Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / The objective of this research is to analyze the network performance and sensor functionality, efficacy and usability of IEEE 802.x wireless MESH networks within a DoD Tactical network environment. Multiple sensor configurations operating with wireless MESH network technologies will be researched and analyzed for performance in expeditionary environment situations. Specifically, this thesis will attempt establish the foundation for the development of wireless MESH "network health" models by examining the performance of sensors operating within a MESH network and define which network performance metrics equate to good quality of service. This research will experiment with different application, sensor, and network configurations of currently available COTS components, such as, voice, video and data hardware. This thesis will lay the groundwork for wireless network MESH predictability, which will enable the optimal use of sensors within a tactical network environment. / Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy

Ce projet de recherche a été réalisé avec la collaboration de FPInnovations. Une part des travaux concernant le problème de récolte chilien a été effectuée à l'Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) à Santiago (Chili). / La planification de la récolte forestière comporte différents niveaux de planification selon l'horizon de temps du problème et la nature des décisions à prendre. Dans un premier temps, nous nous intéressons à un problème de planification annuelle de la récolte, à mi-chemin entre la planification tactique et opérationnelle. Ce problème appliqué à l'exploitation forestière au Québec, naît d'un besoin de l'industrie québécoise d'un outil pour la planification annuelle intégrée qui fournit aux équipes de récolte leur calendrier. L'intégration consiste à déterminer les affectations des équipes aux blocs en fonction des besoins des usines, et qui respectent les contraintes de transport, de gestion des stocks, et bien entendu les conditions d'exploitation en forêt. Plusieurs modèles de types MIP ont été formulés, des approches de résolution adaptées à la structure de chacun des modèles ont été développées. L'approche par horizon roulant est celle dont les résultats surpassent les deux autres et surtout, améliorent de façon significative les plans usuellement suivis, notamment en réduisant les volumes non livrés aux usines de moitié, ou encore en divisant entre 2 et 6 fois les volumes en stock quand la demande diminue. De plus, le développement d'une interface pour systématiser le processus de résolution et élargir le nombre d'utilisateurs, est la seconde contribution de la thèse. Cette étape du projet correspond à un transfert de technologie de l'université vers l'industrie. Le second problème de planification se situe au Chili, est une planification tactique de la récolte dirigée par les prix et demandes en produits finis, ces derniers étant considérés comme des paramètres aléatoires. Le problème stochastique formulé est résolu suivant une méthode de décomposition par scénarios dont le nombre varie entre 10 et 100. Pour chaque scénario, la solution déterministe, lorsqu'elle est réalisable, est comparée avec celle issue de la résolution du problème stochastique. La solution déterministe n'est réalisable que pour une dizaine de scénarios parmi 100, et les pertes encourues sont en moyenne de 9%. / Harvest planning has different levels according to the time horizon of the problem and the nature of the decisions to be taken. Initially, we are interested in an annual harvest scheduling problem, halfway between tactical and operational planning. This problem applied in Qu\'ebec, is motivated by a need from the industry for an integrated tool that provides annual schedules to harvest teams. The integration is to determine demand driven assignments of teams to cutblocks and to manage transportation and inventory accordingly. Several MIP models have been formulated, and three solution approaches have been developed according to the structure of each model. The rolling horizon approach performs better than the other two, by improving significantly from the traditional harvest plan, especially by reducing by half non delivered volumes or by dividing between 2 and 6 times volumes in storage when demands decrease. Another contribution of the thesis is the creation of an interface to systematize solution process and to allow other users. This is the object of a transfer project between academics and industry. The second problem is a Chilean tactical harvest planning. Harvesting decisions are driven by stochastic demands and prices of final products. The stochastic problem is solved using a heuristic based on a scenario decomposition technique. The number of scenarios considered is between 10 and 100 scenarios. For each scenario, when the deterministic solution is feasible, it is compared with the stochastic solution for the current scenario. The deterministic solution is only feasible for 10% of the scenarios, and induces losses of 9% in average.

Esta pesquisa disserta sobre o processo de convergência entre o espaço urbano e as mídias locativas, que forma um terceiro espaço: o espaço cíbrido. O termo cíbrido foi criado pelo arquiteto Peter Anders, para designar um meio híbrido onde se desenvolvem as práticas sociais relacionadas à cibercultura. Com a difusão da Internet 1.0 na década de 90, que ocorre a partir da venda massiva de computadores pessoais, as mais variadas vertentes do conhecimento se debruçaram sobre as implicações do surgimento de um novo lugar: o espaço virtual. Porém é especialmente entre os \'artistas digitais\' da Net.art e arquitetos que se investigou as formas de perceber, produzir e criar esteticamente este novo lugar. Uma década mais tarde, o meio virtual sofreu uma nova guinada: a difusão dos dispositivos portáteis de telecomunicação: os smartphones, acoplados com dispositivos de rastreamento, demarcação e mapeamento espacial. As práticas resultantes destas novas mídias: as mídias locativas, associam camadas informacionais aos objetos, às pessoas e aos agenciamentos em rede e localizam esta rede espacialmente. Para investigar o processo de hibridização entre a esfera informacional e o espaço, traçou-se um mapeamento de obras de arte e arquitetura que tratam especificamente deste tema. A seleção desses dois campos de conhecimento para a análise, se justifica por serem áreas correlatas que vêm promovendo mudanças paradigmáticas neste campo e trazendo contribuições essenciais para a compreensão das práticas sociais que envolvem os espaços cíbridos. Cada projeto selecionado oferece em sua especificidade, o suporte teórico, descritivo, sobre as atuais formas de convergência telemática no espaço e tensionam questões específicas desse processo de hibridização, contribuindo para o avanço do conhecimento acerca do processo de produção, apropriação e compartilhamento destas tecnologias com o espaço urbano. / This research talks about the issue and process of convergence between urban space and locative media, which form a third space: the Cybrid space. The Cybrid is a term coined by the architect Peter Anders, to designate a hybrid environment where to develop social practices related to cyberculture. With the spread of Internet 1.0 in the 90\'s, which takes place from the massive sales of personal computers, the aspects of knowledge have addressed the implications of the emergence of a new place: the virtual space. But it is especially among \'digital artists\' of Net.art and architects who investigated the ways of perceiving, producing and aesthetically create this new place. A decade later, the virtual environment has suffered a new twist: the distribution of portable telecommunication devices: smartphones, coupled with tracking devices, demarcation and spatial mapping. The resulting practices of these new media: locative media, associated informational layers to objects, people and assemblages networking and spatially locate this network. To investigate the process of hybridization between the informational sphere and space, drew up a mapping of art and architecture works that specifically address this issue. The selection of these two fields of knowledge for the analysis is justified because they are related areas that are promoting paradigmatic changes in this field and bringing essential contributions to the understanding of social practices involving cybrids spaces. Each project offers, the theoretical, descriptive support, on current forms of telematics convergence in space and tense specific issues that the hybridization process, contributing to the advancement of knowledge about the production process, ownership and sharing of these technologies urban space.

Nesta dissertação analisa-se o processo pelo qual as práticas urbanas socioespaciais colaborativas da sociedade civil agem sobre um espaço público aberto, transformando-o, pelo seu uso, em um espaço \"comum\". Estamos em um momento histórico no qual o planejamento urbano tradicional, reconhecido comumente como um processo top-down, está cada vez mais dividindo seu espaço com as práticas ditas bottom-up. Nesse sentido, este trabalho se propõe a ser um estudo do uso contemporâneo do Largo da Batata, em São Paulo, compreendendo o período do final da década de 1990 até 2017, com especial destaque para o momento em que a região teve seu acesso reaberto ao público em 2013. Público este que, por sua vez, começou a se apropriar do lugar. A investigação é sobre os processos de uso propositivo dos espaços públicos -- praças, ruas e parques -- por parte da população, tendo como objetivo a identificação de como essas práticas urbanas coletivas produzem, pelo seu uso, lugares com qualidades diversas das previamente conhecidas e mapeadas, permitindo o encontro de diferentes tipos de pessoas e de cuidado comum. Para tal, esta dissertação pretende investigar novos campos de ação dentro da profissão de urbanista, e mesmo novos métodos no que se refere ao planejamento urbano participativo e à criação de plataformas para a autogestão e a gestão compartilhada. Conclui-se que ampliar os horizontes da análise socioespacial de insurgências cidadãs no espaço público pelo olhar do urbanismo pode aproximar o debate acadêmico do ativismo cidadão e comunitário, e também contribuir para a investigação de possibilidades de colaboração entre urbanismo tradicional e urbanismos táticos, revelando um caminho do conhecimento em construção. / In this dissertation, the process of civil society\'s collaborative spatial practices influence on an open public space, transforming it into a \"common\" space, is analyzed. This is a historical moment in which traditional urban planning, recognized as a top-down process, is often divided more closely with bottom-up practices. In this sense, this work proposes to be a study of the contemporary usage of the Largo da Batata, in São Paulo, comprising the period from the late 1990s to 2017, with special emphasis on the moment when the square area was reopened to the public in 2013 - when the place was appropriated to the public. The investigation is about the processes of the usage of public spaces - squares, streets and parks - by the populace, with an objective to identify how these urban practices through the use of these places produce qualities different from those previously known and mapped, allowing the encounter of different types of people and common care. In order to do so, this work intends to investigate new fields of action within the urbanist profession, and even new methods regarding participatory urban planning and the creation of platforms for self-management and shared management. It is concluded that widening the horizons of socio-spatial analysis of citizen insurgencies in the public space through the view of urbanism can bring the academic debate closer to citizen and community activism, and also contribute to the investigation of possibilities of collaboration between traditional urbanism and tactical urbanisms, revealing a path of knowledge under construction.

The Nuclear Waste Fund constitutes a financial system that finances future costs of the management of spent nuclear fuel as well as decommissioning of nuclear power plants. The fund invests its capital under strict rules which are stipulated in the investment policy established by the board. The policy stipulates that the fund can only invest according to certain allocation limits, and restricts it to invest solely in nominal and inflation-linked bonds issued by the Swedish state as well as treasury securities. A norm portfolio is built to compare the performance of the NWF’s investments. On average, the NWF has outperformed the norm portfolio on recent years, but it may not always have been optimal. Recent studies suggest that allocation limits should be revised over time as the return and risk parameters may change over time. This study focused on simulating three different portfolios where the allocation limits and investment options were extended to see if these extensions would outperform the norm portfolio while maintaining a set risk limit. Portfolio A consisted of OMRX REAL and OMRX TBOND indexes, Portfolio B consisted of OMRX REAL, OMRX TBOND and S&P Sweden 1+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond Indexes, and Portfolio C consisted of OMXR REAL, OMRX TBOND and OMXSPI indexes. The return of each portfolio for different weight distributions of the assets were simulated in MATLAB, and polynomial regression models were built in order to optimize the return as a function of the assets’ weights using a Lagrange Multiplier approach for each portfolio. The results depicted that the maximal returns of Portfolios A, B and C were 4.00%, 4.13% and 7.93% respectively, outperforming the norm portfolio’s average return of 3.69% over the time period 2009-2016.

L’industrie aéronautique poursuit depuis de nombreuses années l’objectif d’un niveau optimal de sécurité dans le cadre du transport aérien. En ce qui concerne l’aviation militaire, plus exactement tactique, cette priorité se double d’une recherche de performance de plus en plus élevée et polymorphe. Ce qui caractérise ce type d’aviation, c’est le rapport entre la performance poursuivie et les risques acceptés. Il dépend essentiellement du contexte et des enjeux des missions à réaliser.L’approche facteur humain constitue un levier d’action majeur pour permettre la réalisation de cet enjeu. Ainsi, dans le cadre contraint de l’aéronautique, la conception et la mise au point d’outils permettant d’assister la cognition des équipages demeure une perspective d’avenir même si la formation des pilotes devient également un enjeu majeur pour les prochaines années. Dans ce contexte, la gestion des ressources cognitives, et plus particulièrement les stratégies spécifiques de gestion mises en place par les pilotes, sont centrales au processus de prise de décision sous contraintes.Dans une démarche de recherche et d’ingénierie en cognitique, nous avons entrepris une étude impliquant des pilotes et permettant la compréhension de ces mécanismes ainsi que la production de recommandations pour la conception d’outil d’aide à la gestion de leurs ressources cognitives. A partir de l’analyse du retour d’expériences, et sur la base des résultats d’une approche expérimentale préliminaire, nous avons construit un protocole pour mettre en évidence les stratégies mises en place par les pilotes, dans le cadre d’une activité réelle, lors de la descente et de l’approche finale sur l’aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand avec une panne critique. Les résultats expérimentaux conciliés à nos hypothèses de compréhension sur la gestion des ressources cognitives et les stratégies de gestion, achèvent notre analyse et nos recommandations pour un outil d’aide à la gestion des ressources des pilotes.14 équipages d’Airbus A400M de l’armée de l’air ont participés à cette évaluation en simulateur. / The aviation industry has for many years pursued the objective of an optimum level of safetyin the air transport sector. With regard to military aviation, more precisely tactical, thispriority is coupled with an increasingly high and polymorphic search for performance. Whatcharacterize this type of aviation is the relationship between the performance pursued and theaccepted risks. It depends essentially on the context and the stakes of the missions to becarried out.The human factor approach is a major leverage for achieving this challenge. Thus, within theconstrained domain of aeronautics, the design and development of tools to assist crewcognition remains a prospect for the future, even if pilot training also becomes a majorchallenge for the coming years. In this context, the management of cognitive resources, and inparticular the specific management strategies put in place by the pilots, are central to thedecision-making process under constraints.In a research and engineering approach in cognition, we undertook a study involving pilotsand allowing the understanding of these mechanisms as well as the production ofrecommendations for the design of tools to help manage their cognitive resources. On thebasis of the analysis of feedback, and results of a preliminary experimental approach, we havebuilt a protocol to highlight the strategies implemented by the pilots in the context of anactivity during the descent and the final approach on the Clermont-Ferrand airport with acritical breakdown. The experimental results reconciled with our understanding hypotheseson the management of cognitive resources and management strategies, complete our analysisand recommendations for a tool to help manage the resources of the pilots.

Šiame baigiamajame darbe buvo nagrinėjami aukšto pravažumo (4x4) šarvuoti taktiniai automobiliai ir jų specifika. Apžvelgti, apskaičiuoti ir palyginti automobilių rodikliai. Nagrinėjamas G. Bekker metodas automobilių mobilumui nustatyti. Naudojantis BDTM metodika apskaičiuojami automobilių mobilumo parametrai. Nagrinėjamas prioritetų skirstymo ir parinkimo (MPSP) metodas. Šio metodo pagrindu sudaroma metodika, su kuria galima palyginti su kitais ir išrinkti optimalų automobilį, atsižvelgiant į prioritetines automobilio charakteristikas, bei ekspertų vertinimus. / In this final thesis gives an overview of the high utility (4x4) armored tactical vehicles and their specifications. Reviewed, calculated and compared the vehicles parameters. Was examined G. Bekker equations and method of determination vehicles mobility. Calculated vehicle mobility parameters using the BDTM methodology. Examined the modificated allocation of priorities and selection (MPSP) method. Developed high-utility (4x4) tactical vehicle selection method that allows you to compare with others and choose the optimum car, depending on the vehicle's performance, and expert assessment. This method is based on the method of MPSP and gives an opportunity to evaluate the high utility (4x4) tactical vehicle to different partial criteria and their meaning of importance.

This thesis addresses two planning problems motivated by the operations of PSOD air transportation: scheduled maintenance planning, and base location and fleet allocation. In the first part of the thesis, we study tactical planning for scheduled maintenance which determines the daily maintenance capacities for two operating conditions: a growth phase and the steady state. We model tactical maintenance capacity planning during the growth phase as an integer program and develop an optimization-based local search to solve the problem. Tactical planning of steady state maintenance capacity concerns a special case for which we determine the optimal and the long run capacities with a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm. In the second part of the thesis, we address operational planning for scheduled maintenance which is concerned with assigning itineraries to jets and determining the specific jets to be scheduled for maintenance on a daily basis given a certain maintenance capacity. We present a solution methodology that employs a look-ahead approach to consider the impact of our current decisions on the future and decomposes the problem exploiting the differences between jets with respect to the proximity to their next maintenance. We further develop an integrated framework in order to capture the interaction between operational level maintenance decisions and flight scheduling. In the third and final part of the thesis, we present the tactical level base location and fleet allocation problem. As PSOD air transportation experiences changes in travel demand and fleet size, decisions regarding where to open new bases and how to allocate the number of jets among the bases are made. We first present a solution approach in which high level information about flight scheduling is used in a traditional facility location problem. We next develop a model that works directly with transportation requests and integrates a simplified version of flight scheduling with the base location and fleet allocation decisions in order to capture more detail.

Le présent travail s’intéresse à la prise en compte de l’incertitude et du risque pour l’optimisation de la planification de production au niveau tactique d’une entreprise multi-sites d’une chaîne logistique. La méthode proposée permet d’assurer une planification des opérations de production et d’approvisionnement tout en intégrant au sein de son processus décisionnel un mécanisme de gestion de risque, en présence de diverses sources d’incertitude et d’ambigüité. Pour cela, une «bibliothèque» de critères structurés en deux classes indépendantes : critères de performance et critères de risque a été proposée, dans laquelle le décideur peut sélectionner ceux qui sont en cohérence avec ses préférences et sa stratégie de planification. La méthode doit chercher le bon compromis entre les performances et les risques prédéfinis par le décideur. Pour cela, nous nous somme dirigés dans un premier temps sur le développement d’une approche d’aide à la décision multicritères floue couplant un modèle analytique et la méthode TOPSIS floue. Cette approche consiste à générer un éventail de plans réalisables, caractérisés par leur performance et leur résistance aux risques. Le décideur peut alors choisir le plan qui reflète le compromis le plus adapté à sa stratégie de décision. Une deuxième approche d’optimisation multi-objectifs floue a été proposée dans un deuxième temps pour faire face à des problèmes de planification de grande taille au sein des chaînes logistiques opérant dans un environnement dynamique et incertain. Cette approche combine la méthode TOPSIS Floue, la programmation multi-objectifs possibiliste et la méthode du Goal Programming. L’objectif est de déterminer un plan jugé de bon compromis vis-à- vis des préférences du décideur par rapport aux objectifs de performance et de résistance aux risques. L’instanciation des deux approches proposées sur un exemple numérique a montré leur applicabilité et leur efficacité pour faire face à des problèmes de planification des chaînes logistiques utilisant des données incertaines et des préférences subjectives. Les expérimentations des deux approches permettant de tirer un ensemble d’enseignements utiles. / The work reported in this dissertation deals with risk-oriented integrated procurement–production approaches for tactical planning in a multi-echelon supply chain network presenting various sources of uncertainty and ambiguity. The proposed method allows planning of production and supply operations while integrating a risk management mechanism into its decision-making process, in the presence of various sources of uncertainty and ambiguity. So, a library" of criteria structured into two independent classes: Performance-based and risk-based decision criteria were proposed, in which the decision-maker can select those that are consistent with his preferences and his planning strategy. The method must seek the right compromise between performance and risk predefined by the decision-maker. To reach this goal, we initially focused on the development of a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach coupling an analytical model and the fuzzy TOPSIS method. This approach generates a range of feasible plans, characterized by their performance and their resistance to risks. The decision-maker can then choose the plan that reflects the compromise that best suits its decision strategy. Afterwards, a fuzzy multi-objective optimization approach was proposed to deal with large-scale planning problems within supply chains operating in a dynamic and uncertain environment. This approach second combines the Fuzzy TOPSIS method, the possibilistic multi-objective programming and the Goal Programming method. The objective is to determine a plan that is judged to be a good compromise compared to the decision maker's preferences regarding the performance and risk objectives. The instantiation of the two proposed approaches on a numerical example has shown their applicability and tractability to deal with supply chain planning problems in the presence of uncertain data and subjective preferences. The experiments of the two approaches make it possible to draw a useful set of lessons. The experiments of the two approaches show a set of useful issues.

Made available in DSpace on 2009-11-18T19:01:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003 / This research intends to analyze the influence of organizational change which occurred in the Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ) about the perception in relation of the roles played by their employees of the tactical and operational leveI in concern with their believes and values upon their jobs. This research constitutes a case study and took place in field research in a qualitative way and therefore the data was carefully analyzed in a descriptive-interpretative mode. Primary data \Vere collected from analysis on documents such as reports, norms, publications and internaI rules; and the secondary data carne from the semi structured interviews and enabled an analytical and categorical checking. The samples for the interviews were selected from populations, inside the AMRJ, that were similar to populations of private industries and each person of the population having similar functions to other industries or enterprises in order to be representative for the research. The collected data concluded that the AMRJ is still in a process of changing and that the job became more fulfilling to the tactical leveI, having a challenging and a professional growth perspective, as for the operational leveI it did not mean fulfillment, but frustrating despite their good feelings towards the institution. There is also the conclusion that the change is necessary despite their challenges and if influences the employee's perception, but it may become negative if there isn't a fair distribution of its benefits among all leveIs of the institution. / O Objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar a influência da mudança organizacional sofrida pelo Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ) sobre a percepção em relação aos papéis desempenhados pelos seus servidores, dos níveis gerencial e operacional, no que tange a valores e crenças sobre o seu trabalho. Esta pesquisa constitui um estudo de caso, e se deu por meio de pesquisa de campo, de cunho qualitativo, e por isso, os dados foram analisados de forma descritivo-interpretativa sobre a avaliação documental e do seu conteúdo. Os dados primários foram obtidos a partir de análise de documentos, tais como relatórios, normas, publicações e regulamentos internos; e os dados secundários foram provenientes de entrevistas semiestruturadas; e possibilitaram averiguar as categorias analíticas envolvidas na pesquisa. As amostras para as entrevistas foram selecionadas de populações, dentro do AMRJ que fossem semelhantes ou equivalentes a populações de indústrias privadas e os sujeitos das mesmas, que, igualmente, tivessem equivalência funcional em outras indústrias ou empresas a fim de serem representativas para a composição do conteúdo da pesquisa. Os dados coletados permitiram concluir que o AMRJ ainda se encontra em processo de acomodação à mudança que se iniciou, e que o trabalho passou a ser mais gratificante para o nível gerencial, assumindo uma perspectiva de desafio e crescimento profissional a partir de um novo enfoque dado a ele, porém, para o nível operacional, devido a uma motivação decrescente e a interesses frustrados, sua percepção considera o trabalho como menos gratificante que o outro nível, apesar do sentimento positivo que tem pela instituição. Concluiu-se, também, que as mudanças são necessárias, apesar das dificuldades inerentes a ela, e influenciam a percepção das pessoas, mas podem ficar comprometidas caso não seja levado em conta que deve haver uma equivalência na distribuição, entre todos os níveis, dos benefícios que podem favorecê-la.