Cette thèse propose une nouvelle approche pour la synthèse de valeurs temporelles dans les systèmes temporisés. Notre approche est basée sur la méthode inverse suivante : à partir d’une instance de référence des paramètres, nous synthétisons une contrainte sur les paramètres, garantissant le même comportement que pour l’instance de référence, abstraction faite du temps. Il en résulte un critère de robustesse pour le système. En itérant cette méthode sur des points dans un domaine paramétrique borné, nous sommes alors à même de partitionner l’espace des paramètres en bonnes et mauvaises zones par rapport à une propriété à vérifier. Ceci nous donne une cartographie comportementale du système. Cette méthode s’étend aisément aux systèmes probabilistes. Nous présentons également des variantes de la méthode inverse pour les graphes orientés valués et les processus de décision markoviens. Parmi les prototypes implémentés, IMITATOR II implémente la méthode inverse et la cartographie pour les automates temporisés. Ce prototype nous a permis de synthétiser de bonnes valeurs pour les paramètres temporels de plusieurs études de cas, dont un modèle abstrait d’une mémoire commercialisée par le fabricant de puces STMicroelectronics, ainsi que plusieurs protocoles de communication. / This thesis proposes a novel approach for the synthesis of delays for timed systems, in particular in the framework oftimed automata, a model for verifying real-time systems. Our approach relies on the following inverse method: given a reference valuation of the parameters, we synthesize a constraint on the parameters, guaranteeing the same timeabstract linear behavior as for the reference valuation. This gives a criterion of robustness to the system. By iterating this inverse method on various points of a bounded parameter domain, we are then able to partition the parametric space into good and bad zones, with respect to a given property one wants to verify. This gives a behavioral cartography of the system. This method extended to probabilistic systems allows to preserve minimum and maximum probabilities of reachability properties. We also present variants of the inverse method for directed weighted graphs and Markov Decision Processes. Several prototypes have been implemented; in particular, IMITATOR II implements the inverse method and the cartography for timed automata. It allowed us to synthesize parameter values for several case studies such as an abstract model of a memory circuit sold by the chipset manufacturer ST-Microelectronics, and various communication protocols.

A multiple baseline design was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of a sibling training package including modeling, role-play, and feedback on play and engagement between children with autism and their siblings. The results of two experiments suggest that, following training, siblings of children with autism correctly implemented all trained interaction components. Additionally, Experiment II assessed and programmed generalization to other materials and a non-training setting. The results showed that some unprogrammed generalization to non-trained toys occurred. Conversely, siblings engaged in trained skills in a non-training setting (home) only following the experimenter's instructions to generalize. In both experiments, the siblings' overall engagement and physical proximity of play in training sessions increased significantly above baseline. This study extends previous research in that it includes additional stimulus and response generalization measures.

Sharing and exploitation of information resources across a diverse organisation can confer a significant competitive advantage but also can be a substantial challenge in coordinating across structural and specialisation boundaries. This challenge reflects the difficulties traditionally associated with lateral relations, which were recognised by classical organisational theorists but are more pronounced with the emergence of information as a critical resource. Notwithstanding the benefits of information sharing across the organisation, the classical concept of specialisation remains fundamental to organisational theory; thus there is potential for friction between requirements for specialisation and coordination. This research therefore examines information management arrangements to balance specialisation and coordination in a diverse organisation. The research takes advantage of organisational and systems theory literature to appreciate complex information management requirements in terms of differentiation/cohesion and integration/coupling of organisational elements. Information management???s business and technology perspectives define the conceptual framework, within which gaps in the literature are identified and become the focus of the research. The two key research areas are the opportunities enabled by technology for business integration through collaborative decision-making and the management of organisation-wide information technology infrastructure. Collaborative decision-making is an integrating mechanism that can provide balance between specialisation and coordination contingent upon the nature of decision tasks and their organisational context. Propositions associated with an adaptive approach to collaborative decision-making were tested in laboratory experiments, with positive support for the contingency model albeit constrained by individual cognitive variances. Organisations increasingly are adopting centralised approaches to the provision of IT services, with IT governance as an integrating mechanism and a need for multiple business-IT alignments to add value according to the differentiation required by organisational elements. Propositions relating to the adaptation of IT management arrangements based upon organisational characteristics were tested using a multi- iv -discipline approach, which resulted in support for the model although practical difficulties were experienced in the action research component. This research provides a framework for maintaining effective variety of information capabilities commensurate with the diverse organisation???s mission and environment, while also exploiting the synergies and economies of shared information resources for holistic benefits.

Sharing and exploitation of information resources across a diverse organisation can confer a significant competitive advantage but also can be a substantial challenge in coordinating across structural and specialisation boundaries. This challenge reflects the difficulties traditionally associated with lateral relations, which were recognised by classical organisational theorists but are more pronounced with the emergence of information as a critical resource. Notwithstanding the benefits of information sharing across the organisation, the classical concept of specialisation remains fundamental to organisational theory; thus there is potential for friction between requirements for specialisation and coordination. This research therefore examines information management arrangements to balance specialisation and coordination in a diverse organisation. The research takes advantage of organisational and systems theory literature to appreciate complex information management requirements in terms of differentiation/cohesion and integration/coupling of organisational elements. Information management???s business and technology perspectives define the conceptual framework, within which gaps in the literature are identified and become the focus of the research. The two key research areas are the opportunities enabled by technology for business integration through collaborative decision-making and the management of organisation-wide information technology infrastructure. Collaborative decision-making is an integrating mechanism that can provide balance between specialisation and coordination contingent upon the nature of decision tasks and their organisational context. Propositions associated with an adaptive approach to collaborative decision-making were tested in laboratory experiments, with positive support for the contingency model albeit constrained by individual cognitive variances. Organisations increasingly are adopting centralised approaches to the provision of IT services, with IT governance as an integrating mechanism and a need for multiple business-IT alignments to add value according to the differentiation required by organisational elements. Propositions relating to the adaptation of IT management arrangements based upon organisational characteristics were tested using a multi- iv -discipline approach, which resulted in support for the model although practical difficulties were experienced in the action research component. This research provides a framework for maintaining effective variety of information capabilities commensurate with the diverse organisation???s mission and environment, while also exploiting the synergies and economies of shared information resources for holistic benefits.

Sharing and exploitation of information resources across a diverse organisation can confer a significant competitive advantage but also can be a substantial challenge in coordinating across structural and specialisation boundaries. This challenge reflects the difficulties traditionally associated with lateral relations, which were recognised by classical organisational theorists but are more pronounced with the emergence of information as a critical resource. Notwithstanding the benefits of information sharing across the organisation, the classical concept of specialisation remains fundamental to organisational theory; thus there is potential for friction between requirements for specialisation and coordination. This research therefore examines information management arrangements to balance specialisation and coordination in a diverse organisation. The research takes advantage of organisational and systems theory literature to appreciate complex information management requirements in terms of differentiation/cohesion and integration/coupling of organisational elements. Information management???s business and technology perspectives define the conceptual framework, within which gaps in the literature are identified and become the focus of the research. The two key research areas are the opportunities enabled by technology for business integration through collaborative decision-making and the management of organisation-wide information technology infrastructure. Collaborative decision-making is an integrating mechanism that can provide balance between specialisation and coordination contingent upon the nature of decision tasks and their organisational context. Propositions associated with an adaptive approach to collaborative decision-making were tested in laboratory experiments, with positive support for the contingency model albeit constrained by individual cognitive variances. Organisations increasingly are adopting centralised approaches to the provision of IT services, with IT governance as an integrating mechanism and a need for multiple business-IT alignments to add value according to the differentiation required by organisational elements. Propositions relating to the adaptation of IT management arrangements based upon organisational characteristics were tested using a multi- iv -discipline approach, which resulted in support for the model although practical difficulties were experienced in the action research component. This research provides a framework for maintaining effective variety of information capabilities commensurate with the diverse organisation???s mission and environment, while also exploiting the synergies and economies of shared information resources for holistic benefits.

Sharing and exploitation of information resources across a diverse organisation can confer a significant competitive advantage but also can be a substantial challenge in coordinating across structural and specialisation boundaries. This challenge reflects the difficulties traditionally associated with lateral relations, which were recognised by classical organisational theorists but are more pronounced with the emergence of information as a critical resource. Notwithstanding the benefits of information sharing across the organisation, the classical concept of specialisation remains fundamental to organisational theory; thus there is potential for friction between requirements for specialisation and coordination. This research therefore examines information management arrangements to balance specialisation and coordination in a diverse organisation. The research takes advantage of organisational and systems theory literature to appreciate complex information management requirements in terms of differentiation/cohesion and integration/coupling of organisational elements. Information management???s business and technology perspectives define the conceptual framework, within which gaps in the literature are identified and become the focus of the research. The two key research areas are the opportunities enabled by technology for business integration through collaborative decision-making and the management of organisation-wide information technology infrastructure. Collaborative decision-making is an integrating mechanism that can provide balance between specialisation and coordination contingent upon the nature of decision tasks and their organisational context. Propositions associated with an adaptive approach to collaborative decision-making were tested in laboratory experiments, with positive support for the contingency model albeit constrained by individual cognitive variances. Organisations increasingly are adopting centralised approaches to the provision of IT services, with IT governance as an integrating mechanism and a need for multiple business-IT alignments to add value according to the differentiation required by organisational elements. Propositions relating to the adaptation of IT management arrangements based upon organisational characteristics were tested using a multi- iv -discipline approach, which resulted in support for the model although practical difficulties were experienced in the action research component. This research provides a framework for maintaining effective variety of information capabilities commensurate with the diverse organisation???s mission and environment, while also exploiting the synergies and economies of shared information resources for holistic benefits.

O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar via programação das rádios comunitárias: “8 de Dezembro" situada na Cidade de Vargem Grande Paulista e “Cantareira", situada na Vila Brasilândia, município de São Paulo e junto aos discursos de seus ouvintes, como se dá a comunicação de riscos sanitários inerentes ao campo da vigilância sanitária e qual é a influência destas mensagens nos hábitos cotidianos desses ouvintes. Utilizou-se como instrumento da metodologia adotada, o documental proporcionado pela programação das rádios, levantando o conteúdo abordado sobre saúde e mais especificamente sobre vigilância sanitária, e entrevistas qualiquantitativas junto a 106 ouvintes de tais rádios, utilizando-se a metodologia do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC). Posteriormente os dados foram tabulados com a ajuda do Software Qualiquantsoft. Dentro desse quadro, concluiu-se que as rádios comunitárias podem ser um espaço de comunicação em saúde pública através de processos educomunicativos, ou seja, processos onde a comunicação tem papel educativo sobre a população, estimulando uma comunicação de riscos sanitários mais eficiente e democrática, enquanto formador de cidadania. Na educomunicação, a recepção é crítica e interage com a emissão, resignificando a mensagem, a partir de sua experiência de vida local, social, cultural, educacional, religiosa, etc. / This paper aims to analyze, through community broadcasting (“8 de Dezembro" located in Vargem Grande Paulista-SP e “Cantareira", located in Vila Brasilandia, Sao Paulo-SP) from their listeners, how the communication of public health risks happens and what is the influence of these messages in the listener’s lives. As methodological tools, were used both the broadcast program documents where the public health matter contents was picked up and the interviews with 106 listeners. Eventually the data were tabulated with Qualiquantsoft Software. From this picture, it was concluded that the community broadcasts can be a communication room in public health through educational and communication means, or, the processes where the communication has an educational role on the people, stimulating a more efficient and democratic health risks communication and building the citizenship. In the educational communication, the receiver is critical and interacts with the broadcaster, giving the message a new meaning according to their lives as they experience it in different local, social, cultural, educational, religious meanings.

O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar via programação das rádios comunitárias: “8 de Dezembro” situada na Cidade de Vargem Grande Paulista e “Cantareira”, situada na Vila Brasilândia, município de São Paulo e junto aos discursos de seus ouvintes, como se dá a comunicação de riscos sanitários inerentes ao campo da vigilância sanitária e qual é a influência destas mensagens nos hábitos cotidianos desses ouvintes. Utilizou-se como instrumento da metodologia adotada, o documental proporcionado pela programação das rádios, levantando o conteúdo abordado sobre saúde e mais especificamente sobre vigilância sanitária, e entrevistas qualiquantitativas junto a 106 ouvintes de tais rádios, utilizando-se a metodologia do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC). Posteriormente os dados foram tabulados com a ajuda do Software Qualiquantsoft. Dentro desse quadro, concluiu-se que as rádios comunitárias podem ser um espaço de comunicação em saúde pública através de processos educomunicativos, ou seja, processos onde a comunicação tem papel educativo sobre a população, estimulando uma comunicação de riscos sanitários mais eficiente e democrática, enquanto formador de cidadania. Na educomunicação, a recepção é crítica e interage com a emissão, resignificando a mensagem, a partir de sua experiência de vida local, social, cultural, educacional, religiosa, etc. / This paper aims to analyze, through community broadcasting (“8 de Dezembro” located in Vargem Grande Paulista-SP e “Cantareira”, located in Vila Brasilandia, Sao Paulo-SP) from their listeners, how the communication of public health risks happens and what is the influence of these messages in the listener’s lives. As methodological tools, were used both the broadcast program documents where the public health matter contents was picked up and the interviews with 106 listeners. Eventually the data were tabulated with Qualiquantsoft Software. From this picture, it was concluded that the community broadcasts can be a communication room in public health through educational and communication means, or, the processes where the communication has an educational role on the people, stimulating a more efficient and democratic health risks communication and building the citizenship. In the educational communication, the receiver is critical and interacts with the broadcaster, giving the message a new meaning according to their lives as they experience it in different local, social, cultural, educational, religious meanings.

This study aims to investigate how companies perceived as sustainable by consumers engage in sustainability communication on social media. An abundance of information is common in today's digitized society - how do you as a company push through the noise - especially, with a serious message that does not belong on social media? The basis for determining which companies succeed in their sustainability communication is based on the Sustainable Brand Index Report from 2022. The selection and criteria resulted in three companies from three different industries for our analysis: Naturkompaniet, Systembolaget and MAX Burgers. We have reviewed all companies' Instagram and after the selection, 5 Instagram posts from each company are analyzed. The analysis is based on theories about sustainable communication, emotions and cognitive load on the part of the recipient. Models that are explained and intended to be the basis for results and analysis are the Affect–reason–involvement model (ARI model) and the Communication via Syncretic and Analytic Cognition Scale (CASC scale) as well as the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing (LC4MP). To answer the research question "How do Systembolaget, Naturkompaniet and MAX Burgers present their sustainability communication on Instagram?" and the sub-question "How do Systembolaget, Naturkompaniet and MAX Burgers use emotional aspects and how do they take into account the recipients' cognitive load in their sustainability communication on Instagram?" in relation to the theories, we use a thematic content analysis. The analysis resulted in four overarching themes found: Behavior Change, Memorable, Encouraging and Serious Undertone. The conclusion is that companies that carry out successful sustainability communication present their messages in a simple way which is easy to understand, often with humorous elements and relatable factors.