Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Arkin, Ronald C.; Committee Member: Christensen, Henrik I.; Committee Member: Fisk, Arthur D.; Committee Member: Ram, Ashwin; Committee Member: Thomaz, Andrea. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1980. / Thesis Advisor(s): Neil, Douglas. Second Reader: Moroney, William. "March 1980." Description based on title screen as viewed on May 25, 2010. DTIC Descriptor(s): Data Displays, Man Machine Systems, Cockpits, Performance (Human), Reaction Time, Pilots, Analysis Of Variance, Theses, Coding, Colors, Errors, Symbols, Cathode Ray Tube Screens, Color Vision, Alphanumeric Displays DTIC Identifier(s): Color Coding. Author(s) subject terms: Coding Techniques, Symbols,Colors, Reaction Time, Performance, Errors, Alphanumerics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-105). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-105).

This paper investigates the effects of automating system administration within a virtualized server environment. For system administrators, creation and configuration of new Virtual Machines has shown to be a common, and yet time and manual labour consuming task. Thus, this process has been studied thoroughly to find out in what degree it will lend itself to automation. The nature of the process was found to be well-suited for a high degree of automation. The automation tool is developed, presented and evaluated. A series of quantitative tests were orchestrated, testing both manual configuration and configuration by using the tool. The results were analysed, and it became visible that the manual configuration has an interruptive behaviour which is not the case in the produced process. The time improvements of the automation are approximated from the gathered test data and the results show a significant improvement in process speed-up with a test average of 300% corresponding to roughly 22 minutes per configured VM. Note that when calculating time saving and process speed-up the assumption is made that two employees are depending on the configuration which has been seen often to be the case. This work has shed light on the need for a more holistic estimation model of calculating process speed-up when you have factors as multiple people being dependent on a process and added time due to loss of operator focus (e.g. due to interruptive behaviour during the process). Furthermore, a strong case is made for the implementation of process automation in administrat ive tasks within virtualized server environments.

Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

M.Phil. (Mechanical Engineering) / The coal mining industry plays a major role in the global economy. Coal is required for the provision of primary energy needs, generation of electricity and production of steel. Hence, there is a high demand of coal worldwide. For the continuous supply of coal, mining equipment should be in good working conditions and the maintenance teams should be highly equipped and motivated to perform their maintenance activities ...

With the increased demand for the utilization of computerized information systems by business users, the need for investigating the impact of various user interfaces has been well recognized. It is usually assumed that providing the user with assistance in the usage o-f a system would significantly increase the user's productivity. There is, however, a dearth of systematic inquiry into this commonly held notion to verify its validity in a scientific fashion. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of system-provided user assistance and complexity level of the problem on novice users' productivity in specifying database queries. The study is theoretical in the sense that it presents an approach adopted from research in deductive database systems to attack problems concerning user interface design. It is empirical in that it conducts an experiment in a controlled laboratory setting to collect primary data for the testing of a series of hypotheses. The two independent variables are system-provided user assistance and problem complexity, while the dependent variable is the user's query specification productivity. Three measures are used as separate indicators of query specification productivity: number of syntactic errors, number of semantic errors, and time required for completing a query task. Due to the lack of a well-defined metric for user assistance, the study first presents a generic classification scheme for relational query specification. Based on this classification scheme, two quantitative metrics for measuring the amount of user assistance in terms of prompts and defaults were developed. The user assistance is operationally defined with these two metrics. Four findings emerge as significant results of the study. First, user assistance has a significant main effect on all of the three dependent measures at the 1 percent significance level. Second, problem complexity also has a significant impact on the three productivity measures at the 1 percent significance level. Third, the interaction effect of user assistance and problem complexity on the number of semantic errors and the amount of time for completion is significant at the 1 percent level. Fourth, Although this interaction effect on the number of syntactic errors is not significant at the 5 percent level, it is at the 10 percent level. More research is needed to permit a thorough understanding of the issue of user interface design. A list of topics is suggested for future research to confirm or to modify the findings of this study.