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In this thesis, LMI approach is employed to design a static output feedback controller so that all poles of the considered closed-loop continuous-time system are located within a prescribed LMI region, named D region. Based on the coordinate transformation, an analysis about the derived LMI-based sufficient condition is also established. The result is, moreover, extended to treat pole placement in the generalized LMI region, denoted by DR region. In addition to the requirement on pole location, two commonly exploited system performances in robust control, i.e. the H2 and Hinf designs, are also considered so that the multiobjective control by static output feedback is investigated in this thesis. To address robustness issue of the designed controllers, three different uncertainty descriptions, i.e. norm bounded uncertainty, positive real uncertainty, and polytopic uncertainty, are considered and LMI conditions for quadratic D stabilization by static output feedback have been derived. The bounded realness and positive realness with respect to an LMI D region are studied as well. Numerical examples are provided in the end of chapters 3, 4, and 5 to illustrate the obtained results there.

ABSTRACT An investigative study of Taiwan¡¦s temporary placement policy, management approaches and strategies concerning fishery workers imported from Mainland China From the perspectives of ¡¥economic repercussion,¡¦ ¡¥social impact,¡¦ ¡¥regulation¡¦ and ¡¥¡¦managerial strategy¡¦, this research seeks to derive, not only from the discussion of the necessity of employing mainland workers in Taiwan¡¦s fishing industry but also the examination of policy concerning the temporary placement of Mainland workers while working onboard Taiwanese fishing vessels, the core issues and bottlenecks facing Taiwan¡¦s imports of fishery workers from Mainland and the discrepancies between what we intend to and what we¡¦ve been able to achieve through the implementation of such policy. Researches have shown that by importing fishery workers from Mainland, Taiwan has indeed been able to temporarily alleviate the various problems caused by the labor shortage in its fishing industry. What¡¦s more, it has long become a regular practice for the Taiwanese government to formulate its policy concerning fishery workers¡¦ management and their temporary placement through the usual process of policy-making, after having taken Taiwan¡¦s national security into consideration. Similarly, the fishing-boat operators have been determining their own course of action regarding the placement and management of their employees. Their eventual decisions are more often than not based on what they perceive is the most cost-effective and also their personal preference and past experience in dealing with Mainland workers. However, several issues have been brought to surface by the researchers after they revealed evidence obtained from the study of historical facts, policy analysis and field interview. These issues include but are not limited to the following: one, the over-reliance of the Taiwanese fishing industry on the Mainland workers; two, the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the managing policy regarding the Mainland workers; and three, the lack of descent living conditions and the inadequate basic human rights granted to the Mainland workers. Several other issues have also been brought to attention after further analysis. Fishing boat operators and those involved with the Taiwan Provincial Fishery Association have expressed their concerns over the development and transformation of Taiwan¡¦s fishing industry. Most believe that problems such as the lack of governmental guidance, the strict application of fishing policy, the precarious fishing boat operating environment and the difficulty of transforming Taiwanese fishing industry will only be exacerbated by a ban on imports of fishery workers from Mainland. Such concerns only further confirm the fact that Chinese workers are vital not only to Taiwan¡¦s traditional fishing industry but also to the recreational fishing business. This research ends with the conclusion that mainland Chinese fishery workers are the major labor force needed for the development of Taiwan¡¦s fishing industry. The delicate political state between Taiwan and the Mainland however, has given rise to the many problems we see today in the employment process and placement management concerning Mainland fishery workers. Analysts have argued that the Taiwanese authority should pragmatically bring up such issues into discussion with its Mainland counterparts under the guideline of ¡¥general business affairs¡¦ in order to effectively resolve employment issues and to open up channels for more constructive dialogues. Furthermore, having taken into consideration matters such as national security and economic development, the authorities concerned need to improve the policy and guidelines under which temporary placement management is carried out and the protection of human rights is guaranteed in order to maximize the development of Taiwan¡¦s fishing industry and to broaden safety provisions for everyone involved.

Recently, wireless sensor networks have attracted a lot of attention. Such environments may consist of many inexpensive nodes, each capable of collecting, storing, and processing environmental information, and communicating with base station nodes through wireless links. In this paper, we survey a fundamental problem in wireless sensor networks, the energy consumption problem, which reflects how well a sensor field is deployed. Therefore, a critical aspect of applications with wireless sensor networks is network lifetime. Furthermore, one of the fundamental issues in sensor networks is the coverage problem, which reflects how well a sensor network is monitored or tracked by sensors. We formulate this problem as a decision problem, whose goal is to determine whether every point in the service area of the sensor network is covered by at least k sensors, where k is a given parameter. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient method based on Genetic Algorithms to deal with the deployment problem of wireless sensor networks such that it provides target-location and surveillance services.

This paper extends respectively Gale-Shapley¡¦s model and Balinski-Sonmez¡¦s model to analyze the college admission problem and the student placement problem in the case of Taiwan. Given the assumption that time is not considered as a critical dimension of this issue, it is argued that Taiwan¡¦s admission mechanism is in accordance with the criterion of the student optimal stable mechanism with number restriction. As well, the outcome of Taiwan¡¦s admission mechanism exhibits features which are similar to that of the student optimal stable matching with number restriction. However, with regard to Taiwan¡¦s student placement mechanism, it is demonstrated that inefficiency may prevail.

In chemical processes, online measurements of all the process variables and parameters required for process control, monitoring and optimization are seldom available. The use of soft sensors or observers is, therefore, highly significant as they can estimate unmeasured state variables from available process measurements. However, for reliable estimation by a soft sensor, the process measurements have to be placed at locations that allow reconstruction of process variables by the soft sensors. This dissertation presents a new technique for computing an optimal measurement structure for state and parameter estimation of stable nonlinear systems. The methodology can compute locations for individual sensors as well as networks of sensors where a trade-off between process information, sensor cost, and information redundancy is taken into account. The novel features of the approach are (1) that the nonlinear behavior that a process can exhibit over its operating region can be taken into account, (2) that the technique is applicable for systems described by lumped or by distributed parameter models, (3) that the technique reduces to already established methods, if the system is linear and only some of the objectives are examined, (4) that the results obtained from the procedure can be easily interpreted, and (5) that the resulting optimization problem can be decomposed, resulting in a significant reduction of the computational effort required for its solution. The other issue addressed in this dissertation is designing soft sensors for a given measurement structure. In case of high-dimensional systems, the application of conventional soft sensor or observer designs may not always be practical due to the high computational requirements or the resulting observers being too sensitive to measurement noise. To address these issues, this dissertation presents reduced-order observer design techniques for state estimation of high-dimensional chemical processes. The motivation behind these approaches is that subspaces, which are close to being unobservable, cannot be correctly reconstructed in a realistic setting due to measurement noise and inaccuracies in the model. The presented approaches make use of this observation and reconstruct the parts of the system where accurate state estimation is possible.

Taiwan Judicial diversion for juvenile delinquents has implemented near ten years after the Law Governing the Disposition of Juvenile Case revising in 1997. The implementation of judicial diversion depends on closely cooperating between the administration of social policy and the administration of justice, and the two have already been learning each other from the past ten years and has developed a set of cooperative mechanisms. However, because of the restriction of the policy and resource faces many difficulties during judicial diversion for juvenile delinquents implement course and the effect limited. For understand the question of judicial diversion for juvenile delinquents that this research uses the documents conference. First, this research probe into the theoretical foundation of diversion system. And then inspect the difficulties during the judicial diversion from foreign countries experiences of diversion. Finally, take a broad view of the full text and propose suggestions to judicial diversion for juvenile delinquents of our country as follow: 1. Set up specialized legislative procedure. 2. To combine the judicial diversion before police transfer. 3. Distinguish the nature, supervision power and responsibility of broad meaning judicial diversion. 4. Set up the comment the mechanism of judicial diversion under judicial system. 5. Relax the structuring standard of placement organization. 6. To safeguard the teenager¡¦s taught right. 7. To order the content of counseling after judicial diversion and assistant independence life program.

Texte remanié de: Diss. Ph. D.--Sociology--Göteborg university, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 220-232.

Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2008

With the rise in product placement and integration on television in recent years, much of the popular press has discussed it as being a new phenomenon, one that has come about as a result of shifts in how audiences view television. As audiences change their viewing practices due to modern technologies such as DVRs and online streaming, product placement has increased in the industry's attempts at still reaching audiences with commercial messages. This thesis seeks to prove that instead of the common current assumption that this increase in product placement on television is a new phenomenon, this surge in blurring the line between advertising and entertainment is actually part of a long history of doing so in American commercial television. Historically, it was very common in the 1950s to have fictional television characters promoting products or to have the product featured as part of the story line in an episode. In fact, I believe the instances are common enough to establish generic expectations from audiences and industry alike. By understanding product placement and other forms of television advertising as part of a genre, it allows for shows like 30 Rock to employ parodic techniques that make their instances of product integration obvious to their viewers. Both the history of advertainment and its generic conventions create a base for current shows to riff off of, thus allowing them to combine entertainment and advertising to please the networks, but acknowledging to their viewers what they are doing and parodying it so as not to alienate them. / text