115 research outputs found
Conceptualising place in historical fact and creative fiction: rural communities and regional landscapes in Bernard Samuel Gilbert’s ‘Old England’, c. 1910-1920
No full textThe theme of place guides much exploration in rural history and local history. Attempts have been made to create definitions and typologies of place, but these have had to contend with the diverse, complex, and dynamic realities of historical pattern and process, local and regional. Nonetheless, historians and those in other disciplines have evolved different approaches to the concept. This study considers how these can inform the investigation of places existing in historical fact in particular periods in the past, and can do similarly for those places located contemporaneously in fictional constructions. Reference is made to various academic writings on place, including by the local historian, David Dymond. The analysis takes the work of the author of fiction, Bernard Samuel Gilbert. Gilbert, although relatively obscure now, incorporated a feature of special note into his later literary output, and one meriting greater attention. This was his personalised, reflective and explicitly articulated approach to forming and expressing place. Moreover, Gilbert’s ‘Old England’, with its imaginary district of 'Bly', can be recognised as corresponding with landscapes and communities existing more broadly in the years up to and through the First World War, and with creations by other authors of regional fiction
PwC Tesla
No full textA search engine developed using Django, Haystack and Solr.Software and Computer TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
HMR-Asynchronous Boundary Control
No full textThe Horseshoe Meadows Ranch has evolved to a hospitality unit that caters to horse owners who are looking for lodging and recreation at the same site as the stable that serves their horses. With access to more than 1618 hectares of open unimproved forestland, the guests of the ranch are having difficulties navigating through the wild scenic, majestic mountains and untamed rivers since many trails and single track features are omitted. Two students from the Delft University of Technology who are in the final phase of the bachelor Computer Science, are asked to develop a methodology with which the trails and features of the unimproved forestland can be mapped in a delivery system. The delivery system should enable the guests of the Horseshoe Meadows Ranch to navigate through the wilderness of Oregon on their own. This report describes the establishment of the launched prototype during 18 weeks of development. The details of the research and implementation process will be discussed throughout the report.Bsc. Computer ScienceComputer ScienceElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Silicon 5 Codegeneratie
No full textHet doel van het project was de ontwikkeling van een codegenerator om snel nieuwe webprojecten op te kunnen starten. Het bedrijf Fenêtre ontwikkelt complexe internetapplicaties met behulp van een eigen framework. De projecten die met dit framework, Silicon 5, worden gemaakt bevatten vaak project-specieke entiteiten. Voor deze entiteiten zijn bijna altijd onderhoudsschermen nodig. Elk project is uniek, daarom zullen deze schermen voor elk project op een andere manier gebouwd moeten worden. Dit is een tijdrovend proces. Omdat alle schermen volgens dezelfde structuur zijn gemaaktkan het bouwen van de schermen signicant versneld worden met een codegenerator. De uitdaging zat in het zo goed mogelijk benutten van de beschikbare informatie over de tabellen in het framework. Door een reeds bestaande generator is van elke databasetabel een model gemaakt. De combinatie van de metadata uit de database en de beschikbare modellen, biedt veel mogelijkheden. Voornamelijk het analyseren en genereren van de elementen voor relaties tussen verschillende tabellen en views (en dus tussen schermen) is een uitdaging. Samen met het bedrijf zijn op dit gebied veel complexe problemen bediscussieerd en aangepakt. Het eindproduct is een volledig werkende applicatie die aan bijna alle gestelde eisen voldoet. De ap-plicatie biedt de mogelijkheid om met enkele klikken een serie schermen te genereren op basis van een databasetabel. Deze nieuwe schermen zijn daarna direct te gebruiken in de webapplicatie, inclusief bijkomende functionaliteiten zoals het bewerken van data. Wensen en mogelijkheden die tijdens het project zijn ontdekt, zijn geformuleerd in een lijst van aanbevelingen. De ontwikkelaars bij Fenêtre zullen deze generator gaan gebruiken bij het opstarten van projecten. Een aantal schermen die standaard in het framework zitten, zijn zelfs al gemaakt met de generator. Daarnaast zal de generator ook met zekerheid nog verder uitgebreid worden met extra functionaliteiten.Bachelor ProjectComputer ScienceElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Developing a project architecture and evaluating the Enterprise Architecture initiative at Tata Steel
No full textOrganizations have become more aware of Enterprise Architecture and the need to work under architecture. Tata Steel assumes that Enterprise Architecture can help them realizing the benefits that come from working with Enterprise Architecture as presented in literature. This thesis consists out of two parts. The first part is about the process of developing a business and application architecture, and the development of the architecture itself. An ‘as-is’ project architecture, which represents the system landscape and business processes at the start of the project, and a ‘to-be’ project architecture, which represents how the system landscape and business processes should look when the project finishes, was developed. The goal of the project for which the architecture was developed is to change the system landscape in such a way that it can support the newly developed distribution model. The second part of the thesis focuses on research questions about Enterprise Architecture. The most important goal of this thesis is to describe how Enterprise Architecture can be implemented in an organization like Tata Steel. The Enterprise Architecture approach that Tata has chosen is described, evaluated and improvements are suggested. The governance of architectural models is discussed and the value of architecture is discussed. All while using the experience gotten from creating the ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ project architectures.Computer Science Information ArchitectureWeb Information Systems GroupElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Towards a Functional Interface for Temporal Navigation of News Archives
No full textNews producers in the digital era have adopted web standards like XML for representing news stories in datastores. News stories are very time-sensitive information. When this information is archived over time, it could be analyzed to elicit trends and gauge the level of interest in particular topics. A novel way of visualizing this data would make such large datasets more approachable for the general public, and thus make it possible for publishers to extract additional value out of the available news stories. A user interface that helps the user navigate through the large document cor- pus would improve users’ perception of the value of the news content, and ensure continued consumption of this content. There were two aspects to building the right user interface - the usability of the interface itself, and the appropriateness of the vi- sual metaphor used to visualize the data. This thesis adopts an iterative approach to building the most usable interface to achieve this goal. Starting with an initial design based on study of the system and literature in the ?eld, design iterations were carried out, with a usability testing phase at the end of each iteration. The resulting interface provides a simple way to navigate news article archives in terms of concepts like peo- ple, places and organizations. It also allows users to visualize trends in news coverage for a particular concept over time.Software TechnologyComputer ScienceElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
BSc-project: Eindverslag, VCN-Web: TCTeamTool & Takenbeheer
No full textVoor dit project, ter afronding van de bacheloropleiding Technische Informatica van de Technische Universiteit Delft, zijn een aantal componenten voor VCN-Web ontwikkeld; nadat een eerder project om medische redenen was afgebroken. Het VCN-Web systeem omvat een publieke gebruikerssite met veel dynamische informatie en voorzieningen, en vernieuwend op vele gebieden. Het betreft een pseudo zelf-regulerend systeem dat een kernorgaan van de volleybalvereniging VCN vormt. Achter het VCN-Web systeem steekt een uitgebreid framework met vele mogelijkheden en voorzieningen, waar de ontwikkelde componenten in geïntegreerd zijn. De 2 hoofdcomponenten, de TCTeamTool en het Takenbeheer, zijn in opdracht van Sharpener voor respectievelijk de TC’s en de Takenbeheerder als eindgebruikers ontwikkelt. Kortweg kan er gesteld worden dat de functies van de TC’s en takenbeheerder ‘gedigitaliseerd’ en ‘geintegreerd’ moesten worden binnen het VCN-Web systeem. De TCTeamTool is een component om intern de teamindelingen mee op te kunnen zetten, en deze te kunnen publiceren op de website voor ingelogde leden. Tevens kunnen de TC’s hiermee de informatie op de website waar zij verantwoordelijk voor zijn bewerken. Met het takenbeheer kan de takenbeheerder efficiënt de taken voor wedstrijden inroosteren en publiceren op de website, waarbij zij altijd beschikt over de meest actuele en relevante informatie. Omdat veel van de wensen rondom het takenbeheer de actuele en automatische verwerking van wedstrijden omvat, is ook hiervoor een component ontwikkeld. Dit was in eerste instantie niet de bedoeling, maar is voor de volledigheid toch gedurende de projectperiode binnen het kader van dit project ontwikkeld.Software TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Temporal Preference Analysis in Recommender Systems
No full textThe thesis presents the results of research into temporal preference analysis in recommender systems. Temporal preference analysis consists of methods for detecting time recurrent changes in user preferences and for using this information to improve the recommendation precision.Web Information SystemsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
On the Equivalence of Nested Relational Languages
No full textQuery optimization has played a vital role in database research since the 1970’s and up till now. In the relational context, a prerequisite to query optimization is the study of equivalences over relational algebra expressions. Sophisticated techniques for query transformations for traditional query languages include rewriting based optimizations. Rewriting optimization transforms a query into equivalent one and can have a significant impact on execution time. Though RDF Gears is an inspiration to this work, we aim to develop rewriting based optimization strategies that can be applied to similar query languages like PigLatin and Hive. We study the various rewriting based optimizations that currently exist and identify many of the existing ideas that can be extrapolated and applied to RDF Gears. We define the syntax and semantics of Nested Relational Algebra(NRA) and Nested Relational Calculus(NRC) and use a mapping between them to transform expressions of one to the other. We come up with a full set of NRA & NRC, an exhaustive list of rewrite rules, which cover all possible rewrites needed for our language. We mathematically find a minimum core set, that we call the concise or the non-derivable set of NRA & NRC and prove their derivability either mathematically or using a theorem prover. We also present a mathematical proof for equivalence relationship between the rule sets of NRA & NRC. The proof obtained for NRA & NRC that is comprised of basic values, pairs and tuples, for one free variable.Computer ScienceSoftware TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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