Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JulianoRSA_DISSERT.pdf: 4399456 bytes, checksum: 8d53781b4f639461b07950fb560261a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-04 / The evolution of automation in recent years made possible the continuous monitoring of the processes of industrial plants. With this advance, the amount of information that automation systems are subjected to increased significantly. The alarms generated by the monitoring equipment are a major contributor to this increase, and the equipments are usually deployed in industrial plants without a formal methodology, which entails an increase in the number of alarms generated, thus overloading the alarm system and therefore the operators of such plants. In this context, the works of alarm management comes up with the objective of defining a formal methodology for installation of new equipment and detect problems in existing settings. This thesis aims to propose a set of metrics for the evaluation of alarm systems already deployed, so that you can identify the health of this system by analyzing the proposed indices and comparing them with parameters defined in the technical norms of alarm management. In addition, the metrics will track the work of alarm management, verifying if it is improving the quality of the alarm system. To validate the proposed metrics, data from actual process plants of the petrochemical industry were used / A evolu??o da automa??o nos ?ltimos anos tornou poss?vel o monitoramento cont?nuo dos processos de plantas industriais. Com esse avan?o, a quantidade de informa??o que os sistemas de automa??o est?o submetidos aumentou significativamente. Os alarmes gerados pelos equipamentos de monitora??o s?o um dos principais respons?veis por esse aumento, sendo que eles geralmente s?o implantados nas plantas industriais sem uma metodologia formal, o que acarreta um aumento do n?mero de alarmes gerados, sobrecarregando, assim, os sistemas de alarmes e por consequ?ncia os operadores dessas plantas. Neste contexto, o trabalho de gerenciamento de alarmes surge com o objetivo de definir uma metodologia formal para a instala??o de novos equipamentos e detectar problemas nas configura??es existentes. Esta disserta??o visa propor um conjunto de m?tricas para a avalia??o dos sistemas de alarmes j? implantados, de forma que seja poss?vel identificar a sa?de deste sistema analisando-se os ?ndices propostos e comparando-os com os par?metros definidos em normas t?cnicas da ?rea de gest?o de alarmes. Al?m disso, as m?tricas permitir?o o acompanhamento do trabalho de gerenciamento de alarmes, verificando se o mesmo est? melhorando a qualidade do sistema de alarme. Para valida??o das m?tricas propostas, utilizou-se dados provenientes de plantas de processo reais da ind?stria petroqu?mica

Orientadores: Leonardo de Souza Mendes, Mario Lemes Proença Junior / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T19:18:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Zarpelao_BrunoBogaz_D.pdf: 5089650 bytes, checksum: 281e7d926aae4a7e05a2e94347a06179 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Anomalias em redes de computadores são desvios súbitos e acentuados que ocorrem no tráfego em consequência de diversas situações como defeitos em softwares, uso abusivo de recursos da rede, falhas em equipamentos, erros em configurações e ataques. Nesta tese, é proposto um sistema de detecção de anomalias em redes de computadores baseado em três níveis de análise. O primeiro nível de análise é responsável por comparar os dados coletados em um objeto SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) com o perfil de operações normais da rede. O segundo nível de análise correlaciona os alarmes gerados no primeiro nível de análise utilizando um grafo de dependências que representa as relações entre os objetos SNMP monitorados. O terceiro nível de análise reúne os alarmes de segundo nível utilizando informações sobre a topologia de rede e gera um alarme de terceiro nível que reporta a propagação da anomalia pela rede. Os testes foram realizados na rede da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, utilizando situações reais. Os resultados mostraram que a proposta apresentou baixas taxas de falsos positivos combinadas a altas taxas de detecção. Além disso, o sistema foi capaz de correlacionar alarmes gerados para diferentes objetos SNMP em toda a rede, produzindo conjuntos menores de alarmes que ofereceram ao administrador de redes uma visão panorâmica do problema / Abstract: Anomalies in computer networks are unexpected and significant deviations that occur in network traffic due to different situations such as software bugs, unfair resource usage, failures, misconfiguration and attacks. In this work, it is proposed an anomaly detection system based on three levels of analysis. The first level of analysis is responsible for comparing the data collected from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) objects with the profile of network normal behavior. The second level of analysis correlates the alarms generated by the first level of analysis by using a dependency graph, which represents the relationships between the SNMP objects. The third level of analysis correlates the second level alarms by using network topology information. The third level generates a third level alarm that presents the anomaly propagation path through the network. Tests were performed in the State University of Londrina network, exploring real situations. Results showed that the proposal presents low false positive rates and high detection rates. Moreover, the proposed system is able to correlate alarms that were generated for SNMP objects at different places of the network, producing smaller sets of alarms that offer a wide-view of the problem to the network administrator / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

A enurese é uma condição caracterizada pela eliminação de urina durante o sono, em crianças com mais de cinco anos, em função da dificuldade de acordar associada à baixa produção do hormônio vasopressina ou à instabilidade da bexiga, sem outra condição clínica que explique os episódios de molhar a cama. A intervenção comportamental com alarme é a mais recomendada pela literatura para a cura da enurese. O acompanhamento do uso do alarme pode ser realizado através de contatos telefônicos, em que são investigados pontos chave do procedimento a ser realizado em casa pelas famílias. Uma pesquisa verificou que o acompanhamento telefônico é uma alternativa eficaz para a população que faz uso do alarme de urina para enurese, mas sem obter clareza na questão da sua validade para crianças com escores clínicos de problemas de comportamento. O presente estudo teve como objetivo geral comparar a eficácia do tratamento para enurese entre dois grupos de participantes que receberam acompanhamento telefônico, sendo previamente classificados pelos pais de duas maneiras: um com índices clínicos de problemas de comportamento e outro sem tais índices. Como objetivos específicos: (1) classificar as crianças quanto aos problemas de comportamento a partir de observação feita por uma pesquisadora; (2) verificar a eficácia do tratamento para crianças com e sem problemas de comportamento, a partir da avaliação da pesquisadora; (3) Verificar a evolução dos problemas de comportamento comparando escores pré e pós tratamento a partir da avaliação dos pais (4) comparar o nível de autoconceito reportado pela criança antes e após a intervenção (5) verificar possíveis correlações entre nível de autoconceito e o resultado do tratamento. Participaram do estudo 31 crianças com idades entre seis a 11 anos, (média=8,3, DP=1,3), sendo 15 do sexo masculino e 16 do sexo feminino e seus pais. Para a inclusão da criança no tratamento, o diagnóstico de enurese foi obtido através do Formulário de Avaliação de Enurese. Para a avaliação dos problemas de comportamento foram aplicados o Inventário de Comportamento para Crianças e Adolescentes (CBCL), destinado aos pais e o Inventário de Observação Direta (DOF), instrumento que permite ao pesquisador observar e qualificar o comportamento infantil em escalas semelhantes às obtidas pelo preenchimento do CBCL durante atividades recreativas. Este último instrumento foi preenchido por uma pesquisadora vinculada ao Projeto Enurese. Para mensurar o autoconceito foi utilizado a Escala de Autoconceito Infanto-Juvenil. Setenta e um por cento dos participantes, independente do grupo (clínico ou não clinico) ao qual pertenciam obtiveram sucesso no tratamento, não havendo correlação entre os problemas de comportamento e os resultados do tratamento. A única variável 8 relacionada com o sucesso foi a menor frequência de episódios de molhadas antes do tratamento. As avaliações feitas pelos pais e pela pesquisadora em relação aos problemas de comportamento apresentaram um ligeiro grau de concordância (57,2%). Conforme esperado, o grupo das crianças que obteve sucesso no tratamento apresentou melhora nos índices de problemas de comportamento totais e autoconceito pessoal e social quando comparado ao daquelas que não obtiveram sucesso / Enuresis is a condition defined by urine loss during sleep due to the incapacity to wake up in response to the full bladder signals associated to a lack of vasopressin hormone or dysfunctional bladder activity, when the child is at least five years-old and has no other condition that explains bedwetting. Behavioral intervention with alarm is one of the most effective ways to cure enuresis. One method to monitor the alarm use by the families is periodic phone calls, in which the researcher checks if the treatment procedure is being correctly done. A past research concluded that monitoring the intervention by phone is a effective alternative for the treatment, but it was unclear if children with clinical levels of behavioral problems would benefit of it. This study aimed to compare the treatment efficacy with two groups receiving alarm treatment with phone follow up, one group with clinical levels of behavioral problems and the other without it, according to the parents\' view. Specific objectives were: (1) to use an alternative method to assess behavioral problems, according to a researcher\'s point of view; (2) to verify treatment efficacy for children with and without clinical levels of behavioral problems according to the researcher\'s point of view; (3) to compare behavioral problems levels before and after treatment, according to the parents\' point of view; (4) to compare children\'s self-concept levels before and after treatment; and (5) to investigate correlations between self-concept levels and treatment result. Thirty-one children aged 6 to 11 (mean=8,3, SD=1,3) were included in the study. Fifteen were male and 16 were females. To assess enuresis the Enuresis Assessment Form was used; to assess behavioral problems, the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Direct Observation Form (DOF) were applied, the first instrument was filled up by the parents at home and the second by a researcher during recreational activities. The Child Self-Concept Scale was used to assess participants\' self-concept. Seventy-one percent of the children reached the criterion for treatment success. There was no influence of behavioral problems in the treatment result. A higher bedwetting frequency prior to treatment was the only variable related to a better treatment result. The comparison between the parents and the researchers evaluation about the behavioral problems showed a moderated level of agreement (57,2%). As expected, children who were successful in the treatment showed a significantly higher improvement in total behavioral problems levels and personal and social self-concept, when compared to those who did not had success

Uma vez que atraves do uso do alarme de urina nem todas as criancas com enurese obtem os criterios definidos para o sucesso (14 noites secas consecutivas), buscou--se investigar procedimentos complementares para potencializar o seu efeito: a) o diario miccional, utilizado como um instrumento de avaliacao diagnostica da enurese e como uma medida dos efeitos de tratamentos e b) a uroterapia, que consiste de um conjunto de medidas comportamentais que tem como objetivo corrigir dificuldades provavelmente relacionadas a enurese nao corrigidas pelo uso do alarme. O diario miccional e o registro do volume de liquidos ingeridos e eliminados no periodo de dois dias pela crianca, que pode indicar, dentre outros padroes, urgencia miccional, hiperatividade detrusora, poliuria, bem como ingestao irregular de liquidos. As medidas comportamentais que compoe a uroterapia podem ser exemplificadas por: miccoes em horarios regulares; aumento da ingesta de liquidos e evitacao de irritantes vesicais. Neste estudo participaram 65 criancas e adolescentes com enurese distribuidas em dois grupos de tratamento. O primeiro grupo foi exposto a uroterapia e ao tratamento com alarme (grupo Uroterapia), enquanto o segundo grupo foi exposto somente ao tratamento com alarme (grupo Alarme). Por volta de 70% dos participantes de ambos os grupos obtiveram sucesso no tratamento, independentemente da realizacao da uroterapia. Os participantes do grupo Uroterapia apresentaram uma melhora mais acentuada no inicio do tratamento, mas esta nao se manteve como tendencia ao longo do tempo. Os participantes de ambos os grupos tiveram um aumento significativo da porcentagem da capacidade volumetrica da bexiga utilizada. Os participantes do grupo Uroterapia tiveram um aumento significativamente maior dos volumes de ingesta de liquidos e miccional / Not all children with enuresis reach 14 consecutive dry nights thought the use of the bell and pad alarm. That considered, we aimed to investigate additional procedures to enhance its success rate: a) the voiding diary, used as a diagnostic tool for evaluating enuresis and to measure overall treatments effects and b) urotherapy, consisting of a set of behavioral measures that aims at problems probably related to enuresis not corrected by the use of the bell and pad alarm. The voiding diary is a two--day record of fluid intake and micturition habits. It may indicate, among other patterns, urgency, detrusor overactivity, polyuria and irregular fluid intake. Urotherapy is composed of behavioral measures such: voiding at regular times; increased fluid intake; and avoidance of bladder irritants. 65 children and adolescents participated in this study. They were assigned to two treatment groups. The first group was exposed to urotherapy and to an alarm treatment (Urotherapy group), while the second was exposed only to an alarm treatment (Alarm group). Around 70% of participants became dry, regardless of the group they were assigned to. Participants from the Urotherapy group showed a more marked improvement early in treatment, but this trend was not maintained over time. Participants from both groups had a significant increase in the percentage of volumetric bladder capacity used and participants from the Urotherapy group had a significantly greater increase of fluid intake and voided volume

Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de modelo de análise de risco para embarcações, incorporando em sua formulação a influência das interações entre os sistemas de alarmes e os fatores humanos e organizacionais presentes a bordo. De acordo com estatísticas de sociedades classificadoras, o homem é o maior responsável por acidentes marítimos, e, desta forma, é um dos principais componentes da segurança de uma embarcação. A relevância do elemento humano se dá pelo fato de que ações e decisões humanas estão relacionadas tanto à causa, quanto à prevenção de acidentes. O sistema de alarmes é um equipamento de segurança obrigatório, e com direta participação na dinâmica de um acidente, fornecendo informação para a tomada de decisão das ações por parte da tripulação na resolução do problema. O estudo da interação entre este equipamento e o elemento humano a bordo permite a gestores e armadores elaborar diretrizes para investimentos em sistemas de segurança e políticas que influenciam o desempenho humano, e, portanto, a segurança a bordo. O modelo proposto, inspirado em relatório de acidentes marítimos, tem como ponto de partida uma estrutura sequencial do acidente e leva em consideração uma sucessão usual e simplificada dos eventos ocorridos, iniciando a partir de uma falha no sistema físico. O elemento humano, então, é incorporado à análise de risco através das técnicas de análise de confiabilidade humana, as quais têm como princípio a visão do homem como mais um componente do sistema, ou o liveware interagindo com software e hardware. Sob este ponto de vista, uma abordagem sócio-técnica é aplicada, ou seja, considera-se que um navio é composto não apenas de sua estrutura e máquinas, mas também de toda a tripulação. Com o objetivo de exemplificar passos e hipóteses de uma aplicação do modelo proposto, é apresentada a aplicação ao caso do acidente da embarcação Maersk Doha, ocorrido em outubro de 2006 nos Estados Unidos, cujo relatório de investigação do acidente é de acesso público via Internet, no site da Marine Accident Investigation Branch MAIB. / This work presents a risk analysis model for ships, focusing on the scenarios where the crew interacts with the alarm and monitoring system. According to statistics of classification societies, humans are largely responsible for accidents on board and, therefore, are considered a major component of the safety of vessels. The relevance of the human element is given by the fact that human decisions and actions are related to the cause of accidents, either being the direct causative factor of failure or influencing the probability of failure, and the prevention of accidents or mitigation of the consequences. The alarm system is a mandatory component of certified vessels, with direct participation in an accident. It supplies information for the decision making process of the crew, considering their actions to recover the system. The study of the interactions between this automation equipment and the human element on board provides guidelines to managers and owners to invest in proper security systems and policies that influence human behavior, and therefore the safety on board. The model, inspired in accident reports, has as starting point a sequential structure of the accident, and takes into account a typical and simplified sequence of events, starting from a failure in the physical system. The human element is incorporated into the risk analysis through techniques of human reliability analysis, which place man as another component of the system, or the \"liveware\" interacting with software and hardware. From this point of view, a socio-technical approach is applied, considering that a ship is composed of not only its structure and machinery, but also of the entire crew. In order to illustrate the steps and assumptions to be done by an analyst applying the proposed model, the accident of the vessel Maersk Doha, occurred in October of 2006 in the United States, is analyzed. The report on the investigation of this accident is public and accessible via the Internet site of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch MAIB.

Time Delay of Arrival (TDOA) based algorithms and Steered Response Power (SRP) based algorithms are two most commonly used methods for sound source detection and localization. SRP is more robust under high reverberation and multi-target conditions, while TDOA is less computationally intensive. This thesis introduces a modified TDOA algorithm, TDOA delay table search (TDOA-DTS), that has more stable performance than the original TDOA, and requires only 4% of the SRP computation load for a 3-dimensional space of a typical room. A 2-step adaptive thresholding procedure based on a Weibull noise peak distributions for the cross-correlations and a binomial distribution for combing potential peaks over all microphone pairs for the final detection. The first threshold limits the potential target peaks in the microphone pair cross-correlations with a user-defined false-alarm (FA) rates. The initial false-positive peak rate can be set to a higher level than desired for the final FA target rate so that high accuracy is not required of the probability distribution model (where model errors do not impact FA rates as they work for threshold set deep into the tail of the curve). The final FA rate can be lowered to the actual desired value using an M out of N (MON) rule on significant correlation peaks from different microphone pairs associated is a point in the space of interest. The algorithm is tested with simulated and real recorded data to verify resulting FA rates are consistent with the user-defined rates down to 10-6.

The aim of this paper is to find an algorithm to establish and maintain a virtual enclosure around a mobile unit. The area may take any form and should be scalable up to and including national borders. The enclosure is managed on the mobile unit. The target system is Android. Smartphones, tablets and more recently, cameras is examples of mobile units. A modern mobile unit is part of a computer network. It is designed to be connected all the time. A mobile unit have the capability to handle large volumes of data, data that might be both sensitive and possess an economic value. Management of mobile units is vital to protect the data and insure security for the entire network. A mobile unit is a resource in the network. Each resource is defined by a set of parameters. One parameter that make a mobile unit special is the lack of physical boundaries to world. Typically, the first step in security is access control to resources. Therefore, the lack of physical access control has to be replaced by other means such as tracking the location of the mobile unit. In this paper I have studied the possibility of creating a virtual fence around the mobile unit. The mobile unit is free to move within the area enclosed by the virtual fence. The mobile unit alert all concerned parties if it crossed the fence and thus leave the enclosed area. The aim was to find a practical algorithm to establish and maintain a virtual fence around the mobile device. A grid-based algorithm was selected because it can handle small to very large areas. All data are collected in a table which makes the algorithm fast, regardless the size of the area. A grid enables management of multiple enclosures and relationships between them. Deeper analysis revealed that the mobile device is not able to position sufficiently often and accurately for the grid-based algorithm to handle small areas. A complementary method is needed for minimizing the need for positioning. To manage properties, such as geographical information, the selected algorithm is deemed to be well suited. / Telefon: 0734 097 404 Skype: di98jgu

The thesis is based on a multi disciplinary study involving both particulars regarding military history and certain psychological theories. In order to be able to discuss the psychological experiences of Boers during the guerrilla phase of the Anglo-Boer War, the first chapters of the thesis strive to provide the required background. Firstly an overview of the initial conventional phase of the war is furnished, followed by a discussion of certain psychological issues relevant to stress and methods of coping with stress. Subsequently, guerrilla warfare as a global concern is examined. A number of important events during the transitional stage, in other words, the period between conventional warfare and total guerrilla warfare, are considered followed by the regional details concerning the Boers’ plans for guerrilla warfare. These details include the ecological features, the socio-economic issues of that time and military information about the regions illustrating the dissimilarity and variety involved. In the chapters that follow the focus is concentrated on the psychological impact of the guerrilla war on the Boers. The wide range of stressors (factors inducing stress) are arranged according to certain topics: stress caused by military situations; stress caused by the loss of infrastructure in the republics; stress caused by environmental factors; stress arising from daily hardships; stress caused by anguish and finally stressors prompted by an individuals disposition. Then the psychological theories regarding an individual’s resistance resources (or general resistance resources ─ GRRs) and the means of using these resources to cope with stress are applied to the actual circumstances that the Boers were faced with. This discourse is arranged according to material resources, motivational issues and intrapersonal resources. Subsequently the complete guerrilla warfare phase is considered, the accent being placed on the psychological effect that the Boers’ strategies, as well as the British counter strategies, had on the republican forces. The phase is subdivided into four stages according to the course of the war, while still furnishing an overall account of the guerrilla phase ─ ranging from the initial successes on Boer side, the gradual decline in Boer initiatives to the final months, when the few successful encounters that the Boers launched, came too late to change matters. In the final chapter the impact of the guerrilla warfare on a selected group of Boers is examined in the form of case studies. The group includes President M.T. Steyn, whose health failed him in the end and Generals C.R. de Wet and J.C. Smuts, where their positive conduct is considered from a psychological perspective. The result of the continuous pressure on the young Commandant G.J. Scheepers is examined and the stress related experiences of Chief Field Cornet H.S. van der Walt, Burghers P.J. du Toit and R.W. Schikkerling are analysed. / Thesis (DPhil(History))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Jurisprudence / unrestricted

Cryptocurrencies are becoming popular and the demand for monitoring transactions inside them increases alongside with it. In this thesis, I describe few of the most widespread cryptocurrencies built on top of a blockchain and how to obtain information of their transactions in order to raise alarms. I discuss existing solutions and describe application Cryptoalarm designed for monitoring transactions involving specific addresses in order to raise alarms. Cryptoalarm scans blockchains of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Zcash, Dash, Ethereum and raises alarms about address activities in real-time.

This thesis deals with implementation of software support of alarm system design for security levels 1 and 2 based on web technologies. It was created intuitive and interactive graphical interface that allows to create high-quality alarm system design even for laymen. First of all the paper deals with standards and jurisdictions in the Czech Republic, according to which the alarm system design must be followed. In theoretical part there are described in detail characteristics of alarm systems and its components, proper functioning principles, installation principle, advantages and disadvantages of use, individual steps of alarm system design and proposed methodology of alarm system design for security level 1 and 2. In practical part there are described the technologies used for the implementation of this paper, structure of created webpage and detailed steps of alarm system design, as seen by user during creating. The result of this paper is a webpage, which is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part provides information about the alarm system architecture, alarm system design and established methodology for the alarm system design for security level 1 and 2. In the practical part the user, on the basis of gained information and interactive help, can create high-quality alarm system design that meets all the conditions for reliable function in real traffic.