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Replikation einer Multi-Agenten-Simulationsumgebung zur Überprüfung auf Integrität und Konsistenz
(2012)
In dieser Master -Arbeit möchte ich zunächst eine Simulation vorstellen, mit der das Verhalten von Agenten untersucht wird, die in einer generierten Welt versuchen zu über leben und dazu einige Handlungsmöglichkeiten zur Auswahl haben. Anschließend werde ich kurz die theoretischen Aspekte beleuchten, welche hier zu Grunde liegen. Der Hauptteil meiner Arbeit ist meine Replikation einer Simulation, die von Andreas König im Jahr 2000 in Java angefertigt worden ist [Kö2000] . Ich werde hier seine Arbeit in stark verkürzter Form darstellen und anschließend auf meine eigene Entwicklung eingehen.
Im Schlussteil der Arbeit werde ich die Ergebnisse meiner Simulation mit denen von Andreas König vergleichen und die verwendeten Werkzeuge (Java und NetLogo) besprechen. Zum Abschluss werde ich in einem Fazit mein Vorhaben kurz zusammenfassen und berichten was sich umsetzen ließ, was nicht funktioniert hat und warum.
Standards are widely-used in the computer science and IT industry. Different organizations like the International Organization for Standardization (SO) are involved in the development of computer related standards. An important domain of standardization is the specification of data formats enabling the exchange of information between different applications. Such formats can be expressed in a variety of schema languages thereby defining sets of conformant documents. Often the use of multiple schema languages is required due to their varying expressive power and different kind of validation requirements.rnThis also holds for the Specification Common Cartridge which is maintained by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. The specification defines valid zip packages that can be used to aggregate different learning objects. These learning objects are represented by a set of files which are a part of the package and can be imported into a learning management system. The specification makes use of other specifications to constrain the contents of valid documents. Such documents are expressed in the eXtensible Markup Language and may contain references to other files also part of the package. The specification itself is a so-called domain profile. A domain profile allows the modification of one or more specifications to meet the needs of a particular community. Test rules can be used to determine a set of tasks in order to validate a concrete package. The execution is done by a testsystem which, as we will show, can be created automatically. Hence this method may apply to other package based data formats that are defined as a part of a specification.
This work will examine the applicability of this generic test method to the data formats that are introduced by the so called Virtual Company Dossier. These formats are used in processes related to public e-procurement. They allow the packaging of evidences that are needed to prove the fulfillment of criteria related to a public tender. The work first examines the requirements that are common to both specifications. This will introduce a new view on the requirements by introducing a higher level of abstraction. The identified requirements will then be used to create different domain profiles each capturing the requirements of a package based data format. The process is normally guided by supporting tools that ease the capturing of a domain profile and the creation of testsystems. These tools will be adapted to support the new requirements. Furtheron the generic testsystem will be modified. This system is used as a basis when a concrete testsystem is created.
Finally the author comes to a positive conclusion. Common requirements have been identified and captured. The involved systems have been adapted allowing the capturing of further types of requirements that have not been supported before. Furthermore the background of the specifications quite differ. This indicates that the use of domain profiles and generic test technologies may be suitable in a wide variety of other contexts.
Planning routes for trucks with a trailer is a complex procedure. In order to simplify this process, a route is segmented into elementary components, which represents basic motions of the considered vehicle. These elementary components are called maneuvers and are composed of two party. First, paths are constructed for certain reference points. Second, the vehicle is enclosed by a corridor during the execution of a maneuver. The paths of the vehicle have to take driveability into consideration. They must respect the kinematic constraints of the vehicle. The maneuver corridor can be used as a basis to guarantee collision-free motion planing. No part of the vehicle leaves the corridor during the maneuver. There are different types of maneuvers. Currently, the bending maneuver, the cusp maneuver and the straight line maneuver can be distinguished. In addition, a maneuver can be created with two different construction methods, the conventional and the iterative method.
In this thesis, a data structure to construct a maneuver is designed and implemented. The data structure is integrated into an already existing tool. The user can interact with the software to adjust various parameters of a maneuver. Afterwards the maneuver is generated based on these parameters. This also includes a visualization within the software, which can plot the parts of a maneuver. The visualization can be exported to an image file.
Web-programming is a huge field of different technologies and concepts. Each technology implements a web-application requirement like content generation or client-server communication. Different technologies within one application are organized by concepts, for example architectural patterns. The thesis describes an approach for creating a taxonomy about these web-programming components using the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. Our 101companies project uses implementations to identify and classify the different technology sets and concepts behind a web-application framework. These classifications can be used to create taxonomies and ontologies within the project. The thesis also describes, how we priorize useful web-application frameworks with the help of Wikipedia. Finally, the created implementations concerning web-programming are documented.
To meet the growing demands in the automotive industry, car manufacturers constantly reduce the depth of production and shift value-adding processes to the suppliers. This requires that companies work together more closely and promotes the creation of complex logistics networks. To meet the requirements for information exchange, a consortium of automobile manufacturers launched the project RFID-based Automotive Network (RAN) in 2009. The initiative aims at creating a standardized architecture for efficient material flow management along the entire supply chain. Core component of this architecture is the Informationbroker, an information unit which automatically communicates data which is captured via Auto-ID technology to supply chain participants. The thesis focuses in cooperation with the IBS AG, a software company and consortium partner in the project, on the exchange of goods data.
At first, theoretical foundations are presented by describing the characteristics of a supply chain and explaining standardization efforts and related processes. The chapter on the supply chain focuses on trends in the automotive industry to create a link to the project. The topic of standardization provides in-depth information on electronic data exchange standards in order to additionally create a transition to the Informationbroker concept. In the analytical part, reference projects will be presented with a similar problem and set in relation to RAN. According to project documents, system requirements will be defined and models will be created in order to illustrate the problem. Rich Pictures are used to describe the basis and target state.
Based on these models, the flow of goods related data is depicted between two companies and the role of the Informationbroker for the information exchange is clarified. The thesis aims at establishing an understanding of the challenges of the project and how the proposed concepts of the initiative can lead to an optimization of an automotive supply chain.
The estimation of various social objects is necessary in different fields of social life, science, education, etc. This estimation is usually used for forecasting, for evaluating of different properties and for other goals in complex man-machine systems. At present this estimation is possible by means of computer and mathematical simulation methods which is connected with significant difficulties, such as: - time-distributed process of receiving information about the object; - determination of a corresponding mathematical device and structure identification of the mathematical model; - approximation of the mathematical model to real data, generalization and parametric identification of the mathematical model; - identification of the structure of the links of the real social object. The solution of these problems is impossible without a special intellectual information system which combines different processes and allows predicting the behaviour of such an object. However, most existing information systems lead to the solution of only one special problem. From this point of view the development of a more general technology of designing such systems is very important. The technology of intellectual information system development for estimation and forecasting the professional ability of respondents in the sphere of education can be a concrete example of such a technology. Job orientation is necessary and topical in present economic conditions. It helps tornsolve the problem of expediency of investments to a certain sphere of education. Scientifically validated combined diagnostic methods of job orientation are necessary to carry out professional selection in higher education establishments. The requirements of a modern society are growing, with the earlier developed techniques being unable to correspond to them sufficiently. All these techniques lack an opportunity to account all necessary professional and personal characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary to use a system of various tests. Thus, the development of new methods of job orientation for entrants is necessary. The information model of the process of job orientation is necessary for this purpose. Therefore, it would be desirable to have an information system capable of giving recommendations concerning the choice of a trade on the basis of complex personal characteristics of entrants.
Innovation can help a forward-looking company to rise up very quickly, furthermore, innovative products and services bring a company to a stage where it can win new segments of customers and be ahead of the competition. For their innovation process, the companies can distinguish between open and closed innovation. In this case, we will focus on open innovation and how companies share their innovation processes for the benefit of the company. They use information and innovation systems to define their innovation process, as well as, track innovative ideas and the phase of their development. There are always pros and cons when it comes to open innovation processes in an organization. We will try to look at certain examples in the business world to illustrate how good or bad an open innovation process can be for a company. In this Bachelor thesis, we will try to point out the essential criteria for an open innovation process and illustrate companies which have used open innovation processes. In some cases it went successfully and for some companies it went unsuccessfully.
In this work, some network protocols with Wireshark Protokollanalyser should be observed and described the deal with them. Wireshark is an offshoot of "Ethereal", one of the most popular protocol analyzer. Wireshark analysis network traffic, draws on it and make it clear . For the simulation of the network is used VNUML. Since VNUML can only be used under Linux, andLinux is running as a virtual machine in between to work in Windows to be able to.
In diesem Bericht wird der Einsatz von drahtlosen Sensornetzen zur Temperaturmessung in Fließgewässern untersucht. Es wird dargestellt, inwieweit solche Netze als Bindeglied zwischen Fernerkundung und stationären Sensoren eingesetzt werden können. Es werden die Anforderungen an Sensornetze für die Anwendung Gewässermonitoring ermittelt und eine prototypische Realisierung von Netzknoten für ein solches Sensornetz dargestellt. Als Ergebnis dieser Arbeit werden die Genauigkeit von Temperaturmessungen mit solchen Sensorknoten im Vergleich zu einem Temperaturlogger als Referenzsystem dargestellt. Die Messungen zeigen, dass eine vergleichsweise gute Messgenauigkeit zu geringen Kosten erreichbar ist. Durch Weiterentwicklung des hier dargestellten Prototypen steht für die Temperaturüberwachung in Gewässern ein vielversprechendes und kostengünstiges neues Messinstrument zur Verfügung. Dieses kann auf der einen Seite in tieferen Regionen Gewässertemperaturen messen, als dies mit Fernerkundung möglich ist, und auf der anderen Seite eine höhere räumliche Auflösung als stationäre Messstationen erreichen. Zusätzlich dienen die Literaturrecherche und die Formulierung der Kriterien einer Eingrenzung des Anwendungsbereichs für weiterführende Arbeiten.
Analyse TV-basierter Interaktion für Senioren: Umsetzung und Evaluation im Gesundheitsbereich
(2007)
Remote rendering services offer the possibility to stream high quality images to lower powered devices. Due to the transmission of data the interactivity of applications is afflicted with a delay. A method to reduce delay of the camera manipulation on the client is called 3d-warping. This method causes artifacts. In this thesis different approaches of remote rendering setups will be shown. The artifacts and improvements of the warping method will be described. Methods to reduce the artifacts will be implemented and analyzed.
In the last years the e-government concentrated on the administrative aspects of administrative modernisation. In the next step the e-discourses will gain in importance as an instrument of the public-friendliness and means of the e-democracy/e-participation. With growing acceptance of such e-discourses, these will fastly reach a complexity, which could not be mastered no more by the participants. Many impressions, which could be won from presence discussions, will be lacking now. Therefore the exposed thesis has the objective of the conception and the prototypical implementation of an instrument (discourse meter), by which the participants, in particular the moderators of the e-discourse, are capable to overlook the e-discourse at any time and by means of it, attain their discourse awareness. Discourse awareness of the present informs about the current action in the e-discourse and discourse awareness of the past about the past action, by which any trends become visible. The focus of the discourse awareness is located in the quantitative view of the action in the e-discourse. From the model of e-discourse, which is developed in this thesis, the questions of discourse awareness are resulting, whose concretion is the basis for the implementation of the discourse meter. The discourse sensors attached to the model of the e-discourse are recording the actions of the e-discourse, showing events of discourse, which are represented by the discourse meter in various forms of visualizations. The concept of discourse meter offers the possibility of discourse awareness relating to the present as monitoring and the discourse awareness relating to the past as query (quantitative analysis) to the moderators of the e-discourse.
Einer der Forschungsschwerpunkte der AG Rechnernetze ist das Routing Information Protocol. Eine eigene kompatible Erweiterung dieses Routingprotokolls ist der Routing Information Protocol with Metric-based Topology Investigation (RMTI [ehemals RIP-MTI]). Um dieses Protokoll testen und mit seinem Vorgänger vergleichen zu können, wird die Virtualisierungssoftware VNUML eingesetzt. In diesen virtualisierten Netzwerken werden Router, die das RMTI-Protokoll einsetzten, mittels der Zebra/Quagga Routing Software Suite beobachtet. Dabei wird das Verhalten des Protokolls in unterschiedlichsten Simulationssituationen analysiert und bewertet. Um solche Testabläufe zentral zu steuern und protokollieren zu können wurde die Anwendung RIP-XT (XTPeer) erstellt und in fortführenden Diplomarbeiten kontinuierlich erweitert. Sie ist Schnittstelle zu den Zebra/Quagga-Routern und kann diese steuern. Zusätzlich sammelt und analysiert sie die Routing-Informationen der Router.Über ein GUI kann ein Benutzer diese Abläufe steuern. Um einen visuellen Überblick über eine Netzwerktopologie zu erhalten, besitzt das GUI auch eine Topologie-Anzeige. Die Anzeige repräsentiert das Gesamte Netzwerk durch Symbole, über die auch Interaktionen mit der Simulation möglich sind. Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit war es, die bisherige Topologie-Anzeige zu überarbeiten, um sie für neue Anforderungen anzupassen. Des weiteren wurden funktionale Erweiterungen in das GUI des RIP-XTs eingebettet.
This thesis addresses the automated identification and localization of a time-varying number of objects in a stream of sensor data. The problem is challenging due to its combinatorial nature: If the number of objects is unknown, the number of possible object trajectories grows exponentially with the number of observations. Random finite sets are a relatively new theory that has been developed to derive at principled and efficient approximations. It is based around set-valued random variables that contain an unknown number of elements which appear in arbitrary order and are themselves random. While extensively studied in theory, random finite sets have not yet become a leading paradigm in practical computer vision and robotics applications. This thesis explores random finite sets in visual tracking applications. The first method developed in this thesis combines set-valued recursive filtering with global optimization. The problem is approached in a min-cost flow network formulation, which has become a standard inference framework for multiple object tracking due to its efficiency and optimality. A main limitation of this formulation is a restriction to unary and pairwise cost terms. This circumstance makes integration of higher-order motion models challenging. The method developed in this thesis approaches this limitation by application of a Probability Hypothesis Density filter. The Probability Hypothesis Density filter was the first practically implemented state estimator based on random finite sets. It circumvents the combinatorial nature of data association itself by propagation of an object density measure that can be computed efficiently, without maintaining explicit trajectory hypotheses. In this work, the filter recursion is used to augment measurements with an additional hidden kinematic state to be used for construction of more informed flow network cost terms, e.g., based on linear motion models. The method is evaluated on public benchmarks where a considerate improvement is achieved compared to network flow formulations that are based on static features alone, such as distance between detections and appearance similarity. A second part of this thesis focuses on the related task of detecting and tracking a single robot operator in crowded environments. Different from the conventional multiple object tracking scenario, the tracked individual can leave the scene and later reappear after a longer period of absence. Therefore, a re-identification component is required that picks up the track on reentrance. Based on random finite sets, the Bernoulli filter is an optimal Bayes filter that provides a natural representation for this type of problem. In this work, it is shown how the Bernoulli filter can be combined with a Probability Hypothesis Density filter to track operator and non-operators simultaneously. The method is evaluated on a publicly available multiple object tracking dataset as well as on custom sequences that are specific to the targeted application. Experiments show reliable tracking in crowded scenes and robust re-identification after long term occlusion. Finally, a third part of this thesis focuses on appearance modeling as an essential aspect of any method that is applied to visual object tracking scenarios. Therefore, a feature representation that is robust to pose variations and changing lighting conditions is learned offline, before the actual tracking application. This thesis proposes a joint classification and metric learning objective where a deep convolutional neural network is trained to identify the individuals in the training set. At test time, the final classification layer can be stripped from the network and appearance similarity can be queried using cosine distance in representation space. This framework represents an alternative to direct metric learning objectives that have required sophisticated pair or triplet sampling strategies in the past. The method is evaluated on two large scale person re-identification datasets where competitive results are achieved overall. In particular, the proposed method better generalizes to the test set compared to a network trained with the well-established triplet loss.
MP3 Player for Nintendo DS
(2007)
Ziel der Arbeit ist es, einen MP3-Player zu entwickeln, der eine Benutzerinteraktion ermöglicht, wie es gängige Computerprogramme zur Wiedergabe von Musik tun. Der Benutzer soll über eine grafische Oberfläche MP3-Dateien laden, abspielen und in Playlisten organisieren können. Ferner soll es möglich sein, Metadaten wie Titel, Autor, Genre, Veröffentlichungsjahr und vieles weitere als zusätzlichen Tag zu speichern und zu editieren. Diese Informationen soll die Software auch beim Abspielen eines Musikstückes auslesen und dem Nutzer übersichtlich anzeigen. Hier scheitern die meisten Player aufgrund ihres kleinen Displays. Außerdem soll der MP3-Player auch rudimentäre Funktionen zur Echtzeitmanipulation der Musikwiedergabe bieten. Als Hardware zum Abspielen der Musikdateien dient die Spielekonsole Nintendo DS, welche aufgrund ihrer beiden Displays genügend Anzeigemöglichkeiten für eine grafische Benutzerführung bietet. Eines der beiden Displays dient zudem als Touchscreen und kann für Eingaben verwendet werden.
The automatic detection of position and orientation of subsea cables and pipelines in camera images enables underwater vehicles to make autonomous inspections. Plants like algae growing on top and nearby cables and pipelines however complicate their visual detection: the determination of the position via border detection followed by line extraction often fails. Probabilistic approaches are here superior to deterministic approaches. Through modeling probabilities it is possible to make assumptions on the state of the system even if the number of extracted features is small. This work introduces a new tracking system for cable/pipeline following in image sequences which is based on particle filters. Extensive experiments on realistic underwater videos show robustness and performance of this approach and demonstrate advantages over previous works.
Autonomous exhaustive exploration of unknown indoor environments with the mobile robot "Robbie"
(2007)
Rettungsroboter helfen nach Katastrophen wie z.B. Erdbeben dabei, in zerstörten Gebäuden Überlebende zu finden. Die Aufgabe, die Umgebung effizient möglichst vollständig abzusuchen und dabei eine Karte zu erstellen, die den Rettungskräften bei der Bergung der Opfer zur Orientierung dient, soll der Roboter autonom erfüllen. Hierzu wird eine Explorationsstrategie benötigt; eine Strategie zur Navigation in bekanntem und zur Erkundung von unbekanntem Gelände. Für den mobilen Roboter "Robbie" der Arbeitsgruppe Aktives Sehen wurde in dieser Arbeit ein Grenzen-basierter Ansatz zur Lösung des Explorationsproblems ausgewählt und implementiert. Hierzu werden Grenzen zu unbekanntem Gelände aus der Karte, die der Roboter erstellt, extrahiert und angefahren. Grundlage der Navigation zu einem so gefundenen Wegpunkt bildet die sog. Pfad-Transformation (Path-Transform).
Wie bereitet man komplizierte, technische Sachverhalte einfach und verständlich auf, damit sie auch der normalen Benutzer ohne tiefergehendes technisches Hintergrundwissen schnell und ohne lange Einarbeitungszeit und langwierige Erklärungen zu nutzen weiß? In dieser Studenarbeit geht es um genau diese Frage - Nichtinformatikern die Vorzüge und die Arbeit mit semantischen (Such)anfragen zu erleichtern, wenn nicht sogar überhaupt erst zu ermöglichen, sowie die Neuentwicklung und SPARQL-Erweiterung Networked Graphs von Simon Schenk innerhalb der AG Staab/Universität Koblenz zu präsentieren.