Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis presents an investigation of developing a user-centred formbase system. It is based on the previous developments in Office Information Systems. It is technically related to AI Planning Systems and Database Systems. An Office System is an open system inside which the data, as well as the operations upon the data can not be pre-defined exactly. In order to set up a stable and flexible information system in such environments, the task representation, activity representation and data representation must be dynamically related to each other. This research concerns how to use AI planning system concepts to develop a formbase system. There are three crucial aspects: (a) how to represent an activity of information processing, (b) how to represent and refer to the data in the forms, and (c) how to construct the problem solving process for the task of information processing. For reasons of flexibility and stability in the open environment, it is important that a proper link between data representation and activity representation is achieved. This research has generated an Intelligent Form System. The contributions are: (a) the development of a form pattern language and the formbase which can represent and refer to the forms, (b) the identification of the formbase activity schema which can represent the activity upon the forms, and (c) the development of a problem solving process for the information processing tasks of the forms. The research has also recognized that the information processing activities upon forms are very different from the activities which are automatically performed by the Humans. Key Words: Office Information Systems; AI Planning Systems; Activity Representation; Action Reasoning; Knowledge Representation; Office Form Systems.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / This study was concerned with the methods by which members of the nursing staffs of four selected hospitals become aware of official notices from the nursing offices of the respective hospitals. It was further concerned with the effectiveness of the methods in use as determined by the numbers of persons in each hospital who were aware of a specific notice.

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This thesis is concerned with the provision of multimedia services (involving voice, video, text and graphics) in an office environment. The office of the future is expected to comprise a heterogeneous collection of workstations and multimedia components (including fileservers, voice and video codecs, document scanners, laser printers, etc) interlinked by a high speed (digital) local area network. Every office is likely to have one or more connections to a public Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) providing integrated access (involving various types of traffic) to a very large number of subscribers. This thesis considers general issues relating to the design of such an office. Particular attention is given to the problem of the integration of media both at the network and user levels. Much of this discussion draws on practical experience gained during the Alvey Unison Project in which experimental multimedia offices were interconnected using a pilot ISDN. The architecture of the Unison network is discussed with particular reference to its suitability for the support of multimedia services. The bulk of this thesis is devoted to a description of the design and implementation of a number of prototype multimedia applications, and to an evaluation of their performance over the network. The handling of slow-scan video and high resolution images have been particular areas 01 interest. Much emphasis is placed on the problem of control in a distributed environment, and a model is presented for the management of control based on the use of a directory-like service. This model also provides a mechanism for locating an office service based on the name of the user to whom it belongs.

This thesis presents a conceptual framework for the introduction of daylighting considerations into the design of office buildings. Design is an intuitive process, yet the intuition must be educated by study and analysis. The framework developed in the thesis enables the systematic study of daylighting principles and techniques and is a major step towards a grasp of daylighting design. The thesis is divided into nine chapters. The introductory chapter contains a brief history of daylighting in office buildings, examines reasons for daylighting, and explains the structure of the thesis. The following chapter analyses the performance criteria that the luminous environment in office interiors must fulfill in order to provide a satisfactory performance of visual tasks and result in user acceptance. Each of the next five chapters examine specific techniques, under five general objectives: i. promoting daylight access ii. promoting daylight penetration iii. interior space planning for daylighting advantage iv. controlling brightness extremes v. integrating daylight with electrical light In each chapter, these techniques are listed in order of decreasing scale: from site planning, through building configuration and building envelope, to building interior. The thesis shows that daylighting can be incorporated into building design at various levels of commitment, ranging from a total commitment to daylighting, in which the building is conceived as "a light fixture that can be engineered to a state of optimal performance", to a minor commitment, in which, for example, perimeter lights in an otherwise standard office building design are controlled in response to daylighting needs. Furthermore, it is shown that daylighting techniques can be introduced at various scales--some techniques may modulate the massing, while others deal with specific building components. Following the study of techniques, there is a discussion on daylighting design tools and the integration of daylighting with other aspects of design. The thesis concludes that daylighting offers architects the opportunity to design office buildings so that they use less energy and, at the same time, provide a better working environment than is the case with most buildings today. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

1 Performance of work outside the employer's workplace Abstract The goal of this diploma thesis is to critically assess the current legislation regulating performance of work outside the employer's workplace contained in the paragraph 317 of the Labour code and to describe historical roots of this institute. Further this diploma thesis aims to describe eventual shortcomings of the current legislation and to propose some legislative changes. This diploma thesis is divided into 9 chapters including the introduction. In the first and second chapter there is an introduction of the problematics of the performance of work outside the employer's workplace and definition of the basic concepts, specifically homeworking and teleworking. In the third chapter there is a description of historical roots of the performance of work outside the employer's workplace in the era of the First republic, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and socialism. The core of this diploma thesis is in the fourth, fifth and sixth chapter, where there is a description of conditions, under which it is possible to perform work outside the employer's workplace and different working conditions, which these employees have. In the sixth chapter there is a description of practical problems, which the performance of work outside the employer's...

"This experience has led the writer to wonder if any real progress is being made in the organization and use of newspaper libraries and, after enrollment in library school, to check systematically the professional literature having to do with newspaper libraries. The result of this investigation is this paper, the purpose of which is to find out just what some newspapers are doing to promote and encourage newspaper libraries. Because, it seems, most newspapers of circulations under 50,000 have no newspaper librarians or libraries at all (except for a stack of reference books in a corner), this brief study of newspaper libraries is limited, for the most part, to large-circulation dailies. For this reason, the contents of this paper represent the brighter side of the newspaper library field"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1954." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Robert G. Clapp, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-92).

In my diploma work I develop new ideas for office buildings. It has three parts: theoretical, analytical and practical. The discussed area is in Berlin.