An important part of knowledge of report creator is knowledge of database schema and database query language, from which the data for report are extracted. In the reporting services for database systems and Business Intelligence systems initiative arises to separate the position of database specialist from the position of reports maker. One of the solutions offers using metadata interlayer between the database schema and report. This interlayer is called the report model. Its use is not currently supported in the process of reporting, or is only very limited. The aim of this thesis is to suggest the possibility of using the report model in the process of building reports with an emphasis on the OLAP analysis.

Regulatory compliance is an important and growing topic that requires companies to adapt to rules and regulations. All organizations that want to be active in the business market must follow and adapt to these rules regardless of company size and capital. The consequences of not following the regulations are to a large extent fines or increased transaction costs. This study focuses on the usefulness of agile approaches in compliance and specifically PCI DSS regulations. PCI DSS is a framework that regulates the credit card payment system used by an organization. All security involving customer data during a card payment is also included in this ruleset. To execute the research on how agile methods function within compliance, a qualitative research strategy has been implemented. Empirical material has been collected through interviews with the company CGI. The respondents in this inquiry work in the compliance sector and have great knowledge of the subject. The result of the study show that respondents view agile methods within compliance projects in a positive light. That the obstacles experienced in these projects can be alleviated with the help of agile tools such as morning meetings and structured responsibilities. / Regulatorisk efterlevnad är ett växande och viktigt ämne i den moderna affärsvärlden. Eftersom företag behöver anpassa sig efter regler och ramverk i sitt dagliga arbete. Alla organisationer som vill samverka på arbetsmarknaden måste följa och anpassa sig efter regler oberoende på företagsstorlek och kapital. Konsekvenserna av att inte följa de uppsatta ramverken är till stor del böter eller förhöjda kostnader. Denna studie fokuserar på användbarheten av agila tankesätt inom compliance och specifikt compliance inom regelverket PCI DSS. PCI DSS är ett ramverk som reglerar kortbetalning system som används av en organisation. All säkerhet som involverar kunders data under en kortbetalning inkluderas också under detta verk. För att utföra denna studie över hur agila metoder fungerar inom compliance har en kvalitativ forskningsstrategi genomförts. Empiriskt material har samlats in genom intervjuer med företaget CGI. Respondenterna i studien arbetar inom compliance sektorn och besitter stor kunskap om ämnet. Resultatet av studien visar att respondenterna ser ljust på agila metoder inom compliance projekt. Att de hinder som upplevs i dessa projekt kan lindras med hjälp av agila verktyg som morgonmöten och strukturerade ansvarsområden.

One of the most important attribute a cloud service provider (CSP) offers their customers through their cloud services is scalability. Scalability gives customers the ability to vary the amount of capacity when required. A cloud service can be divided in three service layers, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as- a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Scalability of a certain service depends  on  software licenses on these layers. When a customer wants to increase the capacity it will be determined by the CSP's licenses bought from its suppliers in advance. If a CSP scales up more than what was agreed on, then there is a risk that the CSP needs to pay a penalty fee to the supplier. If the CSP invests in too many licenses that does not get utilized, then it will be an investment loss. A second challenge with software licensing is when a customer outsources their applications to the CSP’s platform. As each application comes with a set of licenses, there is a certain level of scalability that cannot be exceeded. If a customer wants the CSP scale up more than usual for an application then the customer need to inform the vendors. However, a common misunderstanding is that the customer expects the CSP to notify the vendor. Then there is a risk that the vendor never gets notified and the customer is in danger of paying a penalty fee. This in turn hurts the CSP’s  relationship with the customer. The recommendation to the CSP under study is to create a successful customer relationship management (CRM) and a supplier relationship management (SRM). By creating a CRM with the customer will minimize the occurring misunderstandings and highlight the responsibilities when a customer outsources an application to the CSP. By creating a SRM with the supplier will help the CSP to maintain a flexible paying method that they have with a certain supplier. Furthermore, it will set  an example to the remaining suppliers to change their inflexible paying method. By achieving a flexible payment method with the suppliers will make it easier for the CSP to find equilibrium between scalability and licenses.

Die Autorenbeiträge geben ein Gesamtbild über das Selbstverständnis der Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspolitik (DSS) e. V. und ihr zwanzigjähriges Wirken. Eine Chronik zur Entstehungsgeschichte und Tätigkeit der DSS e. V. sowie elf Anlagen ergänzen das Bild.:Redaktion, Vorwort. Autorenbeiträge: - Rolf Lehmann, Wissenschaftler in Uniform vor neuen Herausforderungen. - Hermann Hagena, Zwanzig Jahre Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft - Veteranenverein oder Avantgarde im Denken über Krieg, Sicherheit und Frieden? Oder auch: Was bleibt?' - Wolfgang Scheler, Theoretische Grundpositionen zur Sicherheitspolitik. Konstanz und Modifikation. - Ernst Woit, Globalstrategische Ambitionen der gewinner des Kalten krieges. - Egbert Lemcke, Russlands Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik - einige Tendenzen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts. - Siegfried Schönherr, Ökonomie und Sicherheitspolitik. - Paul Heider, Demokratiasche Mitgestaltung - ein grundprinzip der Militärreform 1989/90 in der DDR. - Eberhard Haueis, Rückblicke und Selbstreflexion. - Joachim Klopfer, 20 Jahre Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspolitik. . Kurzcharakteristik. . Die Mitglieder der Studiengemeinschaft. . Die hauptsächlichen Studien- und Tätigkeitsbereiche. . Veranstaltungen und Publikationen (Übersichten).' Joachim Klopfer, unter Mitarbeit von Eberhard Haueis, Rolf Lehmann, Wolfgang Scheler, Siegfried Schönherr: Chronik ausgewählter Ereignisse zur Entstehungsgeschichte und zur Tätigkeit der Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspolitik e. V. (DSS), Zeitraum: August 1975 bis September 2010. 11 Anlagen zu den Beiträgen: Dokumente, Listen, Verzeichnisse. Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen.

Die Gewässergütebewirtschaftung von Flussgebieten stellt komplexe Anforderungen an Entscheidungsträger. Im Elbe-DSS wurden hierzu existierende Modelle in einem Softwareframework zusammengeführt und mit adäquaten Benutzerschnittstellen versehen. Ausgehend von einer Anforderungsanalyse unter Einbeziehung potentieller zukünftiger Endnutzer wurde ein modularer Systemaufbau gewählt: die Module Einzugsgebiet, Fließgewässernetz, Hauptstrom und Flussabschnitt, von denen die ersten beiden Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit sind. Der Zustand des Gesamtsystems wird anhand von Entwicklungszielen und zugehöriger Indikatoren beschrieben. Ein angepasster umfassender Maßnahmenkatalog ermöglicht es, Reaktionen des Systems auf Steuerungseingriffe vorherzusagen. Erweitert werden die Analysemöglichkeiten durch die Einbeziehung externer Szenarien, die frei mit den vorhandenen Maßnahmen kombiniert werden können. Für die in den Modulen Einzugsgebiet und Fließgewässernetz behandelten Themenfelder Abflussentstehung, Einträge aus Punkt- und diffusen Quellen sowie chemische Gewässerqualität wurden vier Modelle ausgewählt: das Niederschlags-Abflussmodel HBV-D und das Nährstoffbilanzmodel MONERIS, ergänzt durch das Flächenbilanzmodell für Nährstoffüberschüsse landwirtschaftlicher Flächen von Bach & Frede im Einzugsgebietsmodul und das Stofftransportmodell GREAT-ER im Fließgewässermodul. Zwischen den Modellen sowie zwischen den Modellen und den Maßnahmen, externen Szenarien und Indikatoren wurden Schnittstellen definiert und Daten und Prozessvereinheitlicht. Die technische Implementierung des gekoppelten Systems wurde umfangreich getestet und anhand vorliegender Monitoringdaten validiert, Reaktionen des Systems auf Maßnahmen und externe Szenarien anhand von Beispielanwendungen auf Plausibilität hin überprüft. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das integrierte Modellsystem viele Fragen der Gewässergütebewirtschaftung bearbeiten und damit Hilfestellungen für Entscheidungen in diesem Bereich liefern kann.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第21416号 / 医博第4406号 / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 濵﨑 洋子, 教授 三森 経世, 教授 生田 宏一 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS; Lee 1974) is a well established, structured method for analyzing a child's expressive syntax within the context of a conversational speech sample. Automated DSS programs may increase efficiency of DSS analysis; however the program must be accurate in order to yield valid and reliable results. A recent study by Sagae, Lavie, and MacWhinney (2005) proposed a new method for analyzing the accuracy of automated language analysis programs. This method was used in addition to previously established methods to analyze the accuracy of a new automated DSS program, entitled DSSA (Channell, 2006). Previously collected language samples from 118 children between the ages of 3 and 11 years in age were manually and automatedly coded for DSS. The overall accuracy of DSSA was about 86%, while the mean point difference was approximately .7. DSSA generally scored language samples of children achieving lower manual DSS scores or children with language impairment with less accuracy than those of other children. While some precautions may need to be taken, accuracy levels are sufficiently high to allow the fully automated use of DSSA as an alternative to manual DSS scoring.

This study compared seven syntactic measures which can be automatically generated by the Computerized Profiling (CP) software: Mean Length of Utterance in morphemes or words (MLUm or MLUw), Mean Syntactic Length (MSL), the Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn), the Picture Elicited Scoring Procedure (PESP) for the Language Analysis Remediation and Screening Profile (LARSP), the Syntactic Complexity Score (MSC) scoring of LARSP, and Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS). Language samples came from 192 children, 106 typically developing children, ages 5;6 to 11;2 and 86 children with language impairment, ages 5;6 to 11;1. Patterns of correlation were consistent for children with or without language impairment. All measures were computed with CP software, and all coding decisions that were made by the software were accepted. The three measures of length (MLUm, MLUw, and MSL) were highly intercorrelated. MSC correlated with the measures of length and with DSS. DSS correlated with the length measures, though not as highly as MSC. DSS also correlated with IPSyn. IPSyn correlated moderately with PESP, correlated less with MSC, and correlated the least with the measures of length. PESP correlated moderately with each measure. PESP, DSS, and IPSyn correlated more highly for the children with language impairment. These measures correlated highly sometimes and sometimes they did not correlate much. This suggests that they are measuring different aspects of syntactic ability.

Several studies using standardized tests have provided evidence for the presence of language disorders in persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and have suggested that persons with MS may have language that is less complex. One aspect not thoroughly studied is that of syntactic complexity in naturalistic, conversational settings. The present study collected language samples from 10 adults with MS and 10 age-matched controls and compared scores on five quantitative measures derived from those samples. No significant differences were found between groups on any measure. This finding suggests that in mild cases of MS or during periods of remission, individuals may retain their ability to use complex language structures in naturalistic discourse.

Several sustainable development indicators have been used to monitor and measure the progress of various countries. Similarly, reports and data available about countries progress prove that development has not been equal in all regions.  On the brighter side, the data can be used to inform decision making in areas that are experiencing deficiencies. In this research, a decision support system(DSS) is built to help governments and NGOs to properly choose projects that align with the needs of the people. We approached this research by utilizing Abraham Maslow’s proven psychological framework on the hierarchy of needs as the main criteria for choosing projects for sustainable development. The system ranks development projects based on the needs priority and how much it has been fulfilled. It ranks projects that meet an urgent need that is also lacking fulfillment higher than other project alternatives. The social progress index (SPI), a comprehensive open data that measures the social progress of counties were correlated to the needs indicated by Maslow’s Hierarchy. The needs were then used as criteria in the AHP decision analysis model to build a classic DSS to aid in selecting the most appropriate development project.