Universiẗat, Diss., 2005--Hamburg.

Event monitoring has been employed in many applications such as network monitoring, active databases etc.; however, there is only an insignificant amount work done on parameterized event monitoring, a feature that is necessary in any real application. The aim of this work is to investigate solutions for parameterized event composition that is scalable and efficient; these solutions are refined from existing event monitoring algorithms. An algorithm for parameterized event composition is proposed and analysis on algorithmic time complexity is performed. In addition to this, experiments on the prototype Solicitor, a software component in DeeDS, along with simulated input of events are conducted in order to validate the theoretical model and the hypothesis that were made. The experiments support the theoretical model and suggest that it is possible to build an efficient and scalable parameterized event composition that is useful in real applications.

This thesis connects the influence of experience economy and ICT on event industry in a research of use of technology in optimization of attendee's event experience. By combining primary and secondary literature with qualitative research we come to conclusions that an optimal event experience is complex assemblage of affective, cognitive and conative aspects, we prove the benefits of event technology as one of the means to achieving this copious experience and identify concrete methods how to use technology for this purpose.

The fierce competition among the manufacturers all over the world as a result of globalisation and the dynamic atmosphere of the market has brought a new era to the production world. Shorter lead times, faster takt-times, variety of demand and products by customers, optimized inventory level, new rules and regulations legislated by governments and organizations plus efficiency of the supply chain are examples of challenges which urge companies to seek for any feasible tool which help can help to overcome the upcoming complex problems. Recent advancements in the IT world have caused emergence of contemporary methods and tools for companies to use when confronting intricate situations to be able to handle such incidents and stay competitive in the market. Today, more companies realize the significance of change in their production system. Discrete-event simulation is one of the virtual tools used more and more recently in different areas. It is undoubtedly one of the most functional tools which could be used for different purposes in such as: System learning System prediction Scenario planning   The application scope of discrete-event simulation is both in micro and macro levels as it can be used in a partial study of a specific process in a manufacturing company for optimization or in a higher level, to help a company to analyze its strategic plans by simulating them ahead of time. In the current study it has been tried to investigate the application and implementation of discrete-event simulation in production. For reaching that goal, the project has been divided into two main parts; first of all a discrete event simulation has been conducted regarding a real-world potential problem. Later, by gaining the experience from the first part plus doing research around discrete simulation, it has been tried to develop a framework for industrial companies to ease the use of discrete-event simulation project process in a standardized manner. A future prospective of the current project could be the implementation of the results and provided framework on further real-world cases and explore more innovative uses of discrete-event tool in industry. Obviously, discrete-event could be a great decision-making or analysis tool for production development if being used in the proper context. / Simulering är en verktyg  som möjliggör system analys billigt och lätt. När man ska simulera ett system så bygger man en model baserad på verklighet med en viss nivå of abstraktion, beroende på syftet av simuleringen. De företag som har komplicerade processer kan använda simulering som en beslutsstöd verktyg. Genom simulering av ett komplicerat system så kan man uppnå olika saker: Lära om systemet Förutsäga e systemets beteende Scenarioplanering När det gäller simulering så krävs två olika saker som har varit grunden för detta projektet; förmågor inom systemet som kan simuleras, kunskaper inom simuleringsteknik. Båda faktorer spelar stor roll för att ett simuleringprojekt blir framgångsrik. Simulering har bred applikation och kan användas i olika områden exempelvis flyg simulatorer mm. Produktion är ett område där finns potential av att utnyttja simulering framförallt ’discrete-event’ typ av simulering som för det mesta passar produktionsanalyser på grund av diskret natur av produktions verksamhet. Genom att simulera produktion eller tillverkningssystem kan man i en virtuell miljö prova kapacitet, flödet och mm. Detta projekt har haft som mål att skapa ett standardiserat arbetssätt för användning av simulering (med fokus på DES) i produktionsutveckling. Projektet har genomförts inom Volvo CE, i Härdverket i Eskilstuna. Dessutom, det beskriver om utmaningar som dyker upp när man utför ett simuleringsprojekt genom en analys av det genomförde projektet. / <p>The project has been done with cooperation of Volvo Construction Equipments</p>

Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera hur företag kan använda sig av event marketing som ett sätt att skapa nya och stärka befintliga kundrelationer. Metoden som användes för att undersöka dessa ämnen var en kvantitativ enkätundersökning. Uppsatsens teoretiska referensram utgår från ämnet event marketing och leder in på kundrelationer och upplevelserummet. Den empiriska datan är insamlad genom en enkätundersökning med 50 respondenter på Öl- och Whiskymässan på Svenska Mässan i Göteborg. Studiens slutsats kan kort sammanfattas som följande; Event marketing är en marknadsföringsmetod som företag använder sig av för att uppnå kommunikativa mål, det är ett optimalt sätt att skapa en interaktion med konsumenten under själva eventet. Företaget bör ta reda på målgruppens behov för att skapa en så personlig upplevelse som möjligt för konsumenten. Denna upplevelse ska skapa eller förstärka bilden av ett företag och på så sätt skapa goda kundrelationer. / The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how companies can use event marketing as a tool to create new and strengthen existing customer relations. The method used to examine these subjects was a quantitative study in form of a questionnaire. The thesis’ theoretical framework is based on the subject event marketing and leads into customer relations and event design. The empirical data is collected through a questionnaire given to 50 respondents on a Beer and Whiskey exhibition in Gothenburg in Sweden. This thesis’ conclusion can be summarized as following. Event marketing is a marketing method which organizations use to reach communicative goals; it’s a good way to create an interaction with consumers during the event. Companies should determine the needs of their target group to create an experience for the consumer which is as personal as possible. This experience should create or reinforce the image of an organization and thereby create good customer relations. This thesis is written in Swedish.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(情報学) / 甲第23438号 / 情博第768号 / 新制||情||131(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院情報学研究科知能情報学専攻 / (主査)教授 黒橋 禎夫, 教授 河原 達也, 教授 伊藤 孝行 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Informatics / Kyoto University / DFAM

The world that we live in is a complex network of agents and their interactions which are termed as events. An instance of an event is composed of directly measurable low-level actions (which I term sub-events) having a temporal order. Also, the agents can act independently (e.g. voting) as well as collectively (e.g. scoring a touch-down in a football game) to perform an event. With the dawn of the new millennium, the low-level vision tasks such as segmentation, object classification, and tracking have become fairly robust. But a representational gap still exists between low-level measurements and high-level understanding of video sequences. This dissertation is an effort to bridge that gap where I propose novel learning, detection, representation, indexing and retrieval approaches for multi-agent events in videos. In order to achieve the goal of high-level understanding of videos, firstly, I apply statistical learning techniques to model the multiple agent events. For that purpose, I use the training videos to model the events by estimating the conditional dependencies between sub-events. Thus, given a video sequence, I track the people (heads and hand regions) and objects using a Meanshift tracker. An underlying rule-based system detects the sub-events using the tracked trajectories of the people and objects, based on their relative motion. Next, an event model is constructed by estimating the sub-event dependencies, that is, how frequently sub-event B occurs given that sub-event A has occurred. The advantages of such an event model are two-fold. First, I do not require prior knowledge of the number of agents involved in an event. Second, no assumptions are made about the length of an event. Secondly, after learning the event models, I detect events in a novel video by using graph clustering techniques. To that end, I construct a graph of temporally ordered sub-events occurring in the novel video. Next, using the learnt event model, I estimate a weight matrix of conditional dependencies between sub-events in the novel video. Further application of Normalized Cut (graph clustering technique) on the estimated weight matrix facilitate in detecting events in the novel video. The principal assumption made in this work is that the events are composed of highly correlated chains of sub-events that have high conditional dependency (association) within the cluster and relatively low conditional dependency (disassociation) between clusters. Thirdly, in order to represent the detected events, I propose an extension of CASE representation of natural languages. I extend CASE to allow the representation of temporal structure between sub-events. Also, in order to capture both multi-agent and multi-threaded events, I introduce a hierarchical CASE representation of events in terms of sub-events and case-lists. The essence of the proposition is that, based on the temporal relationships of the agent motions and a description of its state, it is possible to build a formal description of an event. Furthermore, I recognize the importance of representing the variations in the temporal order of sub-events, that may occur in an event, and encode the temporal probabilities directly into my event representation. The proposed extended representation with probabilistic temporal encoding is termed P-CASE that allows a plausible means of interface between users and the computer. Using the P-CASE representation I automatically encode the event ontology from training videos. This offers a significant advantage, since the domain experts do not have to go through the tedious task of determining the structure of events by browsing all the videos. Finally, I utilize the event representation for indexing and retrieval of events. Given the different instances of a particular event, I index the events using the P-CASE representation. Next, given a query in the P-CASE representation, event retrieval is performed using a two-level search. At the first level, a maximum likelihood estimate of the query event with the different indexed event models is computed. This provides the maximum matching event. At the second level, a matching score is obtained for all the event instances belonging to the maximum matched event model, using a weighted Jaccard similarity measure. Extensive experimentation was conducted for the detection, representation, indexing and retrieval of multiple agent events in videos of the meeting, surveillance, and railroad monitoring domains. To that end, the Semoran system was developed that takes in user inputs in any of the three forms for event retrieval: using predefined queries in P-CASE representation, using custom queries in P-CASE representation, or query by example video. The system then searches the entire database and returns the matched videos to the user. I used seven standard video datasets from the computer vision community as well as my own videos for testing the robustness of the proposed methods.

Dagens hälso- och sjukvårdssystem är byggda som en traditionell monolit men det finns fler sätt att utveckla dessa system på. Händelsedriven arkitektur med händel-sekällor för lagring av data är ett modernt sätt att utveckla system. Syftet med det här arbetet är att undersöka om den modernare arkitekturen skulle kunna vara lämpligt och säkert alternativ för hälso- och sjukvårdssystem. För att undersöka detta gjordes en litteraturstudie inom relevanta områden som händelsedriven arki-tektur, händelsekällor, mikrotjänster och monolitiska system. Resultatet ifrån litteraturstudien gav att det finns andra beprövade koncept från andra problemområden, så som säker kommunikation och säker lagring med spår-barhet, som om de användes med händelsedriven arkitektur skulle uppnå kraven för hälsosektorn. Forskningsfrågan kan besvaras positivt baserat på den genomförda lit-teraturstudien. Därtill utvecklades en enkel prototyp, som utan att innehålla säker-hetsaspekter, gör det lätt att observera för och nackdelar med händelsedrivna lös-ningar jämfört med exempelvis traditionella monolitiska lösningar. / Today's healthcare systems are built as a traditional monolith, but there are more ways to develop these systems. Event driven architecture with event sourcing for sto-ring data is a modern way of developing systems. The purpose of this work is to in-vestigate whether the more modern architecture could be a suitable and safe alter-native for healthcare systems. To investigate this, a literature study was conducted in relevant areas such as event driven architecture, event sources, microservices and monolithic systems. The result of the literature study showed that there are other proven concepts from other problem areas, such as secure communication and secure storage with tracea-bility, which if used with event driven architecture would meet the requirements of the health sector. The research question can be answered positively based on the completed literature study. In addition, a simple prototype was developed, which, without containing security aspects, makes it easy to observe the pros and cons of event driven solutions compared to, for example, traditional monolithic solutions.

Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Gurdip Singh / This work is motivated by the OMG’s CORBA Event Service Specification. CORBA is the acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture. In this research, we implemented and analyzed an event service using a model similar to the OMG model for sensor networks applications which are written in nesC programming language, an extension of C programming language. This implementation has been tested on a test bed created using Crossbow’s TelosB motes and Crossbow’s Stargate Netbridge modules as gateways. Event service interface implementations, which reside on the motes, are written in nesC. The data routing part, which is done through Stargate Netbridges, is written in the C language. This document contains experimental results obtained by deploying and running the implementation on the test bed.

Mise en contexte : Les chémoréflexes laryngés (CRI) sont déclenchés suite au contact entre un liquide et la muqueuse laryngée. Chez un organisme mature, ces CRL sont responsables de mécanismes de protection des voies aériennes inférieures (VAI) tels que déglutitions, toux et réaction d'éveil afin d'éviter l'aspiration. Par contre, chez un organisme immature comme c'est le cas chez les nouveau-nés, ces CRL associent apnée, bradycardie, laryngospasme, hypertension et redistribution du débit sanguin. En période néonatale, ces CRL, déclenchés en réponse à un reflux gastro-oesophagien acide, sont tenus responsables d'apnées du prématuré, de malaises graves du nourrisson (ALTE) et probablement de quelques cas de mort subite du nourrisson (MSN). Malgré leur pertinence clinique évidente, la revue de la littérature permet de constater que de nombreuses questions persistent concernant les CRL, principalement parce que les conditions expérimentales des études antérieures ne reflètent pas ce qui est vu en clinique. Ainsi, les CRL ont été étudiés le plus souvent en utilisant des modèles anesthésiés, en utilisant l'eau distillée, en se servant d'une trachéotomie pour l'injection des solutions et finalement en ne prenant pas en compte les stades de conscience. Une meilleure compréhension des CRL, en particulier déclenchés par des solutions acides, est donc nécessaire. But du projet : Le but de ce travail est d'étudier les CRL chez l'agneau nouveau-né sans sédation en réponse à l'acide, en comparaison à l'eau distillée et au salin durant le sommeil calme.