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Does the size of an economy matter (a lot)? The economic potential of a country as a necessary or sufficient condition for regional dominance.
Boukal, Tomáš ; Kofroň, Jan (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
The current economic rise of China entails one question. What significance can we attribute to the size of economy of countries for the accomplishment of regional hegemony? The ongoing debate agrees that economic might is a significant indicator of national power and thus the countries aspiring to dominate their regions should be displayed by lead in the economic sphere over other regional actors. Nevertheless, the consensus on the extent of this relationship has not yet been established. This thesis aims to contribute to the debate by determining whether economic potential constructed on GDP numbers is a necessary condition, a sufficient one, or neither of those, for regional dominance of countries. Based on the examination of historical cases from 1700 to 2010 and regions of Europe, Northeast Asia, and Western Hemisphere, we present a new indicator of regional dominance consisting of six sequential levels. By employing the "Necessary Condition Analysis", we argue that economic potential is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for higher levels of regional dominance with the effect of necessary condition denoted as "medium". Further, we provide a robustness check for the computation of economic potential using the Beckley's "GDP * GDP per capita" measure and Paul Bairoch's "Total industrial...
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Components for visualization of correlations for IVIS framework
Töpfer, Michal ; Bureš, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee)
As the number of IoT devices connected to the internet grows, the amounts of data which need to be analysed and visualized also increase. One of the frameworks for creating complex configurable visualizations is IVIS, a web-based open-source framework developed at D3S, MFF UK. In this thesis, we develop and implement components for scatter plot, bubble plot, heatmap chart and histogram chart, which did not exist previously in the framework. These components can be used to visualize correlations among data and to display prop- erties of data distribution. Special emphasis is given to interactivity and configurability of components and a detailed description of the configuration options is provided. We also create a set of examples to show how to use the newly added components together with existing parts of the framework. Existing charts in the framework are also enhanced with the newly introduced concepts. 1
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uCube - speedcubing mobile application
Štolová, Michaela ; Ježek, Pavel (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to create a mobile phone application for speedcubers, which would contain several separate basic training tools, but would also allow future extension with new components. We would also like to achieve portability to various target platforms in the future. Using the Xamarin.Forms framework, we implemented an application for the Android system and, in parallel, an experimental version for the Windows system, the purpose of which was to make sure of the promised portability. In addition, by using MEF, the de- sign of the application allows easy extensibility with new components by simply adding new code and does not require modification of the application core itself. The resulting application allows users to measure duration of a puzzle solve using a special timer with possibility to enable an inspection countdown, saves the measured times and displays them in a comprehensible table and graph. It also provides a met- ronome with an option to measure number of ticks between two moments and to store them. Furthermore, it displays personal records and allows the user to search for up- coming competitions according to various criteria. We support several different puzzles in the application and a scramble generator is available for each of them. In addition, we provide a random state...
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Interoperability of compiled PHP framework with .NET environment and package management
Horký, Filip ; Husák, Robert (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee)
PHP language has been dominating the web development industry for a long time now. Each major PHP framework brings together a large community and a solid codebase, providing features and tools that make the PHP web application devel- opment even simpler. Joining this vast world with .NET is an aim of Peachpie, PHP compiler to .NET. This provides means to use Symfony framework in .NET, yielding advantages for both the PHP developers striving for more security and the .NET programmers lacking third-party content. Doing so with plain Peachpie compiler, however, brings problem of actual usability of the features Symfony pro- vides. Each project would require to recompile Symfony Components again and thus result in both time overhead and tedious manual configuration. This thesis shows it is possible to improve this process and enable intuitive usage of Sym- fony framework in the .NET environment. It denotes utilities for semi-automatic compilation of the Symfony Components into the NuGet packages and migration of simple Symfony applications to .NET. Furthermore, it provides tools for ad- ditional interoperability between Twig and Razor template engines, and a set of examples of its actual usage.
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Comparison of the French interventions in Mali and CAR
Zelenka, Jan ; Doboš, Bohumil (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Comparation of French military interventions in Mali and Central African Republic" will examine problematics of French military interventions in Africa specifically in countries of the formal French colonial empire. Rational choice theory has been chosen as a theoretical base for explanation of French actions. First of all this thesis will describe deeper historical context and current French involvement in particular region. Later on the theory for explanation of contemporary French actions will be presented and it will include definition of main political, economic, social and security motives that can be universally applicable on French presence in the region. This theory will be tested on two recent cases of military interventions. Mali and Central African Republic will be two cases of comparation. In main part of this thesis French military interventions in these states and their comparation will be described. In each case of intervention their course of conflict, form of French intervention, major motives and international reception will be covered. Main objective of this comparation is an overall collation of specific motives of France for operation in these countries while it will focus on strategic, political and economic motives. Military comparation will be included as...
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MetaRMS - information systems building platform
Nekvindová, Hana ; Ježek, Pavel (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee)
Data are an essential element of the present world. The problem of storing data concerns everybody, from a large company with information about their clients to individual users with their shopping lists. Options vary between a simple Excel sheet and expensive custom solution. A general software solution to cover these cases is needed. However, the requirements on the structure of the data differ for every use-case. This thesis aims to solve this problem by creating an application generating software. The software generates a custom application when provided with the description of the data structure. For that, we define the format of the description of the data structure and analyze various approaches to the implementation of the application generating software. Our solution contains an ASP.NET Core server application and an example web client application communicating over the public JSON API. The server accepts the description and creates an application accordingly. The solution also contains a library, that is used by the example web client and is reusable by other client front-ends.
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Computer Games and Battle Mechanics in League of Legends: Investigating analogies between real warfare and computer games
Ravi, Sai Shashanka ; Kofroň, Jan (advisor) ; Doboš, Bohumil (referee)
: BATTLE MECHANICS IN LoL: Investigating Analogies Between Real Warfare and Computer Games My Masters' thesis will be about how one can draw parallels between the e-sports scene in competitive online games, and the all-too real military situations that come up ever so often. Not just that, but also the possibility of running battle simulations is much more convenient in the case of e-sports, as there is no life/death scenario involved, which makes it much more suitable for implementing the more unconventional, or even some downright outrageous strategies for victory. The game I have in mind at present is League of Legends, which is a MOBA game [Multiplayer Online Battle Arena]. In LoL, battles take place between two teams of 5 vs 5, involving 10 unique characters out of a total game roster of 140+ possible character choices, each with different sets of abilities and playstyles suited for different [or in some cases, the same] situations. The battles take place on the map called Summoner's Rift, a terrain with various obstacles, bushes and whatnot to deny total vision to either of the competing teams. The methodology I would choose for my paper would be statistical analysis; since LoL is an online competitive game, statistics are easily available for the games played, either on the official game...
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Static data flow analysis for Java programs
Mečiar, Martin ; Zavoral, Filip (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee)
This thesis proposes a methodology for an acquisition of dependencies between outputs and inputs in Java programs by using static program analysis on bytecode of Java programs. JaBSSA methodology designed by the author is presented in the thesis. The methodology is based on a construction of context-sensitive call graph of the analyzed program and subsequent construction of directed data flow graph, where nodes containing particular metadata represent inputs and outputs of the analyzed program and edges represent data flows amongst them present in the analyzed program. The program on added CD contains JaBSSA's implemen- tation, which serves as a proof of the proposed concept. Java program examples together with test suite generating results of JaBSSA's implementation upon pre- pared Java program examples are part of the program. These generated results are used for demonstration of capabilities and flaws of the proposed concept. 1
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