Les travaux de cette thèse ont pour cadre l'édition de documents électroniques multimédia en considérant en tout premier lieu leur dimension temporelle (enchaînement des objets dans le temps). L'objectif concerne à la fois l'intégration de cette nouvelle dimension dans la structure globale d'un document (logique, spatiale et hypertexte) et l'intégration d'objets de base qui ont eux-mêmes une dimension temporelle (vidéo, audio, interactions de l'utilisateur ..). Les documents visés sont donc multimédia, temporisés et interactifs. Notre étude a porté tout d'abord sur la définition d'un langage temporel multimédia. Celui-ci permet de spécifier, de façon déclarative, le scénario temporel d'un document en s'appuyant sur des résultats obtenus dans le domaine de la satisfaction de contraintes temporelles et de la planification. Nous avons ensuite conçu des mécanismes d'analyse qui permettent la vérification de la cohérence d'une spécification tout en prenant en compte trois aspects essentiels aux systèmes multimédia : l'incrémentalité, l'efficacité, et la gestion de l'indéterminisme. Nous proposons des mécanismes de synthèse qui permettent alors le calcul d'une solution qui sera exploitée par le système de présentation. Celui-ci permet, à partir d'un automate d'états finis extrait du graphe temporel de contraintes, d'exécuter la présentation multimédia et de contrôler dynamiquement son déroulement. Enfin, nous présentons l'ensemble des résultats à travers leur application concrète au sein d'un outil d'édition et de présentation appelé Madeus.

This project sets out to create a critical edition of the DEVO song “Jocko Homo,” which is found on multiple releases throughout the band's career, most notably on their breakthrough studio album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO! The album recording was used as the base text for this edition (the words themselves determined by what is heard on the album and the formatting determined by the lyric sheet which accompanies the album), with variants from five other officially-released recordings included as footnotes. Explanatory notes are also included at the end of the text, to illuminate surrounding contexts and allusions. Finally, an appendix is attached featuring an early live performance found on the bootleg album DEVO Ultracore 1974-77, along with explanatory notes. While it was not included in the main body of the project on the basis of its being an unofficial fan release, it is still worth examining as an early version of “Jocko Homo.”

Große Editionen sind beeindruckende Dokumente geisteswissenschaftlicher Produktivität. Die oft vielbändigen, mehrere Regalmeter in Anspruch nehmenden kritischen Ausgaben der Werke kanonischer Autorinnen und Autoren mögen vor allem für ein überschaubares Spezialpublikum erarbeitet worden sein. Nicht zu vergessen ist aber, dass solchen Großunternehmen die Entdeckung oder Wiederentdeckung ganzer OEuvres verdanken ist, dass aus den soliden Gesamtausgaben oft sehr erfolgreiche, von Generationen von Lesern benutzte populäre Ableger hervorgehen, schließlich dass die zuverlässige Bereitstellung historischer Quellen für alle kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen eine unabdingbare Grundlage darstellt. Nicht wenige anspruchsvolle Editionen – ich nenne Namen wie Goethe, Nietzsche, Kleist oder Kafka – haben eine ganz erstaunliche Verbreitung gefunden. Wir dürfen daher mit einiger Bewunderung einen Blick auf und in Werkausgaben werfen, die sich einen Stammplatz in den Regalen der Bibliotheken gesichert haben.

<p>Den här rapporten ämnar besvara frågan om hur man bör utforma ett användargränssnitt för en mobil applikation så att antalet knapptryckningar, speciellt textinmatning, på den mobila enheten minimeras. Med mobil applikation menas i detta fall ett program avsett att köras på en mobiltelefon med en numerisk knappuppsättning. Applikationen i fråga är en resesökningsfunktion ämnad för lokal busstrafik; för testsyften används hållplatser inom Jönköpings län.</p><p>Ett designkoncept utformades baserat på ett menysystem bestående av alfabetsgrupper för inmatning av namn på orter och hållplatser. Utifrån detta utvecklades en prototyp i Java Micro Edition som sedan kunde utvärderas och modifieras efter ett mindre användartest.</p><p>Prototypen testades på tre personer efter en metodik som utformats på mjukvaruföretaget Apple. Resultatet visade en allvarlig brist, som lyckligtvis är enkel att korrigera. Resterande problem ansågs ej utgöra några större hinder för framtida användare. Responsen från testpersonerna var positiv då de inte bara upplevde färre knapptryckningar utan också ett enklare användande jämfört med traditionell textinmatning.</p> / <p>This report aims to answer how to design a user interface for a mobile application minimizing the amount of key presses, specifically text input. In this context, mobile application means a program designed to run on a mobile phone with a numerical keyboard. The application we’re designing is a travel search function for local bus traffic. For out test purposes we used the bus stops in Jönköping County.</p><p>We developed a design concept based on a menu system consisting of alphabetic groups for inputting names of towns and bus stops. From this we developed a prototype in Java Micro Edition which could later be evaluated after a small user test.</p><p>The prototype was tested on three people using a method developed at the software company Apple. The results revealed one significant flaw, which, fortunately, is easy to correct. The remaining problems were not considered to be any insurmountable hurdles for users to overcome. Response from the test subjects was positive in that they not only experienced fewer key presses, but also a simpler usage of the application.</p>

Gemeinsamer Workshop von Universitaetsrechenzentrum und Professur Rechnernetze und verteilte Systeme der Fakultaet fuer Informatik der TU Chemnitz. Die Zielstellung dieses Vortrags besteht darin, die küftige Position des URZ zum Betriebssystem Windows zur Diskussion zu stellen. Ausgangspunkt ist eine Bestandsaufnahme der bisherigen windows-basierten Technologie des URZ. Darauf aufbauend werden die Dienste und deren Realisierungsaufwand bewertet. Es folgt eine Charakterisierung der aktuellen Windows-Plattformen aus technologischer Sicht. Der Vortrag endet mit einem Technologievorschlag und soll die Grundlage fuer eine anschliessende Diskussion sowie daraus abzuleitende Konsequenzen sein.

Gemeinsamer Workshop von Universitaetsrechenzentrum und Professur Rechnernetze und verteilte Systeme der Fakultaet fuer Informatik der TU Chemnitz. Anwendungssoftware im Administrationst des URZ für Windows

Techn. Univ., Masterarbeit--Chemnitz, 2006. / Literaturverz. S. [258] - 288.

Intelligence testing has had a relatively long and controversial history, beginning with what is generally considered the first formal measure of intelligence, the Binet-Simon Scales (1916). Questions regarding possible cultural bias in these measures arose virtually simultaneously (e.g. Burt, 1921; Stern, 1914). Over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, an abundance of intelligence measures have been developed, with many of them having several revisions, but the issue of test bias remains an important one, both in the professional literature and in the popular press (Reynolds & Lowe, 2009). A current intelligence measure in use, the Differential Ability Scales, Second Edition (DAS-II, Elliott, 2007), is a test with growing popularity for assessment of children and youth, not only for its ease of use, but also for its appeal to young children and its nonverbal composite (among other things). Consequently, it is essential that there be empirical evidence supporting the use of the DAS-II as an appropriate measure of cognitive abilities for children of varying backgrounds. The test publishers conducted extensive research with a representative sample during test development in an effort to ensure that the measure met adequate reliability and validity criteria; however, the issue of test bias, particularly regarding cultural or racial/ethnic groups, was not explicitly addressed. This issue was raised and examined with the original DAS by Keith, Quirk, Schartzer, and Elliott (1999), but with the significant changes made from the first edition to the second, there is no guaranty that the evidence from the earlier would necessarily apply to the latter. The current study investigated whether the DAS-II demonstrates systematic construct bias toward children and youth of any of four ethnic groups: Black, Hispanic, Asian, and White. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis using data from the DAS-II standardization sample was used to assess whether criteria for increasingly strict levels of invariance were met across groups. Outcomes of this research contribute to an existing body of literature on test bias, as well as provide evidence regarding cross-group construct validity in the DAS-II. Ultimately the results of this study can be used to evaluate the appropriateness of the DAS-II for clinical use with certain ethnic groups and will help to emphasize further the importance of exploring these issues with all standardized tests. / text

This thesis explores the execution of object-oriented code on an embedded Java platform. It presents established and derives new approaches for the implementation of high-level object-oriented functionality and commonly expected system services. The goal of the developed techniques is the provision of the architectural base for an efficient and predictable code execution. The research vehicle of this thesis is the Java-programmed SHAP platform. It consists of its platform tool chain and the highly-customizable SHAP bytecode processor. SHAP offers a fully operational embedded CLDC environment, in which the proposed techniques have been implemented, verified, and evaluated. Two strands are followed to achieve the goal of this thesis. First of all, the sequential execution of bytecode is optimized through a joint effort of an optimizing offline linker and an on-chip application loader. Additionally, SHAP pioneers a reference coloring mechanism, which enables a constant-time interface method dispatch that need not be backed a large sparse dispatch table. Secondly, this thesis explores the implementation of essential system services within designated concurrent hardware modules. This effort is necessary to decouple the computational progress of the user application from the interference induced by time-sharing software implementations of these services. The concrete contributions comprise a spill-free, on-chip stack; a predictable method cache; and a concurrent garbage collection. Each approached means is described and evaluated after the relevant state of the art has been reviewed. This review is not limited to preceding small embedded approaches but also includes techniques that have proven successful on larger-scale platforms. The other way around, the chances that these platforms may benefit from the techniques developed for SHAP are discussed.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references.