The European Union (EU) puts more emphasis on innovation as a key means for regaining and maintaining competitiveness, a trait it lags behind in when compared to its main global competitors. It therefore possesses a range of tools designed to support innovative activities of firms and to improve the overall environment of innovation in the European Union and Member States. This thesis outlines/describes the major milestones in the development of innovation policies in the Czech Republic and the EU and focuses on supporting innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic via measures derived from the EU's financial tools. Special emphasis is applied to the Operational Programme Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OPIE) that in the Czech Republic is the main tool used to support innovation in firms. The main problem areas that may pose barriers to active impact for this support are identified on the basis of programme documents, assessment reports, statistical data on the programmes and qualitative information yielded from interviews with firm representatives experienced in this type of support. With regard to the findings of this assessment, the thesis attempts to frame suggestions that can eliminate the identified shortcomings and recommendations that can form the position of...

The aim of the diploma thesis is to formulate recommendations for a company, that wants to expand into European markets through Amazon. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first one is the theoretical part, where attention is paid to the study of the issue with the help of professional literature and professional articles. The basis of the work consists of the analysis of the external and internal environment. Based on the facts obtained from them, specific recommendations for entering the UK and German market were proposed.

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Die technologischen Entwicklungen der letzten Jahrzehnte haben unwiderruflich nicht nur unseren täglichen Umgang mit medialen Informationen verändert, sondern auch die Möglichkeiten der Integration medialer Inhalte in die Forschung sowie in Lehr- und Lernprozesse weitestgehend neu gestaltet. Die Fragestellung, inwieweit diese Neuerungen in den Bereichen Hard- und Software aktuell an deutschsprachigen Musikhochschulen und -universitäten Einzug halten und welche computerbasierten Interaktions- und Visualisierungsformen potenziell eine praktische Anwendung finden können, bildet den Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit. Methodisch wird diese Fragestellung in drei Abschnitten bearbeitet: 1. Es werden die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Bereich Medien- und Computertechnik beleuchtet und die Integration digitaler Medien sowie computergestützter Lehrkonzepte in die Lehrveranstaltungen an deutschsprachigen Musikhochschulen und -universitäten anhand der vorhandenen Quellen sowie selbstständig durchgeführten statistischen Erhebungen eingeschätzt. 2. Die historischen Aspekte der Entwicklung von verschiedenen Klangvisualisierungsmethoden werden beschrieben und deren Integration in die musikologische Forschung untersucht mit dem Ziel, die aktuell verfügbaren visuellen Repräsentationsformen in ihrer Entstehung sowie ihrer praktischen Anwendung einordnen zu können. 3. Es werden praktische Versuche anhand einer selbstprogrammierten Software auf Basis von Max/MSP durchgeführt. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt bildet dabei die Integration von Stand-Alone-Patches im Kontext des musikologischen und des künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Unterrichts für Studierende mit dem Hauptfach Komposition/Elektroakustik sowie als Tool für die Einstudierung zeitgenössischer Musik und Visualisierung von Intonation bzw. Timbre im Instrumentalunterricht.

Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) is a fairly recent yet popular single-solution heuristic for solving discrete optimization problems. Even though the heuristic has been a popular choice for researchers in recent times, the parallelization of this algorithm is not widely studied in the literature compared to the other classical metaheuristics. To extend the existing literature, this study proposes several different parallel schemes to parallelize the basic/sequential ALNS algorithm. More specifically, seven different parallel schemes are employed to target different characteristics of the ALNS algorithm and the capability of the local computers. The schemes of this study are implemented in a master-slave architecture to manage and assign loads in processors of the local computers. The overall goal is to simultaneously explore different areas of the search space in an attempt to escape the local minima, taking effective steps toward the optimal solution and, to the end, accelerating the convergence of the ALNS algorithm. The performance of the schemes is tested by solving a capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) with available wellknown test instances. Our computational results indicate that all the parallel schemes are capable of providing a competitive optimality gap in solving CVRP within our investigated test instances. However, the parallel scheme (scheme 1), which runs the ALNS algorithm independently within different slave processors (e.g., without sharing any information with other slave processors) until the synchronization occurs only when one of the processors meets its predefined termination criteria and reports the solution to the master processor, provides the best running time with solving the instances approximately 10.5 times faster than the basic/sequential ALNS algorithm. These findings are applied in a real-life fulfillment process using mixed-mode delivery with trucks and drones. Complex but optimized routes are generated in a short time that is applicable to perform last-mile delivery to customers.

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Maximum Subarray Problem (MSP) is to find the consecutive array portion that maximizes the sum of array elements in it. The goal is to locate the most useful and informative array segment that associates two parameters involved in data in a 2D array. It's an efficient data mining method which gives us an accurate pattern or trend of data with respect to some associated parameters. Distance Matrix Multiplication (DMM) is at the core of MSP. Also DMM and MSP have the worst-case complexity of the same order. So if we improve the algorithm for DMM that would also trigger the improvement of MSP. The complexity of Conventional DMM is O(n³). In the average case, All Pairs Shortest Path (APSP) Problem can be modified as a fast engine for DMM and can be solved in O(n² log n) expected time. Using this result, MSP can be solved in O(n² log² n) expected time. MSP can be extended to K-MSP. To incorporate DMM into K-MSP, DMM needs to be extended to K-DMM as well. In this research we show how DMM can be extended to K-DMM using K-Tuple Approach to solve K-MSP in O(Kn² log² n log K) time complexity when K ≤ n/log n. We also present Tournament Approach which solves K-MSP in O(n² log² n + Kn²) time complexity and outperforms the K-Tuple

Mémoire en recherche-création ; Aide financière octroyée : CIRMMT Student Award / Les conditions d'utilisation de théories scientifiques au cours du processus de composition musicale et plus généralement pour l'élaboration de théories esthétiques musicales sont au coeur du travail proposé. Une position critique est tout d'abord avancée relativement aux nombreux écueils historiques relevés. Elle permet d'en dégager quelques pistes d'exploration pour les processus compositionnels que je me suis proposé de suivre au fur et à mesure des pièces électroacoustiques et mixtes présentées. En particulier, des spécificités empruntées aux mécanismes vibratoires non-linéaires, aux modèles sociologiques déterministes ou prédictifs sont injectés au sein même des processus de création des mes oeuvres. Cinq pièces sont présentées. Les thématiques et les contraintes occasionnées par les modèles empruntés sont décrits ainsi que les réalisations techniques qui leur ont servi de support. Chaque pièce présente donc une démarche et des outils technologiques et informatiques particuliers. Ces pistes exploratoires feront intervenir contrainte formelle, limitation du contrôle du compositeur, improvisation, traitement et spatialisation en temps réel et développements originaux implémentés en Max/MSP et en Python. Par ailleurs, un outil d'aide à la composition spatiale proposant une perspective inédite de visualisation du champs de pression produit par les trajectoires et par le système de reproduction virtuel, et développé pendant ma maîtrise est présenté. / The use of science theories during the compositionnal process, especially in a purpose of esthetical properties abstraction is questionned. First, a criticist point-of-vue is adressed, on the basis of several historical examples. A personnal method dedicated to the development of original compositionnal process were deduced. In particular, the specific mecanisms related to nonlinear vibrations and deterministic sociological model could be inserted into the creative processes. Five electroacoustic and contemporay music pieces are presented. Themes and constraints provoked by the model insertion are detailed. They gather form-contraints, control limitations, improvisation, real-time processing and real-time spatialization implemented in Max/MSP and Python. Moreover, a refined sound-field rendering tool dedicated to computer-assisted composition is introduced.

For such a small open economy as is the case of the Czech Republic, export is one of the key growth factors. Further, small and medium sized enterprises are very efficient tool of the economic stability. Government should therefore analyse and fulfil export needs of those entrepreneurs. There is actually no questin about importance of government assistance. Most of the developed countries already help their small and medium enterprises. Ignoring this fact could lead to the reduction of the competitive strength of Czech companies. The diploma thesis analyses the export needs of those firms and compares them with the government assistance programs. Theoretical part is focused on definition of this entrepreneur's category, describes assistance frame and analyses the influence of export on the Czech economy. Practical part deals with individual export assistance programs and analyses the export needs of Czech exporters based on several surveys. The last part of the diploma thesis compares the Czech government assistance with the assistance that foreign countries provide their entrepreneurs with. The final recommendations regarding the possibilities of increase in the efficiency of the government assistence are included in the last chapter.

In the theoretical part, this master thesis deals with ICT, Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovations with a focus on the programme of support ICT in Enterprises. Furthermore, with the definition of SMEs and specific features of medium sized enterprise. In the practical part, an ICT project in a chosen company is described and analyzed. The project is evaluated and further opportunities of development of ICT in the company are suggested. The last chapter provides implications from the ICT area for similar businesses.