information technology and information support has long been recognized as a competitive weapon – capable of enhancing company performance and achieving efficient reverse logistics. Reverse logistics is very unlike the forward, as it is more reactive and also has less visibility. Unlike forward logistics, incoming products from reverse logistics are not tracked broadly because of the lack of information systems resources necessary.The investigated apparel company in this study is operating on the global market and expands their sales twenty per cent each year, resulting in increased pressure in the return flow. To meet this future demands, the return process has to be more efficient and not so time consuming. This study emerged from a case study made at the return department of this apparel company based on a research question. An improvement area was discovered through interviews, internal documents and observations. This area was investigated in existing theories through books and scientific research papers. From the theories and the case study, a hypothesis was created in order to be tested. To strengthen the hypothesis, an experiment was developed and performed at selected retailers and at the apparel company.Research Question Where in the product return process can improvements be made in order to make the information flow more efficient between retailers and an apparel company?HypothesisBy creating a web-based return form, the information flow between retailers and an apparel company will be more efficient, resulting in a more effective and structured product return process.Through the experiment, various factors that strengthen the hypothesis were discovered. For instance, the information flow becomes more effective when retailers have clear guidelines how to send back products and when inserting the information into the computer system before returning. As the apparel company knows what is coming back, the disposition of returned products can be predetermined which will speed up the return process. Shared and available information across various parties facilitate the daily work with better communication. Furthermore, activities that are existing today within the return process can be eliminated which result in more effective product return process. Refund for retailers can be made quicker which result in more satisfied retailers and creates stronger relationships.Program: Master programme in Applied Textile Management
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Scroggins, Darryl Dwaine. "Web-based independent study program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2628.
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The Web-based Independent Study Program (WISP) is an on-line database program used to create and store educational records for members of Dikaios. (Dikaios is a Christian educators association that offers an independent study program.) The database allows home educators to create, store, edit, view, and print the forms and records that are required by Dakaios administrators and by the state of California. Further, the database helps students and home educators monitor student progress towards meeting high school graduation requirements.
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Tuna, Buket. "A web based IT support tracking system." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2542.
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This project proposes an automated system that allows a registered user to post questions to a web-based database of technical experts. This enables the user to have a quicker response time to their questions. The users questions and answers are posted to the website.
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Larsson, Niklas, Alexander Carlsson, and Brunell Alexander Levin. "Interoperabilitet: En väg till samordnade transporter?" Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-13289.
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Digitaliseringens utveckling genomsyrar stora delar av samhället där informationsteknologi bidragit till tidigare otänkbara möjligheter och fördelar. I dagsläget har organisationer rationaliserat flertalet affärsprocesser där teknologin anses utgöra en fundamental utgångspunkt. Informationsteknologins framfart medför förändringar kring kommunikation där begreppet interoperabilitet introduceras som: samverkan mellan två eller fler system med motivet att utbyta information. Vidare har cirkulär ekonomi erhållit mer uppmärksamhet under senare år där motivet är att förbättra problematiken kring resurshantering och återvinning. Den här studien syftar till att skapa grunden för utformningen av ett informationssystem med stöd av ett interoperabilitetsramverk där motivet är att understödja verksamheter vid sambokningstransporter. Det här har genomförts med hjälp av en kvalitativ forskningsansats där intervjuer har nyttjats som datainsamlingsmetod där studien har avgränsats till mikro-, små- och medelstora organisationer. Dessa är belägna inom en glest befolkad kommun i Sverige där företagsrepresentanter från Orust kommun bidragit med empirisk data.The evolution of digitization permeates large parts of society where information technology has contributed to previously unthinkable possibilities and benefits. At present, organizations have rationalized most business processes where technology is considered to be a fundamental starting point. The advancement of information technology brings about changes in communication where the concept of interoperability is introduced as: collaboration between two or more systems with the purpose of exchanging information. In addition, circular economics have gained more attention in recent years, the purpose of which is to improve the problem of resource management and recycling. This study aims to provide the basis for the design of an information system, supported by an interoperability framework, with the purpose of supporting co-transport activities. This has been done using a qualitative research effort where interviews have been used as a data collection method in which the study has been delimited to micro, small and medium-sized organizations. These are located within a sparsely populated municipality in Sweden, where business representatives from Orust Municipality contributed empirical data.
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Kronvall, Alf. "Perceptionsanalys av tre webbplatser som använder Flash : skillnader i syn på färg och form bland kvinnliga och manliga Internetanvändare i olika åldersgrupper." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Communication, Technology and Design, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-340.
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Denna uppsats undersöker hur kvinnor och män i olika åldersgrupper förhåller sig till Flashapplikationer utifrån deras uppfattning om färg och form. Deltagarna som består av skolungdomar, nyexaminerade studenter och pensionärer har genom en enkät och en semistrukturerad intervjuform fått redogöra för sina intryck av Santa Marias, Eccos och Indiskas webbplatser.
Undersökningsdeltagarna identifierar Flashelementen genom deras rörelser. Deltagarna vill välja om de ska se animationer och andra applikationer skapade i Flash för att inte tappa koncentrationen från övrigt innehåll. Studenterna i undersökningen har en mer kritisk hållning till färgval, formgivning och användandet av Flash än övriga. Kvinnorna i undersökningen har en mer liberal hållning till färg och form än männen.
This essay explores how men and women in different age groups experiences Flashapplications, depending on their perception of colour and form. The participants, teenagers at a junior high school, students who just have finished their degree and senior citizens have by answering a form and by taking part in a semi structured interview been able to express their opinion of the following Scandinavian web pages: Santa Maria, Ecco and Indiska.
The participants identify the flash objects by their movements. The participants want to be able to choose weather or not to see the animations and other applications created in Flash, to avoid loosing focus on the other information the trademarks wants to express. The students have the most critical approach to colour, form and the use of Flash objects. The female participants have a more liberal approach to colour and form then the male participants.
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Brown, Richard. "ACWW: Adding Automation to the Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web (CWW)." UNF Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/195.
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The Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web (CWW) is a Usability Evaluation Method that can be used as an approach to evaluate a website. Unfortunately, the original formulation of CWW has been applied by researchers in the area as a set of a semi-manual processes, which have proven to be extremely time-consuming, and as with any semi-manual process, error-prone. This thesis presents a web-based approach to automate CWW, which we call ACWW. The automation of these processes implies, on the one hand, that researchers can reduce the amount of time dedicated to computing the results associated with performing various analyses. On the other hand, it implies that the accuracy of computed results can be improved. ACWW is available from http://autocww.colorado.edu/~brownr/. Finally, ACWW has been mentioned in a paper by Dr. Marilyn Blackmon, a leader in usability research, at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in April of 2005 [Blackmon05].
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Mohammadzadeh, Hadi. "Improving Retrieval Accuracy in Main Content Extraction from HTML Web Documents." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-130500.
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The rapid growth of text based information on the World Wide Web and various applications making use of this data motivates the need for efficient and effective methods to identify and separate the “main content” from the additional content items, such as navigation menus, advertisements, design elements or legal disclaimers. Firstly, in this thesis, we study, develop, and evaluate R2L, DANA, DANAg, and AdDANAg, a family of novel algorithms for extracting the main content of web documents. The main concept behind R2L, which also provided the initial idea and motivation for the other three algorithms, is to use well particularities of Right-to-Left languages for obtaining the main content of web pages. As the English character set and the Right-to-Left character set are encoded in different intervals of the Unicode character set, we can efficiently distinguish the Right-to-Left characters from the English ones in an HTML file. This enables the R2L approach to recognize areas of the HTML file with a high density of Right-to-Left characters and a low density of characters from the English character set. Having recognized these areas, R2L can successfully separate only the Right-to-Left characters. The first extension of the R2L, DANA, improves effectiveness of the baseline algorithm by employing an HTML parser in a post processing phase of R2L for extracting the main content from areas with a high density of Right-to-Left characters. DANAg is the second extension of the R2L and generalizes the idea of R2L to render it language independent. AdDANAg, the third extension of R2L, integrates a new preprocessing step to normalize the hyperlink tags. The presented approaches are analyzed under the aspects of efficiency and effectiveness. We compare them to several established main content extraction algorithms and show that we extend the state-of-the-art in terms of both, efficiency and effectiveness. Secondly, automatically extracting the headline of web articles has many applications. We develop and evaluate a content-based and language-independent approach, TitleFinder, for unsupervised extraction of the headline of web articles. The proposed method achieves high performance in terms of effectiveness and efficiency and outperforms approaches operating on structural and visual featuresDas rasante Wachstum von textbasierten Informationen im World Wide Web und die Vielfalt der Anwendungen, die diese Daten nutzen, macht es notwendig, effiziente und effektive Methoden zu entwickeln, die den Hauptinhalt identifizieren und von den zusätzlichen Inhaltsobjekten wie z.B. Navigations-Menüs, Anzeigen, Design-Elementen oder Haftungsausschlüssen trennen. Zunächst untersuchen, entwickeln und evaluieren wir in dieser Arbeit R2L, DANA, DANAg und AdDANAg, eine Familie von neuartigen Algorithmen zum Extrahieren des Inhalts von Web-Dokumenten. Das grundlegende Konzept hinter R2L, das auch zur Entwicklung der drei weiteren Algorithmen führte, nutzt die Besonderheiten der Rechts-nach-links-Sprachen aus, um den Hauptinhalt von Webseiten zu extrahieren. Da der lateinische Zeichensatz und die Rechts-nach-links-Zeichensätze durch verschiedene Abschnitte des Unicode-Zeichensatzes kodiert werden, lassen sich die Rechts-nach-links-Zeichen leicht von den lateinischen Zeichen in einer HTML-Datei unterscheiden. Das erlaubt dem R2L-Ansatz, Bereiche mit einer hohen Dichte von Rechts-nach-links-Zeichen und wenigen lateinischen Zeichen aus einer HTML-Datei zu erkennen. Aus diesen Bereichen kann dann R2L die Rechts-nach-links-Zeichen extrahieren. Die erste Erweiterung, DANA, verbessert die Wirksamkeit des Baseline-Algorithmus durch die Verwendung eines HTML-Parsers in der Nachbearbeitungsphase des R2L-Algorithmus, um den Inhalt aus Bereichen mit einer hohen Dichte von Rechts-nach-links-Zeichen zu extrahieren. DANAg erweitert den Ansatz des R2L-Algorithmus, so dass eine Sprachunabhängigkeit erreicht wird. Die dritte Erweiterung, AdDANAg, integriert eine neue Vorverarbeitungsschritte, um u.a. die Weblinks zu normalisieren. Die vorgestellten Ansätze werden in Bezug auf Effizienz und Effektivität analysiert. Im Vergleich mit mehreren etablierten Hauptinhalt-Extraktions-Algorithmen zeigen wir, dass sie in diesen Punkten überlegen sind. Darüber hinaus findet die Extraktion der Überschriften aus Web-Artikeln vielfältige Anwendungen. Hierzu entwickeln wir mit TitleFinder einen sich nur auf den Textinhalt beziehenden und sprachabhängigen Ansatz. Das vorgestellte Verfahren ist in Bezug auf Effektivität und Effizienz besser als bekannte Ansätze, die auf strukturellen und visuellen Eigenschaften der HTML-Datei beruhen
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Orihuela, Meza Jhon Albert, and Perez Victor Hugo Morales. "Propuesta de automatización del proceso de distribución en una empresa ecológica mediante soluciónes tecnológicas web y móvil." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/657546.
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El uso de tecnologías de información para planificar actividades y monitorear a través de la posición geográfica ya sean durante la distribución, delivery o geolocalización de pedidos ha tomado bastante importancia en la actualidad. Por consecuente, el presento proyecto propone una automatización del proceso de distribución mediante soluciones tecnológicas web y móvil GIS, a partir del análisis de las actividades que se realizan en dicho proceso. Esta propuesta, tiene como objetivo reducir las tareas manuales que se realizan en dicho proceso, así mismo, habilitar un medio de monitoreo en tiempo real de los repartidores y pedidos de los clientes. Para lograr la propuesta se realiza una conceptualización y análisis de la empresa empleando los marcos de trabajo de Zachman en el nivel 1 y 2 y TOGAF, de esta manera se identifica la situación problemática, los objetivos del proyecto e indicadores de éxito. Esta información fue la base para diagramar los procesos actuales y los mejorados con el uso BPMN. Luego, para diseñar las soluciones tecnológicas se empleó la ingeniera de requerimientos para que finalmente se plasme ese análisis en diagramas de arquitectura en cuatro niveles usando como guía el modelo C4. Finalmente, se hace uso de la guía de PMBOK para la gestión del proyecto que como resultado permitió planificar las actividades, estimar los tiempos de ejecución y los costos que conllevan la implementación de la propuesta de automatización.The use of information technologies to plan activities and monitor through the geographical position, whether during the distribution, delivery or geolocation of orders has become quite important today. Consequently, the present project proposes an automation of the distribution process through web and mobile GIS technology solutions, based on the analysis of the activities carried out in said process. The objective of this proposal is to reduce the manual tasks that are carried out in this process, as well as to enable a means of real-time monitoring of the distributors and customer orders. To achieve the proposal, a conceptualization and analysis of the company is carried out using the Zachman frameworks at level 1 and 2 and TOGAF, in this way the problematic situation, the project objectives and indicators of success are identified. This information was the basis for diagramming the current processes and those improved with the use of BPMN. Then, to design the technological solutions, requirements engineering was used to finally translate that analysis into four-level architecture diagrams using the C4 model as a guide. Finally, the PMBOK guide is used to manage the project, which as a result allowed to plan the activities, estimate the execution times and the costs involved in the implementation of the automation proposal.
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Brasileiro, Fellipe Sá. "O processo de mediação no contexto do regime de informação: a construção de um espaço virtual de comunicação na web para a CPAD/UFPB." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2013. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/3944.
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Presents an intervention in the regime of information in the camp of archives Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), with goal to promote dissemination of archival information produced by the Standing Committee of Document Evaluation (CPAD), on scope the Campus I institution's, by building of one virtual space communication in the web and of actions of information appropriate. Broaches the process of mediation information in organizations as a set of information actions established based on the relations between the subjects and the networks Socio-communicational primary and secondary formed in the context of information regime that, through the resources offered by the infrastructure of cyberspace, are grouped into a single information environment in a form dynamic and effective. These actions are developed during the stages of production, organization and dissemination of information on the web, to which are find on collaboration of nature multidisciplinary between Marketing and Information Architecture for the web, the essential conditions for achieving the goals according to the characteristics and information needs of users. Accordingly, we used the methodology of action research so that permits the opinions, needs and experiences of subjects involved in the process of document management of CPAD to be considered regarding the planning and implementation of information actions. We departed from the application of semi-structured interview to obtain subsidies for the production and organization of information available on the web, following to the record of users' opinion regarding the evaluation of the information architecture of the website and then, ending with dissemination of information available on the web (website) through direct marketing. We conclude that both the construction of the website institutional of CPAD, as regards to the content of information architecture, regarding its dissemination, met the expectations of the servers involved in document management, as well as assisted in the promotion of CPAD within the institution, that is, giving visibility to the Table of Temporality document (TTD), the archival information and, especially, management practices that comprise the life cycle of documents.
Apresenta uma intervenção no regime de informação do campo arquivístico da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), com o objetivo de promover a disseminação da informação arquivística produzida pela Comissão Permanente de Avaliação de Documentos (CPAD) no âmbito do Campus I da instituição, mediante a construção de um espaço virtual de comunicação na web e das ações de informação cabíveis. Aborda o processo de mediação da informação nas organizações como um conjunto de ações de informação estabelecidas com base nas relações entre os sujeitos e as redes sociocomunicacionais primarias e secundárias formadas no contexto do regime de informação que, através dos recursos oferecidos pela infra-estrutura do ciberespaço, agrupam-se em um único ambiente informacional de forma dinâmica e efetiva. Essas ações se desenvolvem no decorrer das etapas de produção, organização e disseminação da informação na web, as quais encontram na colaboração de natureza multidisciplinar entre o Marketing e a Arquitetura da Informação para web, as condições essenciais para o alcance dos objetivos de acordo com as características e necessidades informacionais dos usuários. Nesse sentido, utilizou-se a metodologia da pesquisa-ação de modo a possibilitar que as opiniões, necessidades e experiências dos sujeitos envolvidos no processo de gestão de documentos da CPAD fossem consideradas no que tange o planejamento e a implementação das ações de informação. Partiu-se da aplicação da entrevista semi-estruturada no sentido de obter subsídios para a produção e organização da informação disponibilizada na web, seguindo para o registro da opinião dos usuários em relação à avaliação da arquitetura da informação do website e, posteriormente, finalizando com a disseminação da informação disponibilizada na web (website) por meio de ações de marketing direto. Conclui-se que tanto a construção do website institucional da CPAD, no que se refere ao conteúdo e a arquitetura da informação, quanto a sua disseminação, atenderam as expectativas dos servidores envolvidos no processo de gestão de documentos, bem como auxiliaram na promoção da CPAD no âmbito da instituição, isto é, dando visibilidade à Tabela de Temporalidade de Documentos (TTD), à informação arquivística e, principalmente, as práticas de gestão que compreendem o ciclo vital dos documentos.
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Ravindran, Balaji. "Managing Information System Integration Technologies--A Study of Text Mined Industry White Papers." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2003. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/NOD,38.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of New Orleans, 2003.Title from electronic submission form. "A thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering Management"--Thesis t.p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Romano, Paolo. "Progettazione e realizzazione di una web application per la gestione dei dati dei fornitori, basata sul framework Competitoor." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12936/.
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Ašeriškis, Darius. "Programinės įrangos projektų darbų vizualizavimo tyrimas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130821_134337-70625.
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Žaidimizacija – tai metodologija, kurios dėka su žaidimais nieko bendro neturinčiam kontekstui suteikiami žaidimo mechanika ir dizainas. Darbe aprašomas ir tiriamas projektų valdymo sistemos žaidimizavimas. Projektų valdymo sistemai žaidimizavimo metu yra sukuriamas žaidimo sluoksnis.
Darbe pristatyta „Trogon“ projektų valdymo sistema pagrįsta trijų sluoksnių architektūra. Projektinėje dalyje peržvelgėme sistemos žaidimizaciją. Pagal formalų sistemos žaidimizavimo aprašą žaidimizacija vadiname rinkinį G, kuris sudarytas iš žaidimo sluoksnio elementų ir aktualios projektų valdymo sistemos dalies. Techninis žaidimizacijos įgyvendinimas sudarytas iš dviejų dalių – duomenų klasių ir vaizdavimo klasių. Šiuo modeliu žaidimizuoti galime bet kokią sistemą, kuri įgyvendina žaidimizacijos duomenų kontraktą.
Atliktame kokybės tyrime buvo suskaičiuotos sistemos metrikos ir jų kitimas skirtingose sistemos versijose. Skirtingų sistemos versijų tyrimas leidžia mums nustatyti sistemos atitikimą antram ir ketvirtam Lehman dėsniams. Atlikus detalų sistemos galutinės versijos įvertinimą buvo nustatytos jos prižiūrimumo metrikos ir nustatytos tobulinimo galimybės.
Eksperimentinį tyrimą sudaro dvi dalys: spalvų analizė puslapių WCAG 2.0 kontrasto reikalavimų atitikimui nustatyti ir žaidimizacijos naudojamumo įvertinimas. Spalvų analizei pasiūlyta nauja vertinimo metodika naudojant puslapių paveikslėlių vizualinį tyrimą. Šio tyrimo metu nustatytas trijų sistemos puslapių atitikimas WCAG 2.0... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Gamification - is a methodology that enchants on-games context with game mechanics and game design. Document is a study of project management system gamification. Project management system is gamified by adding game layer to it. Paper introduces “Trogon” project management systems based on three-layer architecture. Paper overviews project management systems gamifications. According to a formal system description gamification is a set G, which consists of game elements and relevant parts of project management system. Technical view into gamification solution implementation consists of two parts - data classes and visualization classes. This model of gamification can be applied to any system that implements gamification data contract. In this paper we have described the performed quality analysis of the system, during which a study was done of system maintenance metrics and their changes in different versions of the system. Different versions study allows us to determine system compliance with second and fourth Lehman laws. Following a detailed assessment of system final version determined system maintenance metrics and possible system maintainability improvements. Experimental study consists of two parts: color analysis of several system pages in compliance with WCAG 2.0 contrast ratio requirements for accessibility and gamification usability evaluation. For color analysis paper proposes a new methodology for evaluation color contrast ratio requirements of pages using... [to full text]
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Lazzarin, Fabiana Aparecida. "De olho no OPAC da biblioteca universitária: avaliação sobre e-acessibilidade e arquitetura da informação para Web com a interação de usuários cegos." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/3960.
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Presents a focused study on aspects related e-Accessibility and Information Architecture (AI) for Web contained in online catalogs, also known as Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). The objective is to evaluate whether international accessibility guidelines and assumptions of AI are being contemplated. From the bibliographical project, resting on the exploratory and descriptive methods, we chose the case study as a research strategy. The analyzed sample is in the OPAC of the Management Academic Activities System (SIGAA) of the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB). Involves the combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches, respectively, based on the verbal assessment of blind students with the OPAC and the automatic analysis of Web Accessibility. With the combination of scientific methods tool, carried out a triangulation between methods or intermethods capable to bring the holistic result expected for the phenomenon under study. It was concluded that the OPAC system SIGAA specifically UFPB, needs to pass through reformulations that meet international accessibility guidelines for Web, since it doesn t pass in the test battery with minimum level recommended by WCAG 2.0 document and in many respects was rated unfavorably by the research participants. Regarding the assumptions of AI for the Web that are contained in the OPAC , assessing that need to be better implemented in the environment , given that many participants found it difficult to interact with the OPAC as a result of informational complexity.
Apresenta um estudo focado nos aspectos relacionados a e-Acessibilidade e a Arquitetura da Informação (AI) para Web contidos em catálogos on-line, também conhecidos como Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). O objetivo é avaliar se as recomendações internacionais de acessibilidade e os pressupostos da AI estão sendo contemplados. A partir do empreendimento bibliográfico, repousando sobre os métodos exploratório e descritivo, optou-se pelo estudo de caso como estratégia de pesquisa. A amostra avaliada trata-se do OPAC do Sistema de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas (SIGAA) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). Envolve a combinação das abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa, respectivamente, partindo da avaliação verbal de universitários cegos com o OPAC e, da análise automática com ferramenta de acessibilidade Web. Com a combinação de métodos científicos, realiza-se uma triangulação entre métodos ou intermétodos, capaz de trazer o resultado holístico que se espera para o fenômeno em estudo. Conclui-se que o OPAC do sistema SIGAA, especificamente, da UFPB, necessita passar por reformulações que atendam as diretrizes internacionais de acessibilidade para Web, pois não passa na bateria de testes com nível mínimo recomendado pelo documento WCAG 2.0 e, em diversos aspectos foi avaliado de forma desfavorável pelos participantes da pesquisa. Com relação aos pressupostos da AI para Web que estão contidos no OPAC, avalia-se que carecem ser melhor implementados no ambiente, tendo em vista que os participantes encontraram inúmeras dificuldades para interagir com o OPAC em decorrência da complexidade informacional.
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Liu, Xiaohui. "Web-Based Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Spatial Trade-Offs between Enivironmental and Economic Implications from Hydraulic Fracturing in a Shale Gas Region in Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1402969071.
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Drivas, Ioannis C. "Improving the Visibility and the Accessibility of Web Services. A User-Centric Approach." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-66893.
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The World Wide Web provides a well standing environment in any kind of organizations for exposing online products and services. However, no one ensures that web products or services which provided by organizations or enterprises, would receive the proper visibility and accessibility by the internet users. The process of Search Engine Optimization examines usability in design, architecture and content that an internet-based system has, for improving its visibility and accessibility in the web. Successful SEO process in an internet-based system, which is set under the paternity of an organization, ensures higher recognition, visibility and accessibility for the web services that the system provides to internet users. The aim of this study characterized with a trinity of axes. In the first axe, an internet-based system and the web services that provides is examined in order to understand its initial situation regarding its visibility and accessibility in the web. In the second axe, the study follows a user-centric approach on how and in what way the examined system could be improved based on its users’ needs and desires. After the encapsulation of needs and desires that the users expressed as regards the usability of the system in design, architecture and content, the third axe takes place. In the third axe, the extracted needs and desires of users are implemented in the under-examined system, in order to understand if its visibility and accessibility has improved in the World Wide Web.For the completion of this trinity of axes, the Soft Systems Methodology approach is adopted. SSM is an action-oriented process of inquiry which deals with a problematic situation from the Finding Out about the situation through the Taking Action to improve it. Following an interpretative research approach, ten semi-structured interviews take place in order to capture all the participants’ perceptions and different worldviews regarding of what are the changes that they need and desire from the examined system. Moreover, in this study, the conduction of three Workshops, constitute a cornerstone for implementing systemically desirable and culturally feasible changes where all participants can live with, in order to improve system’s visibility and accessibility in the internet world. The results indicate that the adoption of participants’ needs and desires, improved the levels of usability, visibility and accessibility of the under examined internet-based system. Overall, this study firstly contributes to expand the knowledge as regards the process of improving the visibility and accessibility of internet-based systems and their web services in the internet world, based on a user-centric approach. Secondly, this study works as a practical toolbox for any kind of organization which intends to improve the visibility and accessibility of its current or potential web services in the World Wide Web.
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Tello, Benel Mariaximena Mirella. "Análisis de herramientas SEO en el portal web del diario El Comercio durante la cobertura informativa de la pandemia producida por el coronavirus en Perú (6 de marzo al 24 de mayo de 2020)." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655028.
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En un mundo sujeto a los cambios que la tecnología propicia, el periodismo está obligado a atravesar un proceso de reconversión para migrar del papel a la web y convertirse en un medio de alta difusión. La labor del periodista es ahora fusionar el concepto de dinamismo e inmediatez, características propias de internet, con el ejercicio del buen periodismo para entregar al lector una noticia de calidad, veraz y contrastada. Además, debe incluir herramientas de posicionamiento web (SEO) que le permitan ubicar sus contenidos en los primeros resultados de los motores de búsqueda como Google y, de este modo, llegar a más personas. Ante este panorama, se propone la siguiente investigación que tiene como objetivo determinar si la correcta aplicación del SEO en la redacción periodística digital influye en la visibilidad del flujo noticioso dentro de los buscadores. Para ello, se ha utilizado como objeto de estudio 35 notas publicadas en la edición digital del diario peruano El Comercio durante la pandemia por Covid-19. Se ha diseñado un instrumento que permitió evaluar los aspectos periodísticos, así como las herramientas de posicionamiento y de impacto. Como resultado, se observaron dos tipos de comportamientos en las notas seleccionadas: la primera hace referencia a un conjunto de noticias masivas, publicadas bajo la firma general del diario, que privilegian los elementos de optimización web, la hipertextualidad y la multimedialidad en detrimento de otros aspectos del periodismo; mientras que el segundo se circunscribe a aquellas notas firmadas por un periodista, las cuales ofrecen textos extensos, con varias fuentes de información y un mayor procesamiento, dejando de lado las técnicas de posicionamiento. De este modo, la investigación concluye que, si bien el SEO influye en la visibilidad de contenidos noticiosos, el desafío consiste en incorporar los elementos beneficiosos del periodismo tradicional a la versátil y aún impredecible cultura digital.In a world subject to the changes that technology brings, journalism is obliged to go through a process of conversion to migrate from paper to the web and become a means of high diffusion. The job of journalist is now related with merging the concept of dynamism and immediacy, a remarkable feature of the internet, delivering to the readers quality, truthful and proven news. In addition, the journalist should include web positioning tools (SEO) that allow to locate the content in the first results of search engines such as Google and, in this way, reach more people. In view of this scenario, the following research has as a significant aim to determine whether the correct application of SEO in digital journalistic writing influences the visibility of the news flow within search engines. To this end, 35 notes published in the digital edition of the peruvian newspaper El Comercio during the pandemic by Covid-19 have been used as the subject of study. An instrument has been designed to evaluate journalistic aspects, as well as positioning and impact tools. As a result, two types of behaviors were observed in the selected notes: the first refers to a set of mass news, published under the general signature of the journal, which favor elements of web optimization, hypertextuality and multimediality to the detriment of other aspects of journalism; while the latter is limited to those notes signed by a journalist, which offers extensive texts, with various sources of information and greater processing, leaving aside positioning techniques. In this way, research concludes that while SEO influences the visibility of news content, the challenge is to incorporate the beneficial elements of traditional journalism into the versatile and still unpredictable digital culture.
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Hromádko, Petr. "Informační systém pro správu bezdrátové sítě s využitím routerboardu MikroTik." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218122.
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The master`s thesis deals with a concept of a web information system, designed to manage clients of a wireless network based on Mikrotik routerboards. The system allows the internet provider to have a great survey over all clients of the wireless network and to manage the settings of Mikrotik based network hardware. Furthermore, it offers an ability of signal strength monitoring and data accounting. The thesis has been split into two sections. The first one describes the information system as such, used platforms, equipment, running services and server configuration. The second section is fully focused on the analysis of the application security, database schema design and functional forms. The strongest emphasis has been put to the conjunction of the Mikrotik OS based routerboards with a web server and to the testing in a real environment.
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Olivares, Marin Luis Franco, and Atoche Fabián Antonio Silva. "E service quality y technology resources en relación con la satisfacción de estudiantes universitarios a través del E learning." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656753.
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Hoy en día la tecnología se ha posicionado en el estilo de vida de muchas personas. Sin embargo, no todas las personas tienen los recursos tecnológicos para un desarrollo adecuado en el ámbito que quieran desarrollarse. Esto se ha expandido en el sector de educación superior a través de la metodología E-learning debido a las distintas facilidades y ventajas que posee. Esta investigación apunta a poder descubrir la relación del e - service quality y el acceso al technology resources en relación con la satisfacción de estudiantes universitarios con respecto al e- learning en Lima Metropolitana. A través de las distintas teorías e investigaciones de otros autores se ha logrado encontrar los determinantes que poseen la mayor influencia. Entre ellos se encuentra el contenido, la privacidad, el diseño de web, la fiabilidad y sensibilidad así como el acceso a la tecnología de la información y comunicación; es decir un aparato tecnológico, electricidad e internet. Dentro de los alcances y limitaciones encontradas para la investigación se consideraron el no realizar observaciones dentro de los trabajos de campo, debido al virus Sars Cov2.Today technology has positioned itself in the lifestyle of many people. However, not all people have the technological resources for adequate development in the area they want to develop. This has expanded in the higher education sector through the E-learning methodology due to the different facilities and advantages it has. This research aims to discover the relationship between e - service quality and access to technology resources in relation to the satisfaction of university students with respect to e - learning in Metropolitan Lima. Through the different theories and investigations of other authors, it has been possible to find the determinants that have the greatest influence. Among them are content, privacy, web design, reliability and sensitivity as well as access to information and communication technology; That is to say, a technological device, electricity and the internet. Within the scope and limitations found for the research, it was considered not to make observations within the field work, due to the Sars Cov2 virus.
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Peña, Salas Juan Pablo. "Clickbait como recurso que altera los criterios de jerarquización en el periodismo digital informativo. Caso: COVID-19 en el Perú (6 al 15 de marzo del 2020), en la web del Diario La República, RPP Noticias y América Noticias." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655066.
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El tema de la presente tesis es la influencia de las nuevas tecnologías en la evolución del periodismo digital informativo y cómo su uso ha alterado sus criterios de jerarquización tradicionales (en forma de pirámide invertida, en donde lo principal iba al inicio y el resto de la nota era su desarrollo o descripción). En este caso, la investigación se basará en cómo emplean el clickbait los medios de comunicación peruanos para el desarrollo de sus notas informativas y cómo este uso ha cambiado la estructura de la noticia. Se revisaron las plataformas en línea de tres medios: el Diario La República como prensa escrita, Radio RPP como prensa radial, y América Noticias como prensa televisiva; escogidos al haber sido pioneros en sus rubros en la transición al mundo digital y además por el alto nivel de lectoría y audiencia. Para el logro del objetivo planteado, se realizó un análisis de contenido con un periodo de tiempo delimitado por la aparición del paciente cero de COVID-19 en el Perú (6 de marzo), que fue el momento en que el público peruano tomó conciencia de que la enfermedad había llegado a nuestro país; hasta que se decretó el inicio de la cuarentena (15 de marzo), fecha en el que el Estado reaccionó y tomó medidas para combatir y/o prevenir la expansión del virus. El hallazgo más importante en los tres medios es que sí existe una variación en la estructura de las notas informativas que contienen un clickbait, utilizando una jerarquización principalmente romboide (estructura de redacción donde la información principal o la respuesta al titular de la nota está al medio y no al inicio).The subject of this thesis is the influence of new technologies in the evolution of digital journalism and how its use has altered its traditional hierarchical criteria (in the form of an inverted pyramid, where the main thing was at the beginning and the rest of the note is its development or description). In this case, the research will be based on how the Peruvian media use clickbait for the development of their informative notes and how this use has changed the structure of the news. The online platforms of three media were reviewed: Diario La República as the written press, Radio RPP as the radio press, and América Noticias as the television press; chosen for having been pioneers in their fields in the transition to the digital world and also for the high level of readership and audience. To achieve the proposed objective, a content analysis was carried out with a period of time delimited by the appearance of the zero COVID-19 patient in Peru (March 6), which was the moment when the Peruvian public became aware of that the disease had reached our country; until the beginning of the quarantine was decreed (March 15), the date on which the State reacted and took measures to combat and / or prevent the spread of the virus. The most important finding in the three media is that there is a variation in the structure of the informative notes that contain a clickbait, using a mainly rhomboid hierarchization (writing structure where the main information or the response to the note holder is in the middle and not at the beginning).
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Vaičiukynas, Evaldas. "Vėjo elektrinių parko informacinės sistemos prototipas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2006. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060117_194932-48625.
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In the following Master’s degree research main information and communication aspects in wind power plant farm analyzed and demonstrated by constructing basic prototype. The wind energy market in Europe is growing and needs have arisen to develop standard-based information systems to support future expansion of wind energy in Lithuania. Introduction and first chapter overview the background for modeling such system. Requirements for data structures representing main measurements and information exchange inside and outside of the system are defined on the base of IEC 61400-25 standard “Wind Turbine Generator Systems - Part 25: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants”. Models, comprising such system are described and possible communication topologies enumerated. From several existing communication profiles, defined in above mentioned standard, SOAP / XML based web services for communication architecture are chosen and prototype built. Article based on this work was written together with coauthor professor A. Nemura and presented in international KTU conference “Automation and Control technologies – 2005���� and LEI conference “Application of information and management technologies in electricity energetics“. The purpose of article is to form and refine the wind farm information system problem introducing IEC 61400-25 standard.
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Ross, Patricia A. "Female Information Technology and Engineering Faculty Members from the State-Wide We Are IT! Consortium in Ohio Public Community Colleges: Strategies for Success and Overcoming Barriers." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1384861289.
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Kosa, Nenadić. "Razvoj modularnih arhitektura veb aplikacija u pametnim mrežama." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu, 2018. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=107530&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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U ovom radu su istraživane semantičke veb tehnologije i njihovaprimena u elektroenergetskim sistemima. Analizirani su CIMstandardi usvojeni od strane IEC-a (61970-501 i 61970-552) i njihovaograničenja, razmatrana postojeća CIM metodologija zasnovana naovim standardima i dati predlozi za unapređenje ove metodologijeu skladu sa tekućim dostignućima u polju semantičkih vebtehnologija. Istovremeno je razmatrana modularnost veb aplikacijabaziranih na CIM modelu podataka sa stanovišta semantičkog veba idat predlog modularne arhitekture veb aplikacija koja se oslanja naCIM semantiku.This paper explores the semantic web technologies and their applicationin power systems. It also analyzes CIM standards adopted by IEC (61970-501 and 61970-552) and their limitations, assesses the existing CIMmethodology based on these standards and provides suggestions forimproving this methodology in accordance with the current achievementsin the field of semantic web technologies. At the same time, the modularityof web applications based on the CIM data model was considered from thesemantic web standpoint and the proposal of a modular web applicationarchitecture based on the CIM semantics was given.
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Kliment, Radek. "Automatizovaná navigace na privátních stránkách." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-235478.
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This thesis deals with technologies related to web pages and describes the navigation across them including the authentication to access their private sections and the user context management. It introduces the design of the mechanism for the automated navigation including new scripting language and tools for the visual description. The work also contains the design of the application using the mechanism and the implementation of its parts. The last chapter sums up the knowledge acquired by testing on various websites.
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Medeiros, Filipa. "A historiografia medieval portuguesa na viragem do milénio: análise bibliométrica (2000-2010) e representação taxonómica." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/11220.
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Atualmente, a interdisciplinaridade assume-se como um elemento fundamental da investigação científica nos mais diversos domínios académicos. Por conseguinte, neste trabalho são colocadas em interação duas áreas do saber tradicionalmente alheias uma da outra: as Ciências da Informação e Documentação (CID) e a História medieval. Deste modo, o objetivo geral desta tese é estudar a historiografia medieval portuguesa na viragem do milénio a partir da perspetiva das CID, tendo em vista alcançar uma compreensão verdadeiramente interdisciplinar do objeto de estudo que torne possível conhecê-lo através da complementaridade de perspetivas das duas disciplinas aqui em interação. Por sua vez, os objetivos específicos deste trabalho são: realizar um grupo focal, através do qual se pretende recolher, entre a comunidade científica de medievalistas, perceções e visões sobre um conjunto de questões-chave relativas ao estado atual da historiografia medieval portuguesa; elaborar uma análise bibliométrica relativa à produção científica universitária portuguesa sobre História medieval produzida entre 2000 e 2010; e, por último, construir um vocabulário controlado sobre História medieval portuguesa — taxonomia de domínio — que permita o acesso à informação por assuntos em ambiente digital. A metodologia que conduziu o percurso investigativo baseou-se na aplicação dos métodos múltiplos, que se objetivou na triangulação de dados quantitativos e de dados qualitativos. Os resultados obtidos através desta investigação permitiram o enriquecimento dos dois campos disciplinares aqui em observação: por um lado, a História medieval portuguesa, que ficou a conhecer a caracterização geral da mais recente produção científica relativa ao seu objeto de estudo e respetiva tendência evolutiva; por outro, as CID, em particular as unidades de informação ligadas ao universo dos estudos medievais, que passam a dispor, doravante, de uma estrutura de representação da informação da especialidade que garanta, com consistência e uniformidade, indexar, recuperar e partilhar conhecimento na web; Portuguese medieval historiography in the turn of the millennium: bibliometric analysis (2000-2010) and taxonomic representation
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Interdisciplinarity is currently a fundamental element of scientific research in the most diverse academic fields. Consequently, in this work two areas of knowledge traditionally unrelated to each other are placed in interaction: Information and Documentation Sciences (IDC) and Medieval History. The general purpose of this thesis is to approach Portuguese Medieval Historiography in the turn of the millennium from the perspective of IDC, in order to reach a truly interdisciplinary knowledge of the object of study, allowing to apprehend it through the complementary perspectives of the two interacting fields. On the other hand, the specific objectives of this work are: to conduct a focus group through which we intend to gather, among the scientific community, perceptions and insights on a number of key concepts pertaining to the current state of Portuguese medieval historiography; to develop a bibliometric analysis of the Portuguese academic literature on Medieval History from 2000 to 2010; and, lastly, to develop a controlled vocabulary on Portuguese Medieval History — a taxonomy of a domain — which allows to retrieve information by subject in a digital environment. The methodology guiding the research process was based in the application of multiple methods, triangulating quantitative and qualitative data. The results enriched both disciplinary fields: Portuguese Medieval History, on one hand, gained a general assessment of the most recent scientific literature relevant to its object of study, and a corresponding evolutionary trend; and IDC, on the other hand, especially the information services related to the fields of Medieval Studies, which henceforth have at their disposal a structure of representation of specialised information, which ensures, consistently and uniformly, the indexing, retrieving and sharing of knowledge in the Web.
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Debaecker, Jean. "De l'usage des métadonnées dans l'objet sonore." Phd thesis, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00916150.
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La reconnaissance des émotions dans la musique est un challenge industriel et académique. À l'heure de l'explosion des contenus multimédias, il devient nécessaire de concevoir des ensembles structurés de termes et concepts facilitant l'organisation et l'accès aux connaissances. Dans les bibliothèques musicales, l'analyse des sentiments et la classification par émotion sont très émergentes et demeurent un objet de recherche ambitieux. La gestion des contenus d'un objet sonaore numérisé répond à une indexation documentaire à trois niveaux : " contenu - auctorialité - matérialisation ". Ce triptyque nous semble tomber en désuétude et ne correspond plus aux attentes de l'usager. L'information musicale appelle ainsi à une production et représentation nouvelle. Notre problématique est la suivante : est-il possible d'avoir une connaissance a priori de l'émotion en vue de son élicitation ? Autrement dit, dans quelles mesures est-il possible de bâtir une structure formelle algorithmique permettant d'isoler le mécanisme déclencheur des émotions? Est-il possible de connaître l'émotion que l'on ressentira à l'écoute d'une chanson, avant de l'écouter ? Suite à l'écoute, son élicitation est-elle possible ? Est-il possible de formaliser une émotion dans le but de la sauvegarder et, ou, de la partager ? Dans ce travail de thèse, nous proposons d'abord un aperçu de l'existant et du contexte applicatif. Plusieurs scénarios très concrets sont envisageables, parmi eux : un répondeur téléphonique triant les messages enregistrés en fonction de leur humeur ; recherche de musique apaisante après une journée de travail ; recherche de musique excitante pour accompagner une activité sportive ; recherche d'opinions sur les réseaux sociaux, etc. ; Dans une seconde partie nous proposons une réflexion sur les enjeux épistémologiques intrinsèques et liés à l'indexation même de l'émotion. La " mise en œuvre d'une solution d'indexation automatique fait appel à de nombreux domaines scientifiques ".1 Afin de saisir la complexité de l'indexation de l'émotion pour l'enrichissement des métadonnées, nous allons adopter une méthodologie exploratoire interdisciplinaire. En effet, à travers une démarche psychologique, physiologique et philosophique, nous proposerons un cadre conceptuel de cinq démonstrations faisant état de l'impossible mesure de l'émotion, en vue de son élicitation. Une fois dit, à travers notre cadre théorique, qu'il est formellement impossible d'indexer les émotions ; il nous incombe de comprendre la mécanique d'indexation cependant proposée par les industriels et académiques. La réalité du terrain est telle que plusieurs interfaces web ou logicielles proposent des services d'expérience de moteur de recherche fouillant une base de données, avec des métadonnées sur les émotions. Dans la dernière partie, nous proposerons, via des enquêtes quantitatives et qualitatives, une analyse afin de soumettre une matrice algorithmique basée sur le web social capable de faire des préconisations d'écoute d'œuvres musicales eu égards aux émotions.
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Luong, The Nhan. "Modélisation centrée utilisateur final appliquée à la conception d'applications interactives en géographie : une démarche basée sur les contenus et les usages." Phd thesis, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00775888.
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Le point de départ de cette thèse a pour origine les difficultés constatées dans la communauté EIAH pour concevoir des applications éducatives exploitant des informations géographiques. A terme, il s'agit de proposer une nouvelle plateforme susceptible de rendre possible et opérationnel la conception d'applications Web géographiques portées par des utilisateurs non-informaticiens de façon autonome. La proposition scientifique est basée sur un processus de conception piloté par les contenus et par les interactions. Il est opérationnalisé dans une plateforme nommée WINDMash offrant aux concepteurs un environnement visuel de spécification et d'évaluation des interactions. Nous proposons un modèle unifié sous-jacent de description des applications Web géographiques comportant trois facettes qui permettent de représenter les contenus géographiques manipulés, de les afficher sur une interface graphique et de décrire le comportement de l'application (scénario d'interaction) à l'aide d'un langage visuel dont le formalisme graphique est inspiré du diagramme de séquence UML. En utilisant des techniques d'Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles, la plateforme WINDMash permet de générer automatiquement le code de l'application finale sur la base des instances de trois facettes du modèle unifié. La plateforme WINDMash utilise pour cela l'API WIND (Web INteraction Design) que nous avons programmée. Les concepteurs peuvent ainsi prototyper rapidement des applications Web géographiques correspondant à leurs besoins.
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Aouf, Rashad, University of Western Sydney, of Science Technology and Environment College, and School of Computing and Information Technology. "Integration of signage information into the web environment." 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/25810.
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In 1992, the Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) as an application over the Internet using TCP/IP protocol as stated in the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3). Accessing local IS to process data is no longer appropriate in the revolution of distributed processing. Web environments are heterogeneous and portable. First, the Web was developed for textual publishing purposes. However, in parallel the rapid advances of related technology and the incredible growth of ubiquitous data, the Web has evolved from a static medium for information sharing into an interactive multimedia platform that includes video, sound, animation, with dynamic links. In the light of these advancements, Web accessibility and associated problems (eg. People with deafness), represent a serious obstacle that prohibits people with special needs from accessing telecommunication systems. The Deaf Community’ is almost a closed community that has its own language (i.e. sign language), customs and traditions. There is little research around the world investigating direct machine translation of sign language. To avoid machine translation and associated problems, this thesis built on current Web technology to integrate Signage Information into the Web environment. As part of this integration, it made use of an ‘Intermediary Signage Object’ rather than intermediate transmission of video-based sign language. Finally, this thesis provides a Sign Language Annotation tool. It generates an XML document in order to process signage object content. The Graphical Usage Interface (GUI) contains a display window that plays customized sign language clips according to the sign viewers’ preferences. The Signage Tool extends IBM VideoAnnEx Tool to include sign language attributes and related data. In addition, it has been developed for different types of users involved with the deaf community (i.e. hearing impairment, hard of hearing, and sign language interpreters.)Master of Science (Hons.)
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Aouf, Rashad. "Integration of signage information into the web environment." Thesis, 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/25810.
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In 1992, the Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) as an application over the Internet using TCP/IP protocol as stated in the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3). Accessing local IS to process data is no longer appropriate in the revolution of distributed processing. Web environments are heterogeneous and portable. First, the Web was developed for textual publishing purposes. However, in parallel the rapid advances of related technology and the incredible growth of ubiquitous data, the Web has evolved from a static medium for information sharing into an interactive multimedia platform that includes video, sound, animation, with dynamic links. In the light of these advancements, Web accessibility and associated problems (eg. People with deafness), represent a serious obstacle that prohibits people with special needs from accessing telecommunication systems. The Deaf Community’ is almost a closed community that has its own language (i.e. sign language), customs and traditions. There is little research around the world investigating direct machine translation of sign language. To avoid machine translation and associated problems, this thesis built on current Web technology to integrate Signage Information into the Web environment. As part of this integration, it made use of an ‘Intermediary Signage Object’ rather than intermediate transmission of video-based sign language. Finally, this thesis provides a Sign Language Annotation tool. It generates an XML document in order to process signage object content. The Graphical Usage Interface (GUI) contains a display window that plays customized sign language clips according to the sign viewers’ preferences. The Signage Tool extends IBM VideoAnnEx Tool to include sign language attributes and related data. In addition, it has been developed for different types of users involved with the deaf community (i.e. hearing impairment, hard of hearing, and sign language interpreters.)
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Zhao, Yanan Jennifer. "The effects of the Web as a form of stakeholder communication an empirical case study of a co-operative /." 2007. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070312.033912/index.html.
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Šebestová, Eva. "Analýza a srovnání uživatelského rozhraní webových stránek oborových knihoven na FF UK a návrhy na jejich inovaci." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-306482.
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The diploma thesis focuses on the analysis and assessment of the existing user interface of the departmental libraries of Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. The theoretical part generally characterizes the discipline of Human Computer Interaction. Furthermore, it characterizes concepts such as user interface, web usability and web accessibility and information architecture. Besides, it introduces the organisation, functions and services of the Central Library of the Faculty of Arts, including departmental libraries. The practical part explores and assesses current condition of the websites of the departmental libraries. The aim of this research is to determine users' satisfaction based on their experience with these library websites. Moreover, the research monitors the users' idea of an ideal website. A further concern is the usability, accessibility, content, design and information architecture of the websites researched. In accordance with the results of the research, a schema of a new human interface for the departmental libraries is designed.
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Davis, Paul. "Learning Usability Assessment Models for Web Sites." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8825.
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This research explores an approach to learning types of usability concerns
considered useful for the management of Web sites and to identifying usability concerns
based on these learned models. By having one or more Web site managers rate a subset
of pages in a site based on a number of usability criteria, the approach builds models that
determine what automatically measurable characteristics are correlated to issues
identified. To test this, the approach collected usability assessments from twelve
students pursuing advanced degrees in the area of computer-human interaction. These
students were divided into two groups and given different scenarios of use of a Web site.
They assessed the usability of Web pages from the site, and their data was divided into a
training set, used to find models, and a prediction set, used to evaluate the relative
quality of models. Results show that the learned models predicted remaining data for
one scenario in more categories of usability than did the single model found under the alternate scenario. Results also show how systems may prioritize usability problems for
Web site managers by probability of occurrence under context rather than by merely
listing pages that break specific rules, as provided by some current tools.
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Müller, Martin Eric. "Inducing Conceptual User Models." Doctoral thesis, 2002. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2002042911.
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User Modeling and Machine Learning for User Modeling have both become important research topics and key techniques in recent adaptive systems. One of the most intriguing problems in the `information age´ is how to filter relevant information from the huge amount of available data. This problem is tackled by using models of the user´s interest in order to increase precision and discriminate interesting information from un-interesting data. However, any user modeling approach suffers from several major drawbacks: User models built by the system need to be inspectable and understandable by the user himself. Secondly, users in general are not willing to give feedback concerning user satisfaction by the delivered results. Without any evidence for the user´s interest, it is hard to induce a hypothetical user model at all. Finally, most current systems do not draw a line of distinction between domain knowledge and user model which makes the adequacy of a user model hard to determine. This thesis presents the novel approach of conceptual user models. Conceptual user models are easy to inspect and understand and allow for the system to explain its actions to the user. It is shown, that ILP can be applied for the task of inducing user models from feedback, and a method for using mutual feedback for sample enlargement is introduced. Results are evaluated independently of domain knowledge within a clear machine learning problem definition. The whole concept presented is realized in a meta web search engine called OySTER.
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Sieberhagen, Elsabe Aneé. "The design and development of a digital information literacy program for an academic library." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1744.
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This dissertation is a report on a study to investigate the design and development of a digital information literacy program (DILP) for an academic library. The study is concerned with the exploration of the generic profile of the South African student at higher education institutions. The criteria for a digital information literacy program were also established. Based on the criteria and the profile of the students, the digital information literacy program was designed and developed.
The research objectives were to
* determine a generic profile of the South African student (as a member of Generation Y).
* determine the criteria for an information literacy programme (ILP).
* determine the criteria that a digital information literacy program should comply with (based on the criteria for a ILP).
* design a digital information literacy program by documenting the elements and principles of design, navigation features, site architecture, etcetera.
* develop a digital information literacy program by documenting the specific learning objectives and content and creating the Web based program.
The study comprises a qualitative research approach and is concerned with the qualities and the characteristics of a phenomenon for better understanding and explanation. A critical analysis of reported research and literature forms the foundation of the study. The design and development of a digital information literacy program were based on the guidelines for Web based instruction in academic libraries.
The results of the research enabled the researcher to design and develop the digital information literacy program, by integrating the following:
* Characteristics of Generation Y
* The criteria for a digital information literacy program
* Factors important for designing in a Web environment, namely interactivity, site architecture, navigation features, principles of design, elements of design, incorporating media and learner levels
* Authoring, technical aspects and the evaluating and testing of the prototype.
The digital information literacy program is designed to provide academic libraries at higher education institutions with a product - a Web published CD - that they can use as is, or adapt according to their specific needs or circumstances, in order to support their students' digital information literacy skills.Information Science
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Harcourt, David. "Making antimatter matter : online outreach at the Centre for antimatter-matter studies." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148228.
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Gil-Campos, Teresa Lucia. "Impacts of Information Technology (IT) Systems on the Efficiency of Empty-Container Park Operations for the Port of Melbourne." Thesis, 2016. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/31013/.
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As disclosed by the Port of Melbourne Corporation in 2015, full import containers significantly outnumber full export containers in the port of Melbourne, indicating that the port has become a major import container location experiencing acute pressures to manage the disequilibrium in trade flows. The report further points to increased container volumes through the port of Melbourne over the decade 2005-2015 – an increase of 650,000 twenty-foot containers. This growth in port-related containerised volumes creates capacity constraints in landside transport infrastructures and container parks’ facilities resulting from increased truck movements in and around the port of Melbourne.
As specified by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in 2011, these capacity constraints at container parks resulted from random truck arrivals patterns, which caused depots to alternate periods of low truck traffic activity with periods of excess demand that generated major delays. Also, transport carriers often arrived at container parks to be notified of the unavailability of stocks to attend to empty collections, that is, futile trips occurred on a regular basis.
In this line, previous industry studies had noted in as early as 2004 and 2005 the need to implement a vehicle booking system with a view to deliver superior visibility and thus operational gains for the empty-container supply chain in an effort to address the capacity challenges already experienced in and around the port of Melbourne.
This thesis examines the proposition that the adoption of information technology is central in integrating and thus streamlining container chain operations resulting in superior supply chain efficiency. For this purpose this research will explore, in a detailed case study, the adoption of the Containerchain portal by some of the empty-container parks in the port of Melbourne. In particular, this thesis seeks to shed light on the impacts this web-based application is having on the integration of chain activities and operational chain efficiency given differentiated empty-container parks and empty-container chains.
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Boutin, Frédéric. "Les maisons de disques à l’ère des médias sociaux et des services musicaux en ligne : étude de cas de quatre maisons de disques québécoises." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18413.
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Au cours de la dernière décennie, les outils d’enregistrement et de production musicale,
les médias sociaux et les plateformes Web de vente et d’écoute de musique en ligne ont
radicalement transformé l’industrie de la musique enregistrée. La baisse significative de vente
d’albums et les nouveaux modèles de production, de diffusion et de promotion de la musique
ont directement affecté les acteurs traditionnels comme les maisons de disques. Pendant que
certains prévoyaient la fin de ces dernières au profit de l’autoproduction et de l’autopromotion,
d’autres ont suggéré que les maisons de disques indépendantes pouvaient devenir des joueurs
incontournables de ce nouvel environnement, pourvu qu’elles s’adaptent et développent une
offre de services et une expertise répondant aux besoins réels des artistes. Ce mémoire
s’intéresse à la façon dont les maisons de disques indépendantes québécoises perçoivent et
utilisent les médias sociaux pour accroitre la visibilité des artistes qu’elles représentent. Dans
cette étude de cas multiples, quatre maisons de disques indépendantes québécoises ont été
sélectionnées. Des entretiens en profondeur ont été réalisés avec les chargés de projet Web de
ces maisons de disques indépendantes afin de connaitre leur perception et leurs usages des
médias sociaux, de même que les stratégies qu’ils emploient pour accroitre la visibilité des
artistes qu’ils représentent sur le Web. Des données tirées d’observation des activités Web des
quatre maisons de disques ont également été collectées.During the last decade, music recording and production tools, social media, and platforms for selling and listening to music in streaming have radically transformed the industry of recorded music. The decline of album sales and new models of music production, distribution, and promotion have directly affected the traditional actors of the music industry such as record labels. While some predicted that these changes would bring an end to the records labels at the benefit of self-production and self-promotion, others suggested that independent record labels could become an essential part of this new environment, provided they adapt to it and develop new services and an expertise that meet the artists’ needs. This master thesis explores the visibility of independent Quebec music artists on the social web and the role record labels plays in it. In this multiple case study, four independent Quebec music labels were selected. In-depht interviews were conducted with the Web project managers of these music labels to discuss their perception and their usage of Web platforms, as well as the strategies they employ to increase the visibility on the Web of the artistes they represent. Observational data of the Web activities of the four music labels were also collected.
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Halbe, Johannes. "Governance of Transformations towards Sustainable Water, Food and Energy Supply Systems - Facilitating Sustainability Innovations through Multi-Level Learning Processes." Doctoral thesis, 2017. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2017022715609.
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A fundamental change in societal values and economic structures is required to address increasing pressures on ecosystems and natural resources. Transition research has developed in the last decades to analyze the co-dynamics of technological, institutional, social and economic elements in the provision of key functions such as energy, water and food supply. This doctoral dissertation provides conceptual and methodological contributions to the pro-active governance of sustainability transitions. Three research gaps are identified that are addressed in this dissertation. First, a comprehensive conceptualization of learning in sustainability transitions is currently missing that comprises learning at multiple societal levels (ranging from individuals to policy-actors). Learning concepts are often not explicitly discussed in transition research even though learning is considered as fundamental for innovation processes, niche formation and development as well as breakthrough and diffusion of innovations. Second, methods for the analysis and design of transition governance processes are lacking that specify case-specific intervention points and roles of actors in the implementation of innovations. Third, participatory modeling approaches are only applied to a limited extent in transition research despite a high potential for supporting communication and learning.
The conceptualization of multi-level learning developed in this doctoral research conceptualizes learning at different societal levels as specific learning contexts ranging from individual and group contexts to organizational and policy contexts. The conceptual framework further differentiates between learning processes, intensity, objects, outcomes, subjects and factors, allowing for a more detailed analysis of learning within and across learning contexts. Thus, learning contexts can be linked by processes that involve actors from different learning contexts (e.g., community groups and policy-makers), as well as exchanges of physical aspects, institutions and knowledge (in the form of ‘learning factors’). This research has also provided a classification of model uses in transition research that supports a purposeful discussion of the opportunities of modeling and promising future research directions.
The methodology developed in this doctoral research aims at the analysis and design of transition governance processes by specifying the various opportunities to contribute to sustainability transitions through purposeful action at different societal levels, as well as related roles of stakeholders in implementing such processes of change. The methodology combines different streams of previous research: 1) a participatory modeling approach to identify problem perceptions, case-specific sustainability innovations as well as related implementation barriers, drivers and responsibilities; 2) a systematic review to identify supportive and impeding learning factors from the general literature that can complement case-specific factors; and 3) a method for the analysis and design of case-specific transition governance processes. Three case studies in Canada (topic: sustainable food systems), Cyprus (water-energy-food nexus) and Germany (sustainable heating supply) have been selected to test and iteratively develop the methodology described above.
The results for each case study reveal that there are learning objects (i.e., learning requirements) in all learning contexts, which underscores the importance of multi-level learning in sustainability transitions, ranging from the individual to the group, organizational and policy levels. Actors have various opportunities to actively facilitate societal transformations towards sustainable development either directly through actions at their particular societal levels (i.e., context-internal learning) or indirectly through actions that influence learning at other societal levels. In fact, most of the learning factors require cooperation across learning contexts during the implementation process. The comparing of learning factors across case studies underline the importance of several factor categories, such as ‘physical a ‘disturbance or crisis’, ‘information and knowledge’. Of the 206 factors identified by stakeholders, 40 factors are case-specific and not contained in the general, review-based factor list. This underscores the value of participatory research, as general, top-down analyses might have overlooked these case-specific factors.
The methodology presented in this dissertation allows for the identification and analysis of case-specific intervention points for sustainability transitions at multiple societal levels. The methodology furthermore permits the analysis of interplay between individual, group, organizational and policy actions, which is a first step towards their coordination. The focus on sustainability innovations links the broad topic of sustainability transitions to a set of opportunities for practical interventions and overcoming their implementation barriers. The methodology presented allows for the analysis and design of these interlinkages between learning contexts. While the methodology cannot provide any ‘silver bullets’ for inducing sustainability transitions, it is flexible enough to identify an appropriate abstraction level for analyzing and designing transition governance processes. The methodology developed in this doctoral research also provides several contributions for the development of participatory modeling methods in transition research. Thus, the participatory method supports an integrated analysis of barriers and drivers of sustainability innovations, and allows application in practice and education.
The concepts and methods developed in this research project allow for reflection on transition governance processes from a systemic viewpoint. Experiences in the case studies underline the applicability of the concepts and methods developed for the analysis of case-specific transition governance processes. Despite substantial differences in the geographic location, culture and topics addressed, all case studies include promising sustainability innovations and the engagement of multiple actors in their implementation. The diversity and multitude of initiatives in the case study regions provides an optimistic outlook on future opportunities for large-scale sustainability transitions.