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<p>A2B Electronics AB is a company that develops and manufactures products and technology for digital cable television. A2B's new EXM-product family translates digital television channels from multiple source networks into a single destination network. Multiple EXM-units are connected in a system to provide a custom set of TV channels. To minimize the administrative effort, the units in a system should be able to interact and collaborate without manual intervention. The purpose of this thesis is to propose an underlying system that supports seamless interaction and collaboration between units.</p><p>The autonomic system concept has served as a foundation for the proposed solution. The requirements for the EXM-system proved to be similar to many properties of an autonomic system. The proposed solution was elaborated by answering five reseach questions. The answers describe how an autonomic system can be implemented with the prerequisites of the EXM-system. Solutions for service availability, configuration preservation, system state changes and automatic addressing and communication are provided.</p><p>The project has resulted in a proposal of a general autonomic system. The solution has also been implemented as prototype that runs both in a simulator and on the EXM-hardware. The simulator was also developed in the scope of this project as a side-effect of the limited access to EXM-hardware.</p><p>The proposed solution together with the prototype can hopefully serve as a base for projects with prerequisites similar to the project described in this thesis.</p>

A2B Electronics AB is a company that develops and manufactures products and technology for digital cable television. A2B's new EXM-product family translates digital television channels from multiple source networks into a single destination network. Multiple EXM-units are connected in a system to provide a custom set of TV channels. To minimize the administrative effort, the units in a system should be able to interact and collaborate without manual intervention. The purpose of this thesis is to propose an underlying system that supports seamless interaction and collaboration between units. The autonomic system concept has served as a foundation for the proposed solution. The requirements for the EXM-system proved to be similar to many properties of an autonomic system. The proposed solution was elaborated by answering five reseach questions. The answers describe how an autonomic system can be implemented with the prerequisites of the EXM-system. Solutions for service availability, configuration preservation, system state changes and automatic addressing and communication are provided. The project has resulted in a proposal of a general autonomic system. The solution has also been implemented as prototype that runs both in a simulator and on the EXM-hardware. The simulator was also developed in the scope of this project as a side-effect of the limited access to EXM-hardware. The proposed solution together with the prototype can hopefully serve as a base for projects with prerequisites similar to the project described in this thesis.

Efter fem år på Konstfack lämnar jag snart denna studietillvaro för att gå ut i verkligheten som inredningsarkitekt och möbelformgivare. Det blir ett nytt sammanhang för mig att adaptera till. Mitt examensarbete handlar därför om hur jag kan transformera den typ av arbete jag gjort i skolan till verkligheten som kommer efter skolan. Jag ser en risk i verklighetens tillvaro där jag tror att många fantastiska idéer blir reducerade till slutresultat som är berövande på de kvaliteter som varit upphov till idéerna. Jag har därför arbetat med hur jag kan minska avståndet mellan min tankevärld och den nya verklighet jag vill översätta mina tankar till. Det är viktigt för mig att det jag tänkt och känt under en process ska leva vidare i det jag gör på ett eller annat sätt, och att det känns i slutresultatet. I den praktiska delen av examensarbetet har jag därför utgått från en träkloss och associerat mig vidare i en växande process. Jag har varvat mellan konkret och abstrakt förhållningssätt och låtit träklossen transformeras om och om igen på olika sätt i en slags roterande evolution. I slutändan har det genererat en liten familj av möbelliknande objekt. På liknande sätt har jag låtit den skrivande delen av examensarbetet växa roterande med metaforer, relaterade sidospår, erfarenheter och insikter som det praktiska görandet har genererat. Tillsammans har skrivandet och görandet varit en växelverkande kraft som tagit mig framåt i processen. Det har styrt evolutionen av min möbelliknande familj och utformningen av deras personliga ”dna”.

This master's thesis is an investigation into Xavier Dolan's depictions of queer and non-normative characters. Through close analyses of the director's first five films, this study identifies Dolan's recurring stylistics and narrative techniques, and how they relate to his cinematic representation of individuals who do not conform to society's norms. The question of how queer subjectivity is presented to the spectator of the films guides the study, which outlines different kinds of subjective images and ways of expressing the inner worlds of the protagonists. As one of the first extensive academic studies of Dolan in English, the thesis carries out a dialogue with the few existing scholarly sources on the filmmaker, while also employing theories put forward by Deleuze, Pasolini, Bonitzer and Foucault, among others. Whereas previous writings on Dolan have focused almost entirely on national aspects of his work – interpreting the films as typically Québécois – this study considers the filmmaker from an international perspective. Although being an auteur study, the thesis highlights current issues of queer self-representation and the voices of the marginalized, proposing that Dolan's work offers non-normative alternatives to heteronormative narrative structures, patriarchal storytelling conventions and traditional family constellations.