This study delves into the comparative operational effectiveness of non-coordinated, bottom-up, and top-down coordinated control models within Distributed Energy Storage Systems (DESS) and Electric Vehicle (EV) networks. Employing meticulous data analysis, this research evaluates power demand and supply dynamics within the infrastructure and buildings, aiming to optimize energy usage and storage. The analysis involves comprehensive steps: descriptive statistical breakdown, understanding energy patterns across buildings, and a comparative assessment of the control models. Visual representations and graphs aid in depicting energy patterns, emphasizing the distinctive characteristics and effectiveness of each control model. The findings reinforce the superiority of the top-down coordinated control model in managing supply-demand imbalances, echoing established literature.

[pt] Séries Temporais que podem ser organizadas em níveis de acordo com, por exemplo, o tipo de produto, região geográfica, classe de consumo, dentre outros, são chamadas de Séries Temporais Hierárquicas (ou agrupadas, quando possuem mais de uma variável de agregação). Informações referentes à previsão destas séries são fundamentais para a tomada de decisão seja no nível gerencial ou operacional de todo tipo de negócio. Para atender a essas informações, são utilizadas técnicas de previsão hierárquica, que têm como foco reduzir os custos e melhorar a acurácia da previsão. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar abordagens para agregar/desagregar previsões feitas para Séries Temporais Hierárquicas ou Agrupadas. Como resultado do trabalho destaca-se a apresentação das abordagens que representam o estado da arte em previsão hierárquica: Reconciliação Ótima (também chamada de Combinação Ótima) e Top-Down baseada na Proporção das Previsões. Ainda referente aos resultados destaca-se a análise das diversas técnicas de previsão hierárquica encontradas na literatura aplicadas a duas séries clássicas do contexto brasileiro: a série agrupada de consumo de energia elétrica agregada por região do país e classe de consumo, e a série hierárquica de demanda de transporte aéreo representada pela variável RPK (Revenue Passenger Kilometers). O desempenho preditivo das abordagens foi avaliado com base na métrica MAPE, e o teste de Diebold-Mariano foi aplicado para verificar se a diferença no desempenho das abordagens novas e tradicionais é significativa. / [en] Time Series which can be arranged in levels according to, for example, the type of product, geography, consumption class, among others, are called Hierarchical Time Series (or grouped, if they have more than one aggregation variable). Information relating these series prediction is fundamental for decision-making at the management or operational level of all types of business. To meet these information, hierarchical forecasting techniques are used, which are focused on reducing costs and improving the accuracy of prediction. The objective of this work is to study approaches to aggregate / disaggregate predictions for Hierarchical or Grouped Time Series. As a result of the work there is the presentation of the approaches that represent the state of the art hierarchical forecast: Optimal Reconciliation approach (also called the Optimal Combination) and Top-Down Forecast Proportions approach. Still on the results highlight the analysis of the various hierarchical forecasting techniques found in the literature applied to two classic series of the Brazilian context: a grouped series of electricity consumption aggregated by region of the country and consumer class, and the hierarchical series air transport demand represented by the variable RPK (Revenue Passenger Kilometers). The predictive performance of the approaches was evaluated based on the metric MAPE and the Diebold-Mariano test was used to verify that the difference in performance of new and traditional approaches is significant.

Material flows in Urban Metabolism play a key role for the purpose of building urban areas and growing the economy. There is lack of standard method for accounting of material flows within and across the boundaries of urban systems. This thesis aims to assess the Urban Metabolism of small-scale urban area through the application of the Economic Wide Material Flow Analysis and enhance the scope of the method by adding water flows, which could potentially become a basis for the development of the method in the future. First, the application of the Economic Wide Material Flow Analysis in urban areas was studied through a literature review and then the enhanced Economic Wide Material Flow Analysis was applied to Stockholm Royal Seaport using bottom-up data. Using bottom-up data resulted in detailed information, however, full comparison between urban areas was not possible due to data gaps. The results showed the importance of the method for enhancing Urban Metabolism analysis and amending resource management. Spotting available secondary and recycled resources in the socioeconomic system as a part of application of the method is beneficial to sustain the natural resources use. Since still the method is developing for small-scale urban areas, a mixture of this method and other recommended methods by having focus on data collection is suggested for integrating databases and comprehensive analysis. / Under de senaste decennierna har stadsområden expanderat snabbare än tidigare. Genom att öka människors tendens att bo i stora städer kommer naturresurser att behövas för att tillgodose stadsområdens växande behov. Materialflöden i stadsmetabolismen spelar en nyckelroll för att bygga miljövänligt och växande ekonomin. Det saknas en standardmetod för redovisning av materialflöden inom och över gränserna för stadssystem. Denna avhandling syftar till att utvärdera stadsmetabolismen genom att använda tillämpning av bred ekonomisk materialflödesredovisning och förbättra metodens omfattning genom att lägga till vatten- och genomströmningsflöden som potentiellt kan bli bas för utvecklingen av metoden i framtiden. Först studerades tillämpningen av ekonomiskt bred materialflödesredovisning i urbana områden genom litteraturöversikt och sedan tillämpades den förbättrade analysen av ekonomiskt bred materialflöde på Norra Djurgårdsstaden med hjälp av bottom-up data. Att använda bottom-up-data resulterade i detaljerad information, men fullständig jämförelse mellan stadsområden var inte möjlig på grund av dataklyftan Resultaten visade vikten av materialflödesredovisning för att förbättra urban metabolismanalys och ändra resurshantering. Att hitta tillgängliga sekundära och återvunna resurser i det socioekonomiska systemet som en del av tillämpningen av metoden är fördelaktigt för att upprätthålla användningen av naturresurser. Eftersom metoden fortfarande utvecklas för småskaliga stadsområden föreslås en blandning av denna metod och andra rekommenderade metoder såsom, livscykelbedömning, genom att fokusera på datainsamling för att integrera databas och omfattande analys.

L2 listening research has moved toward a focus on understanding the process of listening. However, there are still few detailed studies of L2 listening that reveal learners’ comprehension processes when listening to scripted and unscripted listening texts. Studies in which such processing has been discussed have lacked detailed diagnoses of how bottom-up and top-down processing interactively affect listeners’ comprehension. This study was designed to show how listeners’ process and comprehend texts, with a focus on how their bottom-up and top-down processing either assist or impede their comprehension. In this study, a group of 30 L1 Japanese university English language learners’ listening abilities were diagnosed. The 30 participants were at three listening proficiency levels—high, mid, and low—based on TOEIC listening proficiency scores. The diagnostic procedure involved participants listening to two scripted and two unscripted listening texts and then reporting what they comprehended through three tasks—L1 oral recalls, L2 repetitions, and verbal reports. Other data was also collected in the study to relate the comprehension of listening texts to other important listening-related variables including listening proficiency, lexical knowledge, listening anxiety, study abroad experience, short-term phonological memory, and working memory. The main finding of the study was that miscomprehension of listening texts was invariably multi-causal, with a combination of both bottom-up and top-down factors leading to comprehension difficulty. Although not a new finding, the study offered more detail than current research about how bottom-up and top-down processing occur interactively. Regarding the overall difficulty of the listening texts, unscripted texts were more difficult to comprehend than scripted texts, and high-proficiency participants had fewer listening difficulties overall than mid- and low-proficiency participants. Quantitative and qualitative results revealed common processing difficulties among all participants due to L1-related phonological decoding issues (e.g., /l/ vs. /r/), connected speech, unknown lexis, and a lack of familiarity with unscripted speech hesitation phenomena (e.g., um, like). Qualitative transcript examples showed how top-down knowledge influenced misinterpretations of words and phrases interactively with bottom-up information, making inaccurate understandings of listening difficult to overcome. In addition to revealing participants’ difficulties and the severity of their comprehension difficulties, the diagnostic procedure showed common strengths—key words and phrases understood well by participants. High-frequency vocabulary and shorter utterances were both shown to be comprehended well. Finally, quantitative results in the study revealed relationships of participants’ listening comprehension with other important listening related variables. Listening proficiency and listening anxiety had strong relationships with listening comprehension of the listening texts. Working memory and short-term phonological memory had no relationship with listening text comprehension. Finally, study abroad experience showed a relationship with comprehension, but with many caveats, and listening vocabulary knowledge was not related with comprehension, but again, with numerous caveats to consider. Based on the results, theoretical and pedagogical implications were posed. Theoretical implications from the study relate to the understanding of four concerns in L2 listening research. Mainly, data in the study will aid researchers’ understanding of how L2 English listeners process speech interactively (i.e., with bottom-up and top-down information) for comprehension, how L2 English listeners experience connected speech, how L2 listeners deal with unknown lexis, and how L2 listeners experience difficulties with features of unscripted speech. Pedagogical implications of the study include the need for increased teacher and learner awareness of the complexity of L2 listening, the need to have learners to track their own listening development, and the need for teachers to expose learners to unscripted listening texts and make them familiar with features of unscripted speech. Finally, suggestions for further research are posed, including conducting diagnostics assessments of L2 listening with listeners of different L1s and with more varied proficiency levels, using different diagnostic procedures to examine L2 listening comprehension, and using more instruments to understand listening-related variables’ relationships with L2 listening comprehension. / Teaching & Learning

People and the project teams are the ones who drive us above and beyond. The literature on project management has a strong focus on developing superhero project managers who can lead, transform, and grow project teams using numerous projects management tools. Projects are known as a team effort yet the research on top performing project teams, I argue are not comprehensive. There are only a handful of studies done on how to lead project teams towards top performance. In the recent years, the concept of shared leadership and co-creation has been developing and pointing even more towards the need to work with team processes and that the project management is about the team and not the project manager. In this study I have examined the key elements of values, standards and roles and how top performing teams in projects are developed and sustained. This study is based on ten comprehensive interviews with project award winners and their perception of the key elements to their success stories. The results of the study have indicated the importance of empowering the people and the project team towards selfmanaging team. The results reveal further that bringing up a value-discussion in project teams and specifically top performing ones might be perceived as counterproductive. / Människor och projektteam är de som driver oss att nå utöver det vanliga. Litteraturen om projektledning har ett starkt fokus på att utveckla superhjälteprojektledare som kan leda, transformera och utveckla projektteam med hjälp av många projektledningsverktyg. Projekt är kända för att vara en laginsats men forskningen om toppresterande projektteam och hur man når excellens i projekt hävdar jag inte är heltäckande. Det finns bara en handfull studier gjorda om hur man leder projektteam till att bli toppresterande. Under de senaste åren har begreppet delat ledarskap och samskapande utvecklats och pekar ännu mer mot behovet av att arbeta med teamprocesser och att projektledningen handlar om teamet och inte projektledaren. I den här studien har jag undersökt nyckelelementen värderingar, standarder och roller och hur toppresterande team i utvecklas och upprätthålls. Denna studie är baserad på tio omfattande intervjuer med projektpristagare och deras uppfattning om nyckelelementen i deras framgångsberättelse. Resultaten har visat vikten av att stärka människor och projektteamet mot att bli självstyrande team. Resultaten avslöjar vidare att det kan uppfattas som kontraproduktivt att ta upp en värdediskussion i projektteam och specifikt de som är toppresterande.

The purpose of this study was to increase the knowledge of how social workers who work with support in daily living (SIDL) view their professional role, their work assignments and the obstacles and possibilities in their work. This study aims to answer what social workers within SIDL do in their work and how they view their role, what obstacles and possibilities they face, what the organizational conditions look like as well as how they experience SIDL has changed over time. Data was collected through 6 semi-structured interviews with social workers who work with SIDL. The interviews were inductively analyzed. New Public management (NPM) was later applied as a theoretical framework to better understand the results. Five themes have been identified: the shell of SIDL, the core of SIDL, a catch-all service, work environment and top-down management within the organization. The result of this study shows that pedagogy and flexibility are some of the core elements in SIDL, and that NPM is not compatible with these core elements. The results also indicate a stronger presence of NPM as governing logic over time.

Background: Prior literature on diversity within BODs and TMTs is predominantly situated within thecontext of conventional organizations. However, sports clubs differ somewhat fromconventional organizations due to the inclusion of an additional performance metric toconsider, sports performance, which stands as their foremost priority. As sports clubsoperate under a heightened-paced landscape with far more external pressure, the necessityto extend governance research into this rather new area of investigation is of interest. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the impact of BOD and TMT diversity on sportsclubs’ sports and financial performance and how media influence this relationship. Method: This thesis employs a deductive approach, utilizing a quantitative method, to investigatethe research objectives. The analysis is based on 144 observations from 24 distinct Swedishsports clubs. Depending on the performance metrics being measured, the data is examinedusing either multiple linear regression or ordinal regression. Conclusion: The study supports three of its eight hypotheses, namely that BOD diversity has a positiverelationship with sports performance and that media moderate the relationship betweenTMT diversity, partially BOD diversity and financial performance.

Background: It has become increasingly important for all corporations to make environmentally friendly decisions and consider environmental CSR. Previous studies have shown that effective corporate governance and diversity of BoDs and TMTs can affect sustainability reporting positively. However, prior literature has been underrepresented regarding SMEs. It is currently voluntary for these types of firms to report on sustainability, but new requirements are underway. Additionally, family-owned firms differ in the context of environmental CSR reporting due to the interests of the family, and that these types of firms tend to not consider the diversity as much as non-family-owned firms.    Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how the diversity of BoDs and TMTs in Swedish stock-listed SMEs impacts environmental CSR reporting. Additionally, how family firms moderate this relationship.     Methodology: This study adopts a positivistic view, follows the deductive approach, and uses a quantitative methodology. The collected data was gathered through databases, annual reports, and other sources to get information about the diversity aspects and sustainability reporting. This was analyzed by using the Spearman correlation matrix and multiple linear regressions.    Findings: The findings of this study only partially support the relationship between the diversity of BoDs and environmental CSR reporting. There was no support regarding the relationship between the diversity of TMTs and environmental CSR reporting. Family firms as a moderating factor to this, could also not be supported.

This PhD dissertation proposes innovative methodologies to support the designing and the mapping process of embedded systems. Due to the increasing requirements, embedded systems have become quite complex, as they consist of several partially dependent heterogeneous components. Systematic Design Space Exploration (DSE) methodologies are required to support the near-optimal design of embedded systems within the available short time-to-market. In this target domain, the existing DSE approaches either require too much exploration time to find near-optimal designs due to the high number of parameters and the correlations between the parameters of the target domain, or they end up with a less efficient trade-off result in order to find a design within acceptable time. In this dissertation we present an alternative DSE methodology, which is based on systematic creation of scalable and near-optimal DSE frameworks. The frameworks describe all the available options of the exploration space in a finite set of classes. A set of principles is presented which is used in the reusable DSE methodology to create a scalable and near-optimal framework and to efficiently use it to derive scalable and near-optimal design solutions within a Pareto trade-off space. The DSE reusable methodology is applied to several stages of the embedded system design flow to derive scalable and near-optimal methodologies. The first part of the dissertation is dedicated to the development of mapping methodologies for storing large embedded system data arrays in the lower layers of the on-chip background data memory hierarchy, and the second part to the DSE methodologies for the processing part of SW/HW architectures in embedded systems including the foreground memory systems. Existing mapping approaches for the background memory part are either enumerative, symbolic/polyhedral and worst case (heuristics) approximations. The enumerative approaches require too much exploration time, the worst case approximation lead to overestimation of the storage requirements, whereas the symbolic/polytope approaches are scalable and near-optimal for solid and regular iteration spaces. By applying the new reusable DSE methodology, we have developed an intra-signal in-place optimization methodology which is scalable and near-optimal for highly irregular access schemes. Scalable and near-optimal solutions for the different cases of the proposed methodology have been developed for the cases of non-overlapping and overlapping store and load access schemes. To support the proposed methodology, a new representation of the array access schemes, which is appropriate to express the irregular shapes in a scalable and near-optimal way, is presented. A general pattern formulation has been proposed which describes the access scheme in a compact and repetitive way. Pattern operations were developed to combine the patterns in a scalable and near-optimal way under all the potential pattern combination cases, which may exist in the application under study. In the processing oriented part of the dissertation, a DSE methodology is developed for mapping instance of a predefined target application domain onto a partially fixed architecture platform template, which consists of one processor core and several custom hardware accelerators. The DSE methodology consists of uni-directional steps, which are implemented through parametric templates and are applied without costly design iterations. The proposed DSE methodology explores the space by instantiating the steps and propagating design constraints which prune design options following the steps ordering. The result is a final Pareto trade-off curve with the most relevant near-optimal designs. As the scheduling and the assignment are the major tasks of both the foreground and the datapath, near-optimal and scalable techniques are required to support the parametric templates of the proposed DSE methodology. A framework which describes the scheduling and assignment of the scalars into the registers and the scheduling and assignment of the operation into the function units of the data path is developed. Based on the framework, a systematic methodology to arrive at parametric templates for scheduling and assignment techniques which satisfy the target domain constraints is developed. In this way, a scalable parametric template for scheduling and assignment tasks is created, which guarantees near-optimality for the domain under study. The developed template can be used in the Foreground Memory Management step and Data-path mapping step of the overall design flow. For the DSE of the domain under study, near-optimal results are hence achieved through a truly scalable technique. / Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή προτείνει καινοτόμες μεθοδολογίες για τον σχεδιασμό και τη διαδικασία απεικόνισης σε ενσωματωμένα συστημάτα. Λόγω των αυξανόμενων απαιτήσεων, τα ενσωματωμένα συστήματα είναι αρκετά περίπλοκα, καθώς αποτελούνται από πολλά και εν μέρει εξαρτώμενα ετερογενή στοιχεία. Συστηματικές μεθοδολογίες για την εξερεύνηση του χώρου λύσεων (Design Space Exploration – DSE) απαιτούνται σχεδόν βέλτιστες σχεδιάσεις ενσωματωμένων συστημάτων εντός του διαθέσιμου χρονου. Οι υπάρχουσες DSE μεθοδολογίες απαιτούν είτε πάρα πολύ χρόνο εξερεύνησης για να βρουν τους σχεδόν βέλτιστους σχεδιασμούς, λόγω του μεγάλου αριθμού των παραμέτρων και τις συσχετίσεις μεταξύ των παραμέτρων, ή καταλήγουν με ένα λιγότερο βέλτιστο σχέδιο, προκειμένου να βρειθεί ένας σχεδιασμός εντός του διαθέσιμου χρόνου. Στην παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή παρουσιάζουμε μια εναλλακτική DSE μεθοδολογία, η οποία βασίζεται στη συστηματική δημιουργία επεκτάσιμων και σχεδόν βέλτιστων DSE πλαισίων. Τα πλαίσια περιγράφουν όλες τις διαθέσιμες επιλογές στο χώρο εξερεύνησης με ένα πεπερασμένο σύνολο κατηγοριών. Ένα σύνολο αρχών χρησιμοποιείται στην επαναχρησιμοποιήούμενη DSE μεθοδολογία για να δημιουργήσει ένα επεκτάσιμο και σχεδόν βέλτιστο DSE πλαίσιο και να χρησιμοποιήθεί αποτελεσματικά για να δημιουργήσει επεκτάσιμες και σχεδόν βέλτιστες σχεδιαστικές λύσεις σε ένα Pareto Trade-off χώρο λύσεων. Η DSE μεθοδολογία εφαρμόζεται διάφορα στάδια της σχεδιαστικής ροής για ενσωματωμένα συστήματα και να δημιουργήσει επεκτάσιμες και σχεδόν βέλτιστες μεθοδολογίες. Το πρώτο μέρος της διατριβής είναι αφιερωμένο στην ανάπτυξη των μεθόδων απεικόνισης για την αποθήκευση μεγάλων πινάκων που χρησιμοποιούνται στα ενσωματωμένα συστήματα και αποθηκεύονται στα χαμηλότερα στρώματα της on-chip Background ιεραρχία μνήμης. Το δεύτερο μέρος είναι αφιερωμένο σε DSE μεθοδολογίες για το τμήμα επεξεργασίας σε αρχιτεκτονικές λογισμικού/υλικού σε ενσωματωμένα συστήματα, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των συστημάτων της προσκήνιας (foreground) μνήμης. Υπάρχουσες μεθοδολογίες απεικόνισης για την Background μνήμης είτε εξονυχιστικές, συμβολικές/πολυεδρικές και προσεγγίσεις με βάση τη χειρότερη περίπτωση. Οι εξονυχιστικές απαιτούν πάρα πολύ μεγάλο χρόνο εξερεύνησης, οι προσεγγίσεις οδηγούν σε υπερεκτίμηση των απαιτήσεων αποθήκευσης, ενώ οι συμβολικές είναι επεκτάσιμη και σχεδόν βέλτιστές μονο για τακτικούς χώρους επαναλήψεων. Με την εφαρμογή της προτεινόμενης DSE μεθοδολογίας αναπτύχθηκε μια επεκτάσιμη και σχεδόν βέλτιστη μεθοδολγοία για την εύρεση του αποθηκευτικού μεγέθους για τα δεδομένα ενός πίνακα για άτακτους και για τακτικούς χώρους επαναλήψεων. Προτάθηκε μια νέα αναπαράσταση των προσπελάσεων στη μνήμη, η οποία εκφράζει τα ακανόνιστα σχήματα στο χώρο επεναλήψεων με επακτάσιμο και σχεδόν βέλτιστο τρόπο. Στο δεύτερο τμήμα της διατριβής, μια DSE μεθοδολογία αναπτύχθηκε για το σχεδιασμό ενός προκαθορισμένου τομέα από εφαρμογές σε μια μερικώς αποφασισμένη αρχιτεκτονική πλατφόρμα, η οποία αποτελείται από ένα πυρήνα επεξεργαστή και αρκετούς συνεπεξεργαστές. Η DSE μεθοδολογία αποτελείται από μονής κατεύθυνσης βήματα, τα οποία υλοποιούνται μέσω παραμετρικών πλαισίων και εφαρμόζονται αποφέυγοντας τις δαπανηρές επαναλήψεις κατά τον σχεδιασμό. Η προτεινόμενη DSE μεθοδολογία εξερευνά το χώρο βρίσκοντας στιγμιότυπα για καθε βήμα και διαδίδονατς τις αποφάσεις μεταξύ βημάτων. Με αυτό το τρόπο κλαδεύουν τις επιλογές σχεδιασμού στα επόμενα βήματα. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι μια Pareto καμπύλη. Ένα DSE πλαίσιο προτάθηκε που περιγράφει τις τεχνικές χρονοπρογραμματισμού και ανάθεσης πόρων των καταχωρητών και των μονάδων εκτέλεσης του συστήματος. Προτάθηκε μια μεθοδολογία για να δημιουργεί σχεδόν βέλτιστα και επεκτάσιμα παραμετρικά πρότυπα για τον χρονοπρογραμματισμό και την ανάθεση πόρων που ικανοποιεί τους περιορισμούς ενός τομέα εφαρμογών.

La reconnaissance d’objets est une tâche complexe au cours de laquelle le cerveau doit assembler de manière cohérente tous les éléments d’un objet accessible à l’œil afin de le reconnaître. La construction d’une représentation corticale de l’objet se fait selon un processus appelé « bottom-up », impliquant notamment les régions occipitales et temporales. Un mécanisme « top-down » au niveau des régions pariétales et frontales, facilite la reconnaissance en suggérant des identités potentielles de l’objet à reconnaître. Cependant, le mode de fonctionnement de ces mécanismes est peu connu. Plusieurs études ont démontré une activité gamma induite au moment de la perception cohérente de stimuli, lui conférant ainsi un rôle important dans la reconnaissance d’objets. Cependant, ces études ont utilisé des techniques d’enregistrement peu précises ainsi que des stimuli répétitifs. La première étude de cette thèse vise à décrire la dynamique spatio-temporelle de l’activité gamma induite à l’aide de l’électroencéphalographie intracrânienne, une technique qui possède des résolutions spatiales et temporelles des plus précises. Une tâche d’images fragmentées a été conçue dans le but de décrire l’activité gamma induite selon différents niveaux de reconnaissance, tout en évitant la répétition de stimuli déjà reconnus. Afin de mieux circonscrire les mécanismes « top-down », la tâche a été répétée après un délai de 24 heures. Les résultats démontrent une puissante activité gamma induite au moment de la reconnaissance dans les régions « bottom-up ». Quant aux mécanismes « top-down », l’activité était plus importante aux régions occipitopariétales. Après 24 heures, l’activité était davantage puissante aux régions frontales, suggérant une adaptation des procédés « top-down » selon les demandes de la tâche. Très peu d’études se sont intéressées au rythme alpha dans la reconnaissance d’objets, malgré qu’il soit bien reconnu pour son rôle dans l’attention, la mémoire et la communication des régions neuronales distantes. La seconde étude de cette thèse vise donc à décrire plus précisément l’implication du rythme alpha dans la reconnaissance d’objets en utilisant les techniques et tâches identiques à la première étude. Les analyses révèlent une puissante activité alpha se propageant des régions postérieures aux régions antérieures, non spécifique à la reconnaissance. Une synchronisation de la phase de l’alpha était, quant à elle, observable qu’au moment de la reconnaissance. Après 24 heures, un patron similaire était observable, mais l’amplitude de l’activité augmentait au niveau frontal et les synchronies de la phase étaient davantage distribuées. Le rythme alpha semble donc refléter des processus attentionnels et communicationnels dans la reconnaissance d’objets. En conclusion, cette thèse a permis de décrire avec précision la dynamique spatio-temporelle de l’activité gamma induite et du rythme alpha ainsi que d’en apprendre davantage sur les rôles potentiels que ces deux rythmes occupent dans la reconnaissance d’objets. / Recognizing objects is a complex task requiring the brain to assemble visual information in such a way that coherent perception can happen. Building a visual cerebral representation is done through a bottom-up process, involving mainly occipital and temporal areas. A top-down mechanism from parietal and frontal areas, is thought to facilitate recognition by taking into account expectations and generating possible candidates. However, the precise mechanisms by which all these processes are done are still unclear. Studies investigating induced gamma response were able to link this activity to coherent perception of objects, suggesting a significant role of this activity in object recognition. However, these studies used imprecise recording techniques and stimuli repetition. The first study of this thesis aimed at describing with more precision the induced gamma activity using intracranial encephalography and a fragmented images paradigm in which only new stimuli are presented. Moreover, the task was presented again 24 hours later to circumscribe top-down mechanisms. Results show that the induced gamma activity is highest at recognition in regions involved in bottom-up processes. Top-down mechanism involved occipito-parietal areas when images were presented for the first time. When images were presented again 24 hours later, frontal areas mediated top-down facilitation, suggesting that top-down mechanisms vary according to task demand. Alpha rhythm has been less clearly related to visual perception, but is nevertheless well known to be involved in attention, memory and long-distance brain communication. The second study of this thesis investigated the role of alpha rhythm in object recognition, using the same technique and task as in the first study. Time-frequency analysis revealed a strong alpha activity unspecific to recognition, which was propagating from posterior to anterior regions. Phase coherence analysis, however, showed significant phase synchronisation specific to recognition. A similar pattern of alpha activity was found 24 hours later. However, the activity was stronger in frontal regions and the phase synchronisation was more distributed. Alpha rhythm is thus thought to be involved in attentional and communicational mechanisms of object recognition. In conclusion, this thesis was able to describe the precise spatio-temporal dynamics of induced gamma and alpha activity and suggest potential roles of these rhythms in response to object recognition.