This is a practice-based research thesis situated in the research context of the 'Internet of Things', and critiques contemporary theoretical discourse related to the 21st century turn of connecting everyday objects to the World Wide Web. In the last decade we have seen the 'Internet of Things' articulated predominately through three commercial design fictions, each a response to the shift towards pervasive", "ubiquitous" (Weiser 1991), or "context-ware" (Schilit, 1994) computing; where we inhabit spaces with objects capable of sensing, recording and relaying data about themselves and their environments. Through reflecting upon these existing design fictions, through a new combination of theories and practice-based research that embodies them, this thesis proposes a recovery to understanding the role of objects in the 'Internet of Things', which this author believes has been lost since its conception in the mid 2000s. In 2000, HP Labs presented Cooltown, which addressed what HP identified as the 'convergence of Web technology, wireless networks, and portable client devices provides'. Cooltown's primary discourse was to provide 'new design opportunities for computer/communications systems, through an infrastructure to support "web presence" for people, places and things.' (Anders 1998; Barton & Kindberg 2002). IBM's Smarter Planet followed this in 2008 and shifted importance from the act of connecting objects to understanding the value of data as it flows between these objects in a network (Castells 1996; Sterling 2005; Latour 2005). Finally, Cisco presented The Internet of Everything in 2012 and moved the argument on one stage further, identifying that the importance of connected objects lies in the sum of their communication across silos of networks, where data can provide potential insight from which you can improve services (Bleecker 2006). Despite these design and theoretical fictions, the affordances of the Internet of Things first proposed in the mid 2000s has regressed from data to product, driven largely by unchanged discourse argued by those designers at its conception and also the enticement of being the next Google acquisition; instead of pigeons reporting on the environmental conditions of a city (Da Costa 2006), we have thermostats controllable from your smartphone (www.scottishpower.co.uk/connect). Therefore the aim of this thesis is to re-examine the initial potential of the Internet of Things, which is tested through a series of design interventions as research for art and design, (produced as part of my EPSRC funded doctoral studies on the Tales of Things and Electronic Memory research project and also whilst employed as a research assistant on two EPSRC funded research programmes of work Sixth Sense Transport, and The Connected High Street), to understand how we use data to allow an alternative discourse to emerge in order to recover the role of a networked object, rather than producing prototypical systems.

L'apprentissage statistique propose un vaste ensemble de techniques capables de construire des modèles prédictifs à partir d'observations passées. Ces techniques ont montré leurs capacités à traiter des volumétries importantes de données sur des problèmes réels. Cependant, de nouvelles applications génèrent de plus en plus de données qui sont seulement visibles sous la forme d'un flux et doivent être traitées séquentiellement. Parmi ces applications on citera : la gestion de réseaux de télécommunications, la modélisation des utilisateurs au sein d'un réseau social, le web mining. L'un des défis techniques est de concevoir des algorithmes permettant l'apprentissage avec les nouvelles contraintes imposées par les flux de données. Nous proposons d'abord ce problème en proposant de nouvelles techniques de résumé de flux de données dans le cadre de l'apprentissage supervisé. Notre méthode est constituée de deux niveaux. Le premier niveau utilise des techniques incrémentales de résumé en-ligne pour les flux qui prennent en compte les ressources mémoire et processeur et possèdent des garanties en termes d'erreur. Le second niveau utilise les résumés de faible taille, issus du premier niveau, pour construire le résumé final à l'aide d'une méthode supervisée performante hors-ligne. Ces résumés constituent un prétraitement qui nous permet de proposer de nouvelles versions du classifieur bayésien naïf et des arbres de décision fonctionnant en-ligne sur flux de données. Les flux de données peuvent ne pas être stationnaires mais comporter des changements de concept. Nous proposons aussi une nouvelle technique pour détecter ces changements et mettre à jour nos classifieurs. / Statistical learning provides numerous algorithms to build predictive models on past observations. These techniques proved their ability to deal with large scale realistic problems. However, new domains generate more and more data which are only visible once and need to be processes sequentially. These volatile data, known as data streams, come from telecommunication network management, social network, web mining. The challenge is to build new algorithms able to learn under these constraints. We proposed to build new summaries for supervised classification. Our summaries are based on two levels. The first level is an online incremental summary which uses low processing and address the precision/memory tradeoff. The second level uses the first layer summary to build the final sumamry with an effcient offline method. Building these sumamries is a pre-processing stage to develop new classifiers for data streams. We propose new versions for the naive-Bayes and decision trees classifiers using our summaries. As data streams might contain concept drifts, we also propose a new technique to detect these drifts and update classifiers accordingly.

ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / In a modern ground control network for space communications, secure peer-to-peer TCP/IP network socket connections are typically used to transfer real-time telemetry and command frames between satellite operations centers and remote ground stations. Reliable and timely reconfiguration of data paths for upcoming pass supports becomes rather complex when many spacecraft and ground stations are involved. This paper describes a routing software application that was developed to facilitate switching of telemetry and command data paths between multiple ground stations and spacecraft command and control systems, and to forward telemetry streams to multiple client applications in parallel. Fully automated configuration and monitoring of the data flows is accomplished via a remote control interface that is tied into a pass scheduling system. The software is part of the SatTrack Suite and currently supports multi-mission flight operations, including those of the recently launched THEMIS constellation mission at Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley.

A imagem concentra a informação ideológica que abrange complexas estruturas que permeiam a vida de milhões de usuários e constituem e constroem a sociedade em nosso tempo. A partir do olhar sobre o panorama atual das práticas fotográficas na sociedade, a dissertação trata da utilização dos filtros, que consistem em ferramentas que o fotógrafo pode utilizar para aplicar diversos efeitos em suas imagens, como, por exemplo, evidenciar cores, alterar os contrastes da cena, modificar foco, aplicar efeitos gráficos, absorver parte da luz que chega a lente, isto é, sobrepor camadas de informação às mesmas, na produção de fotografias compartilhadas em redes sociais. Filtros também se referem ao ato de classificar e selecionar os fluxos de dados em rede referentes a informações públicas ou privadas de usuários ao redor do globo interferindo nas atividades de milhões de indivíduos. Deste modo, a promoção do conhecimento científico de uma esfera da linguagem fotográfica compartilhada, criativa e experimental popularizada pela tecnologia em nossos dias é imprescindível para evidenciar a abrangência do fenômeno e promover ou provocar a reflexão sobre determinantes financeiros que permeiam comportamentos cotidianos e, então, agir sobre os padrões instituídos e não apenas reproduzi-los / The image concentrates the ideological information that encompasses complex structures that permeate the lives of millions of users and constitute and build society in our time. From a look at the current view of the photographic practices in society, the dissertation deals with the use of filters, which consist of tools that the photographer can use to apply various effects to his images, such as highlighting colors, changing contrasts of the scene, modify focus, apply graphic effects, absorb part of the light that reaches the lens, that is, superimpose layers of information on them, in the production of shared photographs in social networks. Filters also refer to the act of classifying and selecting networked data flows for public or private information from users around the globe interfering with the activities of millions of individuals. Thus the promotion of scientific knowledge of a sphere of shared, creative and experimental photographic language popularized by technology in our day is essential to highlight the scope of the phenomenon and to promote or provoke reflection of the financial determinants that permeate habitual behaviors, and so transforming the established standards and not just reproduce them.

Summary Subject of this paper is workplace of employee of municipal department of economy. Main product of this paper is informational system (IS) intended for long term control of property of municipality and is related to preparation of documents concerning use of that property. Analysis and specifications concerning informational needs of municipal department of economy has been carried out. Similar systems (Sistema “BIUDŽETAS”, “Turtas”, “DEBETAS”, “ForFUND/Gov”) and methods of creating IS (creation of IS using cycle of existence of “waterfall”, method of prothotypes, JAD method, creating of IS using means of CASE) were analysed. Product was designed and realized using the following means: 1. MS Visio 2003 – designing 2. ProVision Workbench TM V 3.1 – designing 3. MS Access 2000 – DBMS for keeping data of property and use Product was introduced to employees of municipal department of economy.

Past focus in the panel gravity literature has been on multidimensional fixed effects specifications in an effort to accommodate heterogeneity. After introducing fixed effects for each origin- destination dyad and time-period speciffic effects, we find evidence of cross-sectional dependence in flows. We propose a simultaneous dependence gravity model that allows for network dependence in flows, along with computationally efficient MCMC estimation methods that produce a Monte Carlo integration estimate of log-marginal likelihood useful for model comparison. Application of the model to a panel of trade flows points to network spillover effects, suggesting the presence of network dependence and biased estimates from conventional trade flow specifications. / Series: Working Papers in Regional Science

A imagem concentra a informação ideológica que abrange complexas estruturas que permeiam a vida de milhões de usuários e constituem e constroem a sociedade em nosso tempo. A partir do olhar sobre o panorama atual das práticas fotográficas na sociedade, a dissertação trata da utilização dos filtros, que consistem em ferramentas que o fotógrafo pode utilizar para aplicar diversos efeitos em suas imagens, como, por exemplo, evidenciar cores, alterar os contrastes da cena, modificar foco, aplicar efeitos gráficos, absorver parte da luz que chega a lente, isto é, sobrepor camadas de informação às mesmas, na produção de fotografias compartilhadas em redes sociais. Filtros também se referem ao ato de classificar e selecionar os fluxos de dados em rede referentes a informações públicas ou privadas de usuários ao redor do globo interferindo nas atividades de milhões de indivíduos. Deste modo, a promoção do conhecimento científico de uma esfera da linguagem fotográfica compartilhada, criativa e experimental popularizada pela tecnologia em nossos dias é imprescindível para evidenciar a abrangência do fenômeno e promover ou provocar a reflexão sobre determinantes financeiros que permeiam comportamentos cotidianos e, então, agir sobre os padrões instituídos e não apenas reproduzi-los / The image concentrates the ideological information that encompasses complex structures that permeate the lives of millions of users and constitute and build society in our time. From a look at the current view of the photographic practices in society, the dissertation deals with the use of filters, which consist of tools that the photographer can use to apply various effects to his images, such as highlighting colors, changing contrasts of the scene, modify focus, apply graphic effects, absorb part of the light that reaches the lens, that is, superimpose layers of information on them, in the production of shared photographs in social networks. Filters also refer to the act of classifying and selecting networked data flows for public or private information from users around the globe interfering with the activities of millions of individuals. Thus the promotion of scientific knowledge of a sphere of shared, creative and experimental photographic language popularized by technology in our day is essential to highlight the scope of the phenomenon and to promote or provoke reflection of the financial determinants that permeate habitual behaviors, and so transforming the established standards and not just reproduce them.

Paper summarizes the importance of motivation and performance of employees in the organization. The primary goal of this paper is to propose solutions to increase motivation and thus performance. Meet this target would require the implementation of many activities, from finding present, the IS architecture, through detailed analysis of individual systems, which affect workers. Important too was the definition of where all the motivation and performance in man takes and how it can be measured. In the practical part I have done, according to gained experience, using the LMI survey questionnaire to identify weak areas of performance motivation. These results, I finally offered advice and firstly from a psychological perspective, and secondly in terms of IT and its main information system, the workers who come into contact every day and therefore has a huge impact on them. Contribution of the author of this thesis was to identify and increase motivation, through analysis and recommendations specified by the selected methodologies.

This diploma thesis deals with the information strategy of the company EURPAL Ltd. (spol. s r.o.), whose current strategy seems to be outdated. Thanks to the analysis of the current state and the proposals of usable measures, an improvement in the information strategy of the company should be achieved through the implementation of the information system. The object of this thesis is first to introduce the company and its structure, then to use analyses to identify possible risks and finally propose measures, that can be used to help prevent these risks, or that can at least be used to mitigate their impacts.

EU insurance companies work on implementing the Solvency II directive, which calls for stronger focus on data quality and information controls. Information controls are procedures that can validate data at rest and data in motion to detect errors and anomalies. In this master thesis a case study was carried out at AMF, a Swedish pension insurance company, to identify and investigate their critical data flows and the controls performed in the respective flows. A purpose of this project is to help AMF ensure data quality requirements from the Financial Supervisory Authority that they have to fulfill. The thesis was conducted at AMF between September and December 2015, and included tasks such as carrying out interviews, Enterprise Architecture modeling, analysis, prototyping, product evaluation and calculation of a business case.  A gap analysis was carried out to analyze the needs for change regarding existing information controls at AMF, where different states of the company are documented and analyzed. The current state corresponds to the present situation at the company including attributes to be improved while the future state outlines the target condition that the company wants to achieve. A gap between the current state and future state is identified and elements that make up the gap are presented in the gap description. Lastly, possible remedies for bridging the gap between the current and future state are presented.  Furthermore, a prototype of an automated control tool from a company called Infogix has been implemented and analyzed regarding usability, governance and cost.  A benefits evaluation was carried out on the information control tool to see whether an investment would be beneficial for AMF. The benefit evaluation was carried out using the PENG method, a Swedish model developed by three senior consultants that has been specially adjusted for evaluation of IT investments. The evaluation showed that such an investment would become beneficial during the second year after investment. / Försäkringsbolag i EU arbetar med införandet av Solvens II-direktivet som kräver att företag har ett större fokus på datakvalitet och informationskontroller. I detta examensarbete har en fältstudie utförts på AMF som är ett svenskt pensionsbolag. Arbetet har gått ut på att identifiera och undersöka kritiska dataflöden i företaget samt kontroller som utförs i dessa flöden. Ett syfte med arbetet var att hjälpa AMF att kunna påvisa att man uppfyller krav från finansinspektionen på datakvalitet och spårbarhet. Projektet utfördes under perioden september till december hösten 2015, vilket inkluderade arbetsuppgifter såsom intervjuer, Enterprise Architecture-modellering, implementering av prototyp, produktutvärdering samt kalkylering av ett business case.  En gap-analys har utförts för att analysera behovet av förändringar på de nuvarande informationskontrollerna som finns på AMF, där olika lägen har dokumenterats och analyserats. Nuläget motsvarar hur situationen ser ut på företaget i dagsläget och fokuserar på de attribut som man vill förbättra, medan önskat läge beskriver de mål som företaget vill uppnå. Ett gap mellan nuläge och önskat läge identifieras tillsammans med de faktorer som utgör skillnaden mellan dessa lägen presenteras. Till sist presenteras tänkbara åtgärder för att uppnå önskat läge. Som en del av detta examensarbete har en prototyp av ett automatiserat kontrollverktyg från ett företag som heter Infogix implementerats och utvärderas med avseende på användbarhet, styrning och kostnad. En nyttovärdering har utförts på kontrollverktyget för att undersöka huruvida en investering skulle vara gynnsam för AMF. Nyttovärderingen gjordes med hjälp av PENG, en svensk nyttovärderingsmodell utvecklad av tre ekonomer/IT-konsulter, som har anpassat speciellt för att bedöma IT-investeringar. Värderingen visade på att en sådan investering skulle komma att bli gynnsam under andra året efter att investeringen gjordes.