Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-53). Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 199-209)

Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in System Engineering Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Osmundson, John. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 9, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Operational Availability, Net-centric Warfare, Communities, Online, Web 2.0, Sustainment, Military SATCOM, NMT. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79). Also available in print.

<p> The purpose of this study was to determine if getting personal information from a social media page, specifically Facebook, affects the final selection decision. This study aimed to examine the effect personal information, specifically race and sexual orientation, has on ratings of hirability and salary offers for male candidates. The study used the data of 105 Mechanical Turk participants who participated in a survey for a monetary incentive. It was hypothesized that homosexual candidates would receive lower hirability ratings and salary offers than heterosexual candidates. Additionally, it was hypothesized that African American candidates would receive lower hirability ratings and salary offers than Caucasian candidates. Finally, it was hypothesized that African American homosexual candidates would receive lower hirability ratings and salary offers than their counterparts. No significant main effects or interactions were found. Additional findings are discussed.</p><p>

Nowadays, most people use several websites on a daily basis for various purposes like social networking, shopping, reading news, etc. which shows the significance of these websites in our lives. Due to this phenomenon, businesses can make a lot of profit by designing high quality websites to attract more people. An important aspect of a good website is its page load time. There has been a lot of studies which analyzed this aspect of the websites from different perspectives. In this thesis, we characterize and examine the complexity of a wide range of popular websites in order to discover the trends in their complexity metrics, like their number, size and type of the objects and number and type of the contacted servers for delivering the objects, over the past six year. Moreover, we analyze the correlation between these metrics and the page load times.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Florianópolis, 2010 / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-25T07:40:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 286362.pdf: 2030519 bytes, checksum: f7f31772560147e0575eee62871f40cc (MD5) / Partindo das reflexões de Gilles Deleuze sobre a predominância das sociedades de controle na contemporaneidade, a presente dissertação esboça uma cartografia dos perfis do Orkut. Focando não especificamente no que o(a)s usuário(a)s escrevem sobre si, mas na interface criada pela equipe da Google, busca compreender que modos de subjetivação são incitados pelo website. O desaparecimento do anonimato, a onipresença de rostos ao longo de todo o site, uma tecnologia de visualização que independe de diálogos para ver ou ser visto e a visibilidade de laços de amizade entre o(a)s usuária(o)s são algumas das questões aqui discutidas. A partir disso, a naturalização da internet como um espaço "revolucionário" é questionada, entendendo que seu espaço é múltiplo, diverso, e compreende diferentes dinâmicas de poder.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-22T23:24:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 241164.pdf: 2779627 bytes, checksum: 95f3e83e4914d965f728603d5c916852 (MD5) / Cada vez mais as organizações têm enfrentado um ambiente de intensa concorrência e mudanças de mercado. Para se manterem competitivas e melhorar a colaboração entre parceiros e clientes, as organizações vêm participando de redes colaborativas mais complexas e menos rígidas, como, por exemplo, cadeias de suprimento e organizações virtuais. A Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) vem sendo cada vez mais utilizada como forma de suportar essa colaboração. Porém, isso cria um cenário extremamente heterogêneo, onde organizações diferentes e distribuídas utilizam diversos sistemas de TIC, providos por fabricantes variados e desenvolvidos em diversas plataformas e tecnologias. Portanto, é preciso que sejam oferecidos meios de alcançar uma maior interoperabilidade e colaboração entre as organizações, de maneira padronizada, aberta e dinâmica. Para tal, faz-se necessário utilizar uma abordagem que siga um modelo descentralizado e de baixo acoplamento, permitindo que as organizações possam participar de maneira transparente e interoperável nos processos colaborativos. O paradigma de orientação a serviços, que pode ser implementado através da tecnologia e padrões dos serviços Web, vem sendo largamente utilizado para atingir tal interoperabilidade entre organizações e seus sistemas de TIC. Apesar dos serviços Web serem amparados por padrões, quando as organizações desejam fazer seus serviços, que normalmente são desenvolvidos em diferentes plataformas, linguagens e sistemas operacionais, se comunicarem plenamente entre si, diversos problemas de interoperabilidade surgem na prática. Esse trabalho apresenta uma pesquisa acerca da forma como se aumentar a interoperabilidade e a colaboração entre organizações através de serviços Web, propondo uma abordagem para ocultar a complexidade tecnológica e atingir uma maior interoperabilidade, independentemente da plataforma computacional, das tecnologias e linguagens de implementação, e da localização geográfica do serviço.

This thesis provides a detailed description of the research undertaken into the creation of a framework that uses Semantic Web languages to implement a recently developed commonsense reasoning formalism called Discrete Event Calculus (DEC). It aims to show to what extent DEC reasoning can be applied to Semantic Web data, using the Semantic Web standards and supporting development environments available for the purpose in 2008, when the research programme commenced. The research aims to provide an accurate and reusable DEC ontology using the languages defined in Semantic Web Standards. To this end, an ontology describing the DEC entities and axioms is defined in OWL and SWRL; this represents the core elements of the DEC formalism, namely its set of logical types and predicates and the relations between them. The ontology is used together with a proof-of-concept DEC resolver software that applies the ontology to an existing rules engine, so that new inferences can be created from a DEC domain. The design and implementation of the combined ontology and software framework are described in detail. The methodological issues involved in reconciling a software model with an ontology model are also discussed and the capabilities of the framework are validated by a series of tests modelled on established AI benchmark scenarios that can be resolved correctly using DEC. The results confirm that the framework will create the appropriate inferences with reference to the benchmark problems, though they also highlight some of current limitations in the framework, notably to do with how it represents changing fluent values. A detailed sample domain ontology is provided, which is based on the domain of turn-based multiplayer online games; this illustrates how the DEC ontology defined in this research could be extended for use with other domains. A further extension of the DEC ontology is proposed, which enables the resolver to represent real-world time values independently of the timepoints defined as part of the formalism. Finally, the strengths and extant boundaries of the chosen approach are discussed and suggestions are provided for improvements that could form the basis of future work.

Thesis deals with creation of web service which provides information about cultural events. In the beginning of thesis, there is the most relevant theory which mostly focuses on technological part of the theme. The practical part of the thesis is connected with the web service, which shows usage of knowledge gained during creation of theoretical part. There are two additional web applications. One of them is used to create and manage a user of web service and provide him im-portant information. Author calls such web application a Portal. The last one is consumer of the web service.