Thesis (M.S. in Operations Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010. / Thesis Advisor(s): Johnson, Rachel ; Second Reader: Lucas, Tom. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Enlisted specialty model, manpower, design of experiments, linear programming, Plackett-Burman design, D-optimal Latin hypercube Includes bibliographical references (p. 49). Also available in print.

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-300) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-300) and index.

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate planning processes for academic library buildings and the outcomes of such processes. This is accomplished through a case study utilising discourse analysis. The main question is: How is a vision of an academic library implemented in and through a building? The case study is retrospective and focused on the building of a newlibrary at Kalmar University, Sweden, at the end of the 1990s. During this period, technological and educational developments and general societal change transformed the context of library planning and made way for renegotiations of the librarian profession.A critical realist approach characterises the study of visions, processes and the analysis of the various functions of the building. Results reveal the proactive nature of the activities of thelibrary director in Kalmar. Early in the process he formulated a vision in which he presents the library as an information resource, a meeting place between different user groups and a workplace intended to promote learning and knowledge. From a professional point of view, the vision implied a dehierarchisation of relations both within the library staff and between library staff and visitors. The vision was based on an interpretation of Swedish national educational policy, and architecturally manifested by an ambition to reduce the physical and psychologicalboundaries between library staff and visitors. The early formulation of the visiontogether with the clients’ use of architectural expertise facilitated the choice of architects.However during the process a need arose to anchor the decision in the library field. Efforts were made to address library expertise and to collect user comments from a broader academic field. Discourses concerning the university library as a workplace and a meeting place wereespecially evident in the strategies of the leading agents. The discourses uncovered in the study correspond to more general discourses which became prominent in society and higher education during the period in question. The library itself has met growing appreciation by users both from within and outside the university.The proactive leadership demonstrated by the library director in Kalmar was based on hegemony rather than coercion. This corresponds to contemporary tendencies. Hegemonic consent may persist even after changes in leadership. In Kalmar however, architectural solutions with insufficient support from the library staff have been reconstructed after changes in leadership.Future research on architectural planning processes may pay further attention to different discursive resources, social fields and the positions within them. / Akademisk avhandling som med tillstånd av samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Göteborgs universitet för vinnande av doktorsexamen framläggs till offentlig granskning klockan 13.15 fredagen den 4 december 2009 i sal D207, Högskolan i Borås, Allégatan 1

Submitted by Maria Aparecida (cidazen@gmail.com) on 2017-08-24T14:39:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 José Artur.pdf: 1071380 bytes, checksum: e1992e06fe45627db90b9f36e8a88d84 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-24T14:39:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 José Artur.pdf: 1071380 bytes, checksum: e1992e06fe45627db90b9f36e8a88d84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-21 / This master dissertation presents a optimization mathematical programming model derived from the classical problem of transport, which aims to scale, with global optimization, the fleet of a system of road passenger transport, describing possible routes between each source/target to meet the constraints of cost (profitability) and quality of service. It covers classic methods of solution of linear programming models considered streaming networks and proposes improvements to the canonical model of the transport problem from the perspective of transit planning, and analyze the use of dynamic programming, evolutionary methods and heuristics for solving the problem of minimization of the model. / Neste trabalho é apresentado um modelo de otimização derivado do problema clássico de transporte, que tem a finalidade de dar suporte ao planejamento de transporte de passageiros , com otimização global, dimensionando a frota de veículos de transporte rodoviário, qualificando as rotas possíveis entre cada origem/destino para satisfazer as restrições de custo (rentabilidade) e qualidade de serviço. Abrange métodos clássicos de solução de modelos de programação linear considerados de fluxo contínuo de redes e propõe melhorias no modelo canônico do problema de transporte a partir da perspectiva do planejamento operacional, além de analisar o uso de métodos de programação dinâmica, métodos evolutivos e heurísticos para a solução do problema de minimização.