This dissertation presents a model-based reasoning architecture with a two fold purpose: to detect and classify component faults from observable system behavior, and to generate fault propagation models so as to make a more accurate estimation of current operational risks. It incorporates a novel approach to system level diagnostics by addressing the need to reason about low-level inaccessible components from observable high-level system behavior. In the field of complex system maintenance it can be invaluable as an aid to human operators. The first step is the compilation of the database of functional descriptions and associated fault-specific features for each of the system components. The system is then analyzed to extract structural information, which, in addition to the functional database, is used to create the structural and functional models. A fault-symptom matrix is constructed from the functional model and the features database. The fault threshold levels for these symptoms are founded on the nominal baseline data. Based on the fault-symptom matrix and these thresholds, a diagnostic decision tree is formulated in order to intelligently query about the system health. For each faulty candidate, a fault propagation tree is generated from the structural model. Finally, the overall system health status report includes both the faulty components and the associated at risk components, as predicted by the fault propagation model.

Orientador: Tsunao Matsumoto / Banca: Milton Dall'Aglio Sobrinho / Banca: Marcelo Zaiat / Resumo: As atividades industriais, principalmente as indústrias químicas e alimentícias que se utilizam dos processos fermentativos, geram efluentes com altas concentrações de matéria orgânica carbonácea e nitrogenada. Estas necessitam de sistemas complexos para o tratamento de suas águas residuárias, pois a emissão excessiva de nutrientes no corpo d'água pode resultar na ocorrência da eutrofização que interfere nos usos desejáveis do recurso hídrico e altera o equilíbrio ambiental. Neste sentido, o presente avaliou da remoção de matéria orgânica carbonácea e nitrogenada, bem como a determinação do fluxo crítico, em biorreator de membranas (MBR) tratando águas residuárias industriais do processo de produção de aminoácidos. Pelos resultados obtidos, constatou-se a viabilidade técnica no uso do MBR para ao tratamento dessas águas residuárias contendo 2505 mg DQO/L de material carbonáceo e 277 mg NTK/L de material nitrogenado. O biorreator foi operado com carga orgânica volumétrica de 1,91 ± 0,13 kg DQO/m³ dia e carga nitrogenada volumétrica de 0,18 ± 0,02 kg NTK/m³ dia, com recirculação interna de 4 vezes a vazão afluente. O efluente tratado apresentou concentrações médias de 59 ± 27 mg DQO/L, 0,60 ± 0,24 mg N-NH4 +/L e 20,5 ± 11,9 mg N-total/L, com eficiências médias de remoção de DQO, NTK e NT de 97,5%, 98,6% e 92,1%, respectivamente. O sistema de ultrafiltração foi testado em vários fluxos entre 25 e 37 LMH e determinou-se o fluxo crítico de 28 LMH para o sistema operando com 11,4 g/L de SST / Abstract: Industrial activities, especially the chemical and food industries, that use fermentation processes, generate effluents with high concentrations of carbonaceous organic matter and nitrogen. These require complex systems to treat its wastewater, since the emission of excessive nutrients in the water body can result in the occurrence of eutrophication, which interferes with the desirable uses of water resource and changes the environmental balance. In this sense, this paper evaluated the carbonaceous organic matter and nitrogen removal as well as the determination of critical flux in membrane bioreactor (MBR) treating industrial wastewater from amino acids production. By the obtained results, it found the technical feasibility of MBR for the wastewater treatment containing 2505 mg COD / L of organic material and 277 mg TKN / L of nitrogen material. The bioreactor was operated with organic loading rate of 1.91 ± 0.13 kg COD / m³ day and nitrogen volumetric load of 0.18 ± 0,02 kg TKN / m day, with internal recirculation of 4 times. The treated effluent showed concentrations of 59 ± 27 mg COD / L, 0.60 ± 0.24 mg N-NH4 + / L and 20.5 ± 11.9 mg total N / L, with average removal efficiencies of COD , TKN and TN of 97.5%, 98.6% and 92.1%, respectively. The ultrafiltration system was tested at various flow rates between 25 and 37 LMH, to determine the critical flux of 28 LMH with the system operating at 11.4 g / L of TSS / Mestre

This thesis deals with the generic detection of bootkits which are relatively a new kind of malicious sofware falling into the category of rootkits. The definition of malicious software is presented along with several examples. Then the attention is paid to the rootkits in the context of Microsoft Windows operating systems. This section lists several techniques used by rootkits. After that, the ways of preventing and detecting rootkits are mentioned. Bootkits are known for infecting hard disks Master Boot Record (MBR). The structure of the MBR is described along with the example of hard disk partitioning. Afterwards, the processor instruction set is outlined and the disassembly of Windows 7 MBR is given. The rest of the thesis is devoted to a description of the course of operating system bootkit infection, bootkit prevention, analysis of infected MBR samples, and in particular to the design, implementation and testing of the generic MBR infection detector.

Distributed storage systems provide fast and reliable access to data by intro- ducing redundancy for stored les. The most common approach of adding re- dundant information is by repetition and erasure codes. Two main processes in a distributed storage system are reconstruction of original le and regenerat- ing a new node. These two processes require bandwidth, which are termed as reconstruction-bandwidth and repair-bandwidth. The current literature treat- s these two processes separately. That is, there are methods to reduce the reconstructing bandwidth without considering the repair-bandwidth, and also there are methods to reduce the repair-bandwidth. We study these two pro- cesses together and try to jointly minimize the reconstruction-bandwidth and repair-bandwidth. We observe a method that has the minimum reconstruction- bandwidth might have large amount of repair-bandwidth and vice versa. We propose codes which minimizes the sum of the repair-bandwidth and reconstruction- bandwidth. The main contribution of this thesis is nding an value of repair locality r (number of nodes connected during node repair) and devising two coding meth- ods in which total bandwidth approximates to be half reduced compared with MSR and MBR when k ! 1 under the condition that 1 6 r 6 k.

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A major challenge faced by project managers is balancing the variables of scope, cost, and schedule. Changes in scope usually result in cost/schedule overruns. Variance in either or both of them creates disorder (typically increases) in the estimated or projected time and cost. Therefore, controlling cost and schedule are two of the most critical aspects of a construction project. This research uses two already existing management theories, specifically Management by Means (MBM) and Management by Results (MBR), and analyzes a case where these two theories are combined with the goal of improving construction practices. This research compares an eight month schedule in a construction project and relates Percentage of Planned activities Completed (PPC) with projected and actual draw (cash) calls. The research analyzes the question of how lean construction PPC captures variance in cost. The research method is based on a literature review, data collection, case study and data interpretation to answer the hypothesis that improvement in PPC over a particular month has a positive correlation with difference between cash calls. Because this research is limited to a time frame of 8 months in a single project, it is not statistically significant. However, this research serves to create a model template or pilot study for a larger study.

This membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) pilot project was performed at Ekeby wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Eskilstuna, Sweden. This plant is facing a future challenge of effluent TN < 10mg/L according to the new standard and the growing population, where higher treatment capacity is needed. The MABR as a newly invented technology, is chosen as a promising countermeasure towards the challenge, because of the simultaneous nitrification and denitrification of this technology. By the time of reporting, this project is still on-going, and more information will be reported later in separate report. The feed water comes from the secondary clarifier of full-scale plant. Dissolved oxygen (DO), processing air and flow rate was manually controlled to test different operational settings. However, there were a lot challenges during the testing period which makes it hard to evaluate the performance of this pilot. The ammonium removal efficiency is satisfying when the pilot was running smoothly. However, the TN removal efficiency did not comply with the expectation, achieved in average of 39,01%, due to the limitation of readily bio-degradable COD (rbCOD), which is a limitation of the biological process in general and is not specific to MABR. This technology is considered as promising by the end of the current testing period, since it can oxidize the ammonium effectively with smaller volume. / Detta pilotprojekt med membranluftad biofilmreaktor (MABR) utfördes på Ekeby avloppsreningsverk i Eskilstuna, Sverige. Denna anläggning står inför en framtida utmaning med utflöde-TN <10 mg / L enligt den nya standarden och den växande befolkningen, där högre behandlingskapacitet behövs. MABR som nyutvecklad teknik, väljs som en lovande motåtgärd för utmaningen på grund av den samtidiga nitrifikationen och denitrifikationen med denna teknik. Vid rapporteringstillfället är projektet fortfarande pågående och mer information kommer att rapporteras senare i separat rapport. Matarvattnet kommer från den sekundärfällningen i fullskaleanläggningen. Löst syre (DO), bearbetningsluft och flödeshastighet kontrollerades manuellt för att testa olika driftsinställningar. Det fanns emellertid många utmaningar under testperioden vilket gör det svårt att utvärdera prestanda för denna pilot. Ammoniumavlägsningsgraden var tillfredsställande när piloten körde smidigt. TN-avlägsningseffektiviteten som i genomsnitt uppnådde 39,01% TN-avlägsning motsvarade emellertid inte förväntan, på grund av begränsningen av lätt biologisk nedbrytbar COD (rbCOD), vilken är en begränsning av den biologiska processen i allmänhet och inte specifik för MABR. Denna teknik anses vara lovande vid slutet av den aktuella testperioden, eftersom den kan oxidera ammoniumen effektivt med en mindre volym.

Spridning av läkemedelsrester och andra prioriterade mikroföroreningar i miljön har uppmärksammats och stor oro väckts kring problematiken. Bland observationer som forskare har noterat till följd av antibiotika, hormoner och läkemedel i vattenmiljöer är bland annat bakteriell resistens, könsbyte och sterilitet hos fisk och groddjur. Persistenta föroreningar som per- och polyfluor alkalysyror (PFAS) bryts inte heller ner i naturen och mikroskräppartiklar kan anrikas i vattendrag och orsaka negativa effekter på vattenlevande organismer. Gemensamt för mikroföroreningar är att dessa förekommer oftast i små halter och kan härstamma från olika mänskliga aktiviteter. Avloppsreningsverk (ARV) är inte primärt anpassade för att avskilja mikroföroreningar utan främst för att avlägsna kväve, fosfor och organiskt material. Uppströmsarbete är inte heller tillräckligt effektivt för att avlasta reningsprocessen vilket medför att mängden mikroföroreningar ökar i vattenmiljöer och sätter ytterligare påtryckningar på ARV. Utmaningar som ARV står inför idag med nya mikroföroreningar och förekomsten av dessa i miljön har väckt frågor både nationellt och internationellt. Stockholm Vatten och Avfalls (SVOA) beslut att implementera membranbioreaktor (MBR) på Henriksdals reningsverk av porstorleken 0,04 μm är en åtgärd för att rusta upp inför framtida hydrauliska volymer men även potentiella striktare reningskrav. Fördelen med MBR-processen är att den förhindrar föroreningar som förekommer partikulärt att passera membranen och på så sätt hindras skadliga ämnen att passera reningsprocessen. I dagsläge saknas krav på ARV att rena avloppsvatten från de flesta mikroföroreningar. Det förväntas dock att kommande lagstiftning omfattar läkemedel och andra organiska föroreningar. I detta projekt undersöktes mikroföroreningar i form av läkemedelsrester, antibiotika, hormoner, PFAS och mikroskärp i en MBR-process samt förekomsten av adsorberbara och extraherbara organiska halogener (AOX, EOX) som potentiellt bildas under rengöring av membranen till följd av reningsprocessen. Resultat från detta projekt med MBR-processen visade en generell högre reduktion av prioriterade mikroföroreningar i avloppsvatten än tidigare undersökningar på konventionella ARV, med undantag för några substanser som visade på en liknande sämre reduktion. Läkemedlen diklofenak, oxazepam, citalopram med flera visade på en sämre reduktion och lika så för antibiotikumen clindamycin, claritomycin och erytromycin där reduktionen var negativ och visade på en återkommande trend. Östrogena hormoner reducerades i reningsprocessen och likaså för mikroskräp där 60 partiklar/m3 mikroplast av porstorleken större än 300 μm passerade membranen. Mikroplast av en porstorlek i intervallet mindre än 300 men större än 50 μm passerade 140 partiklar/m3 membranen. För AOX och EOX var halten i MBR-processen typiska och i nivå med tidigare undersökningar genomförda på konventionella ARV. Eftersom membranen inte kan avskilja partiklar på molekylnivå visades sig även att det passerade fortfarande mikroföroreningar som undersöktes. En slutsats från detta projekt är att endast ett få tal ämnen reducerades helt medan majoriteten av de prioriterade mikroföroreningarna reducerades delvis i avloppsvatten. För att kunna reducera dessa prioriterade mikroföroreningar i reningsprocessen ytterligare om striktare reningskrav skulle bli aktuella krävs vidare efterbehandling efter MBR-processen. / Release of pharmaceutical residues and other emerging substances in the environment has been highlighted and raised a great concern regarding the issue. Among observations that scientists have noted as a result of antibiotics, hormones and pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment are bacterial resistance, sex change and sterility in fish and batrachians. Persistent pollutants such as perfluorinated-alkylated substances (PFAS) are also not degraded in nature, and microscopic debris particles can be enriched in aquatic systems and cause adverse effects on aquatic organisms. The common aspect with these substances is that they usually occur in small quantities and can derive from different human activities. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are not primarily designed to separate emerging substances of concern (ESOC), but primarily to remove nitrogen, phosphorus and particulate organic matter. Upstream work is also not sufficiently effective to relieve the purification process, which means that the amount of pollutants increases in aquatic environments and puts additional pressure on the WWTP. The challenges facing WWTP today with ESOC and their presence in the environment has raised issues both nationally and internationally. Stockholm Vatten och Avfall (SVOA) decision to implement a membrane bioreactor (MBR) with poresize of 0,04 μm at Henriksdal WWTP is a step to prepare for future hydraulic volumes, but also potentially stricter treatments requirements regarding ESOC. The advantage of the MBR process is that it prevents contaminants that appear to be particulate to pass the membranes and end up in the receiving waters. Today, WWTP are not required to treat wastewater in order to remove pharmaceutical residues, antibiotics, hormones, PFAS or microscopic debris particles. However, it is expected that future legislations will include pharmaceuticals and other organic pollutants. In this project, ESOC such as pharmaceutical residues, antibiotics, hormones, PFAS and microscopic debris in the MBR-process are studied as well as the presence of adsorbable and extractable organic halogens (AOX, EOX) that are possibly formed during the cleaning or maintains of the membranes. Results from this study showed a higher general reduction of the studied ESOCs in wastewater with the MBR-process than previous studies in conventional WWTP, except of some substances that showed a poor reduction. Pharmaceuticals such as diclofenac, oxazepam and citalopram showed a weak reduction as well as the antibiotics clindamycin, clarithromycin and erythromycin where they showed a higher outcome levels than the incoming to the treatment process. Estrogenic hormones were reduced in the purification process as well as microplastics where only 60 particles/m3 of pore size higher than 300 μm passed the membranes. Microplastics of the pore size smaller than 300 and larger than 50 μm were detected to 140 particle/m3 in the effluent water. For AOX and EOX, the level of MBR process showed typical values and were in line with previous studies on conventional ARV. However, since the membranes cannot treat contaminants at molecular level, it was also shown that some ESOC that were studied bypassed the treatment process. A conclusion from this project is that only a few numbers of substances were fully reduced while the majority of ESOCs were partially reduced in wastewater. In order to reduce further ESOCs and in case of stricter treatment were to be applied, additional post-treatment is also needed for the MBR process.

Le surcoût de fonctionnement d'un BRM immergé a pour origine essentielle la dépense d'énergie liée à la maîtrise de la perméabilité membranaire par aération. La littérature montre les liens qui existent entre concentration en biomasse dans le réacteur et présence de produits microbiens solubles liés à l'activité bactérienne. Réduire la demande en énergie signifie réduire l'aération membrane, voire l'aération process liée aux besoins en oxygène des populations épuratrices. Pour ce faire, il est donc déterminant de réduire l'activité biologique au sein du réacteur sans pour autant dégrader la qualité de l'eau traitée. Pour répondre à ce défi, il a été proposé de développer un BRM en association avec un prétraitement physico-chimique dont le rôle est de retenir une grande part de la matière organique (mais aussi probablement les phosphates), le BRM n'a alors pour rôle que de traiter le résiduel de matière organique et d'éliminer les composés azotés peu retenus par précipitation physico-chimiques. Ainsi, la demande en oxygène sera réduite car il reste peu de DCO à dégrader et la croissance cellulaire limitée car les populations seraient essentiellement autotrophes. Ce travail de thèse a donc été centré sur les points suivants : (i) les performances d'un bioréacteur à membrane fonctionnant sous une charge essentiellement azotée, ces performances sont analysées en termes de réactions d'élimination des fractions polluantes et de filtrabilité des suspensions, (ii) suivi et modélisation des cinétiques de réactions, (iii) définition d'outils simples de dimensionnement. Des méthodologies expérimentales originales ont été mises en place, réacteur pilote et méthodes d'analyses spécifiques (suivi en ligne des composés azotés, méthodes respirométriques notamment). Les résultats obtenus ont permis d'évaluer (i) les capacités de nitrification en régime permanent, (ii) les grandeurs cinétiques propres aux populations autotrophes suivant le modèle ASM1 (XBA, YA, KSH, bA), (iii) la filtrabilité des suspensions sur membranes poreuses avec une contribution significative de la résistance hydraulique due à un biofilm qui se développe en surface de membrane (par rapport aux autres processus, notamment les phénomènes d'adsorption ou bouchage de pores). Ces résultats ont permis de définir des nouveaux outils simples d'extrapolation, notamment des grandeurs réactionnelles spécifiques propres aux espèces nitrifiantes comme le ratio rSNHmax/OURendaut exprimant un rapport de vitesse de nitrification par une grandeur proportionnelle à la concentration en biomasse nitrifiante. / Membrane bioréactor, coupling bioreactions and porous membrane separation in a same unit, allows working with high biomass concentrations what improves bioreaction rates but penalizes the separation step. This work had as objective to study the nitrifiers micro-organisms on the membrane fouling dynamic and on the nitrogen removal efficiency. According to precedent works of the laboratory and the analyses of references, the objective was axed on the modeling tools available for heterotrophe and autotrophe biomass caracterisation. Then, specific methodologies were carried out, lab scale pilots and analytical methods, notably for active biomass observations and identification. Theses tools underline the role of these dominant populations (i) the use of ASM to simulate the biomass performances in relation with working conditions and (ii) the respirometric methods to experimentally quantify the specific biomass activity. Then results clearly pointed out the role of the COD/N ratio on the biomass and MBR performances. Passing from the urban wastewater to synthetic substrate with a final COD/N ratio of 1.5, the proportion of autotrophic bacteria in active biomass increased from 16 to 72%. Specific criteria were defined to characterise the biomass activity as rnitrif/ OURAutoend or rDCO / OURHetend allowing universal parameters definition

This thesis deals with the problem of code design in the setting of distributed storage systems consisting of multiple storage nodes, storing many different data les. A primary goal in such systems is the efficient repair of a failed node. Regenerating codes and codes with locality are two classes of coding schemes that have recently been proposed in literature to address this goal. While regenerating codes aim to minimize the amount of data-download needed to carry out node repair, codes with locality seek to minimize the number of nodes accessed during node repair. Our focus here is on linear codes with locality, which is a concept originally introduced by Gopalan et al. in the context of recovering from a single node failure. A code-symbol of a linear code C is said to have locality r, if it can be recovered via a linear combination of r other code-symbols of C. The code C is said to have (i) information-symbol locality r, if all of its message symbols have locality r, and (ii) all-symbol locality r, if all the code-symbols have locality r. We make the following three contributions to the area of codes with locality. Firstly, we extend the notion of locality, in two directions, so as to permit local recovery even in the presence of multiple node failures. In the first direction, we consider codes with \local error correction" in which a code-symbol is protected by a local-error-correcting code having local-minimum-distance 3, and thus allowing local recovery of the code-symbol even in the presence of 2 other code-symbol erasures. In the second direction, we study codes with all-symbol locality that can recover from two erasures via a sequence of two local, parity-check computations. When restricted to the case of all-symbol locality and two erasures, the second approach allows, in general, for design of codes having larger minimum distance than what is possible via the rst approach. Under both approaches, by studying the generalized Hamming weights of the dual codes, we derive tight upper bounds on their respective minimum distances. Optimal code constructions are identified under both approaches, for a class of code parameters. A few interesting corollaries result from this part of our work. Firstly, we obtain a new upper bound on the minimum distance of concatenated codes and secondly, we show how it is always possible to construct the best-possible code (having largest minimum distance) of a given dimension when the code's parity check matrix is partially specified. In a third corollary, we obtain a new upper bound for the minimum distance of codes with all-symbol locality in the single erasure case. Secondly, we introduce the notion of codes with local regeneration that seek to combine the advantages of both codes with locality as well as regenerating codes. These are vector-alphabet analogues of codes with local error correction in which the local codes themselves are regenerating codes. An upper bound on the minimum distance is derived when the constituent local codes have a certain uniform rank accumulation (URA) property. This property is possessed by both the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) and the minimum bandwidth regenerating (MBR) codes. We provide several optimal constructions of codes with local regeneration, where the local codes are either the MSR or the MBR codes. The discussion here is also extended to the case of general vector-linear codes with locality, in which the local codes do not necessarily have the URA property. Finally, we evaluate the efficacy of two specific coding solutions, both possessing an inherent double replication of data, in a practical distributed storage setting known as Hadoop. Hadoop is an open-source platform dealing with distributed storage of data in which the primary aim is to perform distributed computation on the stored data via a paradigm known as Map Reduce. Our evaluation shows that while these codes have efficient repair properties, their vector-alphabet-nature can negatively a affect Map Reduce performance, if they are implemented under the current Hadoop architecture. Specifically, we see that under the current architecture, the choice of number processor cores per node and Map-task scheduling algorithm play a major role in determining their performance. The performance evaluation is carried out via a combination of simulations and actual experiments in Hadoop clusters. As a remedy to the problem, we also pro-pose a modified architecture in which one allows erasure coding across blocks belonging to different les. Under the modified architecture, the new coding solutions will not suffer from any Map Reduce performance-loss as seen in the original architecture, while retaining all of their desired repair properties