Disertacijoje nagrinėjama VANET ryšio kokybės problematika, analizei naudojant statistikos metodus, eksperimentinius tyrimus, modeliavimą ir simuliacijas. Tyrimų objektas yra ryšio tarp automobilių, kurio pagrindas IEEE 802.11p standartas, kokybės charakteristikos. Pagrindinis darbo tikslas – ištirti ryšio tarp automobilių kokybės charakteristikas: vėlinimus ir paketų praradimus. Papildomai pasiūlyti metodus ir algoritmus, mažinančius prarandamų saugos pranešimų skaičių. Pasiūlyti vairuotojo pasitikėjimo indekso koncepciją ir skaičiavimo metodus. Norint pasiekti šiuos tikslus, buvo spręsti sekantys uždaviniai: apibrėžti ribinius perdavimo grandine algoritmus ir ištirti jų efektyvumą perduodant pranešimus grandine; išanalizuoti duomenų paketų praradimus dėl kliūčių ir pateikti atitinkamus aproksimavimo algoritmus, tinkamus modeliavimams; sukurti dubliuotų saugos pranešimų perdavimo metodą, kuris leistų sumažinti prarandamų saugos pranešimų skaičių; sukurti vairuotojo pasitikėjimo indekso koncepciją ryšio tarp automobilių tinkle ir pasiūlyti pasitikėjimo indekso dedamųjų skaičiavimo metodus; ištirti saugaus važiavimo atstumo priklausomybę nuo kelio sąlygų ir palyginti ją su patikimo ryšio nuotolio išraiška. Disertaciją sudaro įvadas, 4 skyriai, rezultatų apibendrinimas, naudotos literatūros ir autoriaus publikacijų disertacijos tema sąrašai. Įvade atskleidžiamas disertacijos tikslas. Pirmame skyriuje pateikiamas detalus ryšio tarp automobilių aplinkos savybių tyrimas. Yra... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The dissertation investigates communication quality issues in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) using statistical analysis, experimental measurements, simulations and modelling. The Object of research is quality characteristics of Inter-Vehicle communication, which is based on IEEE 802.11p standard. The main objective of current research is to investigate Inter-Vehicle communication quality characteristics: packet loss and delay. Additionally propose a redundant safety message transmission method and create the confidence index concept and the calculation method. To reach these objectives following tasks have to be solved: define the boundary vehicular multi-hop transmission algorithms and investigate their performance for latency times defined in different use cases; analyze a packet loss caused by obstacles on the road and define approximation equations, for use in modelling tools; create the redundant packet transmission method for the lost safety message reduction; investigate the confidence index concept in a vehicular network and propose the confidence metrics calculation method; investigate the safe following distance dependency on road conditions and compare it to reliable communication distance. The dissertation consists of introduction, 4 chapters, conclusions and references. The introduction reveals the aim of the dissertation. The first chapter gives detailed overview of Inter-Vehicle communication environments and defines the main Inter-Vehicle communication... [to full text]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2007. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

<p>The aim of this thesis was to explore and analyze the sponsored debates on Newsmill, so called seminars. How does the sponsor use Newsmills seminars for marketing purposes? Who is allowed to write in Newsmills seminars?</p><p>To answer these questions we used both a quantitative survey and a qualitative survey.</p><p>To examine how the sponsors use Newsmills seminars for marketing purposes we conducted a qualitative analysis which included three of the eleven seminars - a total of 26 articles. We examined how the sponsors conveyed the picture of themselves and if the written content in Newsmills seminars contained any hidden marketing. We could see that the sponsor has a great deal of influence on the seminars and also used them to market their brand with hybrid messages. Sponsors often tried to relate their brand to a public issue in order to camouflage their commercial purposes.</p><p>The quantitative survey aimed to map the seminars and answer the question “Who is allowed to write in Newsmills seminars?”. We observed how many of the writers were male/female, had a Swedish/foreign name, had a certain position in society and if the writer had any connection to, or wrote about, the sponsor. We examined all articles ever published in Newsmills seminars, up to the day of the survey. A total of 164 articles in 11 different seminars.</p><p>Our result showed that female writers are a minority group in Newsmills seminars. So are people with foreign names and people who lack a position which grants them authority.</p>

Dans cette thèse nous étudions l’isolation mémoire et les mesures de communications efficaces par passage de message dans le contexte des environnements à mémoire partagée et la programmation orientée-objets. L’état de l’art en la matière se base presque exclusivement sur deux techniques complémentaires dites de propriété des objets (ownership) et d’unicité de références (reference uniqueness) afin d’adresser les problèmes de sécurité dans les programmes concurrents. Il est frappant de constater que la grande majorité des travaux existants emploient des méthodes de vérification statique des programmes, qui requirent soit un effort d’annotations soit l’introduction de fortes contraintes sur la forme et les références vers messages échangés. Notre contribution avec SIAAM est la démonstration d’une solution d’isolation réalisée uniquement à l’exécution et basée sur le modèle de programmation par acteurs. Cette solution purement dynamique ne nécessite ni annotations ni vérification statique des programmes. SIAAM permet la communication sans copie de messages de forme arbitraire. Nous présentons la sémantique formelle de SIAAM ainsi qu’une preuve d’isolation vérifiée avec l’assistant COQ. L’implantation du modèle de programmation pour le langage Java est réalisé dans la machine virtuelle JikesRVM. Enfin nous décrivons un ensemble d’analyses statiques qui réduit automatiquement le cout à l’exécution de notre approche. / In this thesis we study state isolation and efficient message-passing in the context of concurrent object-oriented programming. The ’ownership’ and ’reference uniqueness’ techniques have been extensively employed to address concurrency safety in the past. Strikingly the vast majority of the previous works rely on a set of statically checkable typing rules, either requiring an annotation overhead or introducing strong restrictions on the shape and the aliasing of the exchanged messages.Our contribution with SIAAM is the demonstration of a purely runtime, actor-based, annotation-free, aliasing-proof approach to concurrent state isolation allowing efficient communication of arbitrary objects graphs. We present the formal semantic of SIAAM, along with a machine-checked proof of isolation. An implementation of the model has been realized in a state-of-the-art Java virtual-machine and a set of custom static analyses automatically reduce the runtime overhead.

Submitted by Clebson Anjos (clebson.leandro54@gmail.com) on 2016-02-15T17:35:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1768771 bytes, checksum: 5e8df60284fb114853ef61923cb2ec0d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-15T17:35:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1768771 bytes, checksum: 5e8df60284fb114853ef61923cb2ec0d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In recent years a large number of scientific research has stimulated the use of web data as inputs for the epidemiological surveillance and knowledge discovery/mining related to public health in general. In order to make use of social media content, especially tweets, some approaches proposed before transform a content identification problem to a text classification problem, following the supervised learning scenario. However, during this process, some limitations attributed to the representation of messages as well as the extraction of attributes arise. From this, the present research is aimed to investigate the performance impact in the short social messages classification task using a continuous expansion of the training set approach with support of a measure of confidence in the predictions made. At the same time, the survey also aimed to evaluate alternatives for consideration and extraction of terms used for the classification in order to reduce dependencies on term-frequency based metrics. Restricted to the binary classification of tweets related to health events and written in English, the results showed a 9% improvement in F1, compared to the baseline used, showing that the action of expanding the classifier increases the performance, even in the case of short message classification task for health concerns. For the term weighting objective, the main contribution obtained is the ability to automatically indentify high discriminative terms in the dataset, without suffering limitations regarding term-frequency. This may, for example, be able to help build more robust and dynamic classification processes which make use of lists of specific terms for indexing contents on external database ( textit background knowledge). Overall, the results can benefit, by the improvement of the discussed hypotheses, the emergence of more robust applications in the field of surveillance, control and decision making to real health events (epidemiology, health campaigns, etc.), through the task of classifying short social messages. / Nos últimos anos um grande número de pesquisas científicas fomentou o uso de informações da web como insumos para a vigilância epidemiológica e descoberta/mineração de conhecimentos relacionados a saúde pública em geral. Ao fazerem uso de conteúdo das mídias sociais, principalmente tweets, as abordagens propostas transformam o problema de identificação de conteúdo em um problema de classificação de texto, seguindo o cenário de aprendizagem supervisionada. Neste processo, algumas limitações atribuídas à representação das mensagens, atualização de modelo assim como a extração de atributos discriminativos, surgem. Partido disso, a presente pesquisa propõe investigar o impacto no desempenho de classificação de mensagens sociais curtas através da expansão contínua do conjunto de treinamento tendo como referência a medida de confiança nas predições realizadas. Paralelamente, a pesquisa também teve como objetivo avaliar alternativas para ponderação e extração de termos utilizados para a classificação, de modo a reduzir a dependência em métricas baseadas em frequência de termos. Restringindo-se à classificação binária de tweets relacionados a eventos de saúde e escritos em língua inglesa, os resultados obtidos revelaram uma melhoria de F1 de 9%, em relação a linha de base utilizada, evidenciando que a ação de expandir o classificador eleva o desempenho de classificação, também para o caso da classificação de mensagens curtas em domínio de saúde. Sobre a ponderação de termos, tem-se que a principal contribuição obtida, está na capacidade de levantar termos característicos do conjunto de dados e suas classes de interesse automaticamente, sem sofrer com limitações de frequência de termos, o que pode, por exemplo, ser capaz de ajudar a construir processos de classificação mais robustos e dinâmicos ao qual façam uso de listas de termos específicos para indexação em consultas à bancos de dados externos (background knowledge). No geral, os resultados apresentados podem beneficiar, pelo aprimoramento das hipóteses levantadas, o surgimento de aplicações mais robustas no campo da vigilância, controle e contrapartida à eventos reais de saúde (epidemiologia, campanhas de saúde, etc.), por meio da tarefa de classificação de mensagens sociais curtas.

Communication patterns in nature were studied in order to address the challenge of effectively communicating sustainability messages. Fourteen patterns were found in nature and translated into user-friendly guidelines called Guidelines for Effective Communication of Sustainability Messages. These Guidelines were given to sustainability experts and peers for overall feedback and insights. Their responses showed that these Guidelines could be used to improve communication of sustainability messages by using them as a checklist and a design tool when designing messages and methods for communicating sustainability. Using these Guidelines as a tool within the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) could also help people better understand today’s sustainability challenges and the need for adopting a strategic approach used within the FSSD.

Avec l'évolution des machines parallèles, le besoin en protocole de tolérance aux fautes devient de plus en plus important. Les protocoles de tolérance aux fautes existants ne sont pas adaptés à ces architectures car soit ils forcent un redémarrage global (protocoles de sauvegarde de points de reprise coordonnés) soit ils forcent l'enregistrement de tous les messages (protocoles à enregistrement de messages). Nous avons étudié les caractéristiques des protocoles existants. Dans un premier temps, nous avons étudié le déterminisme des applications, étant donné que les protocoles existants supposent des exécutions non déterministes ou déterministes par morceaux. Dans notre étude, nous nous sommes intéressés au modèle par échange de messages, et plus précisément aux applications MPI. Nous avons analysé 26 applications MPI et avons mis avant une nouvelle caractéristique appelée "déterminisme des émissions" qui correspond à la majorité des applications étudiées. Dans un second temps, nous nous sommes intéressés aux schémas de communications des applications afin d'étudier l'existence des groupes de processus dans ces schémas. L'étude a montré que pour la plupart des applications, il est possible de créer des groupes de processus de façon à minimiser la taille des groupes et le volume des messages inter-groupe. A partir de là nous avons proposé deux protocoles de tolérance aux fautes. Le premier est un protocole de sauvegarde de points de reprise non coordonnés pour les applications à émissions déterministes qui évite l'effet domino en n'enregistrant qu'un sous ensemble des messages de l'application. Nous avons également adapté le protocole pour l'utiliser sur des groupes de processus. Par la suite, nous avons proposé HydEE, un protocole hiérarchique fondé sur le déterminisme des émissions et les groupes de processus. Il combine un protocole de sauvegarde de points de reprise coordonnés au sein des groupes à un protocole à enregistrement de messages entre les groupes. / With the evolution of parallel computers, the need for fault tolerance protocols is becoming increasingly important. The existing fault tolerance protocols are not adapted to thèse architectures because they either force a global restard (coordinated checkpointing protocols) or all message logging (message logging protocols). We studied the characteristics of the existing protocols. We first studied the determinism of the applications, since existing protocols assumenon deterministic or piecewise deterministic executions. In our study, we examined the message passing model, and more specifically MPI applications. We have analyzed26 MPI applications and have put forward a new characteristic called "send-determinism" which corresponds to moststudied applications. In a second step, we studied the communication patterns of the applications to study the existence of clusters of processes in these patterns. The study showed that for most applications, it is possible to create clusters of processes to minimize the size of clusters and the volume of inter-cluster messages. Then we designed two fault tolérance protocols. The first one is an uncoordinated checkpointing protocol which is based on the send-deterministic assumption and avoids emissions deterministic domino effect while logging only a subset of the application messages. We have also adapted the protocol to clusters of processes. Then, we proposed HydEE, a hierarchical protocol that is lso based on the send-deterministic assumption and that is used on clusters of processes. It combines coordinated checkpointing protocol inside clusters to a message logging protocol for inter-cluster messages.

Thesis (M.A. (Communication Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2020 / Health communication is one of the interventions used to overcome health issues in society. Behavioural change is a process that relies on influence, and carefully designed messages about a desired outcome. These messages are captured from health communication interventions such as health communication campaigns about HIV/AIDS. This study empirically measured behavioural intention and followed the introduction of the health communication campaigns at the University of Limpopo (UL) campus amongst students from all faculties. In order to evaluate these campaigns, a positivist research paradigm was chosen, and the quantitative approach was used to measure and determine the relationship between the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The constructs (or predictor variables) of the TPB model are deterministic of behavioural change. They work together to achieve change in behaviour, where the outcome variable is the behavioural intention. This study used the TPB model to guide the literature and methodology when it came to the formulation of questions for data collection. The target population sampled was aged between 18 and 28, and all the participants belonged to various schools across all faculties at the University of Limpopo. The researcher used of the Stratified random sampling method which is classified under probability sampling; 401 questionnaires were coded, and analysed. SPSS® version 25 was used to analyse the data. The results were-drawn descriptively and inferentially. This was done in order to define the relationship between the theory’s variables. The researcher used both Pearson Correlations and Regression Analysis to define the relationship between the variables. Descriptively, the majority of 148 (36.9%) participants strongly agreed while 174 (43.4%) agreed that they intended to participate in health communication campaigns in the future, as the predictor variable. Inferential findings showed that the behavioural intention variable amongst the students proved to be the one that contributed most towards behavioural change. The researcher suggests that further research should focus on message development. Health campaign messages should be developed that trigger intention, in order to achieve behavioural change for individuals so that they can ultimately participate in health campaigns.

Over the course of last decade, the demand for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) applications has increased significantly among enterprises and individuals due to its low cost. This increasing demand resulted in a significant increase in users who require reliable VoIP communication systems. QoS (Quality of Service) is a major issue in VoIP implementation and is a method to impel the development of real-time multimedia services like VoIP and videoconferencing. However, there are certain challenges in achieving QoS for VoIP application, which need special attentions; like latency and packet loss. The VoIP servers which are functioning on single core software/hardware model have high latency and packet loss issues due to their limited processing bandwidth. A multicore software/hardware model is the solution to cope up with the increasing demands of VoIP and yet an active research area in telecommunication. Using a multicore software/hardware model for VoIP has several challenges, one of the challenges is to design and implement QoS Benchmarking module for VoIP client and server on multicore. In this thesis the focus is on latency and packet loss of SIP messages on OpenSIPS server. This is done by performing stress testing for QoS benchmarking, where delay and call drop rate is calculated for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) signaling messages on parallel VoIP client server model. The model is built in C for multicore and is used as a simulation tool. SIP is widely deployed protocol for call establishment, maintenance and termination in VoIP.

Driving a vehicle is considered a demanding task in a complex dynamic environment. For instance, driving a vehicle on urban roads, where motorized vehicles meet vulnerable road users (VRUs) creates a multifaceted environment with difficult trade-offs and interactions. Additionally, in-vehicle technology developments are being introduced to ease drivers with the driving task. However, these developments are changing “traditional” driving increasing drivers’ response in terms of information processing, thus making the driving task more demanding in some respects. Therefore, the aim of the present research is to further investigate drivers’ speed choice under varying traffic management regulations and in-vehicle warning systems. / <p>QC 20131114</p> / New Speed Limits in Built-Up Areas / COOPERS