Three students work in a team in this research. With the impact of cross-strait direct flights on Penghu as the theme, they start their discussions from the sub-themes which include the economy, the society and the government. The team carries out cross-domain analysis in these different fields, using research methods stretching from regional science, management science and policy science, among others. The team applies the different methods to different fields of study. Regardless of the limitation of the locations and the departments, PAM and the output of cross-domain analysis (analysis of the economic fundamentals, time series analysis, horizontal analysis, and gravity model) are used as the input of judgment analysis (Social Judgment Theory, or SJT). The output of regional analysis and judgment analysis are used as the input of policy analysis (Interactive Management, or IM). The above is combined with Penghu¡¦s existing historical information to yield independent, objective, and credible data for cross-domain analysis. Combining resources including the people, the time, the place and the event, the method encompasses different levels and the participants¡¦ cognitive psychology so that the various powers can come together before they are optimized; a consensus is reached and the maximum value shared by the public is created. This study can be very close related to the livelihood of the citizenry of Penghu. The Interactive Management, or IM, of the policy analysis is applied, combined with Nominal Group Technique, or NGT, and Interpretive Structural Modeling, or ISM, as the methods of analysis. Approximately 26 representatives from various fields are invited to participate. The NGT procedure, from the identification, clarification to voting on the issues, to the comparison among different issues are all assisted with the ISM software to generate an enhanced structural diagram that is more clearly structured and easy to read. After the participants¡¦ deliberation and revision, twelve strategies regarding ¡§the Impact of Cross-strait Direct Flights on Penghu¡Xfrom an Economic Point of View¡¨ were proposed. To clarify the enhanced connections among policies, to bring about an enhanced structural relationship, and to set forth the priorities, goals and directions for each policy, the participants believe that the first task is to establish an effective and integrated platform between the central and local governments, which will help the planning and enforcement of cross-strait policies, as well as improve other policies. Considering the above, government agencies should always bear in mind what the public wants. They should take the public¡¦s needs into consideration and care for the people to widely promote dialogue platforms as public forum so as to realize a ¡§bottom up¡¨ approach and to listen to the opinions from the root of the society. Efforts should be made by all parties to respond to the need of globalization. The public should pay attention to and examine public affairs in both the private and the public arenas. We should have our eyes on the whole and deal with the details. Public opinions should be fully developed, the society should be given more wealth, and the social conditions should be cultivated so that the civil spirits can take root, the power of the civil society can emerge, and a civil-governed democracy can be realized.

Three students work in a team in this study. With the impact of cross-strait direct flights on Penghu as the theme, they start their discussions from the sub-themes which include the economy, the society and the government. The team applies other theoretical frameworks in earnest exploration of Penghu¡¦s potentials to underline Penghu¡¦s readiness for its future. The team applies different method to different fields of study. Regardless of the limitation of the locations and the departments, PAM and the output of cross-domain analysis (analysis of the economic fundamentals, time series analysis, horizontal analysis, and gravity model) are used as the input of judgment analysis (Social Judgment Theory, or SJT). The output of cross-domain analysis and judgment analysis are used as the input of policy analysis (Interactive Management, or IM). The above is combined with Penghu¡¦s existing historical information to yield independent, objective, and credible data for cross-domain analysis. Combining resources including the people, the time, the place and the event, the method encompasses all levels and the participants¡¦ cognitive psychology so that the various powers can come together before they are optimized; a consensus is reached and the maximum value shared by the public is created. The IM theoretical framework is applied to this study, where the livelihood of the Penghu people and how to improve the living standard of the people are discussed. The public forum acts as the platform for dialogue. Twenty-four representatives from various fields were invited to express their ideas in a sensible discussion, where they take in others¡¦ opinions and learn from one another in a forum that is both theoretical and practical. The Interactive Management, or IM, of the policy analysis is applied, combined with Nominal Group Technique, or NGT, and Interpretive Structural Modeling, or ISM, as the methods of analysis. The NGT procedure, from the identification, clarification to voting on the issues, to the comparison among different issues are all assisted with the ISM software to generate an enhanced structural diagram that is more clearly structured and easy to read. After the participants¡¦ deliberation and revision, twelve strategies regarding ¡§the Impact of Cross-strait Direct Flights on Penghu¡Xfrom an Economic Point of View¡¨ were proposed. To clarify the enhanced connections among policies, to bring about an enhanced structural relationship, and to set forth the priorities, goals and directions for each policy, the participants believe that the first task is to deal with the waste management of the county, to raise the public¡¦s environmental awareness, and to solve water-and-electricity-related issues, which will improve other policies. IV The leaders should always start from the people, listen to the people, speak out for the people and keep the people in mind. Just like Atem Ramsundersingh, a senior official in the Water Department at the World Bank, pointed out: in the development of Taiwan¡¦s sustainable policies, the leaders should listen to the voice from the root of the society by allowing the ¡§bottom up¡¨ approach as an effective method for people to voice their opinions in a deliberative democracy. Considering the above and in the hope of identifying an appropriate alternate solution that is comprehensive, sound and practical as a reference for upcoming researchers, it is suggested that the policymakers, when discussing cross-strait policies, should listen to the opinions of people in Penghu via various channels. Practices should complement the theoretical framework in a research for it to reap greater results, namely, the fostering of civil awareness, the improvement of the levels of a civil society, and the realization of civil governance.

With Taiwan¡¦s economic development, and the wave of globalization as the impetus, after the government¡¦s ¡§No haste, be patient¡¨ policy and the mini-three links, on the first day of April, 2007, Penghu saw the launch of the conditional mini-three links. As the government gradually carries out cross-strait opening-up policies, the ¡§direct flight¡¨ is likely to arrive in the foreseeable future. As a response to the likelihood of the ¡§direct flight¡¨, what kind of impact and challenges will it bring to the Penghu economy? How should people in Penghu face up to them? What kind of opinions and suggestions should be made heard to the different levels in the government and the civil society? Dialogue mechanisms such as Denmark¡¦s Consensus Conference and the ¡§bottom up¡¨ method promoted by the World Bank of central Europe, as well as the US-borne ¡§Interactive Management¡¨, or IM, are approaches in which a small group of people gather in a small seminar to listen to one another¡¦s opinions and needs, and to negotiate in order to reach a consensus. These advanced and effective ways for people to come up with strategies all seeks wide participation from the people as their foundation, through a ¡§bottom up¡¨ dialogue, to generate practical and effective strategies. This research, based on the Public Affairs Management, or PAM, utilizes Nominal Group Technique, or NGT, and Interpretive Structural Modeling, or ISM, as a discussion method of interactive management. Three students work in a team. With the impact of cross-strait direct flights to Penghu as the theme, they start their discussions from the sub-themes which include the economy, the society and the government. The team carries out cross-domain analysis in these different fields, using research methods stretching from regional science, management science, and policy science, among others. The team applies different methods to different fields of study. Regardless of the limitation of the location and the departments, PAM and the output of regional analysis (analysis of the economic fundamentals, time series analysis, horizontal analysis, and gravity model) are used as the input of judgment analysis (Social Judgment Theory, or SJT). The output of regional analysis and judgment analysis are used as the input of policy analysis (Interactive Management, or IM). The above is combined with Penghu¡¦s existing historical information to yield independent, objective and credible data for cross-domain analysis, which is used by the discussion participants in sensible reasoning. The data are also internalized in the IM discussion platform to ensure the effectiveness of the participants, to distinguish among different groups, and to connect resources including the people, the time, the IV place and the event, so that the participants could engage in an effective dialogue on an equal footing provided by the discussion platform, where they study the impact of direct flights on Penghu¡¦s economy. After discussions and voting in two interactive seminars, the participants chose and proposed twelve strategies regarding ¡§the Impact of Direct Flights on Penghu¡Xfrom an Economic Point of View.¡¨ The cross-domain research method, encompassing different levels and the participants¡¦ cognitive psychology, engages the participants in sensible discussions so that the various powers can come together before they are optimized. This helps foster the formation of civil awareness and raise the levels of the civil society, contributing greatly to the goal of civil governance.

First Online: 21 March 2016. 12 month embargo. / This paper presents cross-domain evidence that natural language makes use of (at least) two ways of individuating collective entities that differ in terms of how they cohere. The first kind, which I call swarm reference, picks out higher-order collective entities defined in terms of the spatial and temporal configuration of their constituent individuals. The second, which corresponds to canonical cases of group reference (e.g. committee, team, etc.), makes use of non-spatiotemporal notions. To motivate this distinction, I present systematic differences in how these two types of collective reference behave linguistically, both in the individual and event domains. These differences support two primary results. First, they are used as tests to isolate a new class of collective nouns that denote swarm individuals, both in English, as well as other languages like Romanian. I then consider a crosslinguistically common type of pluractionality, called event-internal in the previous literature (Cusic 1981, Wood 2007), and show that its properties are best explained if the relevant verbs denote swarm events. By reducing event-internal pluractionality to a type of collective reference also available for nouns, this work generates a new strong argument that pluractionality involves the same varieties of plural reference in the event domain that are seen in the individual domain.

Based on the Cross-Domain Analysis method of the ¡§Public Affairs Management Integrated Reference Framework,¡¨ this study analyzed the the strategies and decisions of the sustainable development of the industrial park of the Kaohsiung Region. It combine the primary data , secondary data and the qualitative research,and compare with the results of the Cognitive Continuum Theory(CCT) and the Interactive Management,(IM), in order to understand the whole picture from some dimensions. At the end of the research, it can be agreed that the Cross-Domain Analysis method of the ¡§Public Affairs Management Integrated Reference Framework¡¨ and solve the multiple opinions of diversified communities, through the ten stages of the method, we can clarified the questions and concluded the strategies. There are the conclusions of the study as the follows: (1) the study concluded the eight questions of the Sustainable Development of the Industrial Park of the Kaohsiung Region; (2) they are the key performance factors to reduce the gap of Kaohsiong and Taipei, and to enhance the relationship with the main-land China, they could promote the effiencies of the Kaohsiong Port and Kaohsiung Airport. (3) to examine the land-use of the industrial parts of Kaohsiong, and to upgrate the industrial typies could create more job opportunities;(4) to import new industries is the most important strategy; and the policy-maketing should add more the elements of the intuition; (5) it can concluded the ten strategies based on the Interactive Management(IM); (6) the first priority strategy is to establish the managerial mechanism of the cross-territories, in order to consolidate the efforts of the Central government and the Local government.

Simulators are important tools for analyzing and evaluating different design options for wireless sensor networks (sensornets) and hence, have been intensively studied in the past decades. However, existing simulators only support evaluations of protocols and software aspects of sensornet design. They cannot accurately capture the significant impacts of various hardware designs on sensornet performance. As a result, the performance/energy benefits of customized hardware designs are difficult to be evaluated in sensornet research. To fill in this technical void, in this thesis, we describe the design and implementation of SUNSHINE, a scalable hardware-software cross-domain simulator for sensornet applications. SUNSHINE is the first sensornet simulator that effectively supports joint evaluation and design of sensor hardware and software performance in a networked context. SUNSHINE captures the performance of network protocols, software and hardware up to cycle-level accuracy through its seamless integration of three existing sensornet simulators: a network simulator TOSSIM, an instruction-set simulator SimulAVR and a hardware simulator GEZEL. SUNSHINE solves challenging design problems, including data exchanges and time synchronizations across different simulation domains and simulation accuracy levels. SUNSHINE also provides hardware specification scheme for simulating flexible and customized hardware designs. Several experiments are given to illustrate SUNSHINE's cross-domain simulation capability, demonstrating that SUNSHINE is an efficient tool for software-hardware codesign in sensornet research. / Master of Science

Simulators are important tools for wireless sensor network (sensornet) design and evaluation. However, existing simulators only support evaluations of protocols and software aspects of sensornet design. Thus they cannot accurately capture the significant impacts of various hardware designs on sensornet performance. To fill in the gap, we proposed SUNSHINE, a scalable hardware-software cross-domain simulator for sensornet applications. SUNSHINE is the first sensornet simulator that effectively supports joint evaluation and design of sensor hardware and software performance in a networked context. SUNSHINE captures the performance of network protocols, software and hardware through the integration of two modules: a network simulator TOSSIM [1] and hardware-software simulator P-Sim composed of an instruction-set simulator SimulAVR [2] and a hardware simulator GEZEL [3]. This thesis focuses on the integration of TOSSIM and P-Sim. It discusses the integration design considerations and explains how to address several integration challenges: time conversion, data conversion, and time synchronization. Some experiments are also given to demonstrate SUNSHINE's cross-domain simulation capability, showing SUNSHINE's strength by integrating simulators from different domains. / Master of Science

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-02-21T16:47:42Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) dvsTeseBiblioteca.pdf: 6571192 bytes, checksum: eb7914e5ffef25b8f01ff92d9a60c164 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-21T16:47:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) dvsTeseBiblioteca.pdf: 6571192 bytes, checksum: eb7914e5ffef25b8f01ff92d9a60c164 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-21 / FACEPE / Traditionally, single-domain recommender systems (SDRS) have achieved good results in recommending relevant items for users in order to solve the information overload problem. However, cross-domain recommender systems (CDRS) have emerged aiming to enhance SDRS by achieving some goals such as accuracy improvement, diversity, addressing new user and new item problems, among others. Instead of treating each domain independently, CDRS use knowledge acquired in a source domain (e.g. books) to improve the recommendation in a target domain (e.g. movies). Likewise SDRS research, collaborative filtering (CF) is considered the most popular and widely adopted approach in CDRS, because its implementation for any domain is relatively simple. In addition, its quality of recommendation is usually higher than that of content-based filtering (CBF) algorithms. In fact, the majority of the cross-domain collaborative filtering RS (CD-CFRS) can give better recommendations in comparison to single domain collaborative filtering recommender systems (SD-CFRS), leading to a higher users’ satisfaction and addressing cold-start, sparsity, and diversity problems. However, CD-CFRS may not necessarily be more accurate than SD-CFRS. On the other hand, context-aware recommender systems (CARS) deal with another relevant topic of research in the recommender systems area, aiming to improve the quality of recommendations too. Different contextual information (e.g., location, time, mood, etc.) can be leveraged in order to provide recommendations that are more suitable and accurate for a user depending on his/her context. In this way, we believe that the integration of techniques developed in isolation (cross-domain and contextaware) can be useful in a variety of situations, in which recommendations can be improved by information from different sources as well as they can be refined by considering specific contextual information. In this thesis, we define a novel formulation of the recommendation problem, considering both the availability of information from different domains (source and target) and the use of contextual information. Based on this formulation, we propose the integration of cross-domain and context-aware approaches for a novel recommender system (CD-CARS). To evaluate the proposed CD-CARS, we performed experimental evaluations through two real datasets with three different contextual dimensions and three distinct domains. The results of these evaluations have showed that the use of context-aware techniques can be considered as a good approach in order to improve the cross-domain recommendation quality in comparison to traditional CD-CFRS. / Tradicionalmente, “sistemas de recomendação de domínio único” (SDRS) têm alcançado bons resultados na recomendação de itens relevantes para usuários, a fim de resolver o problema da sobrecarga de informação. Entretanto, “sistemas de recomendação de domínio cruzado” (CDRS) têm surgido visando melhorar os SDRS ao atingir alguns objetivos, tais como: “melhoria de precisão”, “melhor diversidade”, abordar os problemas de “novo usuário” e “novo item”, dentre outros. Ao invés de tratar cada domínio independentemente, CDRS usam conhecimento adquirido em um domínio fonte (e.g. livros) a fim de melhorar a recomendação em um domínio alvo (e.g. filmes). Assim como acontece na área de pesquisa sobre SDRS, a filtragem colaborativa (CF) é considerada a técnica mais popular e amplamente utilizada em CDRS, pois sua implementação para qualquer domínio é relativamente simples. Além disso, sua qualidade de recomendação é geralmente maior do que a dos algoritmos baseados em filtragem de conteúdo (CBF). De fato, a maioria dos “sistemas de recomendação de domínio cruzado” baseados em filtragem colaborativa (CD-CFRS) podem oferecer melhores recomendações em comparação a “sistemas de recomendação de domínio único” baseados em filtragem colaborativa (SD-CFRS), aumentando o nível de satisfação dos usuários e abordando problemas tais como: “início frio”, “esparsidade” e “diversidade”. Entretanto, os CD-CFRS podem não ser mais precisos do que os SD-CFRS. Por outro lado, “sistemas de recomendação sensíveis à contexto” (CARS) tratam de outro tópico relevante na área de pesquisa de sistemas de recomendação, também visando melhorar a qualidade das recomendações. Diferentes informações contextuais (e.g. localização, tempo, humor, etc.) podem ser utilizados a fim de prover recomendações que são mais adequadas e precisas para um usuário dependendo de seu contexto. Desta forma, nós acreditamos que a integração de técnicas desenvolvidas separadamente (de “domínio cruzado” e “sensíveis a contexto”) podem ser úteis em uma variedade de situações, nas quais as recomendações podem ser melhoradas a partir de informações obtidas em diferentes fontes além de refinadas considerando informações contextuais específicas. Nesta tese, nós definimos uma nova formulação do problema de recomendação, considerando tanto a disponibilidade de informações de diferentes domínios (fonte e alvo) quanto o uso de informações contextuais. Baseado nessa formulação, nós propomos a integração de abordagens de “domínio cruzado” e “sensíveis a contexto” para um novo sistema de recomendação (CD-CARS). Para avaliar o CD-CARS proposto, nós realizamos avaliações experimentais através de dois “conjuntos de dados” com três diferentes dimensões contextuais e três domínios distintos. Os resultados dessas avaliações mostraram que o uso de técnicas sensíveis a contexto pode ser considerado como uma boa abordagem a fim de melhorar a qualidade de recomendações de “domínio cruzado” em comparação às recomendações de CD-CFRS tradicionais.

The goal of my master thesis is to describe the Automated Sentiment Analysis, its methods and Cross-domain problems and to test the already existing model. I have applied this model on the data from the Czech-Slovak film database website CSFD.cz, Czech e-shop MALL.cz and one of the biggest Czech websites about books Databazeknih.cz to contribute to the solution of the Cross-Domain issue by using n-grams and the analytic software RapidMiner.

Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / John M. Hatcliff / Guardol, a domain-specific language (DSL) developed by Rockwell Collins, was designed to streamline the process of specifying, implementing, and verifying Cross Domain Solution (CDS) security policies. Guardol’s syntax and intended computational behavior tightly resembles the core of many functional programming languages, but a number of features have been added to ease the development of high assurance cross domain solutions. A significant portion of the formalization and implementation of Guardol’s grammar and type system was performed by the SAnToS group at Kansas State University. This report summarizes the key conceptual components of Guardol’s grammar and tool- chain architecture. The focus of the report is a detailed description of Guardol’s type system implementation and formalization. A great deal of effort was put into a formalization which provided a high level of assurance that the specification of types and data structures were maintained in the intended implementation.