Our country is under promoting the electronic government's policy, the ones that proposed old government procurement procedure reengineer, is it draw lessons from business process reengineer in successful enterprises as, use the information and technological construction of communication to the electronic procurement system and become and promote one of the schemes mainly, in the hope of building and constructing an efficient government procurement procedure environment. Count in accordance with the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics and Executive Yuan, the annual total of government organizations exceeds the huge budget of 4 trillion NT, carry out by way of government procurement. Good Yu of the procedure system of government procurement, influences country's whole development to the hard iron. Supervising and reporting and counting according to the Public Construction Commission Executive Yuan, the public works is a domestic large-scalest industry, purchase the system and effect of carrying out, have extremely close relations to procure the procedure with the public works. Public Works Bureau of Kaohsiung city government can get and mark several 339 (21.16%) which account for the whole municipal government of Kaohsiung in 2003 most; The public works of amount of money of master budget are the highest. And the public works procurement, with relevant in describing, most apt to form procedure complicated, is it mark to tie, situation marked to enclose take place. So, this text is the view assessed with the performance probes into the assessment of the public works procurement procedure efficiency of Public Works Bureau of government of Kaohsiung. First of all, the measurement index of building the performance of constructing and assessing, regard ¡§ time, cost, manpower¡¨, three indexes, as and assess the focal point, use secondary analysis, understand that Public Works Bureau will purchase the execution efficiency of electronization in 2003, and then use the interview way of the depth, make to the procedure of public works purchase practical operation and purchase personnel and carry out the firsthand materials which purchase the business, build and construct the procedure that the public works is purchased by combining the software of structure of information system (architecture of integrated information system, ARIS) afterwards, assess the question of the public works purchase procedure of job bureau of government of Kaohsiung, propose the improvement of the public works purchase procedure procedure, increase the efficiency that the public works is purchased. Comprehensive secondary analysis, ARIS procedure analysis and interview result of the depth: The execution situation purchased in electronization of Public Works Bureau of government of Kaohsiung, has already reached the stage that electrons have opened bid at present; Effect of electronization its, neck mark person who reach 62.78%, electron submit a tender the reaching rate is 0%, have not reached the set goal; Put forward the following suggestions after putting in order and purchasing personnel's interview suggestion synthetically, whether support reference that follow-up improve, in order to reach and purchase the efficiency carried out in electronization. Will study and propose dividing into(1)the decree respect; (2)management respect; (3)systematic respect; (4)education and training respect. Combine the analysis result, carry out the present situation about the public works purchase procedure, purchase procedure finish electronic procedure in an all-round way yet, execution of dual track system at present is it appear for fear of procedure efficiency to have at present, so, facilitate electronization to purchase the execution of the procedure and help the government and manufacturer to purchase benefit that the trade carry out.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T19:12:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 23 / Nenhuma / O presente estudo teve por objetivo evidenciar quais são as funções da contabilidade e os processos administrativos mais afetados, com a maior de integração dos sistemas de informações. Para isso, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo junto às empresas industriais de médio e grande porte do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, constantes no cadastro obtido junto à Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FIERGS), atualizados até setembro de 2006. A amostra foi constituída por 85 empresas, sendo 41 com sistemas de informações totalmente integrados e 44 com sistemas de informações parcialmente integrados. O método utilizado foi uma Survey. Os dados foram coletados por meio de questionário respondido pelos seus contadores. Foram abordados aspectos referentes aos estágios de integração dos sistemas, como confiabilidade e tempestividade na geração da informação pela contabilidade, geração de relatórios, fluxo de informações e avaliação dos controles internos, caracterizando as funções da contabilidade e proc / This paper has the objective to show which functions of accounting and administrative processes are more affected by the integration of the systems of information. To do this we made a research with medium and big industries of Rio Grande do Sul, according to data collected in Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FIERGS), up-to-date until September 2006. Sample consisted of 85 industries, 41 with systems of information totally integrated and 44 with systems of information partially integrated. Method was a Survey in the industries using a questionnaire which was answered by their accountants. We analised the quantitative aspects of the stages of integration of systems, such as reliability and tempestivity in the generation of information for the accounting, generation of reports, flux of information and evaluation of internal controls, characterizing the functions of accounting and administrative processes that are more affected in each stage of integration of information. As a result, we

Classic psychedelic substances, such as lysergic acid diethylamide and the active compound in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, are being studied again in a renaissance of psychedelic research. Psychedelic substances have profound effects on perception, emotion, and cognition, as well as the capacity to induce mystical-type experiences and ego-dissolution. Recent clinical studies indicate that these substances have positive effects on patient populations and healthy participants, both acutely and long-term. Neuroimaging studies show that psychedelics alter neural integration, by the disintegration of normally stable resting state networks, and increasing network connectivity between normally anticorrelated networks. This thesis will review the phenomenological characteristics of the psychedelic-induced altered state of consciousness, the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic-induced altered state of consciousness, and neuroimaging studies on the psychedelic state. Two theoretical accounts are compared on the brain basis of psychedelic-induced altered state of consciousness. From the recent research on psychedelics a novel theory of conscious states has evolved, the entropic brain theory. This theory will be compared to the integrated information theory, a well-established theory of consciousness within cognitive neuroscience.

abstract: Panpsychist double aspect theory, the most promising version of panpsychism, holds that the mental and the physical are mutually irreducible properties, or features, of ultimate matter, therefore they both are ontologically fundamental and ubiquitous. This version of panpsychism involves the following two notions: anti-reductivism and anti- emergentism. The former states that mental phenomena are not recordable in terms of physics. The latter implies that mental phenomena do not causally arise only from a certain macroscale physical condition, and the mental and the physical do not constitute an ontological hierarchy. From these notions, it follows that any macroscale mental phenomenon is the result of a combination of ultimate mental properties. Yet this idea creates the combination problem: how higher level mentality, e.g., human or animal consciousness, arises from lower level mentality, the ultimate mental "particles." Panpsychist double aspect theory purports to find the proper location of mind in the world without being vulnerable to typical mind-body problems. Nevertheless, since this version of panpsychism explains the ontological structure of higher level mentality as analogous to the atomic structure of a molecular physical entity, the combination problem arises. In Chapter 1, I explain the general conception of panpsychism. Chapter 2 shows the plausibility of panpsychist double aspect theory and how the combination problem arises from this version. I discuss the history and implications of the combination problem in Chapter 3. In Chapter 4, I introduce some alternative versions of panpsychism that do not raise the combination problem, and point out their implausibility. The intelligibility of mental combination is explained in Chapter 5. The moral of these chapters is that our epistemic intuition that mind is not composed of "smaller" minds fails to undermine the possibility that mind is structurally complex. In Chapter 6, I argue that C. Koch and G. Tononi's integrated information theory (IIT) is a form of panpsychism, and that the IIT can serve as a model for solving the combination problem. However, I am not committed to the IIT, and I point out theoretical weaknesses of the IIT besides the combination problem. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Philosophy 2013

This thesis evaluates the integrated information theory (IIT) by looking at how it may answer some central problems of consciousness that the author thinks any theory of consciousness should be able to explain. The problems concerned are the mind-body problem, the hard problem, the explanatory gap, the binding problem, and the problem of objectively detecting consciousness. The IIT is a computational theory of consciousness thought to explain the rise of consciousness. First the mongrel term consciousness is defined to give a clear idea of what is meant by consciousness in this thesis; followed by a presentation of the IIT, its origin, main ideas, and some implications of the theory. Thereafter the problems of consciousness will be presented, and the explanation the IIT gives will be investigated. In the discussion, some not perviously—in the thesis—discussed issues regarding the theory will be lifted. The author finds the IIT to hold explanations to each of the problems discussed. Whether the explanations are satisfying is questionable.

The Architecture of integrated Information Systems (ARIS) is a technical space that is widely used in the area of business process management. The reuse of ARIS models in other working contexts is offered by ARIS-specific import and export interfaces. Nevertheless, the interoperability with other technical spaces is limited. In this paper, we explore ARIS language definition concepts and relate them to the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). We describe an ARIS to EMF bridge which provides transformations of ARIS modeling languages and ARIS models to the EMF environment. Our bridge shows similarities and differences between the two approaches and provides technical interoperability that e.g. enables the processing of ARIS models in EMF-supporting tools (e.g. ATLAS Transformation Language).

Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOC) are designated geographical locations within the Great Lakes Basin with particularly degraded environmental conditions. There is a consensus among diverse sectors in the Great Lakes Basin that contaminated sediment is a major environmental problem and a key factor in many of the impairments of the human and nonhuman uses (beneficial uses) of the Great Lakes. This case study examines Randle Reef in the Hamilton Harbour (AOC) which is the largest Canadian contaminated sediment site in the Great Lakes containing 695,000 m3 of sediment contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and metals. The cleanup of the Randle Reef site is a major step in the process to restore Hamilton Harbour and remove it from the list of AOCs. The Randle Reef sediment remediation project is finally coming to fruition after more than thirty years of study, discussion, collaborations, and debate. As in the case of Randle Reef, environmental decisions are often complex and multi-faceted and involve many stakeholders with competing (sometimes conflicting) priorities or objectives representing exactly the type of problem that humans are poorly equipped to solve unaided. When professionals encounter complex issues, they often attempt to use approaches that simplify the complexity so that they can manage the problem at hand. During this process, valuable information may be lost, opposite points of view may be ignored and elements of uncertainty may be overlooked. A systematic methodology that combines both quantitative and qualitative data from scientific or engineering studies of risk, cost, and benefit, as well as stakeholder objectives and values to rank project alternatives, has yet to be fully developed for contaminated sediment decision-making. The main goal of this Ph.D. research was to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) framework to aid the complex decision-making in sediment remediation. The proposed DSS framework incorporates the five key themes that, through research, were found to be the most relevant for sediment remediation projects. These themes are 1)participation of appropriate actors with common objectives; 2)funding and resources; 3)decision-making process; 4)research and technology development; and 5)public and political support. There was a need to gather relevant information and data from various sources to develop the required DSS framework. For this purpose, expert interviews were conducted, responses were collected through a public survey, Qualitative Document Analysis (QDA) was performed on available policy and research documents, and a review was undertaken of how other jurisdictions have employed DSS to aid their decision-making process. The final DSS framework has six key components as follows: 1)data module; 2)communication module; 3)document module; 4)knowledge module; 5)tools module; and 6)DSS optimization module. This generic framework can assist practitioners in developing more systematic and structured decisions for sediment remediation by incorporating an Integrated Information Management System (IIMS) along with a DSS optimization module. This IIMS+DSS method can aid the decision-making process by making it documented, reproducible, robust, transparent and provide a coherent framework to explore and analyze available alternatives in an attempt to reach the preferred solution promptly. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:53:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GiovaneMMG.pdf: 1469201 bytes, checksum: 7ac05c1313efcdfd91efc42e39d364cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-24 / This work involves the organization and content perspectives on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) framework. The case study at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte was based on ECM model to analyse the information management provided by the three main administrative systems: The Integrated Management of Academic Activities (SIGAA), Integrated System of Inheritance, and Contracts Administration (SIPAC) and the Integrated System for Administration and Human Resources (SIGRH). A case study protocol was designed to provide greater reliability to research process. Four propositions were examined in order to reach the specific objectives of identification and evaluation of ECM components from UFRN perspective. The preliminary phase provided the guidelines for the data collection. In total, 75 individuals were interviewed. Interviews with four managers directly involved on systems design were recorded (average duration of 90 minutes). The 70 remaining individuals were approached in random way in UFRN s units, including teachers, administrative-technical employees and students. The results showed the presence of many ECM elements in the management of UFRN administrative information. The technological component with higher presence was "management of web content / collaboration". But initiatives of other components (e.g. email and document management) were found and are in continuous improvement. The assessment made use of eQual 4.0 to examine the effectiveness of applications under three factors: usability, quality of information and offered service. In general, the quality offered by the systems was very good and walk side by side with the obtained benefits of ECM strategy adoption in the context of the whole institution / Esse trabalho envolve a perspectiva de organiza??o e conte?do do modelo Enterprise Content Management (ECM). O estudo de caso na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte se baseou no modelo ECM para analisar a gest?o de informa??es proporcionada pelos tr?s principais sistemas administrativos: Sistema Integrado de Gest?o de Atividades Acad?micas (SIGAA), Sistema Integrado de Patrim?nio, Administra??o e Contratos (SIPAC) e o Sistema Integrado de Gest?o e Recursos Humanos (SIGRH). Um protocolo de estudo de caso foi elaborado a fim de prover maior confiabilidade ? pesquisa que fez o uso de quatro proposi??es para explicar os objetivos espec?ficos de identifica??o e avalia??o de componentes ECM sob a ?tica da UFRN. Na fase explorat?ria, uma entrevista com um especialista forneceu as diretrizes para o plano de coleta de dados. No total, 75 indiv?duos foram entrevistados. As entrevistas com quatro gestores envolvidos diretamente no projeto dos sistemas foram gravadas e tiveram dura??o m?dia de 90 minutos. Os 70 indiv?duos restantes foram abordados aleatoriamente em v?rias unidades da UFRN, abrangendo professores, servidores t?cnico-administrativos e alunos. Os resultados demonstram a presen?a de muitos elementos do modelo ECM na gest?o de informa??es administrativas da UFRN. O componente tecnol?gico com maior presen?a foi Gest?o de conte?do na web/colabora??o . Mas iniciativas de outros componentes (ex.: email e gest?o de documentos) foram tamb?m verificadas e se encontram em constante aprimoramento. A avalia??o fez uso do eQual 4.0 para analisar a efic?cia das aplica??es sob tr?s fatores: usabilidade, qualidade da informa??o e servi?o oferecido. Em geral, a qualidade oferecida pelos sistemas foi muito boa e caminha lado a lado com os benef?cios obtidos da ado??o de uma estrat?gia ECM no ?mbito de toda a institui??o

Avec la construction et le développement de la ville intelligente, la façon de construire le modèle 3D réaliste des grands bâtiments de la ville rapidement et efficacement devient le hotspot de recherche. Dans cette thèse, une méthode procédurale de modélisation intelligente est proposée pour construire rapidement et efficacement un modèle de construction de ville 3D à grande échelle basé sur la modélisation de la forme de la façade et de la grammaire de forme. La technologie de l'information du bâtiment (BIM) est un moyen technique important pour améliorer l'industrie de la construction, pour la conception du bâtiment de la ville et la construction de la meilleure recherche et l'application de la technologie BIM est la clé, de gérer efficacement les informations du cycle de vie du bâtiment et de réaliser le partage et l'échange. Cette thèse a étudié l'acquisition et le traitement des données de modélisation. Google Earth et le logiciel ArcGIS sont principalement utilisés pour acquérir et traiter des données d'images-cartes et des données de cartes d'élévation de la zone cible, ces deux types de correspondance et de superposition de données, qui peuvent générer des données de terrain urbain 3D avec des informations de localisation géographique. Ensuite OpenStreetMap est utilisé pour acquérir les données routières de la zone cible, et il peut être optimisé pour le réseau routier nécessaire par le logiciel JOSM. La technologie de balayage laser 3D est utilisée pour collecter des images de texture de surface de bâtiment et pour créer le modèle de nuages de points de la modélisation d'architecture cible afin d'obtenir les dimensions de modélisation par mesure. Sur cette base, cette thèse a principalement étudié le principe et le processus de la règle CGA pour créer des modèles de construction, et étudié la méthode qui peut séparer les éléments architecturaux en utilisant la segmentation d'image pour générer automatiquement la règle CGA et de créer ensuite le modèle de construction. Ainsi, des modèles de construction 3D ont été établis dans le logiciel CityEngine en utilisant les règles CGA et la technologie de segmentation des façades. Cette thèse a construit le modèle d'information intégré au bâtiment urbain (CBIIM) basé sur BIM. L'information sur la construction de la ville est classée et intégrée, et le bâtiment et la composante ont été décrits avec la norme IFC, afin de gérer efficacement les informations du cycle de vie du bâtiment. Cette thèse étudie la technologie du modèle d'association d'information intégrée, qui permet de réaliser une conception standardisée des composants avec des caractéristiques associées et une conception intelligente des bâtiments avec des paramètres associés dans les règles de connaissances combinées avec l'IFC. La technologie de simulation de la construction de visualisation est étudiée. Les règles de connaissance dans le modèle d'information intégré fournissent une référence fiable pour la simulation de construction, et la scène de simulation est créée en invoquant le modèle d'information intégré, ainsi le processus de simulation est terminé. En prenant le campus Baoshan de l'Université de Shanghai comme exemple, le processus de modélisation de la scène entière est illustré, et les étapes de modélisation de toutes sortes d'objets 3D sont décrites en détail pour résoudre les problèmes spécifiques dans le processus de modélisation réelle. Ainsi, la faisabilité et la validité de la méthode de modélisation intelligente procédurale sont vérifiées. Prenant comme exemple le dortoir de l'Université de Shanghai, une simulation et le modèle de simulation ont été créés par les informations intégrées, combinées aux informations de construction pertinentes, la simulation de construction a été complétée par le programme. Ainsi, la faisabilité et la validité du CBIIM sont vérifiées. / With the construction and development of the smart city, how to construct the realistic 3D model of the large-scale city buildings quickly and efficiently which becomes the research hotspot. In this thesis, a novel 3D modeling approach is proposed to quickly and efficiently build 3D model of large-scale city buildings based on shape grammar and facade rule modeling. Building Information Model (BIM) is an important technical means to enhance the construction industry, for the city building design and construction, how to better research and application of BIM technology which is the key, in this thesis City Building Integrated Information Model (CBIIM) is specified to manage the information of building lifecycle effectively and realize the information sharing and exchanging. This thesis has studied the acquisition and processing of the modeling data. Google Earth and ArcGIS software are mainly used to acquire and process image-maps data and elevation-maps data of the target area, these two kinds of data match and overlay, which can generate 3D city terrain data with geographic location information. Then OpenStreetMap is used to acquire road data of the target area, and it can be optimal processed to the necessary road network by JOSM software. 3D laser scanning technology is used to collect building surface texture images and create the point clouds model of the target architecture modeling so as to get the modeling dimensions by measurement. On this basis, this thesis mainly has studied the principle and the process of CGA rule to create building models, and studied the method that can separate architectural elements using image segmentation to generate CGA rule automatically and to create building model furtherly. Thus 3D building models have been established in the CityEngine software using CGA rules and facade modeling technology. This thesis has specified the City Building Integrated Information Model (CBIIM) based on BIM. The city building information are classified and integrated, and the building and component was described with the IFC standard, in order to manage the informations of building lifecycle effectively. This thesis studies the integrated information association model technology, that it can realize standardized component design with associated features and intelligent building design with associated parameters in knowledge rules combined with IFC. The construction simulation technology is studied. The knowledge rules in the integrated information model provide a reliable reference for the construction simulation, and the simulation scene is created through the invoking the integrated information model, thus the construction simulation process is completed by the program. Taking Baoshan Campus of Shanghai University as an example, the modeling process of the whole scene is illustrated, and the modeling steps of all kinds of 3D objects are described in detail to solve the specific problems in the actual modeling process. Thus the feasibility and validity of the procedural intelligent modeling approach are verified. Taking the dormitory of Shanghai University as an example, a simulation scene and the simulation model were created by the integrated informations, combined with the relevant construction information the construction simulation was completed by the program. Thus the feasibility and validity of the CBIIM are verified.

This thesis deals with the State Treasury as a tool for effective management, reporting, and control of public funds based on the example of the State organizational units. It is getting us to know the State Treasury project in the Czech Republic, its history and the present and outlines the future development. Further, it analyzes the basic functionality modules of the Integrated Information System of State Treasury in detail. The work also evaluates the fulfillment of the requirement for obtaining timely, complete, and relevant information for the the public budgets management. It deals with the influence of the State Treasury introducing on verification problems of the Financial Statements of the state organizational units