This diploma thesis brings an integral view at cognitive processes connected with artificial intelligence systems, and makes a comparison with the processes observed in nature, including human being. A historical background helps us to look at the whole issue from a certain point of view. The main axis of interest comes after the historical overview and includes the following: environment -- stimulations -- processing -- reflection in the cognitive system -- reaction to stimulation; I balance the approach and the limited potential of the human being against the machine (or artificial intelligence). In the last part, there are introduced two projects that have been already implemented in the inteligent transport systems, and their potential for the further expansion and development is shown here. The main emphasis is placed on the coherence between each part of this thesis and cognitive processes, and on the relation and the mutual dependence of these processes.

Les débats récents autour des concepts comme : le capitalisme cognitif, l’économie du savoir ou l’économie de connaissance dessinent une nouvelle vision des organisations, dans laquelle la principale source de création de richesses réside désormais dans les savoirs et les compétences, davantage que dans les ressources matérielles. A cet égard la problématique de conservation des mémoires des organisations, la capitalisation, la conservation, la codification et le partage des connaissances font appel à un nouveau type de management : le Management des Connaissances ou Knowledge Management qui est devenu progressivement un domaine de recherche en pleine d’expansion dans le monde des organisations privés ou publiques. / Recent debates on the concepts of cognitive capitalism, the knowledge draw a new view of organizations, in which the main source of wealth creation now lies in the knowledge and skills, rather than in material resources. In this respect the issue of conservation of memory organizations, funding, preservation, codification and sharing of knowledge call for a new type of management: called the Knowledge Management which has gradually become a research area full expansion in the world of private and public organizations. Our research on the knowledge management within the PACA Regional Council is in this context. Indeed knowledge management becomes a strategic element in territorial management by giving local players an efficient visibility to help decision making.

The diploma thesis deals to design and develop mobile application for sales promotion in retail chains. Mobile application is created on base of designed service for sales support, that subject and design is written in thesis too. Mobile application uses the most modern technologies, which are now available in mobile devices. This technologies ensuring identification of customer in store, share marketing information to customer and other possibilities gaining detailed information about shopping behavior of customer. Thanks to those data is possible analyze customer by different methods which are in thesis described too. Based on this analyses it can be streamlined sales, shopping and other retail processes. Main aim of thesis is make usable mobile application which promote sales in retail chain. Theoretical part of thesis deals to describe general marketing on which is based analytical marketing resp. Data-Driven Marketing. Next part of this chapters is defining of retail, explaining its specifics and showing interleave to modern technologies. Concrete possibilities of modern technologies is presented in last chapter of theoretical part which is primary focused on mobile application developing in IBM Worklight environment. Practical part of thesis is divided to two chapters where first chapter deals to description designing service for sales promotion. Description is built by architecture, data flows and design of communication interfaces. In second chapter is described design of mobile application based on the service, from user interface to technological architecture. In this part of thesis the mobile application is developed, provided as a OpenSource with all source codes and available online as a demo version. The main output of thesis is mentioned mobile application, which is detailed described in end of practical part. There is specified link to online available version of this application. Mobile application contains diverse functionality for customer and its aims to test usability of modern possibilities in real-life.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:50:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Marcos.pdf: 560783 bytes, checksum: 45df79606180032c1fd588f84ba09a18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-09 / The purpose of this research was to investigate if the communication and interactivity provided by a groupware, on a contextualized and problematized situation, may constitute a way to promote the construction of knowledge. The research involved students at the disciplines of Administrative Thinkink History, Financial Management I e Financial Management II, from the Business School of a private University at São Paulo State, using internet as pedagogical supporting tool to complement presencial studies. The methodology proposed was a case study focused on a scholar learning context. The data was collected combining participant observation and students personal testimonials using a non-structured interview. The analysis appealed to a text deconstruction of the interview corpus, fragmented on sense unitys that contained useful meanings to the research purpose, classified on four categories. The categories Time and virtual environment; Communication and Context represented partial arguments to validate the category Construction of Knowledge, which is the thesis, and therefore, the purpose of the search. The results provided an evidence that virtual environment has extended time and space for live environment classes, increasing communication and the possibility of exchanging information and ideas on interpersonal relationship basis. The groupware provided a way to gather people on the construction of knowledge; allows interactivity among cognitive persons that may, together, conceive and transform a known world; facilitate information exchange on conversation nets. The category Context analysis showed that reflection over arguments that comes from different points of view becomes richer when it is contextualized on a located and chronologysed situation. On the construction of knowledge, we presented that it occurs by debate and conversation about reality and its context, demanding comprehension and understanding of individual points of view on a collective and dynamic situation. The groupware is a conversation tool, an appropriated environment for an educational process anchored on communication, context and information. / O propósito desta dissertação foi investigar se a comunicação e a interatividade proporcionada pelo grupo de discussão em um espaço virtual, em situação contextualizada e problematizada, constituem caminho para se promover a construção do conhecimento. A pesquisa envolveu alunos das disciplinas de História do Pensamento Administrativo, Gerência Financeira I e Gerência Financeira II, do curso de Administração, de uma Universidade privada, do estado de São Paulo, tendo a Internet como ferramenta de apoio didático-pedagógico complementar aos estudos presenciais. Como metodologia recorreu-se a estudo de caso com foco no contexto acadêmico de ensino. Os dados foram coletados combinando-se a observação participante e depoimentos pessoais dos alunos, por meio de entrevista não-estruturada. Na análise, o recurso utilizado foi a desconstrução do texto transcrito das entrevistas, fragmentando-o em unidades de sentido que pudessem conter significados úteis ao objeto da investigação e, que por sua vez, foram classificados em quatro categorias para análise. As categorias Tempo e Espaço Virtual, Comunicação e Contexto constituíram os argumentos parciais utilizados para validação da categoria Construção do conhecimento, que é o ponto central e, portanto, o fim da pesquisa. Como resultados, constatamos que ambiente virtual ampliou o espaço e o tempo da aula presencial, aumentando a comunicação e a possibilidade de troca de informação e de idéias a partir de relacionamentos interpessoais. Verificou-se que o grupo de discussão é um meio de aproximar pessoas na construção de conhecimento; que permite a interação entre sujeitos cognoscentes que podem, juntos, conceber e transformar um mundo cognoscível; que facilita a interação, ampliando o intercâmbio de informações em torno de redes de conversação. Ao analisar a categoria contexto , verificamos que a reflexão sobre argumentos que partem de diferentes pontos de vista fica mais rica a partir de uma dada situação, localizada e datada. Quanto à construção do conhecimento, percebemos que ela ocorre pela discussão acerca da realidade e de seu contexto, exigindo compreensão e entendimento de pontos de vista individuais em situação coletiva e dinâmica. E que o grupo de discussão é um instrumento, um ambiente, adequado para se viver um processo educacional ancorado na comunicação, no contexto e na informação

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T17:54:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Marcos.pdf: 560783 bytes, checksum: 45df79606180032c1fd588f84ba09a18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-09 / The purpose of this research was to investigate if the communication and interactivity provided by a groupware, on a contextualized and problematized situation, may constitute a way to promote the construction of knowledge. The research involved students at the disciplines of Administrative Thinkink History, Financial Management I e Financial Management II, from the Business School of a private University at São Paulo State, using internet as pedagogical supporting tool to complement presencial studies. The methodology proposed was a case study focused on a scholar learning context. The data was collected combining participant observation and students personal testimonials using a non-structured interview. The analysis appealed to a text deconstruction of the interview corpus, fragmented on sense unitys that contained useful meanings to the research purpose, classified on four categories. The categories Time and virtual environment; Communication and Context represented partial arguments to validate the category Construction of Knowledge, which is the thesis, and therefore, the purpose of the search. The results provided an evidence that virtual environment has extended time and space for live environment classes, increasing communication and the possibility of exchanging information and ideas on interpersonal relationship basis. The groupware provided a way to gather people on the construction of knowledge; allows interactivity among cognitive persons that may, together, conceive and transform a known world; facilitate information exchange on conversation nets. The category Context analysis showed that reflection over arguments that comes from different points of view becomes richer when it is contextualized on a located and chronologysed situation. On the construction of knowledge, we presented that it occurs by debate and conversation about reality and its context, demanding comprehension and understanding of individual points of view on a collective and dynamic situation. The groupware is a conversation tool, an appropriated environment for an educational process anchored on communication, context and information. / O propósito desta dissertação foi investigar se a comunicação e a interatividade proporcionada pelo grupo de discussão em um espaço virtual, em situação contextualizada e problematizada, constituem caminho para se promover a construção do conhecimento. A pesquisa envolveu alunos das disciplinas de História do Pensamento Administrativo, Gerência Financeira I e Gerência Financeira II, do curso de Administração, de uma Universidade privada, do estado de São Paulo, tendo a Internet como ferramenta de apoio didático-pedagógico complementar aos estudos presenciais. Como metodologia recorreu-se a estudo de caso com foco no contexto acadêmico de ensino. Os dados foram coletados combinando-se a observação participante e depoimentos pessoais dos alunos, por meio de entrevista não-estruturada. Na análise, o recurso utilizado foi a desconstrução do texto transcrito das entrevistas, fragmentando-o em unidades de sentido que pudessem conter significados úteis ao objeto da investigação e, que por sua vez, foram classificados em quatro categorias para análise. As categorias Tempo e Espaço Virtual, Comunicação e Contexto constituíram os argumentos parciais utilizados para validação da categoria Construção do conhecimento, que é o ponto central e, portanto, o fim da pesquisa. Como resultados, constatamos que ambiente virtual ampliou o espaço e o tempo da aula presencial, aumentando a comunicação e a possibilidade de troca de informação e de idéias a partir de relacionamentos interpessoais. Verificou-se que o grupo de discussão é um meio de aproximar pessoas na construção de conhecimento; que permite a interação entre sujeitos cognoscentes que podem, juntos, conceber e transformar um mundo cognoscível; que facilita a interação, ampliando o intercâmbio de informações em torno de redes de conversação. Ao analisar a categoria contexto , verificamos que a reflexão sobre argumentos que partem de diferentes pontos de vista fica mais rica a partir de uma dada situação, localizada e datada. Quanto à construção do conhecimento, percebemos que ela ocorre pela discussão acerca da realidade e de seu contexto, exigindo compreensão e entendimento de pontos de vista individuais em situação coletiva e dinâmica. E que o grupo de discussão é um instrumento, um ambiente, adequado para se viver um processo educacional ancorado na comunicação, no contexto e na informação

A area de revisão de crenças estuda como agentes racionais mudam suas crencas ao receberem novas informações. O marco da area de revisão de crenças foi a publicacão do trabalho de Alchourron, Gardenfors e Makinson. Nesse trabalho conhecido como paradigma AGM foram denidos criterios de racionalidade para tipos de mudanca de crencas. Desde então, a área de revisão de crenças foi influenciada por diversas disciplinas como filosoa, computacão e direito. Paralelamente ao desenvolvimento da area de revisão de crenças, os últimos 20 anos foram marcados por um grande avanço no estudo das logicas de descrição. Tal avanço, impulsionado pelo desenvolvimento da web-semântica, levou a adoção de linguagens inspiradas em logicas de descrição (OWL) como padrão para se representar ontologias na web. Nessa tese tratamos do problema de aplicar a teoria da revisão de crenças a lógicas não clássicas e especialmente a logicas de descric~ao. Trabalhos recentes mostraram que o paradigma AGM e incompatvel com diversas logicas de descricão. Estendemos esses resultados mostrando outras lógicas que não são compatíveis com o paradigma AGM. Propomos formas de aplicar a teoria de revisão tanto em bases quanto em conjuntos de crencas a essas logicas. Alem disso, usamos algoritmos conhecidos da área de depuração de ontologias para implementar operações em bases de crenças. / Belief revision theory studies how rational agents change their beliefs after receiving new information. The most in uential work in this area is the paper of Alchourron, Gardenfors and Makinson. In this work, known as AGM paradigm rationality criteria for belief change were dened. Since then, the eld has been in uenced by many areas like philosophy, computer science and law. Parallel to the development of belief revision eld, in the past 20 years there was a huge grow in the study of description logics. The climax of this development was the adoption of OWL (a language based on description logics) as the standard language to represent ontologies on the web. In this work we deal with the problem of applying belief revision in to non-classical logics, specially description logics. Recent works showed that the AGM paradigm is not compliant with several description logics. We have extended this work by showing that other logics are not compliant with AGM paradigm. Furthermore, we propose alternative ways to apply belief revision techniques to these logics. Finally, we show that well known algorithms from the area of ontology debugging eld can be used to implement the proposed constructions.

Fully autonomous vehicles are expected to revolutionize transportation, reduce the cost of ownership, contribute to a cleaner environment, and prevent the majority of traffic accidents and related fatalities. Even though promising approaches for achieving full autonomy exist, developers and manufacturers have to overcome a multitude of challenged before these systems could find widespread adoption. This multiple case study explored the strategies some IT hardware and software developers of self-driving cars use to adapt traditional vehicle design frameworks to address consumer and regulatory requirements in autonomous vehicle designs. The population consisted of autonomous driving technology software and hardware developers who are currently working on fully autonomous driving technologies from or within the United States, regardless of their specialization. The theory of dynamic capabilities was the conceptual framework used for the study. Interviews from 7 autonomous vehicle hard and software engineers, together with 15 archival documents, provided the data points for the study. A thematic analysis was used to code and group results by themes. When looking at the results through the lens of dynamic capability theory, notable themes included regulatory uncertainty, functional safety, rapid iteration, and achieving a competitive advantage. Based on the findings of the study, implications for social change include the need for better regulatory frameworks to provide certainty, consumer education to manage expectations, and universal development standards that could integrate regulatory and design needs into a single approach.

The subject of this thesis is the teacher's and the pupils' skill of empathy and its connection to the effectiveness of the learning process. In the theoretical part of the thesis the author defines empathy and states the issue of its definition. The author also focuses on the topic of development of empathy and how it is connected to the safe classroom environment. Also, the factors that influence the level of empathy within a person are explained. The thesis describes the role of empathy in the communication of a teacher and the pupils and how communication blocks obstruct expressions of empathy. The influence of empathy in the educational process is described on areas where emotions of the pupils play a key role. The thesis describes the possibilities of the teacher's development of empathy as well as practices that allow this development with the students of first five grades in elementary school. The aim of the empirical part is to find out how the future teachers view empathy. The research is aimed at finding out how students of education define empathy, whether they think it can be cultivated, whether teachers can influence the level of empathy of their students and if so, how. The second aim of the empirical part is to create and teach a lecture that would bring a deeper understanding of...

The thesis deals with the optimization of the selected investment portfolio. Solver suggests automated investment model that will use advanced algorithms based on artificial intelligence and principles of technical analysis. Optimization of parameters and verifying the performance of the investment model is realized on historical market data. The result of this thesis is optimized investment model with an emphasis on maximizing profits and stability. The thesis is realized in an environment Python programming language and freely available analytical libraries.

This thesis deals with real-time human activity recognition (eg, running, walking, driving, etc.) using sensors which are available on current mobile devices. The final product of this thesis consists of multiple parts. First, an application for collecting sensor data from mobile devices. Followed by a tool for preprocessing of collected data and creation of a data set. The main part of the thesis is the design of convolutional neural network for activity classification and subsequent use of this network in an Android mobile application. The combination of previous parts creates a comprehensive framework for detection of user activities. Finally, some interesting experiments were made and evaluated (eg, the influence of specific sensors on detection precision).