Pristup integraciji tehničkih prostora zasnovan na preslikavanjima iinženjerstvu vođenom modelima

In order to automate development of integration adapters in industrial settings, a model-driven approach to adapter specification is devised. In this approach, a domain-specific modeling language is created to allow specification of mappings between integrated technical spaces. Also proposed is the mapping automation engine that comprises reuse and alignment algorithms. Based on mapping specifications, executable adapters are automatically generated and executed. Results of approach evaluations indicate that it is possible to use a model-driven approach to successfully integrate technical spaces and increase the automation by reusing domainspecific mappings from previously created adapters.За потребе повећања степена аутоматизације развоја адаптера за интеграцију у индустријском окружењу, осмишљен је моделом вођен приступ развоју адаптера. У оквиру овог приступа развијен је наменски језик за спецификацију пресликавања између техничких простора који су предмет интеграције. Приступ обухвата и алгоритме за поравнање и поновно искориштење претходно креираних пресликавања са циљем аутоматизације процеса спецификације. На основу креираних пресликавања, могуће je аутоматски генерисати извршиви код адаптера. У испитивањима приступа, показано је да је могуће успешно применити моделом вођен приступ у интеграцији техничких простора као и да је могуће успешно повећати степен аутоматизације поновним искоришћењем претходно креираних пресликавања.Za potrebe povećanja stepena automatizacije razvoja adaptera za integraciju u industrijskom okruženju, osmišljen je modelom vođen pristup razvoju adaptera. U okviru ovog pristupa razvijen je namenski jezik za specifikaciju preslikavanja između tehničkih prostora koji su predmet integracije. Pristup obuhvata i algoritme za poravnanje i ponovno iskorištenje prethodno kreiranih preslikavanja sa ciljem automatizacije procesa specifikacije. Na osnovu kreiranih preslikavanja, moguće je automatski generisati izvršivi kod adaptera. U ispitivanjima pristupa, pokazano je da je moguće uspešno primeniti modelom vođen pristup u integraciji tehničkih prostora kao i da je moguće uspešno povećati stepen automatizacije ponovnim iskorišćenjem prethodno kreiranih preslikavanja

An Educational Framework to Support Industrial Control System Security Engineering

Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) are used to monitor and control critical infrastructure such as electricity and water. ICS were originally stand-alone systems, but are now widely being connected to corporate national IT networks, making remote monitoring and more timely control possible. While this connectivity has brought multiple benefits to ICS, such as cost reductions and an increase in redundancy and flexibility, ICS were not designed for open connectivity and therefore are more prone to security threats, creating a greater requirement for adequate security engineering approaches. The culture gap between developers and security experts is one of the main challenges of ICS security engineering. Control system developers play an important role in building secure systems; however, they lack security training and support throughout the development process. Security training, which is an essential activity in the defence-indepth strategy for ICS security, has been addressed, but has not been given sufficient attention in academia. Security support is a key means by which to tackle this challenge via assisting developers in ICS security by design. This thesis proposes a novel framework, the Industrial Control System Security Engineering Support (ICS-SES), which aims to help developers in designing secure control systems by enabling them to reuse secure design patterns and improve their security knowledge. ICS-SES adapts pattern-based approach to guide developers in security engineering, and an automated planning technique to provide adaptive on-the-job security training tailored to personal needs. The usability of ICS-SES has been evaluated using an empirical study in terms of its effectiveness in assisting the design of secure control systems and improving developers’ security knowledge. The results show that ICS-SES can efficiently help control system designers to mitigate security vulnerabilities and improve their security knowledge, reducing the difficulties associated with the security engineering process, and the results have been found to be statically significant. In summary, ICS-SES provides a unified method of supporting an ICS security by design approach. It fosters a development environment where engineers can improve their security knowledge while working in a control system production line.Libyan Embassy in London, U

Concepts for an intuitive user interface for DLNA using NFC technology

Consumption of digital media is dramatically increased by the development of conventional connectivity technologies and the advent of home entertainment appliances. The evolution of networking technology, hardware development and advanced services leads to an increased sophistication of device manipulation and long learning curves for average users. DLNA standardizes the interoperablity between media devices over a framework. With the help of personal handheld devices and smart phones, a ubiquitous media network is formed at home or on the road. NFC is a radio technology bridging physical and digital world, which is now widely deployed in a varied number of application scenarios to ease Human-Computer Interaction. This master thesis proposes a system architecture based on the confluence of DLNA architecture and NFC technology to facilitate simple, intuitive and impromptu interaction with media devices. This NFC-enabled DLNA Communication system architecture defines a communication model which delivers the vision of NFC as the enabler of DLNA control and communication, a network model, a set of diverse device functional components, a set of dedicated devices and baseline principles of system architecture. Based on the generic system architecture, a research is explored on A/V and image media sharing, UI retrieval, media uploading/downloading and print document application fields. Six use cases are proposed, they share the properties and principles defined in the system architecture and additionally they maintain their own use case specific features and their proprietary NFC data formats. Among them two use cases are explained in more detail. One use case, A/V Handover, delivers a consistent "tap and exchange" scenario. The other use case, Control Handover, grants users an instantaneous access to the control UI. A prototype implementation between smart devices or home appliances are presented showcasing an instantaneous, rapid and spontaneous media sharing and management application. Following the design paradigm presented in this thesis, more use cases in specific application fields are easily to be implemented

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Women, churches and community development in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

This study examined the contribution that women in churches make towards community development. The concept of development of the community by the community has gained prominence in development literature. In addition, churches as institutions that exist within communities have been recognised as most appropriate in steering community development initiatives. However, the role of churches has not been significantly researched or socio-scientifically analysed. The efforts of women in churches towards community development have not been sufficiently recognised and researched either. Women dominate in terms of church membership, and they are actively involved in church activities. This study sought to understand the contribution that women in churches make to community development and to expose barriers that hinder their full participation. Contemporary research has proven that meaningful community development cannot be achieved without the active participation of women. This thesis contributes to the body of knowledge by recognising women as an important nexus in community development and by providing a detailed perspective of their role in churches and the obstacles that hamper their meaningful participation in community development. The spiritual contribution of women in churches to community development is scarcely documented and has largely been undermined – as evidenced by the scarcity of research on how spirituality could be integrated into community development. Therefore, this study provides insight into the importance of spirituality in community development, with special reference to women in churches. The study unveils and acknowledges the significance that the voluntary, non-paid activities of women in churches have for community development. This qualitative research study was guided by the GAD theory and has followed a constructivist epistemological stance. A case study research design was adopted to explore the intersection of women, churches, and community development. Thematic data analysis was the data analysis method adopted for this research and the sample size was 58. The key findings of this study have indicated that women in churches are mainly affected by a patriarchal system that prevents them from participating meaningfully in community development initiatives. The patriarchal structures within churches are maintained through incompatible doctrines. Thus, there is a need for transformation of church leadership and decision-making structures.In hierdie studie is ondersoek ingestel na die bydrae wat vroue in kerke tot gemeenskapsontwikkeling lewer. Die konsep van ontwikkeling van die gemeenskap, deur die gemeenskap, het bekendheid verwerf in ontwikkelingsliteratuur. Kerke as instellings wat in gemeenskappe bestaan, is ook erken as die geskikste vir die bestuur van gemeenskapsontwikkeling-inisiatiewe. Die rol van kerke is egter nie wetenskaplik nagevors of sosiaal-wetenskaplik ontleed nie. Die ywer waarmee vroue in kerke tot gemeenskapsontwikkeling bydra, is ook nie genoegsaam erken en nagevors nie. Vroue voer die botoon as dit by kerklidmaatskap kom, en hulle is aktief by kerk-aktiwiteite betrokke. Hierdie studie poog om die bydrae wat vroue in kerke tot gemeenskapsontwikkeling lewer, te verstaan en om struikelblokke te onthul wat hul volwaardige deelname kniehalter. Hedendaagse navorsing het bewys dat betekenisvolle gemeenskapsontwikkeling nie bewerkstellig kan word sonder vroue se aktiewe deelname nie. Hierdie tesis dra tot die kenniskorpus by deur vroue te erken as ’n belangrike skakel in gemeenskapsontwikkeling, en deur ’n uitvoerige perspektief te bied van hul rol in kerke en die struikelblokke wat hul betekenisvolle deelname aan gemeenskapsontwikkeling bemoeilik. Die geestelike bydrae wat vroue in kerke tot gemeenskapsontwikkeling lewer, is skaars gedokumenteer en is grootliks ondermyn – soos blyk uit die gebrek aan navorsing oor hoe geestelikheid in gemeenskapsontwikkeling geïntegreer kan word. Hierdie studie gee dus insig rakende die belangrikheid van geestelikheid in gemeenskapsontwikkeling, met besondere aandag aan vroue in kerke. Die studie erken en werp lig op die belangrike rol wat die vrywillige, onbetaalde aktiwiteite van vroue in kerke, in gemeenskapsontwikkeling speel. Hierdie kwalitatiewe navorsingstudie is gerig deur die GAD-teorie, met ’n konstruktivistiese, epistemologiese standpunt as vertrekpunt. ’n Gevallestudie-navorsingsontwerp is gebruik om die kruispunt van vroue, kerke en gemeenskapsontwikkeling te bestudeer. Tematiese data-ontleding was die data-ontledingsmetode wat vir hierdie navorsing ingespan is, en die steekproefgrootte was 58. Die sleutelbevindings van hierdie studie toon aan dat vroue in kerke hoofsaaklik beïnvloed word deur ’n patriargale stelsel wat hulle verhoed om op betekenisvolle wyse by gemeenskapsontwikkeling-inisiatiewe betrokke te wees. Die patriargale strukture in kerke word deur onverenigbare doktrines gehandhaaf. Daar is dus ’n behoefte aan transformasie van kerkleierskap en besluitnemingstrukture.Lolu cwaningo luhlole igalelo elenziwa abesifazane emasontweni ekuthuthukiseni umphakathi. Umqondo wokuthuthukiswa komphakathi ngumphakathi uthole ukugqama emibhalweni yentuthuko. Ngaphezu kwalokho, amasonto njengezikhungo ezikhona emiphakathini aqashelwe njengafanele kakhulu ekuqhubeni izinhlelo zokuthuthukisa umphakathi. Nokho, indima yamasonto ayizange icwaningwe kakhulu noma ihlaziywe ngokwenhlalonhle-yesayensi. Imizamo yabesifazane emasontweni ekuthuthukiseni umphakathi ayikaqashelwa ngokwanele futhi yacwaningwa. Abesifazane bayabusa ngokwemibandela yobulungu bebandla futhi bamatasatasa emisebenzini yebandla. Lolu cwaningo belufuna ukuqonda igalelo elenziwa ngabesifazane emasontweni ekuthuthukisweni komphakathi kanye nokudalula izithiyo ezivimbela ukuhlanganyela kwabo ngokugcwele. Ucwaningo lwesimanje selukhombisile ukuthi ukuthuthukiswa komphakathi okuphusile ngeke kuzuzwe ngaphandle kokubamba iqhaza kwabesifazane. Le thesis inikela endikimbeni yolwazi ngokubona abesifazane njengesixhumanisi esibalulekile ekuthuthukisweni komphakathi nangokuhlinzeka ngemininingwane yeqhaza lalabo abaya emasontweni kanye nezithiyo ezithikameza ukuhlanganyela kwabo okunengqondo ekuthuthukisweni komphakathi. Igalelo elingokomoya labesifazane emasontweni ekuthuthukisweni komphakathi libhalwe phansi futhi liye labukelwa phansi - njengoba kufakazelwa ukushoda kocwaningo lokuthi ingokomoya lingahlanganiswa kanjani nokuthuthukiswa komphakathi. Ngakho-ke, lolu cwaningo lunikeza ukuqonda ngokubaluleka kwengokomoya ekuthuthukisweni komphakathi, kubhekiselwa ngokukhethekile kwabesifazane emasontweni. Lolu cwaningo lwembula futhi luvuma ukubaluleka kokuthi imisebenzi yokuzithandela, engakhokhelwa yabesifazane emasontweni anayo ukuze kuthuthukiswe umphakathi. Lolu cwaningo lwesimo lwaluholwa yithiyori ye-GAD futhi lulandele isimo esiphakeme nesakhayo sephestimoloji. Idizayini yocwaningo lwecala yamukelwa ukuhlola ukuhlangana kwabesifazane, amasonto, nokuthuthukiswa komphakathi. Ukuhlaziywa kweminingwane eyinqikithi kwakuyindlela yokuhlaziya iminingwane eyamukelwa kulolu cwaningo futhi usayizi wesampula wawungama-58. Imiphumela eyinhloko yalolu cwaningo ibonise ukuthi abesifazane emasontweni bathinteka kakhulu ohlelweni lwenzalamizi olubavimbela ukuba babambe iqhaza ngendlela enenjongo ezinhlelweni zokuthuthukisa umphakathi. Izakhiwo zezinzalamizi ngaphakathi emasontweni zigcinwa ngezimfundiso ezingahambelani. Ngakho, kunesidingo sokuguqulwa kobuholi bebandla nezinhlaka ezithatha izinqumo.Development StudiesPh. D. (Development Studies

The political promise of choreography in performance and/as research: First Physical Theatre Company’s manifesto and repertory, 1993-2015

This study redefines the political in dance by drawing on the scholarly concept of the “choreopolitical” (André Lepecki) and extending it into analysing related concepts such as the “postdramatic” (Hans-Thies Lehmann), performance and/as research, among others from Performance Studies scholarship as well as from First Physical Theatre Company’s pioneering legacy of production, pedagogy and research in making Phyical Theatre performance. Following from the notion that performance is both a site and a method of study/knowing, the research invites a rethinking of the relationship between art (performance), epistemology and the political, in the sense that performance becomes a way, not of simply re-presenting the political but, as its own way of knowing, actively questioning the very categories on which the political is premised. The argument for Physical Theatre as having nascent potential to invoke what I call “the power of the small” is analysed as a choreopolitical method and community of practice that has a generative capacity to produce the “intimate revolts” (Julia Kristeva) or body of questions that can perform the imaginative curiosities/forms required to create provocative, subversive, ethical, reflexive and charged performance. My argument is supported by critical commentary, insight, choreological analysis and reflection on the dramaturgical strategies and choreopolitics of selected commissioned choreographers and dance forms that extended FPTC’s manifesto and production between 1993 and 2015. My project has the following three goals: (i) to contextualise, conceptualise and identify key issues in the identity, pedagogy and performance ethos of Physical Theatre as a performance philosophy and form; (ii) to engage critically with the praxis of Physical Theatre within the contextual, cultural, historical and political relationships between Physical Theatre and other performance practices in South Africa; and (iii) to document, analyse and interpret selected claims, works and performance processes from the archive of FPTC’s repertory and training manifesto from 1993 to 2015. The research evaluates the political significance and consequence of FPTC’s heritage and legacy problematising constraints, possibilities, tensions, failures and proposing the hope of imaginative entanglements with practising freedoms

Actas de la XIII Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información RECSI XIII : Alicante, 2-5 de septiembre de 2014

Si tuviéramos que elegir un conjunto de palabras clave para definir la sociedad actual, sin duda el término información sería uno de los más representativos. Vivimos en un mundo caracterizado por un continuo flujo de información en el que las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) y las Redes Sociales desempeñan un papel relevante. En la Sociedad de la Información se generan gran variedad de datos en formato digital, siendo la protección de los mismos frente a accesos y usos no autorizados el objetivo principal de lo que conocemos como Seguridad de la Información. Si bien la Criptología es una herramienta tecnológica básica, dedicada al desarrollo y análisis de sistemas y protocolos que garanticen la seguridad de los datos, el espectro de tecnologías que intervienen en la protección de la información es amplio y abarca diferentes disciplinas. Una de las características de esta ciencia es su rápida y constante evolución, motivada en parte por los continuos avances que se producen en el terreno de la computación, especialmente en las últimas décadas. Sistemas, protocolos y herramientas en general considerados seguros en la actualidad dejarán de serlo en un futuro más o menos cercano, lo que hace imprescindible el desarrollo de nuevas herramientas que garanticen, de forma eficiente, los necesarios niveles de seguridad. La Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (RECSI) es el congreso científico español de referencia en el ámbito de la Criptología y la Seguridad en las TIC, en el que se dan cita periódicamente los principales investigadores españoles y de otras nacionalidades en esta disciplina, con el fin de compartir los resultados más recientes de su investigación. Del 2 al 5 de septiembre de 2014 se celebrará la decimotercera edición en la ciudad de Alicante, organizada por el grupo de Criptología y Seguridad Computacional de la Universidad de Alicante. Las anteriores ediciones tuvieron lugar en Palma de Mallorca (1991), Madrid (1992), Barcelona (1994), Valladolid (1996), Torremolinos (1998), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2000), Oviedo (2002), Leganés (2004), Barcelona (2006), Salamanca (2008), Tarragona (2010) y San Sebastián (2012)

Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the US Civilian Space Program

One of the most important developments of the twentieth century has been the movement of humanity into space with machines and people. The underpinnings of that movement -why it took the shape it did; which individuals and organizations were involved; what factors drove a particular choice of scientific objectives and technologies to be used; and the political, economic, managerial, and international contexts in which the events of the space age unfolded- are all important ingredients of this epoch transition from an earthbound to spacefaring people. This desire to understand the development of spaceflight in the United States sparked this documentary history series. 'Exploring the Unknown' is a multi-volume series containing a selection of key documents in history of the U.S. civil space program. This current volume, Volume III, focusing on the use of space for practical applications, prints 112 key documents on the history of satellite communications, remote sensing of earth, and space as an investment in economic growth, edited for ease of use. Each is introduced by a headnote providing context, bibliographical information, and background information necessary to understanding the document