Blaz Santic
NEW EVALUATING METHOD FOR TESTING OF SIMPLE GEOMETRY AND WORK PIECES

The paper describes a new approach based on Chebyshev method, which is stabilized by an arbitrary small weighing of least-squares principle in order to permit the reliable and repeatable examination of the best fit geometric elements in a simple and very complex geometry. Field of application of new method is geometry quality control in automotive and machinery building industry, in plastic forming etc. The method can be also used for further investigations of margin and stability conditions of Chebyshev method.

Zobeida Cisneros, Ivan Apolo, Teresa Vera, Leo Van Biesen, Tesfa Ghebreegziabeber, Ma. del Pilar Cornejo, Francisco Torres
INVENTORY INTO A DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THE COMPLETED STUDIES TO ASSES THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GULF OF GUAYAQUIL BASED ON THE PERFORMING INFORMATION UTILIZING ELECTRONIC CHARTING AND DISPLAY SYSTEMS A

The university institution plays an important role as generator and bank of information through research (starting with thesis works), human and technological resources, while keeping up-to-date with the demands of the community on the formation of professionals. It is the commitment of the authors and the whole of the research team to elaborate, with all the means available at the academic institutions they belong to, this Geographic Information System to accomplish the goal of providing the stakeholders in the Gulf of Guayaquil (GG), Ecuador, objective means for decision-making. The methodology applied to build up digital thematic information useful for management of the ecosystem of the Gulf of Guayaquil consists of:
1. Set-up an Electronic Charting and Display System - ECDIS with the database inventory and the digital cartography available;
2. Select out of the databank that information that is competent and constitute with it a geographic database suitable for the identification of regions in the gulf;
3. Work out spatial relationships with the output of that selection to characterize the gulf in terms of spatial and temporal driving factors;
4. Produce presentation maps synthesizing the results of the analysis. Several of the maps realised are discussed, which show the analysis performed on the variables that describe natural and man-driven activities in the GG. For instance, at the base of an Internet-accessible alert system lies information on production and management of shrimp farms in the region, summarised in an index that is used to map the variation between the monthly performance and the historical one. A second example shows rather a lesser abstraction of the information, and shows layers describing the natural set-up regarding the hydro-dynamics of the inner estuary, which would be a second building block toward the integrated vision on how to manage the ecosystem in view of the economic interests, and also the sustainability ones.

Vedran Mudronja, Biserka Runje, Srdan Medic
EXAMPLES OF APPLYING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS IN THE FIELD OF MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES OF THE STANDARD OF LENGTH

Recently, the Monte Carlo simulations (MCS) have been increasingly applied in the field of estimating the measurement uncertainties. The MCS method is based on random number generation from the probability density functions for each input value and forming of experimental probability density function of the output value. The paper presents calculation examples of the measurement uncertainty in calibration of the standard of length by using the MCS method. The MCS method is implemented for validation of the realised measurement uncertainties by GUM method in calibrating the standard of length.

Vladimir Kneller
MEASUREMENT, CONTROL AND OTHERS PROCESSES: TO THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMATIZATION

The paper considers measurement, event detection and control from a generic viewpoint of organizing purposeful processes to reveal their interrelation and specificity important for the construction of a knowledge system relevant to each process. Along with them, it also defines and examines a quantity transformation (conversion) process, which underlies both these and some other processes. From this viewpoint, it illustrates the way of structural level deduction of the methods of quantities transformation and of providing their invariance to influence factors.

Luca Mari
THE CONCEPTS OF ANALOG AND DIGITAL CODING IN TERMS OF MEASUREMENT THEORY

The concepts of analog and digital coding are usually employed with a vague, even if not wrong, meaning, according to the more or less explicit assumption that they are synonymous of continuous and discrete coding respectively. This work is aimed at showing how such concepts can be instead properly defined in terms of Measurement Theory, in the context of the fundamental duality between coding and sensing.