Thesis (M.App.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-131). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.App.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-73). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Report (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. M.S. 1992. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-71). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006. / Description based on contents viewed Jan. 29, 2007; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-203).

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-148). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Computer Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-167). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11919

Report (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 36). Also available via the Internet.

This thesis investigates the design and implementation of an object-oriented toolkit for music notation. It considers whether object-oriented technology provides features that are desirable for representing music notation. The ability to sympathetically represent the conventions of music notation provides software tools that are flexible to use, and easily extended to represent less common features of music notation. The design and implementation of an object-oriented class hierarchy that captures the structural and semantic relationships of music notation symbols is described. Functions that search for symbols, and update symbol positions are also implemented. Traditional context-sensitive and spatial relationships between music symbols may be maintained, or extended to provide notational features found in modern music. MIDI functionality includes the ability to play music notation and to allow step-recording of MIDI events. The toolkit has been designed to simplify the creation of applications that make use of music notation; example applications are created to demonstrate its capabilities. / Microsoft Word / Adobe Acrobat 9.46 Paper Capture Plug-in

Com o crescimento e o desenvolvimento de aplicações para Redes de Sensores sem Fio (RSSF), os nós-sensores passaram a realizar o tratamento de eventos mais complexos, exigindo um maior desempenho de processamento e flexibilidade do hardware. Estas novas características visam atender os requisitos de diversas aplicações, assim como, apresentarem plataformas customizáveis que possuem somente os recursos necessários para atender estes requisitos. As RSSF, muitas vezes, necessitam de uma arquitetura flexível e que estejam aptas a adaptar-se a alterações de projeto ou do próprio ambiente em que se encontram inserido. A utilização de arquiteturas reconfiguráveis é uma solução que introduz esta flexibilidade e uma grande capacidade de processamento ao nó-sensor. Comparando com as arquiteturas ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), as arquiteturas reconfiguráveis apresentam um custo reduzido no desenvolvimento de aplicações, visto que a plataforma não fica fixa a somente uma aplicação. A reconfigurabilidade permite um ganho no custo e tempo de projeto, além de possibilitar o desenvolvimento de plataformas genéricas para atender um número maior de aplicações. A proposta destas plataformas é, não apenas oferecer uma plataforma eficiente e flexível, mas também potencializar a aplicação em sistemas mais complexos que necessitem de uma maior capacidade de processamento. Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento de um nó-sensor reconfigurável e customizável para RSSF denominado FemtoNode. O FemtoNode possui em sua plataforma reconfigurável um processador especificado a partir de uma linguagem orientada a objetos Java e um módulo de comunicação sem fio para suportar comunicação entre os nós da rede. A arquitetura proposta foi validada com o estudo de caso de uma rede de sensores heterogênea composta por nós-sensores com plataformas distintas, sendo a análise realizada na presente dissertação. / With the growth and the development of new applications for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), sensors nodes are able to handle more complex events that require higher processing performance and hardware flexibility. These new features are intended to meet the requirements of various applications, as well to provide customized platforms that have only the resources needed to meet these requirements. WSNs often need a flexible architecture able to adapt to design and environment changes. The use of reconfigurable architectures is an alternative to bring more flexibility and more processing capability for the sensor-node. Compared with ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) architectures, which have a high cost in production setup, reconfigurable architectures enable a reduction in these costs because its architecture is not fixed to a single application. Reconfigurability allows a gain in the project costs and time development, and it enables the development of generic platforms to deal with a greater number of applications. Therefore, the proposal target architecture that aims to provide a flexible and efficient platform that require greater processing capacity which support the development of applications. In this work a reconfigurable and customizable sensor-node called FemtoNode is proposed. The FemtoNode has a reconfigurable platform and a wireless module to support applications for WSNs, using an object-oriented language Java as specification language of its architecture. The proposed concepts were validated with a case study of an heterogeneous wireless sensor composed of sensors nodes with different platforms, whose results are described in this work.