The standard practice of spectroscopic data reduction is generally to fit data to level energy expansions in terms of the vibrational and rotational quantum numbers. However, the utility of such expressions is limited because they extrapolate poorly and they need very large sets of parameters, many of which have no independent physical significance. One method of addressing these problems is to fit the spectroscopic data directly to analytical potential energy functions incorporating the natural physical behaviour of the molecule in question. Although there have been a number of successful applications of this approach, there are still certain problems associated with the types of potential forms being used. This thesis will explore some of these problems and determine how effective the potential forms being used are for a number of specific cases.

Landscape architecture is presently undergoing a technical revolution; computers are increasingly being Landscape architecture is presently undergoing a used to store, manipulate and display regional information. Computer software used by landscape architects is generally still limited but one program, IMGRID, developed at Harvard University Graduate School of Design by David Sinton, is unusually powerful and adaptable. One major drawback does exist with this program; capability for statistical manipulation of data is very limited. Consequently, this creative project develops additional algorithms which give an enhanced version of IMGRID (IISIS) that statistical capability. Statistical procedures added include a complete range of descriptive statistics and multiple correlation and regression. The IISIS user may invoke these procedures by use of a new key word STAT. A description of the options and new algorithms are given along with an example of their use. / Department of Landscape Architecture

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Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / Currently under development, the Global Information Grid (GIG) Enterprise Services (ES) is a suite of capabilities intended to provide improved user access to mission-critical data via Web-based and network technologies. Some of the problems of implementing such capabilities include non-uniform data formats, incompatible run-time environments and nonstandard proprietary applications, all of which block operational interoperability. Web services are specifically designed to address the interoperability challenges of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) such as the GIG. SOAs are networked infrastructures that are designed to facilitate the interoperability of collections of services without requiring service context awareness. Standards-based Web services provide the necessary flexibility and extensibility to ensure information flow is platform, run-time and software independent. The proof of concept (POC) software example developed for this research demonstrates the flexibility and extensibility of standards-based, operating-system-independent Web services. The result is an experimental endeavor to provide a mock operation command center information portal, which provides a notional summary personnel status report to the commander in real-time from a Web service that was originally generated by a stand-alone client/server system. The POC is developed with great attention to open-source technologies and open-standards compliance. The key technologies involved are Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Java programming language, PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) scripting language and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). This work demonstrates the benefits of leveraging Web services to unlock legacy specialized applications to enhance the Warfighter's battlespace awareness by improving information flow via a Web based information portal. / Captain, United States Marine Corps

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / Currently, the most common approach in developing database applications is to use an object-oriented language for the frontend module and a relational database for the backend datastore. The major disadvantage of this approach is the well-known "impedance mismatch" in which some form of mapping is required to connect the objects in the frontend and the relational tuples in the backend. Java Data Objects (JDO) technology is recently proposed Java API that eliminates the impedance mismatch. By using JDO API, the programmers deal strictly with objects. JDO hides the details of the backend datastore by providing the object-oriented view of the datastore. JDO automatically handles the mapping between the objects and the underlying data in the relational database, which is hidden from the programmer. This thesis investigates the effectiveness of JDO. Part of the analysis will develop a database application using JDO. Although JDO provides the benefits of object-orientation in design and implementation of the databases, it is not immune from problems and limitations. The thesis will also analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using JDO and discuss the areas requiring improvements in future releases. / Major, Hellenic Air Force

Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / This thesis is primarily concerned with automation support for an organization in charge of the construction and modification of buildings for military bases and civilian construction during disaster relief. The first issue at hand is the need to know how this organization functions manually and the participation of each department in daily work. Use Case Analysis was applied to understand the business process and an UML model was created to appraise the domain concepts. Architecture for a decision support system was then developed to provide the necessary automation support and a prototype for the user interface of the proposed system was constructed to evaluate the architectural design. The proposal software will improve the decision-making ability of the leader of this organization and the heads of each department. It will make the routine tasks easier, and provide the necessary and accurate data in a timely manner. / Captain, Tunisia Army

XTREND consists of the following methodical Parts. Time interval extraction (Part 1) to analyse different parts of a time series; extreme events detection (Part 2) with robust smoothing; magnitude classification (Part 3) by hand; occurrence rate estimation (Part 4) with kernel functions; bootstrap simulations (Part 5) to estimate confidence bands around the occurrence rate. You work interactively with XTREND (parameter adjustment, calculation, graphics) to acquire more intuition for your data. Although, using “normal” data sizes (less than, say, 1000) and modern machines, the computing time seems to be acceptable (less than a few minutes), parameter adjustment should be done carefully to avoid spurious results or, on the other hand, too long computing times. This Report helps you to achieve that. Although it explains the statistical concepts used, this is generally done with less detail, and you should consult the given references (which include some textbooks) for a deeper understanding.

The main problems of numerical analysis involve performing analytical operations, such as integration, differentiation, finding zeroes, interpolation, and so forth, of a function when all the data available are some samples of the function. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the following problem: given a set of data points (x[sub i], y[sub i]) which are samples of some function, determine an approximating function. Further, extend the problem to that of determining an approximating function for a surface given some samples (x[sub i], y[sub j], z[sub ij]) of the surface.

Copyright protection of computer programs This thesis deals with copyright protection of specific works of authorship - computer programs. The thesis deals with the definition of works of authorship and the conditions in which the computer program is a work of authorship, at least as a legal fiction. For the term computer program, the thesis is trying to find a suitable definition that is sufficiently general, but also accurately captures it's notion. Various known forms of expression of the computer program (source code, machine code, but also a code in an intermediate language) are described and the thesis explains, why it is appropriate to protect the computer program in any form. The thesis clarifies, why the term "software" and the term "computer program" are not identical and arbitrarily exchanging them can cause problems. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the author of the computer program and co-authorship. The next part deals with the rights of the author of the work. The exclusive rights of the author (the moral rights of the author and copyright) are discussed. The thesis describes the rights of exploitation of a computer programs, with a focus on differences againts other works of authorship. One of the rights of the author is also the right to provide an authorization to exercise the right to...