教育部自九十年度起實施九年一貫英語教學課程，由於學生程度不一，班級人數過多，教學媒體不足，研究報告指出應該成立英語教學資源中心，提高教師教學品質，規劃線上輔助教學，以增進學生學習機會及學習效果。 本研究從知識管理角度探索英語線上輔助教學，建構英語教學內容知識結構模式及教學知識流程架構；俾使線上教學具備語意查詢機制，開啟英語線上輔助教學創新模式。 英語教學內容知識框架（English Content Knowledge Ontology）抽象化類別具多重之階層、對等及相依關係。將內容知識抽象化類別實體化，其類別與實體之集合，即為本範例所建構之知識框架。 本研究引介物件導向，視內容知識為一個物件，具有不同之狀態及行為；將狀態與行為封裝，物件與物件間藉由訊息進行協調動作，達成整體運作之功能。學生亦為學習流程中一個物件，具有不同之屬性及行為；透過訊息之交換、進行任務協調，達成學習之最終目的。 以UML表示法建構英語線上學習流程三大模型：功能模型─使用案例模型將使用者對系統的需求模型化，靜態模型─物件模型抽出物件，表現出靜態的結構，動態模型─表示出物件與物件之間訊息的流向。 研究中試圖探討有關國小英語線上輔助教學網站之現況。未來期望架構具備語意檢索機制之網站，採自由選擇學習、多元適切評量模式，能紀錄分析學習及測試結果，建立學習紀錄（包括學習風格、習性、態度及學習效果等等）以期增進學生學習機會，分享教學資源。 藉由新的學習模式，學生可以獲得自我成長的資源，同時希望可以喚起更多關懷英語教學網站之研究與發展，為我們的孩子及新的學習方式注入更多生命力。本研究所建構之模式，希望能作為未來發展兒童英語線上學習之參考，以提昇國內兒童英語教育實施之成效。 關鍵詞：九年一貫英語課程、知識管理、知識本體、語意資訊檢索、物件導向、UML / The Grade 1-9 English Teaching Curriculum was put into practice by the Ministry of Education in 2001. Due to the fact that there are too many students in each class and that there is not enough teaching media, the students fall into different levels in English proficiency. Some research concluded that an English Teaching Resource Centre should be established to enhance teachers’ teaching quality and to provide an on-line teaching aid, hence to give the students more learning opportunities and to improve their learning effects. In this study, the on-line English teaching aid was discussed from the viewpoint of Knowledge Management. English Content Knowledge Ontology and English Teaching Knowledge Flow Architecture were suggested to provide an on-line teaching aid with a semantic retrieval system so as to initiate an innovative model for on-line English teaching aids. The English Content Knowledge, Ontology, a model of English domain knowledge, defines the concepts and their attributes, as well as the multiple relationships between the concepts: Class（vertical）, Reciprocity（horizontal）, and dependency（grouping）relationships. An “instance” is hypostatized from an abstract class, and the integration of the abstract classes and the instances represent the English Content Knowledge Ontology built up in this research. The present study has introduced Object Oriented concept that deemed the English content knowledge as an object and as an instance with different Attributes and Operations. Encapsulated attributes and operations engaged in coordination among different objects through exchanges of messages, and resulted in the achievement of the overall system operations. Meanwhile, each student would also be an object in the course of the study and possess different attributes and operations. The final goal, learning, could be achieved through the exchanges of messages for mission coordination. UML was applied in the study to construct the three major models in the on-line English learning. Functional Model – Use case Diagram to model the user’s requirements for the system； Static Model – Class Diagram to abstract an object for showing a static architecture； Dynamic Model – Sequence Diagram to describe the information flow among the objects. This research also attempted to explore the present circumstances of the primary school’s on-line English teaching aid websites. It illustrated the needs of developing architecture for a website with semantic retrieval functions, multiple choice ways of learning and diversified modes for learning assessments It will be able to record and analyse the learning effect and test the result, building up learning records (including learning style, habit, attitude and learning effect) in order to provide each student with more learning opportunities and to share teaching resources with all of the teachers. Through the new learning model, the students are able to obtain learning resources to grow by themselves. The present study also urged more concern on the research and development of the English teaching website in order to provide more vitality to our children and their new learning methods. The model built up in this study may serve as a reference in the development of effective on-line English learning for children. Key words: Grade 1-9 English Teaching Curriculum, Knowledge Management, Ontology, Semantic Retrieval System, Object Oriented, UML

L'objectif de cette thèse, menée dans un cadre industriel, est d'apparier des contenus textuels médiatiques. Plus précisément, il s'agit d'apparier à des articles de presse en ligne des vidéos pertinentes, pour lesquelles nous disposons d'une description textuelle. Notre problématique relève donc exclusivement de l'analyse de matériaux textuels, et ne fait intervenir aucune analyse d'image ni de langue orale. Surviennent alors des questions relatives à la façon de comparer des objets textuels, ainsi qu'aux critères mobilisés pour estimer leur degré de similarité. L'un de ces éléments est selon nous la similarité thématique de leurs contenus, autrement dit le fait que deux documents doivent relater le même sujet pour former une paire pertinente. Ces problématiques relèvent du domaine de la recherche d'information (ri), dans lequel nous nous ancrons principalement. Par ailleurs, lorsque l'on traite des contenus d'actualité, la dimension temporelle est aussi primordiale et les problématiques qui l'entourent relèvent de travaux ayant trait au domaine du topic detection and tracking (tdt) dans lequel nous nous inscrivons également.Le système d'appariement développé dans cette thèse distingue donc différentes étapes qui se complètent. Dans un premier temps, l'indexation des contenus fait appel à des méthodes de traitement automatique des langues (tal) pour dépasser la représentation classique des textes en sac de mots. Ensuite, deux scores sont calculés pour rendre compte du degré de similarité entre deux contenus : l'un relatif à leur similarité thématique, basé sur un modèle vectoriel de ri; l'autre à leur proximité temporelle, basé sur une fonction empirique. Finalement, un modèle de classification appris à partir de paires de documents, décrites par ces deux scores et annotées manuellement, permet d'ordonnancer les résultats.L'évaluation des performances du système a elle aussi fait l'objet de questionnements dans ces travaux de thèse. Les contraintes imposées par les données traitées et le besoin particulier de l'entreprise partenaire nous ont en effet contraints à adopter une alternative au protocole classique d'évaluation en ri, le paradigme de Cranfield. / The goal of this thesis, conducted within an industrial framework, is to pair textual media content. Specifically, the aim is to pair on-line news articles to relevant videos for which we have a textual description. The main issue is then a matter of textual analysis, no image or spoken language analysis was undertaken in the present study. The question that arises is how to compare these particular objects, the texts, and also what criteria to use in order to estimate their degree of similarity. We consider that one of these criteria is the topic similarity of their content, in other words, the fact that two documents have to deal with the same topic to form a relevant pair. This problem fall within the field of information retrieval (ir) which is the main strategy called upon in this research. Furthermore, when dealing with news content, the time dimension is of prime importance. To address this aspect, the field of topic detection and tracking (tdt) will also be explored.The pairing system developed in this thesis distinguishes different steps which complement one another. In the first step, the system uses natural language processing (nlp) methods to index both articles and videos, in order to overcome the traditionnal bag-of-words representation of texts. In the second step, two scores are calculated for an article-video pair: the first one reflects their topical similarity and is based on a vector space model; the second one expresses their proximity in time, based on an empirical function. At the end of the algorithm, a classification model learned from manually annotated document pairs is used to rank the results.Evaluation of the system's performances raised some further questions in this doctoral research. The constraints imposed both by the data and the specific need of the partner company led us to adapt the evaluation protocol traditionnal used in ir, namely the cranfield paradigm. We therefore propose an alternative solution for evaluating the system that takes all our constraints into account.

Orientador: Ricardo da Silva Torres / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T11:00:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Penatti_OtavioAugustoBizetto_M.pdf: 2250748 bytes, checksum: 57d5b2f9120a8eae69ee9881d363e9ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A crescente quantidade de imagens geradas e disponibilizadas atualmente tem eito aumentar a necessidade de criação de sistemas de busca para este tipo de informação. Um método promissor para a realização da busca de imagens e a busca por conteúdo. Este tipo de abordagem considera o conteúdo visual das imagens, como cor, textura e forma de objetos, para indexação e recuperação. A busca de imagens por conteúdo tem como componente principal o descritor de imagens. O descritor de imagens é responsável por extrair propriedades visuais das imagens e armazená-las em vetores de características. Dados dois vetores de características, o descritor compara-os e retorna um valor de distancia. Este valor quantifica a diferença entre as imagens representadas pelos vetores. Em um sistema de busca de imagens por conteúdo, a distancia calculada pelo descritor de imagens é usada para ordenar as imagens da base em relação a uma determinada imagem de consulta. Esta dissertação realiza um estudo comparativo de descritores de imagens considerando a Web como cenário de uso. Este cenário apresenta uma quantidade muito grande de imagens e de conteúdo bastante heterogêneo. O estudo comparativo realizado nesta dissertação é feito em duas abordagens. A primeira delas considera a complexidade assinto tica dos algoritmos de extração de vetores de características e das funções de distancia dos descritores, os tamanhos dos vetores de características gerados pelos descritores e o ambiente no qual cada descritor foi validado originalmente. A segunda abordagem compara os descritores em experimentos práticos em quatro bases de imagens diferentes. Os descritores são avaliados segundo tempo de extração, tempo para cálculos de distancia, requisitos de armazenamento e eficácia. São comparados descritores de cor, textura e forma. Os experimentos são realizados com cada tipo de descritor independentemente e, baseado nestes resultados, um conjunto de descritores é avaliado em uma base com mais de 230 mil imagens heterogêneas, que reflete o conteúdo encontrado na Web. A avaliação de eficácia dos descritores na base de imagens heterogêneas é realizada por meio de experimentos com usuários reais. Esta dissertação também apresenta uma ferramenta para a realização automatizada de testes comparativos entre descritores de imagens. / Abstract: The growth in size of image collections and the worldwide availability of these collections has increased the demand for image retrieval systems. A promising approach to address this demand is to retrieve images based on image content (Content-Based Image Retrieval). This approach considers the image visual properties, like color, texture and shape of objects, for indexing and retrieval. The main component of a content-based image retrieval system is the image descriptor. The image descriptor is responsible for encoding image properties into feature vectors. Given two feature vectors, the descriptor compares them and computes a distance value. This value quantifies the difference between the images represented by their vectors. In a content-based image retrieval system, these distance values are used to rank database images with respect to their distance to a given query image. This dissertation presents a comparative study of image descriptors considering the Web as the environment of use. This environment presents a huge amount of images with heterogeneous content. The comparative study was conducted by taking into account two approaches. The first approach considers the asymptotic complexity of feature vectors extraction algorithms and distance functions, the size of the feature vectors generated by the descriptors and the environment where each descriptor was validated. The second approach compares the descriptors in practical experiments using four different image databases. The evaluation considers the time required for features extraction, the time for computing distance values, the storage requirements and the effectiveness of each descriptor. Color, texture, and shape descriptors were compared. The experiments were performed with each kind of descriptor independently and, based on these results, a set of descriptors was evaluated in an image database containing more than 230 thousand heterogeneous images, reflecting the content existent in the Web. The evaluation of descriptors effectiveness in the heterogeneous database was made by experiments using real users. This dissertation also presents a tool for executing experiments aiming to evaluate image descriptors. / Mestrado / Sistemas de Informação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-05-15T13:33:06Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - André Rodrigues Coimbra - 2014.pdf: 5214859 bytes, checksum: d951502129d7be5d60b6a785516c3ad1 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-05-15T13:37:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - André Rodrigues Coimbra - 2014.pdf: 5214859 bytes, checksum: d951502129d7be5d60b6a785516c3ad1 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-15T13:37:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - André Rodrigues Coimbra - 2014.pdf: 5214859 bytes, checksum: d951502129d7be5d60b6a785516c3ad1 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-28 / Ranking functions have a vital role in the performance of information retrieval systems ensuring that documents more related to the user’s search need – represented as a query – are shown in the top results, preventing the user from having to examine a range of documents that are not really relevant. Therefore, this work uses Genetic Programming (GP), an Evolutionary Computation technique, to find ranking functions automaticaly and systematicaly. Moreover, in this project the technique of GP was developed following a strategy that exploits parallelism through graphics processing units. Other known methods in the context of information retrieval as classification committees and the Lazy strategy were combined with the proposed approach – called Finch. These combinations were only feasible due to the GP nature and the use of parallelism. The experimental results with the Finch, regarding the ranking functions quality, surpassed the results of several strategies known in the literature. Considering the time performance, significant gains were also achieved. The solution developed exploiting the parallelism spends around twenty times less time than the solution using only the central processing unit. / Funções de ordenação têm um papel vital no desempenho de sistemas de recuperação de informação garantindo que os documentos mais relacionados com o desejo do usuário – representado através de uma consulta – sejam trazidos no topo dos resultados, evitando que o usuário tenha que analisar uma série de documentos que não sejam realmente relevantes. Assim, utiliza-se a Programação Genética (PG), uma técnica da Computação Evolucionária, para descobrir de forma automática e sistemática funções de ordenação. Além disso, neste trabalho a técnica de PG foi desenvolvida seguindo uma estratégia que explora o paralelismo através de unidades gráficas de processamento. Foram agregados ainda na abordagem proposta – denominada Finch – outros métodos conhecidos no contexto de recuperação de informação como os comitês de classificação e a estratégia Lazy. Sendo que essa complementação só foi viável devido a natureza da PG e em virtude da utilização do paralelismo. Os resultados experimentais encontrados com a Finch, em relação à qualidade das funções de ordenação descobertas, superaram os resultados de diversas estratégias conhecidas na literatura. Considerando o desempenho da abordagem em função do tempo, também foram alcançados ganhos significativos. A solução desenvolvida explorando o paralelismo gasta, em média, vinte vezes menos tempo que a solução utilizando somente a unidade central de processamento.

Notre thèse a pour objectif la construction d’un système omni-langage de recherche de mots dans les documents numérisés. Nous nous plaçons dans le contexte où le contenu du document est homogène (ce qui est le cas pour les documents anciens où l’écriture est souvent bien soignée et mono-scripteur) et la connaissance préalable du document (le langage, le scripteur, le type d’écriture, le tampon, etc.) n’est pas connue. Grâce à ce système, l'utilisateur peut composer librement et intuitivement sa requête et il peut rechercher des mots dans des documents homogènes de n’importe quel langage, sans détecter préalablement une occurrence du mot à rechercher. Le point clé du système que nous proposons est les invariants, qui sont les formes les plus fréquentes dans la collection de documents. Pour le requêtage, l’utilisateur pourra créer le mot à rechercher en utilisant les invariants (la composition des requêtes), grâce à une interface visuelle. Pour la recherche des mots, les invariants peuvent servir à construire des signatures structurelles pour représenter les images de mots. Nous présentons dans cette thèse la méthode pour extraire automatiquement les invariants à partir de la collection de documents, la méthode pour évaluer la qualité des invariants ainsi que les applications des invariants à la recherche de mots et à la composition des requêtes. / The objective of our thesis is to build an omni-language word retrieval system for scanned documents. We place ourselves in the context where the content of documents is homogenous and the prior knowledge about the document (the language, the writer, the writing style, etc.) is not known. Due to this system, user can freely and intuitively compose his/her query. With the query created by the user, he/she can retrieve words in homogenous documents of any language, without finding an occurrence of the word to search. The key of our proposed system is the invariants, which are writing pieces that frequently appeared in the collection of documents. The invariants can be used in query making process in which the user selects and composes appropriate invariants to make the query. They can be also used as structural descriptor to characterize word images in the retrieval process. We introduce in this thesis our method for automatically extracting invariants from document collection, our evaluation method for evaluating the quality of invariants and invariant’s applications in the query making process as well as in the retrieval process.

Science educators are currently facing the challenge of reforming the practices of science education. Publications of various science and educational organizations have established new criteria for accomplishing this goal. The new goal of science educators is scientific literacy for all.

Diese Diplomarbeit führt kurz in das Thema Information Retrieval mit den Schwerpunkten Evaluation und Evaluationskampagnen ein. Im Anschluss wird anhand der Nachteile eines vorhandenen Retrieval Systems ein neues Retrieval Framework zur experimentellen Evaluation von Ansätzen aus dem Information Retrieval entworfen und umgesetzt. Die Komponenten des Frameworks sind dabei so abstrakt angelegt, dass verschiedene, bestehende Retrieval Systeme, wie zum Beispiel Apache Lucene oder Terrier, integriert werden können. Anhand einer Referenzimplementierung für den ImageCLEF Photographic Retrieval Task des ImageCLEF Tracks des Cross Language Evaluation Forums wird die Funktionsfähigkeit des Frameworks überprüft und bestätigt.

M. Tech. (Department of Process Control and Computer System, Faculty of Engineering and Technology), Vaal University of Technology. / Personal health record system (PHRS) is a tool that is used in maintaining the health and wellness of an individual as well as helping with illness of an individual. PHRS gives the individual access to a wide range of credible health information, data, and knowledge. Individuals can use that access to improve their health and manage their diseases. Patients with chronic illness can track and manage their health in conjunction with their health provider, this will promote early intervention when they encounter an abnormality or complications. Continuous monitoring and storing of health information has been a challenge for patients and health providers. Personal health data monitoring and retrieval system for health providers was designed and implemented. The main aim of this study was to develop an accurate, secure and flexible personal health data monitoring and retrieval system for health providers (PHRS). This was achieved. The research showed that when a patient health information (Electrocardiogram (ECG) and temperature) was monitored, the heartbeat (ECG) sensor output the value as an analog value to the signal processing (NodeMCU) which was then converted to a digital value. The temperature sensor used in this research is a digital sensor which lowers the amount of ADC conversion that was done. The digital values are displayed on LCD, its send to a personal health data storage system which was designed for health information storage purposes. It also sends the value to a retrieval system which is an android application that is connected to the data storage system to display health information to the health providers from a remote location. Personal health data storage and the retrieval system are secure due to the Message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol used in the application layer. The MQTT protocol is secure due to the secure socket layer (SSL) which is an encryption based on presentation layer embedded inside the MQTT protocol. After the comparison of the software simulation and the prototype test, the differences in the value for the heartbeat and temperature sensor indicate 0.04 BPM and 0.04 oC which shows the accuracy of the sensing circuit. Personal health data monitoring and retrieval system developed is applicable and useful to multiple entities in and around South Africa such as; Ministry of health, hospitals, sport and recreations.

In der Intralogistik führen technologieabhängig gekoppelte, drehzahlvariable Mehrmotorensysteme zu hohen Schwankungen im elektrischen Leistungsbedarf, der u.a. von der transportierten Gütermenge abhängt. Aufgrund der Überlappung der Lastanforderungen einzelner Verbraucher entstehen beträchtliche Lastmaxima, die das Versorgungsnetz belasten und eine Überdimensionierung der Infrastruktur erfordern. Ein räumlich ausgedehnter Gleichspannungsverbund in Kombination mit einem Energiespeichersystem sowie die Anpassung der Steuerung bieten Lösungen zur Verringerung der Netzanschlussleistung und des Energiebedarfs. Darüber hinaus ermöglichen solche Systeme eine effektive Rückgewinnung von potentieller und Bremsenergie. Am Beispiel eines Lagersystems mit Regalbediengeräten wird ermittelt, welche Reduktion des Netzleistungsbedarfs und Energieverbrauchs erreicht werden kann. Dabei werden ebenfalls die Auswirkungen auf die Durchsatzleistung des Systems untersucht. Dazu kommen Modelle des Bewegungsablaufes, der Komponenten der Antriebsstränge mit Abbildung von Mechanik, Getriebe, Motoren, Umrichter und der Speicher in einem Materialflussmodell zum Einsatz. Die Materialflusssimulationsumgebung wird dazu um die kontinuierlichen Modelle zu einem kombinierten Systemmodell erweitert und leistungsbegrenzende Steuerungsansätze im Zusammenwirken mit dem erweiterten Gleichspannungsverbund sowie den elektrischen Speichersystemen analysiert. Abschließend erfolgt die Ermittlung der Wirtschaftlichkeit der einzelnen Lösungen. Das Ergebnis ist ein Verfahren zur effizienten Betriebsweise von Intralogistiksystemen sowie eine Methode zur Dimensionierung eines räumlich ausgedehnten Gleichspannungsverbunds mit elektrischem Speicher. Zusammenfassend werden wirtschaftliche Maßnahmen identifiziert, die elektrische Lastmaxima reduzieren, die Schwankungen in der externen Energieversorgung verringern und die Energieeffizienz von Intralogistiksystemen verbessern. / In intralogistics, technologically linked, variable-speed multi-motor systems cause high fluctuations in electrical power demand due to variations in the amount of transported goods. These fluctuations often result in overlapping load demands by various consumers, which strain the supply network and require overdimensioning of infrastructure. To address this issue, a physically extended DC link, in combination with an energy storage system as well as adapted control, can reduce both grid power demand and energy consumption while allowing for the recovery of potential and braking energy. To evaluate the achievable reduction of grid power and energy demand, models were developed for individual components such as drive trains with motor, inverter, storage, axis coordination and material flow simulation with sequence control. An example of a warehouse system with storage and retrieval machines was used to determine the effects on throughput performance. To achieve this, the material flow simulation environment was extended to a combined system model, and performance-limiting control approaches were analyzed in interaction with the extended DC link and storage. Subsequently, economic feasibility of the individual solutions was determined. The result is a procedure for efficient operation of intralogistics systems and a methodology for dimensioning a physically extended DC link with electrical storage. The overall objective was to identify economic solutions that reduce electrical load peaks, balance external energy supply, and make intralogistics systems more energy-efficient. In conclusion, this study identifies economically viable solutions that can reduce electrical load peaks, balance external energy supply, and improve energy efficiency of intralogistics systems.

Submitted by Elba Lopes (elba.lopes@fecap.br) on 2017-04-04T21:36:02Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Paulo Rog??rio Gomes Gon??alves.pdf: 5642577 bytes, checksum: deb01b20b62885c60e71197343469d33 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-04T21:36:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Paulo Rog??rio Gomes Gon??alves.pdf: 5642577 bytes, checksum: deb01b20b62885c60e71197343469d33 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-17 / This study sought to investigate how the strategic positioning of Accounting Organizations with the implementation of the Public Digital Bookkeeping System - SPED. For this carried out a quantitative classification, descriptive and survey, in which a questionnaire was applied to obtain the data. The results showed that 83.30% of survey participants accounting organizations opted for the generic strategy of "differentiation" (PORTER, 2004), that is, they positioned themselves in order to provide services with higher quality and invest in their organizational structures, seeking to offer superior benefits those of competitors. / Este trabalho procurou investigar qual o posicionamento estrat??gico das organiza????es cont??beis com a implanta????o do Sistema P??blico de Escritura????o Digital - SPED. Para isso realizou-se uma pesquisa de classifica????o quantitativa, descritiva e de levantamento (survey), no qual foi aplicado um question??rio para a obten????o dos dados. Os resultados demonstraram que 83,30% das organiza????es cont??beis participantes da pesquisa optaram pela estrat??gia gen??rica de "Diferencia????o" (PORTER, 2004), ou seja, se posicionaram visando prestar servi??os com maior qualidade e investir nas suas estruturas organizacionais, procurando oferecer benef??cios superiores aos dos concorrentes.