Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-03-16T14:48:51Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Filipe_Versao_Final_Pos_Defesa_Deposito.pdf: 1855793 bytes, checksum: 366a64a51c618d78933bc62349a182cc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-16T14:48:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Filipe_Versao_Final_Pos_Defesa_Deposito.pdf: 1855793 bytes, checksum: 366a64a51c618d78933bc62349a182cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-21 / Hoje as organizações de T.I. estão enfrentando um sério desafio, por um lado temos mercados cada vez mais competitivos, com mudanças quase que rotineiras nos softwares e uma variedade imensa de dispositivos e sistemas operacionais; por outro, os sistemas ficam cada vez mais complexos, integrados a outros serviços e exigindo um alto grau de confiabilidade e disponibilidade dos mesmos, exigindo assim um processo de implantação cada vez mais eficiente e robusto. Nos últimos anos o termo DevOps – colaboração entre desenvolvimento e operação - e suas práticas foram amplamente usados e discutidos sob diferentes aspectos. Assim como no movimento ágil, DevOps também nasceu na indústria e a partir da necessidade da mesma. Por mais que várias organizações já adotem práticas que ficaram conhecidas como DevOps, seu uso ainda não é prescritivo, existindo assim uma variedade de diferentes manifestações de uso em termos de definição e padrão dentre as organizações. Diante disso, esta dissertação teve por objetivo realizar um mapeamento sistemático da literatura e um survey em busca do movimento DevOps, áreas de concentração dos estudos, os principais autores da área e as principais práticas e formas de uso de DevOps nas organizações. Como contribuição, esta pesquisa identificou que dentre as principais áreas de DevOps podem-se destacar (i) entrega, (ii) integração, (iii) e testes contínuos, além da (vi) automação da infraestrutura. Como principais práticas foram possíveis destacar: (a) implantações através de máquinas virtuais, (b) visibilidade do pipeline de implantação, (c) processos robustos de roolbacks, além de técnicas como (d) canary release, (e) toogled features e (f) blue-green deployments. / Today's IT organizations are facing a serious challenge, on the one hand we increasingly competitive markets with routine software’s changes and a wide variety of devices and operating systems; on the other hand, the systems are increasingly complex, integrated with other services and requiring a high degree of reliability and availability requiring a deploy process increasingly efficient and robust. In recent years the DevOps term - a clipped compound of development and operations - and DevOps’s practices were widely used and discussed under different aspects. As agile movement, the DevOps term was also born in the industry’s need. Today many organizations already adopt practices that became known as DevOps its use is not prescriptive, so there is a variety of different manifestations of use in terms of definition and standard among organizations. Therefore, this work aimed to carry out a mapping study and a survey in search of the state of the art DevOps movement, concentration areas of study, the main authors of the area and the main practices and the use of DevOps in organizations. As a contribution, this research found that among the main DevOps area can highlight: (i) continuous delivery; (ii) continuous integration; (iii) continuous testing; and (vi) infrastructure’s automation. Additionally, we can emphasize the main practices in the DevOps adoption: (a) deploys through virtual machines; (b) visibility’s deployment pipeline; (c) robust processes roolbacks, and techniques such as (d) canary release, (e) toogled features and (f) blue-green deployments.

O trabalho tem como objetivo realizar um estudo experimental na bancada do Laboratório Multipropósito de Escoamento Multifásico com o intuito de estudar o fenômeno de intermitência severa em um sistema pipeline-riser com os fluidos água e ar. A intermitência severa pode ocorrer em sistemas pipeline-riser onde o pipeline é descendente seguido de um riser vertical, além de ser necessário a presença de baixas vazões de fluidos. Esse fenômeno é caracterizado por ser cíclico em que há acúmulo de líquido na base do riser e por acabar causando perdas na produção de petróleo e gás devido a grandes flutuações de pressão e vazão que podem durar horas a depender do comprimento do sistema. Os picos de pressão e vazão também podem causar o desligamento do sistema de separação na plataforma. O estudo se dividiu em várias etapas onde inicialmente foram definidos os procedimentos experimentais a serem utilizados. A calibração de placas de orifício foi necessária para o controle de vazão mássica de gás. Os resultados experimentais foram divididos em casos estáveis e instáveis onde a instabilidade é caracterizada pela presença de ciclos de pressão que podem ser observados em históricos de pressão na base do riser. Mapas de estabilidade foram criados e a região instável obtida experimentalmente foi comparada com a curva de estabilidade obtida pelo uso da teoria de estabilidade linear. Os históricos de pressão na base do riser para os casos instáveis obtidos foram comparados com dois modelos numéricos. A variação da pressão no separador foi usada para verificar a mitigação da intermitência severa e/ou da condição instável obtida no sistema para alguns casos instáveis. / The objective of this work is to do an experimental study of the severe slugging phenomenon in the pipeline-riser system of the Multipurpose Multiphase Flow Laboratory by using the fluids air and water. Severe slugging may occur for low flow rates in pipeline-riser systems where a downward pipeline is followed by a vertical riser. In this phenomenon there is liquid accumulation at the bottom of the riser resulting in production losses due to the great fluctuations of pressure and flow rate during its cycles which may last for hours depending on the length of the system. The high pressure values can also cause shutdown of the platform separation system. The first stage of this study was to define the experimental procedure to be adopted. It was necessary to perform a calibration of the orifice plates in order to have a precise control of the gas mass flow rate. The experimental results were divided in stable and unstable cases. The instability is defined by the presence of pressure oscillations at the bottom of the riser. Stability maps were created to compare the stabiliy curve obtained by the stability linear theory with the experimental results. The experimental pressure oscillations were compared with two numerical models. The pressure variation at the separator was studied to verify the mitigation effects during unstable and/or severe slugging conditions.

Prédire, modéliser et analyser le métabolisme de xénobiotiques, substances étrangères à un organisme, à l'aide de méthodes informatiques est un challenge majeur mobilisant la communauté scientifique depuis de nombreuses années. Cette thèse vise à implémenter des méthodes informatiques multi-échelles pour prédire et analyser le métabolisme des xénobiotiques. Un premier axe de cette étude portait sur la construction et l'annotation automatique de novo de graphes métaboliques combinant fortes sensibilités et précisions. Ces graphes fournissent ainsi la prédiction du métabolisme de xénobiotiques chez l'homme, ainsi que la génotoxicité des molécules et atomes qui le composent. Puis, le travail s'est orienté sur l'implémentation d'un modèle mathématique dynamique modélisant des effets de compétition enzymatique à travers le développement d'une méthodologie permettant l'exploitation de données biologiques restreintes tout en limitant les biais inhérents. / Predicting, modelling and analysing the metabolism of xenobiotics, substances foreign to an organism, using computer methods, has been a major challenge for the scientific community for many years. This thesis aims to implement multiscale computing methods for predicting and analyzing the metabolism of xenobiotics. A first focus of this study was on the construction and automatic de novo annotation of metabolic graphs combining high sensitivity and precision. These graphs thus provide the prediction of the metabolism of xenobiotics in humans, as well as the genotoxicity of the molecules and atoms that make up xenobiotics. Then, the work focused on the implementation of a dynamic mathematical model modelling enzymatic competition effects through the development of a methodology allowing the exploitation of limited biological data while limiting inherent biases.

Um tópico importante na análise de seqüências biológicas é a busca de genes, ou seja, a identificação de regiões codificantes de proteínas. Esta identificação permite a posterior procura de significado, descrição ou categorização biológica do organismo analisado. Atualmente, vários métodos combinam reconhecimento de padrões com conhecimento coletado de conjuntos de treinamento ou de comparações com banco de dados genômicos. Entretanto, a acurácia desses métodos está ainda longe do satisfatório. Novos métodos de processamento de seqüências de DNA e de identificação de genes podem ser criados através da busca por conteúdo (search-by-content). O padrão periódico de DNA em regiões codificantes de proteína, denominada periodicidade de três bases, vem sendo considerado uma propriedade dessas regiões. As técnicas de processamento digital de sinais fornecem uma base robusta para a identificação de regiões com periodicidade de três bases. Nesta dissertação, são apresentados um \\pipeline, os conceitos básicos da identificação genômica, e métodos de processamento digital de sinais utilizados para a identificação de regiões codificantes de proteínas. Introduzimos um novo método para a identificação dessas regiões, baseado na transformada proposta, denominada Transformada Modificada de Morlet. Apresentamos vários resultados experimentais obtidos a partir de seqüências de DNA sintéticas e reais. As principais contribuições do trabalho consistem no desenvolvimento de um pipeline para projetos genoma e na criação de um método de identificação de regiões codificantes onde a periodicidade de três bases seja latente. O método apresenta desempenho superior e vantagens importantes em comparação ao método tradicional baseado na transformada de Fourier de tempo reduzido. / An important topic in biological sequences analysis is gene finding, i.e. the identification of protein coding regions. This identification allows the posterior research for meaning, description or biological categorization of the analyzed organism. Currently, several methods combine pattern recognition with knowledge collected from training datasets or from comparison with genomic databases. Nonetheless, the accuracy of these methods is still far from satisfactory. New methods of DNA sequences processing and genes identification can be created through search-by-content such sequences. The periodic pattern of DNA in protein coding regions, called three-base periodicity, has been considered proper of coding regions. Digital signal processing techniques supply a strong basis for regions identification with three-base periodicity. In this work, we present a bioinformatics pipeline, basic concepts of the genomic identification and digital signal processing methods used for protein coding regions identification. We introduce a new method for identification of these regions, based on a newly proposed transform, called Modified Morlet Transform. We present some obtained experimental results from synthetic and real DNA sequences. The main contributions consist of the bioinformatics pipeline development for genoma projects and the creation of a method for protein coding regions identification where the three-base periodicity is latent. The method presents superior performance and important advantages in comparison to traditional method based on the short time Fourier transform.

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta a análise do sistema de medição utilizado pelo pig instrumentado tipo palito usado para detecção e dimensionamento de perda de espessura em dutos provocada por corrosão interna. A aplicação de testes experimentais de vibração, perfilagem geométrica e análise por elementos finitos têm objetivo de avaliar o sistema de medição dos sensores palito do Pig Palito, assim como mostrar os resultados obtidos com esta nova tecnologia de dimensionamento de micro geometria. Os dutos submarinos (offshore) empregam tradicionalmente as mesmas tecnologias de inspeção usadas em dutos terrestres (onshore) e uma dessas tecnologias é o pig instrumentado. No entanto, é encontrada uma vasta quantidade de dutos offshore com diferentes tipos de obstáculos que inviabilizam o uso dos pigs instrumentados convencionais, como os Pigs Magnéticos M.F.L. (Magnetic Flux Leakage) e Ultrassônicos. Os fatores relevantes que dificultam a inspeção, especialmente em dutos offshore, são os multi-diâmetros, raios de curvatura acentuados, equipamentos instalados ao longo do duto, alta espessura de parede do duto, escoamento multifásico, etc. Atualmente, o uso de Pigs Ultrassônicos e Magnéticos são as técnica disponíveis no mercado para inspeção da corrosão. Contudo, esses pigs possuem suas próprias limitações. Dentro deste contexto, foi desenvolvido um novo pig instrumentado, chamado de Pig Palito, para detecção e dimensionamento de perda de espessura em dutos com corrosão interna. Esta ferramenta foi desenvolvida para superar diversas limitações que outros pigs instrumentados convencionais têm durante a inspeção. Os resultados obtidos pela instrumentação do sensor palito na análise experimental indicam que a vibração dos sensores pode interferir na medição de micro geometria gerando erros de interpretação. A possibilidade de detecção, minimização e/ou eliminação desta possível deficiência do sensor palito são factíveis e abordadas na presente dissertação. Os bons resultados das inspeções de campo com os Pigs Palito comprovam o sucesso e viabilidade técnica no emprego desta tecnologia. / [en] This work presents the analysis and study of the technology used by the instrumented pig called Feeler Pig, used for detection and measurement of loss of wall thickness in pipelines due to internal corrosion. Those study´s objective are the evaluation of dynamic measurement of Feeler Pig´s sensors, through the application of experimental vibration tests, geometric evaluation`s tests and finite elements analysis, so that are showed the results rewarded by this new micro geometric measurement technique. Submarine pipelines (offshore pipelines) inspection traditionally employs the same technologies used for onshore pipelines and one of such technologies is the instrumented pig. However, it is very common to find offshore pipelines with many kinds of obstacles that may prevent the use of conventional instrumented pigs, like MFL (Magnetic Flux Leakage) pigs and ultrasonic ones. The relevant factors that make the inspection difficult, particularly in offshore pipelines, are the different diameters along the pipeline, small radius bends, equipments installed in the pipeline (such as manifolds and valves), increased wall thickness, multi-phase fluids, etc. Currently available techniques in the market to inspect these pipelines are ultrasonic and magnetic pigs, which, nevertheless, have their own limitations. Focusing on this context, a new tool was developed to detect and measure the loss of wall thickness in pipelines due to internal corrosion. This tool, called Feeler Pig, was designed to be able to overcome some of the limitations of conventional inspection pigs. The results achieved by instrumentation of the feeler type sensor`s body, experimental analysis tests, proved that vibration modes of the sensor interferes in the measurement of micro geometric. The possibility of detection, mitigation and / or elimination of the deficiencies of sensor`s issues are viable and addressed in this work. These, coupled with the excellent results of Feeler Pigs field inspections prove the technical feasibility and success in using this technology.

Cette thèse présente plusieurs contributions au software developé pour le traitement d’images dans le cadre du LSST. Notre objectif est d'utiliser le code et les algorithmes LSST existants, afin de créer un pipeline dédié à la détection des supernovae de type Ia. Pour la détection des supernovae nous utilisons une technique appelée soustraction optimale d'images qui implique la construction de coadditions. Nous étudions aussi le comportement des différents objets dans le temps et construisons des courbes de lumière qui représentent leur cycle de vie en fonction de l'intensité lumineuse de chaque détection sur plusieurs nuits. Enfin, pour analyser un nombre excessif de candidats, nous utilisons des algorithmes d'apprentissage machine.Notre première contribution concerne le développement des taches de coaddition automatisée adaptées pour construire des images de référence et de science avec un haut rapport signal-sur-bruit. La contribution suivante est lié à l’addition de mesures et l’étude de résidus des images d’analyse de différence, y-compris la sélection des seuils adaptés et l'étiquetage basée sur les valeurs quantitativess des résidus pour identifier les mauvaises détections, les artéfacts et les flux réellement significatifs. Notre suivante contribution est un algorithme pour sélectionner et générer les courbes de lumière candidates. Finalement, on applique une classification machine learning pour trouver des type Ia supernovae en utilisant la méthode random forest. Ces résultats ont permis l’identification des supernovae de type Ia simulées et réelles parmis les candidats avec une haute précision. / This thesis will present several contributions to the software developed for the LSST telescope with the purpose of contributing to the detection of type Ia supernovae. Our objective is to use the existing LSST code and algorithms, in order to create a type Ia supernovae detection dedicated pipeline.Since detecting supernovae requires a special type of processing, we use a technique known as the Optimal Image Subtraction which implies the construction of coadditions. Afterwards, we study the behavior of the different objects through time and build light curves that represent their life cycle in terms of the light intensity of each detection on several nights. Lastly, in order to analyze an excessive number of candidates, we employ machine learning algorithms to identify what curves are more probable to be type Ia supernovae. Our first contribution concerns the development of adapted and automatized coaddition tasks for building high signal-to-noise reference and science images. The next contribution is related to the addition of measurements and study of the residuals on difference image analysis, including the selection with adapted thresholding and the assignation of labels. We also propose, as contributions, an algorithm to select and generate the different candidate light curves through the selection of objects with recurrent detections through time and in the different bandpasses. Finally, we apply the machine learning classification approach to find type Ia supernovae by means of using a random forest classifier and based strictly on geometrical features that are present in the light curves.

Die vorliegende Dissertation konzentriert sich auf die Untersuchung und Entwicklung hochfester Grobblechstähle mit erhöhtem Gehalt an der MA-Phase (Martensit-Austenit Phase). Dabei wurden Bildungsmechanismen der Mikrostruktur und insbesondere der MA-Phase in Abhängigkeit von der Walztechnologie an vier mikrolegierten Grobblechstählen untersucht. Zu diesem Zweck erfolgten zahlreihe Untersuchungen an verschiedenen Prüf- und Simulationsanlagen zur Charakterisierung des Werkstoffverhaltens sowie zur physikalischen Simulation der Grobblechherstellung mit der Anwendung von bekannten und neu entwickelten Wärmebehandlungstechnologien. Abschließend wurden mehrere Serien von Laborwalzversuchen auf einer Warmwalzpilotanlage durchgeführt, um die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse zu evaluieren, sowie die für Pipelinestähle relevanten mechanischen Eigenschaften zu ermitteln. Somit erstreckt sich die Arbeit über die gesamte Produktionskette zur Erzeugung der Grobblechstähle mit MA-Phase und beschreibt hierfür geeignete Herstellungsbedingungen, die in Betriebsanlagen leicht realisierbar sind.

Le marché des convertisseurs analogique-numérique peut être segmenté en deux catégories de circuits. Nous distinguons d’une part, les blocs de propriété intellectuelle (IP) qui sont généralement optimisés pour une application spécifique. Et d’autre part, les circuits intégrés discrets qui sont conçus pour répondre aux besoins d’une plus large gamme d’applications. Ce travail de thèse concerne la deuxième catégorie de composants. Il s’inscrit dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche et développement initié en 2010 dans le projet européen FP7 SACRA et dont le but était d'étudier la faisabilité d'un convertisseur analogique-numérique Delta-Sigma (DS) qui pourrait rivaliser avec l'architecture pipeline pour des applications nécessitant une large bande passante (≥10MHz) et une haute résolution (>10-bit) comme l’imagerie médicale, les communications numériques sans fils ou câblées, la vidéo ou encore l’instrumentation. Ce manuscrit synthétise les travaux de conception, fabrication et mesure d’un modulateur DS Passe-bas à temps continu avec une bande passante de 40MHz, et visant une résolution effective de 12-bit tout en consommant moins de 100mW. / The market of A/D converters can be segmented in two categories. From one side we distinguish the Intellectual Property (IP) blocks that are generally optimized for a specific application. On the other side, the general-purpose discrete Integrated Circuits (ICs) that are designed such as they could be used in different applications. This thesis work deals with the second category. It is part of a research and development program initiated in 2010 in the European project FP7 SACRA, whose purpose was to study the feasibility of a delta-sigma (DS) analog-to-digital converter that could compete with the pipeline architecture for applications that require high bandwidth (≥10MHz) and high resolution (>10-bit) such as medical imaging, wireless and wireline communications, video or instrumentation. Currently, the pipeline is still largely predominant for such applications and the few commercial wideband solutions based on a DS architecture have a signal bandwidth limited to 10 MHz or 25 MHz while consuming respectively 100mW and 20mW for an ENOB around 12-bit. This manuscript summarizes the design, fabrication and measurement of a low-pass CT DS modulator with a signal bandwidth of 40MHz, while targeting an effective resolution of 12-bit and a power consumption of less than 100mW.

Large scale production of accessible media above and beyond DAISY Talking Books requires management of the workflow from the initial scan to the output of the media production. DAISY Producer was created to help manage this process. It tracks the transformation of hard copy or electronic content to DTBook XML at any stage of the workflow and interfaces to existing order processing systems. Making use of DAISY Pipeline and Liblouis, DAISY Producer fully automates the generation of on-demand, user-specific DAISY Talking Books, Large Print and Braille. This paper introduces DAISY Producer and shows how creators of accessible media can benefit from this open source tool.

Vatten- och avloppssystem har stor betydelse i moderna samhällen där dag-, spill- och dricksvatten måste hanteras. En del av vatten- och avloppssystemen är ledningar förlagda i marken vars syfte är att försörja bostäder och verksamheter med vatten samt att avleda dag- och spillvatten. Stockholm Vatten och Avfall äger och förvaltar totalt över 200 mil vattenledningar och 300 mil avloppsledningar i Stockholm. Att nylägga ledningar och omlägga det befintliga ledningsnätet kräver att hållbara investeringsbeslut tas i ett tidigt skede av projekt. Vid uppskattning av kostnader för ett ledningsarbete måste flera olika kostnader beaktas, framförallt kostnader för schaktmassor, maskiner och material. För att göra detta har Stockholm Vatten och Avfall tidigare använt sig av ett kalkylverktyg som uppskattar kostnaden för ett ledningsarbete i schaktad rörgrav. Detta kalkylverktyg baseras på á-priser som inte är aktuella för dagens läge. För att göra kalkylverktyget användbart med dagens priser har referensprojekt insamlats och delats upp i kategorierna extern entreprenör och egen regi och därefter innerstad och ytterstad med tillhörande indata och ekonomiska fakta. Utifrån uppdelningarna har faktorer beräknats som utdata från kalkylverktyget multiplicerats med och därefter jämförts med kalkylverktyget när verktygets á-priser blivit uppdaterade. En regressions – och korrelationsanalys gjordes därefter för att bestämma vilken av metoderna som beskriver referensprojekten bäst och den största korrelationen visade sig vara hos kalkylverktyget med uppdaterade á-priser. / Water- and waste water systems plays a huge role in today’s management of storm-, waste and drinking water. Part of the water- and waste water systems are pipelines located below ground level whose purpose is to supply homes, schools and companies with water and to drain storm – and waste water. Stockholm Vatten och Avfall manages over 200 Swedish miles of water pipelines and 300 Swedish miles of waste water pipelines in Stockholm. Adding new pipelines to the system and change the existing pipelines requires sustainable investment decisions to be taken at early stages of projects. When estimating the costs of a pipeline construction project, many different costs has to be taken into account, especially the excavation costs and machinery and materials costs. In order to do this, Stockholm Vatten och Avfall has previously been using a calculation tool that estimates the cost of a pipeline construction project in an excavated pipeline trench. This calculation tool is based on prices that are not current for current conditions. In order to make the calculation tool useful with today’s prices, reference projects have been collected and divided into inner city and suburban areas along with inputs and economic facts. Based on these inputs, factors have been calculated which the output from the calculation tool has been multiplied with and then been compared t o the calculation tool after the tool’s prices have been updated. A regression – and correlation analysis was then made to determine which of the methods best describe the reference projects and the largest correlation was found in the calculation tool with updated prices.