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In this thesis the possibilities for real-time visualization of OpenVDB
files are investigated. The basics of OpenVDB, its possibilities, as well
as NanoVDB and its GPU port, were studied. A system was developed
using PNanoVDB, the graphics API port of OpenVDB. Techniques were
explored to improve and accelerate a single ray approach of ray tracing.
To prove real-time capability, two single scattering approaches were
also implemented. One of these was selected, further investigated and
optimized to achieve interactive real-time rendering.
It is important to give artists immediate feedback on their adjustments, as
well as the possibility to change all parameters to ensure a user friendly
creation process.
In addition to the optical rendering, corresponding benchmarks were
collected to compare different improvement approaches and to prove
their relevance. Attention was paid to the rendering times and memory
consumption on the GPU to ensure optimal use. A special focus, when
rendering OpenVDB files, was put on the integrability and extensibility of
the program to allow easy integration into an existing real-time renderer
like U-Render.
Current political issues are often reflected in social media discussions, gathering politicians and voters on common platforms. As these can affect the public perception of politics, the inner dynamics and backgrounds of such debates are of great scientific interest. This thesis takes user generated messages from an up-to-date dataset of considerable relevance as Time Series, and applies a topic-based analysis of inspiration and agenda setting to it. The Institute for Web Science and Technologies of the University Koblenz-Landau has collected Twitter data generated beforehand by candidates of the European Parliament Election 2019. This work processes and analyzes the dataset for various properties, while focusing on the influence of politicians and media on online debates. An algorithm to cluster tweets into topical threads is introduced. Subsequently, Sequential Association Rules are mined, yielding wide array of potential influence relations between both actors and topics. The elaborated methodology can be configured with different parameters and is extensible in functionality and scope of application.
Data flow models in the literature are often very fine-grained, which transfers to the data flow analysis performed on them and thus leads to a decrease in the analysis' understandability. Since a data flow model, which abstracts from the majority of implementation details of the program modeled, allows for potentially easier to understand data flow analyses, this master thesis deals with the specification and construction of a highly abstracted data flow model and the application of data flow analyses on this model. The model and the analyses performed on it have been developed in a test-driven manner, so that a wide range of possible data flow scenarios could be covered. As a concrete data flow analysis, a static security check in the form of a detection of insufficient user input sanitization has been performed. To date, there's no data flow model on a similarly high level of abstraction. The proposed solution is therefore unique and facilitates developers without expertise in data flow analysis to perform such analyses.
Diese Arbeit soll das von Dietz und Oppermann entwickelte Planspiel „Datenschutz 2.0“ an den heutigen Alltag der Schüler anpassen, die Benutzung in der Sekundarstufe II ermöglichen und die technischen und gesetzlichen Problematiken des Planspiels beheben. Das mit dem Planspiel aufgegriffene Thema Datenschutz ist im rheinland-pfälzischen Informatik-Lehrplan für die Sekundarstufe II verankert. Hier wird der Begriff Datenschutz in der Reihe „Datenerhebung unter dem Aspekt Datenschutz beurteilen“ genannt. Jedoch werden in dem Planspiel keine Daten erhoben, sondern die selbst hinterlassenen Datenspuren untersucht. Diese Form des Datenschutzes ist im Grundkurs in der vorgeschlagenen Reihe „Datensicherheit unter der Berücksichtigung kryptologischer Verfahren erklären und beachten“ unter dem Thema Kommunikation in Rechnernetzen zu finden. Im Leistungskurs steht die Datensicherheit in gleichbenannter Reihe und Thema und in der Reihe „Datenerhebung unter dem Aspekt Datenschutz beurteilen“ im Thema Wechselwirkung zwischen Informatiksysteme, Individuum und Gesellschaft.
The content aggregator platform Reddit has established itself as one of the most popular websites in the world. However, scientific research on Reddit is hindered as Reddit allows (and even encourages) user anonymity, i.e., user profiles do not contain personal information such as the gender. Inferring the gender of users in large-scale could enable the analysis of gender-specific areas of interest, reactions to events, and behavioral patterns. In this direction, this thesis suggests a machine learning approach of estimating the gender of Reddit users. By exploiting specific conventions in parts of the website, we obtain a ground truth for more than 190 million comments of labeled users. This data is then used to train machine learning classifiers to use them to gain insights about the gender balance of particular subreddits and the platform in general. By comparing a variety of different approaches for classification algorithm, we find that character-level convolutional neural network achieves performance with an 82.3% F1 score on a task of predicting a gender of a user based on his/her comments. The score surpasses 85% mark for frequent users with more than 50 comments. Furthermore, we discover that female users are less active on Reddit platform, they write fewer comments and post in fewer subreddits on average, when compared to male users.
“Did I say something wrong?” A word-level analysis of Wikipedia articles for deletion discussions
(2016)
This thesis focuses on gaining linguistic insights into textual discussions on a word level. It was of special interest to distinguish messages that constructively contribute to a discussion from those that are detrimental to them. Thereby, we wanted to determine whether “I”- and “You”-messages are indicators for either of the two discussion styles. These messages are nowadays often used in guidelines for successful communication. Although their effects have been successfully evaluated multiple times, a large-scale analysis has never been conducted. Thus, we used Wikipedia Articles for Deletion (short: AfD) discussions together with the records of blocked users and developed a fully automated creation of an annotated data set. In this data set, messages were labelled either constructive or disruptive. We applied binary classifiers to the data to determine characteristic words for both discussion styles. Thereby, we also investigated whether function words like pronouns and conjunctions play an important role in distinguishing the two. We found that “You”-messages were a strong indicator for disruptive messages which matches their attributed effects on communication. However, we found “I”-messages to be indicative for disruptive messages as well which is contrary to their attributed effects. The importance of function words could neither be confirmed nor refuted. Other characteristic words for either communication style were not found. Yet, the results suggest that a different model might represent disruptive and constructive messages in textual discussions better.
The goal of this thesis is to create and develop a concept for a mobile city guide combined with game-based contents.
The application is intented to support flexible and independent exploration of the city of Koblenz.
Based on the geographical data, historical information for and interesting stories of various places were provided in this application. These informations are combined with playful elements in order to create a motivating concept.
Therefore, related approaches were examined and, combined with own ideas, a new concept has been developed. This concept has been prototypically implemented as an Android application and afterwards evaluated by 15 test persons. A questionnaire was used to examine the operability, the motivation of game patterns and the additional value of the application.
The mitral valve is one of the four valves in the human heart. It is located in the left heart chamber and its function is to control the blood flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle. Pathologies can lead to malfunctions of the valve so that blood can flow back to the atrium. Patients with a faulty mitral valve function may suffer from fatigue and chest pain. The functionality can be surgically restored, which is often a long and exhaustive intervention. Thorough planning is necessary to ensure a safe and effective surgery. This can be supported by creating pre-operative segmentations of the mitral valve. A post-operative analysis can determine the success of an intervention. This work will combine existing and new ideas to propose a new approach to (semi-)automatically create such valve models. The manual part can guarantee a high quality model and reliability, whereas the automatic part contributes to saving valuable labour time.
The main contributions of the automatic algorithm are an estimated semantic separation of the two leaflets of the mitral valve and an optimization process that is capable of finding a coaptation-line and -area between the leaflets. The segmentation method can perform a fully automatic segmentation of the mitral leaflets if the annulus ring is already given. The intermediate steps of this process will be integrated into a manual segmentation method so a user can guide the whole procedure. The quality of the valve models generated by the method proposed in this work will be measured by comparing them to completely manually segmented models. This will show that commonly used methods to measure the quality of a segmentation are too general and do not suffice to reflect the real quality of a model. Consequently the work at hand will introduce a set of measurements that can qualify a mitral valve segmentation in more detail and with respect to anatomical landmarks. Besides the intra-operative support for a surgeon, a segmented mitral valve provides additional benefits. The ability to patient-specifically obtain and objectively describe the valve anatomy may be the base for future medical research in this field and automation allows to process large data sets with reduced expert dependency. Further, simulation methods that use the segmented models as input may predict the outcome of a surgery.
Web application testing is an active research area. Garousi et al. did a systematic mapping study and classified 79 papers published between 2000-2011. However, there seems to be a lack of information exchange between the scientific community and tool developers.
This thesis systematically analyzes the field of functional, system level web application testing tools. 194 candidate tools were collected in the tool search and screened, with 23 tools being selected as foundation of this thesis. These 23 tools were systematically used to generate a feature model of the domain. The methodology to support this is an additional contribution of this thesis. It processes end user documentation of tools belonging to an examined domain and creates a feature model. The feature model gives an overview over the existing features, their alternatives and their distribution. It can be used to identify trends and problems, extraordinary features, help decision making of tool purchase or guide scientists how to focus research.
One task of executives and project managers in IT companies or departments is to hire suitable developers and to assign them to suitable problems. In this paper, we propose a new technique that directly leverages previous work experience of developers in a systematic manner. Existing evidence for developer expertise based on the version history of existing projects is analyzed. More specifically, we analyze the commits to a repository in terms of affected API usage. On these grounds, we associate APIs with developers and thus we assess API experience of developers. In transitive closure, we also assess programming domain experience.
Geographic cluster based routing in ad-hoc wireless sensor networks is a current field of research. Various algorithms to route in wireless ad-hoc networks based on position information already exist. Among them algorithms that use the traditional beaconing approach as well as algorithms that work beaconless (no information about the environment is required besides the own position and the destination). Geographic cluster based routing with guaranteed message delivery can be carried out on overlay graphs as well. Until now the required planar overlay graphs are not being constructed reactively.
This thesis proposes a reactive algorithm, the Beaconless Cluster Based Planarization (BCBP) algorithm, which constructs a planar overlay graph and noticeably reduces the number of messages required for that. Based on an algorithm for cluster based planarization it beaconlessly constructs a planar overlay graph in an unit disk graph (UDG). An UDG is a model for a wireless network in which every participant has the same sending radius. Evaluation of the algorithm shows it to be more efficient than the non beaconless variant. Another result of this thesis is the Beaconless LLRAP (BLLRAP) algorithm, for which planarity but not continued connectivity could be proven.
This thesis conducts a text and network analysis of criminological files. The specific focus during the research is the field money laundering. The analysis showed the most important concepts present in the text which were classified in eleven different classes. The relationships of those concepts were analysed using ego networks, key entity identification and clustering. Some of the statements given about money laundering could be validated by the findings of this analysis and their interpretation. Specific concepts like banks and organizations as well as foreign subsidiaries were identified. Aggregating these concepts with the statements in chapter 1.4.3 on the circular process of money laundering it can be stated that different organizations and individuals, present in the criminological files, were placing money through different banks, organizations and investments in the legal financial market. At last this thesis tries to validate the benefits of the used tools for the kind of conducted research process. An estimation on ORA's and Automap's applicability for this kind of research is given in the end.
In this work a framework is developed that is used to create an evaluation scheme for the evaluation of text processing tools. The evaluation scheme is developed using a model-dependent software evaluation approach and the focus of the model-dependent part is the text-processing process which is derived from the Conceptual Analysis Process developed in the GLODERS project. As input data a German court document is used containing two incidents of extortion racketeering which happened in 2011 and 2012. The evaluation of six different tools shows that one tool offers great results for the given dataset when it is compared to manual results. It is able to identify and visualize relations between concepts without any additional manual work. Other tools also offer good results with minor drawbacks. The biggest drawback for some tools is the unavailability of models for the German language. They can perform automated tasks only on English documents. Nonetheless some tools can be enhanced by self-written code which allows users with development experience to apply additional methods.
In current research of the autonomous mobile robots, path planning is still a very important issue.
This master's thesis deals with various path planning algorithms for the navigation of such mobile systems. This is not only to determine a collision-free trajectory from one point to another. The path should still be optimal and comply with all vehicle-given constraints. Especially the autonomous driving in an unknown and dynamic environment poses a major challenge, because a closed-loop control is necessary and thus a certain dynamic of the planner is demanded.
In this paper, two types of algorithms are presented. First, the path planner, based on A*, which is a common graph search algorithm: A*, Anytime Repairing A*, Lifelong Planning A*, D* Lite, Field D*, hybrid A*. Second, the algorithms which are based on the probabilistic planning algorithm Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (Rapidly-exploring Random Tree, RRT*, Lifelong Planning RRT*), as well as some extensions and heuristics. In addition, methods for collision avoidance and path smoothing are presented. Finally, these different algorithms are evaluated and compared with each other.
Code package managers like Cabal track dependencies between packages. But packages rarely use the functionality that their dependencies provide. This leads to unnecessary compilation of unused parts and to speculative conflicts between package versions where there are no conflicts. In two case studies we show how relevant these two problems are. We then describe how we could avoid them by tracking dependencies not between packages but between individual code fragments.
This master- thesis investigates the topic of intercultural web design. Two websites from different countries are exemplarily compared. On the basis of cultural dimensions, cultural differences are presented on each respective website. The analysis particularly focuses on how detailed the respective website-designer and -operator regards their users" cultural differences and the creation of a cross-cultural web design. The analysis illustrates which cultural - and particularly intercultural - aspects of countries were taken into consideration in the design of the web sites. The investigation led to the conclusion that their implementation was not consequently executed for all web sites. Hence, this thesis offers suggestions for the improvement of aspects which are most important in intercultural web design.
The lasting hype around the mobile internet and the related technology of the mobile applications seem not to drop off. The immense economic potential of this market leads the businesses and ventures to continuously find new ways of monetization. The underlying causes of that phenomenon are rarely challenged. Scientific research in the field of "ubiquitous mobile" has not yet developed a clear overall picture of the causes and effect chains. Attempts of deriving causes by studies in related mass media such as the computer or the internet have been discussed controversially. By combining the research streams of media motive usage and the customer retention, this paper will present a new research model. Based on a quantitative survey in the German speaking the gained data proves the motives for mobility, information gathering and entertainment purposed to be the most important drivers of customer satisfaction in mobile applications. The paper also highlights a significant correlation between the customer satisfaction and the other determinants of customer retention.
Software systems are often developed as a set of variants to meet diverse requirements. Two common approaches to this are "clone-and-owning" and software product lines. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. In previous work we and collaborators proposed an idea which combines both approaches to manage variants, similarities, and cloning by using a virtual platform and cloning-related operators.
In this thesis, we present an approach for aggregating essential metadata to enable a propagate operator, which implements a form of change propagation. For this we have developed a system to annotate code similarities which were extracted throughout the history of a software repository. The annotations express similarity maintenance tasks, which can then either be executed automatically by propagate or have to be performed manually by the user. In this work we outline the automated metadata extraction process and the system for annotating similarities; we explain how the implemented system can be integrated into the workflow of an existing version control system (Git); and, finally, we present a case study using the 101haskell corpus of variants.
Today, augmented reality is becoming more and more important in several areas like industrial sectors, medicine, or tourism. This gain of importance can easily be explained by its powerful extension of real world content. Therefore, augmented realty became a way to explain and enhance the real world information. Yet, to create a system which can enhance a scene with additional information, the relation between the system and the real world must be known. In order to establish this relationship a commonly used method is optical tracking. The system calculates its relation to the real world from camera images. To do so, a reference which is known is needed in the scene to serve as an orientation. Today, this is mostly a 2D-marker or a 2D-texture. These are placed in the real world scenery to serve as a reference. But, this is an intrusion in the scene. That is why it is desirable that the system works without such an additional aid. An strategy without manipulating the scene is object-tracking. In this approach, any object from the scene can be used as a reference for the system. As an object is far more complex than a marker, it is harder for the system to establish its relationship with the real world. That is why most methods for 3D-object-tracking reduce the object by not using the whole object as reference. The focus of this thesis is to research how a whole object can be used as a reference in a way that either the system or the camera can be moved in any 360 degree angle around the object without loosing the relation to the real world. As a basis the augmented reality framework, the so called VisionLib, is used. Extensions to this system for 360 degree tracking are implemented in different ways and analyzed in the scope of this work. Also, the different extensions are compared. The best results were achieved by improving the reinitialization process. With this extension, current camera images of the scene are given to the system. With the hek of these images, the system can calculate the relation to the real world faster in case the relation went missing.
Einfluss eines Ausrichtungswerkzeugs auf die Bedienbarkeit in unbeaufsichtigten Eyetrackingsystemen
(2015)
Eye gaze trackers are devices that can estimate the direction of gaze of a person. Among usability testing eye tracking also allows persons with decreased limb mobility to control or to interact with the computer. The quality and availability of eye tracking equipment has been increasing while costs have been decreasing. This development leads to entering new markets by using eye tracking as an additional input dimension for a variety of applications. Up to now eye tracking has been supervised by qualified experts, who assured that the important conditions like position in front of the eye tracking device, calibration and light conditions has been kept, while using.
This thesis examines an adjustment tool, which is helping the user to adjust in front of the eye tracker and helping to keep this position during the experiment. Furthermore the accuracy while moving the head has been analysed. In this experiment an remote eye gaze tracker has been used to control a game character in the video game called 'Schau Genau!'. The goal was to determine whether the game is playable without the barrier of adjusting and calibration. The results show that adjusting in front of an eye tracker is not a problem, keeping this position is. Small changes of the head position after the calibration process leads to a lack of accuracy. Giving up the calibration and using someone else calibration shows way bigger deviation. Additional head movement increases error rate and makes controlling more difficult.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit sollen weltweit herrschende inhaltliche Ausprägungen und Schwerpunkte des Themengebiets "BMI" bzw. "GMI" mit Hilfe des Literatur-Reviews akademischer Artikel herausgearbeitet werden. Die festgestellten Beziehungen und Zusammenhänge sollen visualisiert und lokalisiert werden, um eine globale Sicht über das Thema herzustellen. Unter anderem sollen die in das finale Set aufgenommenen Artikel auf eine Korrelation zwischen BMI und Controlling bzw. Management hin überprüft werden. Als letzter Schritt soll eine Ableitung möglicher Forschungslücken unternommen werden.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, wie sich Modellfehler auf die Positionsgenauigkeit und Handhabbarkeit beim Rangieren mit einem Fahrerassistenzsystem auswirken. Besonderer Wert wird dabei auf die Bestimmung von Fehlergrenzen gelegt. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie groß der Eingangsfehler sein darf, damit die Assistenz noch hinreichende Qualitätseigenschaften hinsichtlich ihrer Präzision und Robustheit aufweist. Dazu erfolgt zunächst eine quantitative Betrachtung der Fehler anhand des kinematischen Modells. Danach wird eine qualitative Betrachtung anhand von systematischen Experimenten durchgeführt. Es wird zunächst ein Controller entwickelt, mit dem sich ein Manöver mithilfe der visuellen Informationen der Assistenz simulieren lässt.
Dann wird eine Methode vorgestellt, mit deren Hilfe man das Manöver anhand definierter Fehlergrenzen bewerten kann. Um einen großen Raum möglicher Fehlerkombinationen effizient zu durchsuchen, wird das probabilistische Verfahren des Annealed Particle Filters benutzt. Mithilfe einer Testumgebung werden schließlich systematische Experimente durchgeführt. Zur weiteren Evaluation des Assistenzsystems in einer kontrollierten Umgebung erfolgte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern die Portierung des Assistenzsystems auf die dortige Simulationsumgebung RODOS.
This thesis presents a prototypical application for speech therapy as a therapeutical tool, simulating the articulation of German phonemes and the swallowing reflex. A special attention is given to a three-dimensional visualization of anatomical models of the pharyngolaryngeal region, which can be used in an interactive way. For examining the benefits of such an application in relation to conventional therapy mediums, the thesis considers iteratively the requirements of speech therapists.
Zusätzlich zum Rendern wird die Rechenleistung moderner Grafikkarten immer häufiger auch für allgemeine Berechnungen (GPGPU) genutzt. Für die Umsetzung stehen verschiedene Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung, die von der Verwendung der Renderingpipeline bis zu eigenständigen Schnittstellen reichen. In dieser Arbeit werden mit Render-To-Texture, Transform Feedback, Compute Shader und OpenCL vier verschiedene GPGPU-Methoden untersucht. Anhand von Partikelsystemen werden sie hinsichtlich der benötigten Berechnungszeit, der GPU-Auslastung, Lines of Code und Portierbarkeit miteinander verglichen. Dazu wurden sowohl das N-Körper Problem, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics und ein Partikelschwarm als Partikelsysteme umgesetzt. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass insbesondere OpenCL und Compute Shader sehr gute Ergebnisse liefern.
In der Literatur sind Projekte als geeignetes Mittel zur Implementierung von Strategien im Unternehmen anerkannt. Ähnlich wie bei einem Projekt handelt es sich bei der Implementierung von Strategien um zeitlich befristete Aufgaben, die in der Regel eine hohe Komplexität und Neuartigkeit aufweisen. Aufgrund dessen werden heutzutage strategische Vorhaben in Form von Projekten umgesetzt. Somit haben Projekte eine hohe Bedeutung für die strategische Entwicklung von Unternehmen. Um diese strategische Entwicklung sichern zu können, muss ein permanentes Lenkungssystem für strategische Projekte im Unternehmen implementiert werden " das Projektportfoliomanagement. Aufgrund der Komplexität und Neuartigkeit strategischer Projekte ist das Projektportfoliomanagement ein hoch komplexes Lenkungssystem mit vielen Subprozessen, die mit hohen Kosten und Zeitaufwand verbunden sind. Diese Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Optimierung des Projektportfoliomanagements anhand der Lean-Philosophie. Letztere ist eine Sammlung von Prinzipien und Methoden, die für die Verschlankung der Produktion in der Automobilindustrie entwickelt wurde. Der Einsatz der Lean-Prinzipien brachte eine derartige Steigerung der Effizienz und Effektivität bei der Automobilherstellung, dass diese Prinzipien auch in anderen Branchen und Funktionsbereichen eigesetzt werden. Nun soll das Potential der Lean-Philosophie für die Optimierung des Projektportfoliomanagements untersucht werden.
Die Medizinische Visualisierung komplexer Gefäßbäume hat das Potential den klinischen Alltag in der Gefäßchirurgie zu erleichtern.
Dazu sind exakte, hochaufgelöste Darstellungen und echtzeitfähige Berechnungsmethoden notwendig. Bekannte Ansätze aus den Bereichen der direkten (z.B. Raycasting) und indirekten
(z.B. Marching Cubes) Volumenvisualisierung sind nicht in der Lage alle Anforderungen zufriedenstellend zu erfüllen. Verbesserte
Ergebnisse können mit hybriden Methoden erzielt werden, die unterschiedliche Visualisierungsverfahren kombinieren.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde ein hybrides Renderingsystem zur Darstellung von Blutgefäßen entwickelt, das die Bildqualität durch Integration einer Marching Cubes Oberfläche in ein Raycasting–System optimiert, dabei Detailstrukturen erhält und ausreichende Performanz zur Interaktion bietet. Die Ergebnissezeigen die verbesserte Plastizität und Genauigkeit der Darstellung.Anhand von Experten– und Laienbefragungen konnte der Nutzen des Systems vor allem für die Patientenaufklärung nachgewiesen werden. Die Erschließung zusätzlicher Anwendungsgebiete ist durch die Weiterentwicklung des Renderers möglich.
Simulation of fractures
(2014)
Real-time computing often avoids the simulation of fractures due to its complexity. The field of engineering science provides methods to create these simulations to improve games and other applications. Steadily rising computer capacities allow suitable simulations on a real-time basis and make this aspect increasingly interesting. The topic and aim of this research is to simulate fractures of stiff bodies. The primary objective is the physical plausibility and performance of the application. This thesis analyses the potential of computer science to realize the simulation of fractures.
Three existing as well as one self-created were implemented and analysed. The works "Real time simulation of deformation and Fracture of stiff material" from Müller et al., "real time simulation of Brittle Fracture using Modal analysis" from Glondu et al. and "Fast and Controllable simulation of the Shattering of Brittle Objects" from Smith et al. form the basis of this thesis. The introduced methods use different computation of forces and fractures. The developed procedure uses the idea of generating secondary breaks. The approaches were implemented based on the Bullet physics-engine. The results of the work show that physically based breaks are realizable on a real-time basis.
The analysis of the physical methods demonstrates that their performance mainly depends on the constitution of the used objects. This thesis shows that the further investigation of this topic can discover new possibilities. The improvement of the realism in virtual worlds can be achieved by executing physically plausible methods.
Kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen stehen durch den permanenten Wandel unserer Wirtschaft [Baumann & Schulte, 2002, S. 5] immer größeren Herausforderungen gegenüber, die sie bewältigen müssen [Bullinger & Buck, 2007]. Um diesen Herausforderungen zu begegnen, muss die Organisation der Geschäftsprozesse innerhalb des Unternehmens effektiv und effizient erfolgen, damit ein möglichst hohes Maß an Transparenz erreicht werden kann.
Um eine effektivere und effizientere Unternehmenssteuerung zu gewährleisten und damit den Unternehmer entlasten zu können, sowie Transparenz zu schaffen, muss der Einsatz von zielgerichteten Methoden zur Schaffung von Kompetenzen im Bereich Prozessmanagement gerade in kleinen und mittelständischen Handwerksunternehmen im Vordergrund stehen. Diese haben aber auf Grund ihrer geringen Größe meist nicht das Know-how und die Ressourcen, sich neben den operativen Aufgaben mit den neuen Strategien der Betriebsführung zu beschäftigen [Kuiper, et al., 2012, S. 107].
Eine Möglichkeit Transparenz zu schaffen liegt in der Erhebung von Kennzahlen. In dieser Arbeit werden verschiedene Kennzahlensysteme betrachtet und ihre Eignung für den Einsatz in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen anhand von definierten Kriterien verglichen. Das Ergebnis dieses Vergleiches zeigt, dass die in der Literatur identifizierten Kennzahlensysteme für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen nicht deren Anforderungen entsprechen. Die Systeme liefern darüber hinaus nur wenige konkrete Methoden, wie Kennzahlen in KMU erhoben werden können.
Im Zuge dieser Arbeit werden auch kleine und mittelständische Handwerksunternehmen nach deren Nutzung und Wissen in Bezug auf Kennzahlen befragt. Das Ergebnis dieser Befragung zeigt, dass in den meisten Unternehmen nur sehr wenig Wissen in diesem Bereich vorhanden ist.
Auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse der vergleichenden Analyse bestehender Kennzahlensysteme aus dem ersten Teil dieser Arbeit und der Analyse der Unternehmensbefragung, wird im letzten Teil dieser Arbeit ein Vorschlag für ein prozessorientiertes Kennzahlensystem entwickelt und vorgestellt. Dieser Vorschlag für ein Kennzahlensystem ist insbesondere auf die Bedürfnisse von kleinen und mittelständischen Handwerksunternehmen ausgerichtet. Aber auch mit diesem System können nicht alle Schwierigkeiten die kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen bei der Arbeit mit Kennzahlen haben, eliminiert werden. Das System gibt eine strukturierte Vorgehensweise vor, und erläutert konkrete Maßnahmen, die zur Überwindung von Barrieren bei der effektiven Arbeit mit Kennzahlen, durchgeführt werden können.
This master thesis is about the possibilities of supporting local corporate sales with the help of current mobile applications. The internet already has served in order to make the trading market more dynamic. The conditions for long-term local corporate sales have become more challenging. Because of smaller cost structures online-retailer offer prizes on which local point of sales can hardly keep up with. Another point is that more customers decide to order online because the service in e-shops enhanced; therefore, the digital transactions become more attractive for consumers. Today smartphones and tablets have brought the digitalization to a whole new level. With the possibility of Mobile Web the effects that the internet already showed us in the past have been intensified. The question that proposes here is: In which way do the conditions of competitions for local corporate sales change? This paper follows the outline of putting together various mobile services, their functions, and their practical usage, as well as the process of integrating them successfully into marketing. With that one should be able to find out if Mobile Web can be seen as an advantage for local corporates sales.
A guideline for the examination of business models is developed in this research project and M.Sc. study, focusing on young, innovative enterprises ("start-ups"). Start-ups often start to operate in uncertainty and tentativeness. To forecast the success of such an enterprise is therefore today hardly possible by means of quantitative data. The evaluation of innovative business models ("Business Model Check") today is a gap in Business Administration and Management studies.
Object recognition is a well-investigated area in image-based computer vision and several methods have been developed. Approaches based on Implicit Shape Models have recently become popular for recognizing objects in 2D images, which separate objects into fundamental visual object parts and spatial relationships between the individual parts. This knowledge is then used to identify unknown object instances. However, since the emergence of aσordable depth cameras like Microsoft Kinect, recognizing unknown objects in 3D point clouds has become an increasingly important task. In the context of indoor robot vision, an algorithm is developed that extends existing methods based on Implicit Shape Model approaches to the task of 3D object recognition.
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.
Aufgrund des branchenweiten Bedarfs den Konkurrenzkampf zu umgehen, entwickelten Kim und Mauborgne die Blue Ocean Strategy, um neue Märkte zu ergründen. Diese bezeichnen sie als einzigartig. Da jedoch weitere Strategien zur Ergründung neuer Märkte existieren, ist es das Ziel dieser Arbeit herauszufinden, anhand welcher Charakterisierungsmerkmale die Blue Ocean Strategy als einzigartig angesehen werden kann.
Die Strategie von Kim und Mauborgne soll daher mit Schumpeters schöpferischen Zerstörung, Ansoffs Diversifikationsstrategie, Porters Nischenstrategie und Druckers Innovationsstrategien verglichen werden. Für den Vergleich werden die Charakterisierungsmerkmale herangezogen, nach denen Kim und Mauborgne die Blue Ocean Strategy als einzigartig beurteilen. Auf Basis dieser Kriterien wird ein Metamodell entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe die Untersuchung durchgeführt wird.
Der Vergleich zeigt, dass die Konzepte von Schumpeter, Ansoff, Porter und Drucker in einigen Kriterien der Blue Ocean Strategy ähneln. Keine der Strategien verhält sich jedoch in allen Punkten so wie das Konzept von Kim und Mauborgne. Während die Blue Ocean Strategy ein Differenzierung und Senkung der Kosten anstrebt, orientieren sich die meisten Konzepte entweder an einer Differenzierung oder an einer Kostenreduktion. Auch die Betretung des neuen Marktes wird unterschiedlich interpretiert. Während die Blue Ocean Strategy auf einen Markt abzielt, der unergründet ist und somit keinen Wettbewerb vorweist, werden bei den anderen Strategien oft bestehende Märkte als neu interpretiert, auf denen das Unternehmen bisher nicht agiert hat. Dies schließt die vorherige Existenz der Märkte jedoch nicht aus.
Auf Basis der durch den Vergleich gezogenen Erkenntnisse, kann somit die Blue Ocean Strategy als einzigartig bezeichnet werden.
Data Mining im Fußball
(2014)
The term Data Mining is used to describe applications that can be applied to extract useful information from large datasets. Since the 2011/2012 season of the german soccer league, extensive data from the first and second Bundesliga have been recorded and stored. Up to 2000 events are recorded for each game.
The question arises, whether it is possible to use Data Mining to extract patterns from this extensive data which could be useful to soccer clubs.
In this thesis, Data Mining is applied to the data of the first Bundesliga to measure the value of individual soccer players for their club. For this purpose, the state of the art and the available data are described. Furthermore, classification, regression analysis and clustering are applied to the available data. This thesis focuses on qualitative characteristics of soccer players like the nomination for the national squad or the marks players get for their playing performance. Additionally this thesis considers the playing style of the available players and examines if it is possible to make predictions for upcoming seasons. The value of individual players is determined by using regression analysis and a combination of cluster analysis and regression analysis.
Even though not all applications can achieve sufficient results, this thesis shows that Data Mining has the potential to be applied to soccer data. The value of a player can be measured with the help of the two approaches, allowing simple visualization of the importance of a player for his club.
Systems to simulate crowd-behavior are used to simulate the evacuation of a crowd in case of an emergency. These systems are limited to the moving-patterns of a crowd and are generally not considering psychological and/or physical conditions. Changing behaviors within the crowd (e.g. by a person falling down) are not considered.
For that reason, this thesis will examine the psychological behavior and the physical impact of a crowd- member on the crowd. In order to do so, this study develops a real-time simulation for a crowd of people, adapted from a system for video games. This system contains a behavior-AI for agents. In order to show physical interaction between the agents and their environment as well as their movements, the physical representation of each agent is realized by using rigid bodies from a physics-engine. The movements of the agents have an additional navigation mesh and an algorithm for collision avoidance.
By developing a behavior-AI a physical and psychological state is reached. This state contains a psychological stress-level as well as a physical condition. The developed simulation is able to show physical impacts such as crowding and crushing of agents, interaction of agents with their environment as well as factors of stress.
By evaluating several tests of the simulation, this thesis examines whether the combination of physical and psychological impacts is implementable successfully. If so, this thesis will be able to give indications of an agent- behavior in dangerous and/or stressful situations as well as a valuation of the complex physical representation.
Ziel dieser Ausarbeitung ist es, das Wippe-Experiment gemäß dem Aufbau innerhalb der AG Echtzeitsysteme unter Leitung von Professor Dr. Dieter Zöbel mithilfe eines LEGO Mindstorms NXT Education-Bausatzes funktionsfähig nachzubauen und das Vorgehen zu dokumentieren. Der dabei entstehende Programmcode soll didaktisch aufbereitet und eine Bauanleitung zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Dies soll gewährleisten, dass Schülerinnen und Schüler auch ohne direkten Zugang zu einer Hochschule oder ähnlichem Institut den Versuchsaufbau Wippe möglichst unkompliziert im Klassenraum erleben können.
Im Rahmen des "Design Thinking"-Prozesses kommen unterschiedliche Varianten kreativitätsfördernder Techniken zum Einsatz. Aufgrund der zunehmenden Globalisierung ergeben sich immer häufiger Kollaborationen, bei denen sich die jeweiligen Projektteilnehmer an verteilten Standorten befinden. Somit erweist sich die Digitalisierung des Design-Prozesses als durchaus erstrebenswert. Ziel der hier vorliegenden Untersuchung ist daher die Erstellung eines Bewertungsschemas, welches die Eignung digitaler Kreativitätstechniken in Bezug auf das "Entrepreneurial Design Thinking" misst. Des Weiteren soll geprüft werden, inwiefern sich der Einsatz von e-Learning-Systemen in Kombination mit der Verwendung digitaler Kreativitätstechniken eignet. Diese Prüfung soll am Beispiel der e-Learning Software "WebCT" konkretisiert werden. Hieraus ergibt sich die folgende Fragestellung: Welche digitalen Kreativitätstechniken eignen sich für die Anwendung im Bereich des "Entrepreneurial Design Thinkings" unter Einsatz der e-Learning Plattform "WebCT"? Zunächst wird eine Literaturanalyse bezüglich des "Entrepreneurial Design Thinkings", der klassische und digitale Kreativitätstechniken sowie des Arbeitens in Gruppen, was auch das Content Management, e-Learning-Systeme und die Plattform "WebCT" beinhaltet, durchgeführt. Im Anschluss daran wird eine qualitative Untersuchung durchgeführt. Auf Basis bereits bestehender Literatur, soll ein Bewertungsschema erstellt werden, welches misst, welche der behandelten digitalen Kreativitätstechniken für den Einsatz im "Entrepreneurial Design Thinking" am besten geeignet ist. Darauf aufbauend erfolgt die Verknüpfung des digitalisierten "Design Thinking"-Prozesses mit der e-Learning Plattform "WebCT". Abschließend wird diskutiert, in wie fern diese Zusammenführung als sinnvoll erachtet werden kann.
ERP market analysis
(2013)
Der aktuelle ERP Markt wird dominiert von den fünf größten Anbietern SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Infor und Sage. Da der Markt und die angebotenen Lösungen vielfältig sind, bedarf es einer fundierten Analyse der Systeme. Die Arbeit beleuchtet dabei anhand ausgesuchter Literatur und Kennzahlen der verschiedenen Unternehmen die theoretische Seite der angebotenen Lösungen der fünf großen ERP Anbieter. Daneben wird die Nutzung der Systeme in der Praxis anhand der Befragung von sechs Anwendern analysiert und die Systeme miteinander verglichen.
Ziel der Arbeit ist es, dass die Forschungsfragen beantwortet werden und dass es bezogen auf die Systeme dem Leser der Arbeit ersichtlich wird, welches ERP System für welche Unternehmensbranche und Unternehmensgröße am besten geeignet ist.
Des Weiteren gibt die Arbeit Aufschluss darüber, welche Trends für ERP Systeme für die Zukunft zu erwarten sind und welche Herausforderungen sich dadurch für die Unternehmen stellen.
Large amounts of qualitative data make the utilization of computer-assisted methods for their analysis inevitable. In this thesis Text Mining as an interdisciplinary approach, as well as the methods established in the empirical social sciences for analyzing written utterances are introduced. On this basis a process of extracting concept networks from texts is outlined and the possibilities of utilitzing natural language processing methods within are highlighted. The core of this process is text processing, to whose execution software solutions supporting manual as well as automated work are necessary. The requirements to be met by these solutions, against the background of the initiating project GLODERS, which is devoted to investigating extortion racket systems as part of the global fiσnancial system, are presented, and their fulσlment by the two most preeminent candidates reviewed. The gap between theory and pratical application is closed by a prototypical application of the method to a data set of the research project utilizing the two given software solutions.
Today you can find smartphones everywhere. This situation created a hype for Augmented Reality and AR Apps. The big question is: Do these applications provide a real added value? To make AR pratically it is important to add the computational power of a computer to the advantages of AR. An easy and fast way of interaction is essential.
A Poker-Assistance-Software is an ideal test area for an AR Application with real added value. The estimation of the winning probability and a fast automated tracking of the playing cards is the perfect field of investigation.
In this discussion it is interesting to evaluate the added value of AR Applications in common.
We present the conceptual and technological foundations of a distributed natural language interface employing a graph-based parsing approach. The parsing model developed in this thesis generates a semantic representation of a natural language query in a 3-staged, transition-based process using probabilistic patterns. The semantic representation of a natural language query is modeled in terms of a graph, which represents entities as nodes connected by edges representing relations between entities. The presented system architecture provides the concept of a natural language interface that is both independent in terms of the included vocabularies for parsing the syntax and semantics of the input query, as well as the knowledge sources that are consulted for retrieving search results. This functionality is achieved by modularizing the system's components, addressing external data sources by flexible modules which can be modified at runtime. We evaluate the system's performance by testing the accuracy of the syntactic parser, the precision of the retrieved search results as well as the speed of the prototype.
This master thesis deals basically with the design and implementation of a path planning system based on rapidly exploring search trees for general-n-trailers. This is a probabilistic method that is characterized by a fast and uniform exploration. The method is well established, however, has been applied only to vehicles with simple kinematics to date. General-n-trailers represent a particular challenge as their controllability is limited. For this reason the focus of this thesis rests on the application of the mentioned procedure to general-n-trailers. In this context systematic correlations between the characteristics of general-n-trailers and the possibilities for the realization and application of the method are analyzed.
This thesis deals with the development and evaluation of a concept of novel interaction with ubiquitous user interfaces. To accomplish the evaluation of this interaction concept, a prototype was implementated by using an existing head-mounted display solution and an android smartphone.
Furthermore, in the course of this thesis, a concrete use case for this prototype " the navigation through a city block with the aid of an electronic map " was developed and built as an executable application to help evaluate the quality of the interaction concept. Therefore, fundamental research results were achieved.
Im Rahmen dieser Masterarbeit wird ein umfassender Überblick über die Vielfalt der Sicherheitsmodelle gegeben, indem ausgewählte Sicherheitsmodelle beschrieben, klassifiziert und miteinander verglichen werden.
Sicherheitsmodelle beschreiben in einer abstrakten Weise die sicherheitsrelevanten
Komponenten und Zusammenhänge eines Systems. Mit den Sicherheitsmodellen können komplexe Sachverhalte veranschaulicht und analysiert werden.
Da Sicherheitsmodelle unterschiedliche Sicherheitsaspekte behandeln, beschäftigt
sich diese Arbeit mit der Ausarbeitung eines Klassifizierungsschemas, welches
die strukturelle und konzeptuelle Besonderheiten der Modelle in Bezug auf die zugrundeliegenden Sicherheitsaspekte beschreibt. Im Rahmen des Klassifizierungsschemas werden die drei grundlegenden Modellklassen gebildet: Zugriffskontrollmodelle, Informationsflussmodelle und Transaktionsmodelle.
Sicherheitsmodelle werden in einem direkten und indirekten Vergleich gegenüber gestellt. Im letzten Fall werden sie einer oder mehrerer Modellklassen des Klassifizierungsschemas zugeordnet. Diese Klassifizierung erlaubt, Aussagen über die betrachteten Sicherheitsaspekte und die strukturellen bzw. konzeptuellen Besonderheiten eines Sicherheitsmodells in Bezug auf die anderen Sicherheitsmodelle
zu machen.
Beim direkten Vergleich werden anhand der ausgewählten Kriterien die Eigenschaften
und Aspekte der Sicherheitsmodelle orthogonal zu den Modellklassen
betrachtet.
Human detection is a key element for human-robot interaction. More and more robots are used in human environments, and are expected to react to the behavior of people. Before a robot can interact with a person, it must be able to detect it at first. This thesis presents a system for the detection of humans and their hands using a RGB-D camera. First, a model based hypotheses for possible positions of humans are created to recognize a person. By using the upper parts of the body are used to extract, new features based on relief and width of a person- head and shoulders are extracted. The hypotheses are checked by classifying the features with a support vector machine (SVM). The system is able to detect people in different poses. Both sitting and standing humans are found, by using the visible upper parts of the person. Moreover, the system is able to recognize if a human is facing or averting the sensor. If the human is facing the sensor, the color information and the distance between hand and body are used to detect the positions of the person- hands. This information is useful for gestures recognition and thus can further enhances human-robot interaction.
Pedestrian Detection in digital images is a task of huge importance for the development of automaticsystems and in improving the interaction of computer systems with their environment. The challenges such a system has to overcome are the high variance of the pedestrians to be recognized and the unstructured environment. For this thesis, a complete system for pedestrian detection was implemented according to a state of the art technique. A novel insight about precomputing the Color Self-Similarity accelerates the computations by a factor of four. The complete detection system is described and evaluated, and was published under an open source license.
In a software reengineering task legacy systems are adapted computer-aided to new requirements. For this an efficient representation of all data and information is needed. TGraphs are a suitable representation because all vertices and edges are typed and may have attributes. Further more there exists a global sequence of all graph elements and for each vertex exists a sequence of all incidences. In this thesis the "Extractor Description Language" (EDL) was developed. It can be used to generate an extractor out of a syntax description, which is extended by semantic actions. The generated extractor can be used to create a TGraph representation of the input data. In contrast to classical parser generators EDL support ambiguous grammars, modularization, symbol table stacks and island grammars. These features simplify the creation of the syntax description. The collected requirements for EDL are used to determine an existing parser generator which is suitable to realize the requirements.
After that the syntax and semantics of EDL are described and implemented using the suitable parser generator. Following two extractors one for XML and one for Java are created with help of EDL. Finally the time they need to process some input data is measured.
The annotation of digital media is no new area of research, instead it is widely investigated. There are many innovative ideas for creating the process of annotation. The most extensive segment of related work is about semi automatic annotation. One characteristic is common in the related work: None of them put the user in focus. If you want to build an interface, which is supporting and satsfying the user, you will have to do a user evaluation first. Whithin this thesis we want to analyze, which features an interface should or should not have to meet these requirements of support, user satisfaction and beeing intuitive. After collecting many ideas and arguing with a team of experts, we determined only a few of them. Different combination of these determined variables form the interfaces, we have to investigate in our usability study. The results of the usability leads to the assumption, that autocompletion and suggestion features supports the user. Furthermore coloring tags for grouping them into categories is not disturbing to the user, but has a tendency of being supportive. Same tendencies emerge for an interface consisting of two user interface elements. There is also an example given for the definition differences of being intuitive. This thesis leads to the concolusion that for reasons of user satisfaction and support it is allowed to differ from classical annotation interface features and to implement further usability studies in the section of annotation interfaces.
In this master thesis some new helpful features will be added to the Spanning Tree Simulator. This simulator was created by Andreas Sebastian Janke in his bachelor thesis [Jan10b] in 2010. It is possible to visualize networks which are defined in a configuration file. Each of them is a XML representation of a network consisting of switches and hosts. After loading such a file into the program it is possible to run the Spanning Tree Algorithm IEEE 802.1D. In contrast to the previous version only the switches are implemented as threads. When the algorithm is finished a spanning tree is built. This means, that messages cannot run into loops anymore. This is important because loops can cause a total breakdown of the communication in a network, if the running routing protocols cannot handle loops.
Magnetic resonance (MR) tomography is an imaging method, that is used to expose the structure and function of tissues and organs in the human body for medical diagnosis. Diffusion weighted (DW) imaging is a specific MR imaging technique, which enables us to gain insight into the connectivity of white matter pathways noninvasively and in vivo. It allows for making predictions about the structure and integrity of those connections. In clinical routine this modality finds application in the planning phase of neurosurgical operations, such as in tumor resections. This is especially helpful if the lesion is deeply seated in a functionally important area, where the risk of damage is given. This work reviews the concepts of MR imaging and DW imaging. Generally, at the current resolution of diffusion weighted data, single white matter axons cannot be resolved. The captured signal rather describes whole fiber bundles. Beside this, it often appears that different complex fiber configurations occur in a single voxel, such as crossings, splittings and fannings. For this reason, the main goal is to assist tractography algorithms who are often confound in such complex regions. Tractography is a method which uses local information to reconstruct global connectivities, i.e. fiber tracts. In the course of this thesis, existing reconstruction methods such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and q-ball imaging (QBI) are evaluated on synthetic generated data and real human brain data, whereas the amount of valuable information provided by the individual reconstruction mehods and their corresponding limitations are investigated. The output of QBI is the orientation distribution function (ODF), where the local maxima coincides with the underlying fiber architecture. We determine those local maxima. Furthermore, we propose a new voxel-based classification scheme conducted on diffusion tensor metrics. The main contribution of this work is the combination of voxel-based classification, local maxima from the ODF and global information from a voxel- neighborhood, which leads to the development of a global classifier. This classifier validates the detected ODF maxima and enhances them with neighborhood information. Hence, specific asymmetric fibrous architectures can be determined. The outcome of the global classifier are potential tracking directions. Subsequently, a fiber tractography algorithm is designed that integrates along the potential tracking directions and is able to reproduce splitting fiber tracts.
Opinion Mining : Using Twitter as a source of opinion for the prediction of stock market prices
(2012)
Neben den theoretischen Grundkonzepten der automatisierten Fließtextanalyse, die das Fundament dieser Arbeit bilden, soll ein Überblick in den derzeitigen Forschungsstand bei der Analyse von Twitter-Nachrichten gegeben werden. Hierzu werden verschiedene Forschungsergebnisse der, derzeit verfügbaren wissenschaftlichen Literatur erläutert, miteinander verglichen und kritisch hinterfragt. Deren Ergebnisse und Vorgehensweisen sollen in unsere eigene Forschung mit eingehen, soweit sie sinnvoll erscheinen. Ziel ist es hierbei, den derzeitigen Forschungsstand möglichst gut zu nutzen.
Ein weiteres Ziel ist es, dem Leser einen Überblick über verschiedene maschinelle Datenanalysemethoden zur Erkennung von Meinungen zu geben. Dies ist notwendig, um die Bedeutung der im späteren Verlauf der Arbeit eingesetzten Analysemethoden in ihrem wissenschaftlichen Kontext besser verstehen zu können. Da diese Methoden auf verschiedene Arten durchgeführt werden können, werden verschiedene Analysemethoden vorgestellt und miteinander verglichen. Hierdurch soll die Machbarkeit der folgenden Meinungsauswertung bewiesen werden. Um eine hinreichende Genauigkeit bei der folgenden Untersuchung zu gewährleisten, wird auf ein bereits bestehendes und evaluiertes Framework zurückgegriffen. Dieses ist als API 1 verfügbar und wird daher zusätzlich behandelt. Der Kern Inhalt dieser Arbeit wird sich der Analyse von Twitternachrichten mit den Methoden des Opinion Mining widmen.
Es soll untersucht werden, ob sich Korrelationen zwischen der Meinungsausprägung von Twitternachrichten und dem Börsenkurs eines Unternehmens finden lassen. Es soll dabei die Stimmungslage der Firma Google Inc. über einen Zeitraum von einem Monat untersucht und die dadurch gefunden Erkenntnisse mit dem Börsenkurs des Unternehmens verglichen werden. Ziel ist es, die Erkenntnisse von (Sprenger & Welpe, 2010) und (Taytal & Komaragiri, 2009) auf diesem Gebiet zu überprüfen und weitere Fragestellungen zu beantworten.
Particle swarm optimization is an optimization technique based on simulation of the social behavior of swarms.
The goal of this thesis is to solve 6DOF local pose estimation using a modified particle swarm technique introduced by Khan et al. in 2010. Local pose estimation is achieved by using continuous depth and color data from a RGB-D sensor. Datasets are aquired from different camera poses and registered into a common model. Accuracy and computation time of the implementation is compared to state of the art algorithms and evaluated in different configurations.
Die Diskussion zum Thema Mindestlohn ist ein stets aktuelles und findet zur Jahreswende 2011/2012, in der diese Arbeit entstanden ist, von der Politik und Wirtschaft besonders viel Aufmerksamkeit. Die Aktualität dieses Themas und ihre Dynamik werden besonders darin bemerkbar, dass bei der Untersuchung der deutschen Literatur zu diesem Thema viele der Aussagen und Thesen nicht mehr zutreffen. Das eingangs aufgeführte Zitat von der amtierenden Bundesministerin für Arbeit und Soziales, Ursula von der Leyen, bringt zum Ausdruck, dass mittlerweile in der Politik ein Konsens darüber existiert, dass vollzeitbeschäftigte Arbeitnehmer in der Lage sein müssen, ihren Lebensunterhalt aus ihrem Einkommen zu sichern. Dies stellt für die christlich-demokratische Regierungspartei einen Dogmenwechsel dar. Während die CDU in den letzten Jahrzehnten auf die Tarifbindung gesetzt und einen Mindestlohn kategorisch abgelehnt hat, geht sie nun dazu über, Lohnuntergrenzen für alle Branchen zum Ziel ihrer Regierungsarbeit zu machen. Dies ist in starkem Maße darauf zurückzuführen, dass auf dem Arbeitsmarkt in den letzten Jahren die Lohnspreizung, die traditionell in Deutschland niedrig war, eine stark divergente Entwicklung genommen hat.
Ein weiterer Grund ist die abnehmende Rolle der Tarifbindung der letzten Jahre. Die Folge dieser Entwicklungen ist, dass 1,2 Millionen Menschen, somit vier Prozent der Beschäftigten, für Löhne unter fünf Euro. Weitere 2,2 Millionen Menschen arbeiten für Stundenlöhne unter sechs Euro, 3,7 Millionen Menschen verdienen unter sieben Euro und 5,1 Millionen Menschen arbeiten für Löhne unter acht Die Frage inwieweit ein Leben in Würde unter diesen Voraussetzungen möglich ist, beschäftigt große Teile der Gesellschaft. Denn damit sind das Volumen und die Lohnhöhe des Niedriglohnsektors auf ein Niveau gesunken, welche gesellschaftlich und politisch nicht mehr einfach zu vertreten sind. Zur Abwendung dieser Entwicklung wird das wirtschaftspolitische Instrument Mindestlohn, als probates Mittel, häufig in die Diskussion gebracht. So haben in der Vergangenheit viele Staaten den Mindestlohn auf unterschiedliche Art eingesetzt. Die Einführung eines flächendeckenden Mindestlohns in der Bundesrepublik wird vor allem mit den folgenden Zielen befürwortet.
Der Mindestlohn soll zum einen gewährleisten, dass Vollzeitbeschäftigte ein Einkommen erzielen, dass mindestens ihrem soziokulturellen Existenzminimum entspricht. Andererseits soll die Einführung des Mindestlohns die Notwendigkeit des Aufstockens mit dem Arbeitslosengeld II hemmen und somit die öffentlichen Kassen entlasten. Die Gegner des Mindestlohns lehnen die Einführung eines flächendeckenden allgemeinverbindlichen Mindestlohns, vor allem aufgrund arbeitsmarkttheoretischer Überlegungen, kategorisch ab. Diese vertreten die Ansicht, dass die Mechanismen des Arbeitsmarktes eine selbstregulierende Wirkung besitzen und ergänzt um die Tarifautonomie ausreichend geregelt sind. Eine drohende Vernichtung bestehender Arbeitsplätze und eine ausbleibende Schaffung neuer Arbeitsplätze werden als Folge der Einführung von Mindestlohn weiterhin argumentiert.
Hinzu kommt, dass in der Theorie je nach Denkschule und Position eine entgegengesetzte Auswirkung auf den Arbeitsmarkt prognostiziert werden kann. Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Debatte untersucht die vorliegende Arbeit die Auswirkung der Einführung eines Mindestlohns. Um eine objektive Wertung für die vorliegende Problemstellung zu finden, wird mit Hilfe von Netlogo die computergestützte agentenbasierte Simulation benutzt. Anhand eines fiktiven Marktes mit fiktiven Akteuren/"Agenten" wird der Versuch unternommen, eine modellhafte Darstellung des Arbeitsmarktes abzubilden. Insbesondere soll untersucht werden, inwieweit die Einführung eines Mindestlohns, branchenspezifisch oder flächendeckend, den Beschäftigungsgrad und die Höhe der Löhne beeinflusst.
Gartner predicts that 33 per cent of total accesses to Business Intelligence (BI) functionalities will be done until 2013 using mobile devices. While mobile devices have already spread to a high extent in private life they have recently become more and more part of the professional life as well and businesses are seeking to develop smart scenarios on how to integrate the new technologies in their processes. The development of mobile software applications is also booming in the field of BI. The research topic of Mobile Business Intelligence (mBI) is focussing on how to expand traditional BI concepts to the new mobility dimension thus enabling to apply BI functionalities on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers. The increasing significance of mBI for research in combination with the tremendous economic growth potential forecasted for the next years is the driver for writing this thesis. The main aspect of the present thesis is a concept on how to develop a consistent mBI Strategy aligning all structures, processes and stakeholders to one standard set of goals and guidelines. Crucial points when implementing an mBI strategy are the definition of goals, the identification of risks and opportunities, the adaptation of mBI to the user context, the integration of mBI into the existing IT landscape, as well as a proper set-up of system architectures and security concepts. Besides analyzing the aspect of mBI strategy this thesis also considers the market situation of mBI. Clearly defined goals and the systematic development of a consistent mBI strategy which is in line with these goals can be considered as a crucial prerequisite for companies to successfully implement mBI.
The purpose of this master thesis is to enable the Robot Lisa to process complex commands and extract the necessary information in order to perform a complex task as a sequence of smaller tasks. This is intended to be achieved by the improvement of the understanding that Lisa has of her environment by adding semantics to the maps that she builds. The complex command itself will be expected to be already parsed. Therefore the way the input is processed to become a parsed command is out of the scope of this work. Maps that Lisa builds will be improved by the addition of semantic annotations that can include any kind of information that might be useful for the performance of generic tasks. This can include (but not necessarily limited to) hierarchical classifications of locations, objects and surfaces. The processing of the command in addition to some information of the environment shall trigger the performance of a sequence of actions. These actions are expected to be included in Lisa- currently implemented tasks and will rely on the currently existing modules that perform them.
Nevertheless the aim of this work is not only to be able to use currently implemented tasks in a more complex sequence of actions but also make it easier to add new tasks to the complex commands that Lisa can perform.
Diese Masterarbeit beschreibt und evaluiert die im Rahmen der Arbeit entwickelten Erweiterungen zur Schellings Segregationsimulation. Der Nobelpreisträger Thomas C. Schelling simulierte als erster ab 1969 die Segregation. Die dabei entstandenen Ergebnisse erlaubten eine genauere Analyse der auftretenden Phänomene. Uri Wilensky, Mitarbeiter der "Northwestern University", entwickelte seit 1999 eine Segregationssimulation in NetLogo.
Im Rahmen meiner Masterarbeit habe ich das NetLogo-Model von Uri Wilensky in sechs unterschiedlichen Szenarien weiterentwickelt.
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.
This thesis aims to clarify the question of how stakeholders can participate in a project. We discuss methods on how to select the relevant stakeholders from the whole set of the stakeholders and how to involve these stakeholders in the participatory process. The participation process does not only classical methods of participation such as workshops, especially before modern Web 2.0 techniques.
The World Wide Web (WWW) has become a very important communication channel. Its usage has steadily grown within the past. Interest by website owners in identifying user behaviour has been around since Tim Berners-Lee developed the first web browser in 1990. But as the influence of the online channel today eclipses all other media the interest in monitoring website usage and user activities has intensified as well. Gathering and analysing data about the usage of websites can help to understand customer behaviour, improve services and potentially increase profit.
It is further essential for ensuring effective website design and management, efficient mass customization and effective marketing. Web Analytics (WA) is the area addressing these considerations. However, changing technologies and evolving Web Analytic methods and processes present a challenge to organisations starting with Web Analytic programmes. Because of lacking resources in different areas and other types of websites especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) as well as non-profit organisations struggle to operate WA in an effective manner.
This research project aims to identify the existing gap between theory, tool possibilities and business needs for undertaking Web Analytic programmes. Therefore the topic was looked at from three different ways: the academic literature, Web Analytic tools and an interpretative case study. The researcher utilized an action research approach to investigate Web Analytics presenting an holistic overview and to identify the gaps that exists. The outcome of this research project is an overall framework, which provides guidance for SMEs who operate information websites on how to proceed in a Web Analytic programme.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Nutzenpotentialen des GeoPortal.rlp. Hierzu werden zwei empirische Studien erhoben. Die erste Studie ist eine Nutzerumfrage bezüglich des Portals. Die zweite Studie besteht aus Experteninterviews um potentielle Kooperationspartner zu identifizieren. Aus den Ergebnissen der beiden Studien werden Handlungsempfehlungen abgeleitet.
Identifying reusable legacy code able to implement SOA services is still an open research issue. This master thesis presents an approach to identify legacy code for service implementation based on dynamic analysis and the application of data mining techniques. rnrnAs part of the SOAMIG project, code execution traces were mapped to business processes. Due to the high amount of traces generated by dynamic analyses, the traces must be post-processed in order to provide useful information. rnrnFor this master thesis, two data mining techniques - cluster analysis and link analysis - were applied to the traces. First tests on a Java/Swing legacy system provided good results, compared to an expert- allocation of legacy code.
Tractography on HARDI data
(2011)
Diffusion weighted imaging is an important modality in clinical imaging and the only possibility to gain insight into the human brain noninvasively and in-vivo. The applications of this imaging technique are diversified. It is used to study the brain, its structure, development and the functionality of the different areas. Further, important fields of application are neurosurgical planning, examinations of pathologies, investigation of Alzheimer-, strokes, and multiple sclerosis. This thesis gives a brief introduction to MRI and diffusion MRI. Based on this, the mostly used data representation in diffusion MRI in clinical imaging, the diffusion tensor, is introduced. As the diffusion tensor suffers from severe limitations new techniques subsumed under the term HARDI (high angular resolution diffusion imaging) are introduced and discussed in detail. Further, an extensive introduction to tractography, approaches that aim at reconstructing neuronal fibers, is given. Based on the knowledge fromthe theoretical part established tractography algorithms are redesigned to handle HARDI data and, thus, improve the reconstruction of neuronal fibers. Among these algorithms, a novel approach is presented that successfully reconstructs fibers on phantom data as well as on human brain data. Further, a novel global classification approach is presented to cluster voxels according to their diffusion properties.
Multi-agent systems are a mature approach to model complex software systems by means of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). However, their application is not widely accepted in mainstream software engineering. Parallel to this the interdisciplinary field of Agent-based Social Simulation (ABSS) finds increasing recognition beyond the purely academic realm which starts to draw attention from the mainstream of agent researchers. This work analyzes factors to improve the uptake of AOSE as well as characteristics which separate the two fields AOSE and ABSS to understand their gap. Based on the efficiency-oriented micro-agent concept of the Otago Agent Platform (OPAL) we have constructed a new modern and self-contained micro-agent platform called µ². The design takes technological trends into account and integrates representative technologies, such as the functionally-inspired JVM language Clojure (with its Transactional Memory), asynchronous message passing frameworks and the mobile application platform Android. The mobile version of the platform shows an innovative approach to allow direct interaction between Android application components and micro-agents by mapping their related internal communication mechanisms. This empowers micro-agents to exploit virtually any capability of mobile devices for intelligent agent-based applications, robotics or simply act as a distributed middleware. Additionally, relevant platform components for the support of social simulations are identified and partially implemented. To show the usability of the platform for simulation purposes an interaction-centric scenario representing group shaping processes in a multi-cultural context is provided. The scenario is based on Hofstede's concept of 'Cultural Dimensions'. It does not only confirm the applicability of the platform for simulations but also reveals interesting patterns for culturally augmented in- and out-group agents. This explorative research advocates the potential of micro-agents as a powerful general system modelling mechanism while bridging the convergence between mobile and desktop systems. The results stimulate future work on the micro-agent concept itself, the suggested platform and the deeper exploration of mechanisms for seemless interaction of micro-agents with mobile environments. Last but not least the further elaboration of the simulation model as well as its use to augment intelligent agents with cultural aspects offer promising perspectives for future research.
Although e-participation is becoming more and more important, security risks and requirements are so far only superficially regarded. This master thesis aims at contribute to security and privacy of e-participation applications. This paper deals with the users of electronic participation forms. Since personal data has to be transmitted in the e-participation process, systems require trustworthiness, privacy, transparency, availability and legal security between public administration and users. Therefore it is very important to ensure the most of security and privacy standards in information and communication technologies by the administration and the citizens to provide the necessary confidence in using e participation applications. This master thesis examines different e-participation platforms of the areas participatory budgeting, e-consultations, party websites, and e-petitions and explores at first which influence of sensitive e-participation systems on the political system they have. Subsequently, the current safety standard of the e-participation applications is determined. For this purpose an analysis framework is used, regarding on relevant security and privacy issues for e-participation. Based on the results safety levels are deduced from different types of e-participation applications. In addition recommendations for the constitution of e-participation are concluded, which helps to make e participation applications more secure. Furthermore, future technologies with the potential to improve security in the use of electronic public participation are presented.
Mobile payment has been a payment option in the market for a long time now and was predicted to become a widely used payment method. However, over the years, the market penetration rate of mPayments has been relatively low, despite it having all characteristics required of a convenient payment method. The primaryrnreason for this has been cited as a lack of customer acceptance mainly caused due to the lack of perceived security by the end-user. Although biometric authentication is not a new technology, it is experiencing a revival in the light of the present day terror threats and increased security requirements in various industries. The application of biometric authentication in mPayments is analysed here and a suitable biometric authentication method for use with mPayments is recommended. The issue of enrolment, human and technical factors to be considered are discussed and the STOF business model is applied to a BiMoP (biometric mPayment) application.
The development of a pan-European public E-Procurement system is an important target of the European Union to enhance the efficiency, transparency and competitiveness of public procurement procedures conducted within the European single market. A great obstacle for cross-border electronic procurement is the heterogeneity of national procurement systems in terms of technical, organizational and legal differences. To overcome this obstacle the European Commission funds several initiatives that contribute to the aim of achieving interoperability for pan-European public procurement. Pan European Public Procurement OnLine (PEPPOL) is one of these initiatives that aims at piloting an interoperable pan-European E-Procurement solution to support businesses and public purchasing entities from different member states to conduct their procurement processes electronically.rnrnAs interoperability and inter-connection of distributed heterogeneous information systems are the major requirements in the European procurement domain, and the VCD sub-domain in particular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) seems to provide a promising approach to realize such an architecture, as it promotes loose coupling and interoperability. This master thesis therefore discusses the SOA approach and how its concepts, methodologies and technologies can be used for the development of interoperable IT systems for electronic public procurement. This discussion is enhanced through a practical application of the discussed SOA methodologies by conceptualizing and prototyping of a sub-system derived from the overall system domain of the Virtual Company Dossier. For that purpose, important aspects of interoperability and related standards and technologies will be examined and put into the context of public electronic procurement. Furthermore, the paradigm behind SOA will be discussed, including the derivation of a top-down development methodology for service-oriented systems.
Opinion Mining
(2010)
Das Opinion Mining stellt eine Methode dar, mit der Meinungen aus dem WWW gefiltert und intelligent aufbereitet werden können, um Stimmungsanalysen zu einzelnen Produkten und Dienstleistungen zu erstellen. Opionion Mining bietet den Unternehmen somit eine innovative Möglichkeit, ihre Marketingkommmunikation planbarer und wirkungsvoller zu gestalten und ein deutlich erhöhtes Maß an Involvement und Relevanz innerhalb bestimmter Zielgruppen zu erreichen. Zunächst werden die theoretischen Grundlagen des Web 2.0 und relevanter Methoden der Business Intelligence erläutert. Die empirische Untersuchung bildet den Schwerpunkt der Arbeit. Auf die Entwicklung eines Vorgehensmodells folgt die praktische Anwendung dieses Modells auf ein Produkt. Die Ergebnisse werden im Review-Scan im Hinblick auf Forschung und Praxis ausgewertet und diskutiert.
Entwicklung eines Regelungsverfahrens zur Pfadverfolgung für ein Modellfahrzeug mit Sattelanhänger
(2009)
Besides the progressive automation of internal goods traffic, there is an important area that should also be considered. This area is the carriage of goods in selected external areas. The use of driverless trucks in logistic centers can report economic efficiency. In particular, these precise control procedures require that trucks drive on predetermined paths. The general aim of this work is the adaption and evaluation of a path following control method for articulated vehicles. The differences in the kinematic behavior between trucks with one-axle trailer and semi-trailer vehicles will be emphasized. Additionally, the characteristic kinematic properties of semi-trailers for the adaptation of a control procedure will be considered. This control procedure was initially designed for trucks with one-axle trailer. It must work in forwards and backwards movements. This control process will be integrated as a closed component on the control software of the model vehicle. Thus, the geometry of the model vehicle will be specified, and the possible special cases of the control process will be discovered. The work also documents the most relevant software components of the implemented control process.
Cicero ist eine asynchrone Diskussionsplattform, die im Rahmen der Arbeitsgruppe Informationssysteme und Semantic Web (ISWeb) der Universität Koblenz-Landau entwickelt wurde. Die webbasierte Anwendung folgt dem Gedanken eines semantischen Wikis und soll insbesondere beim Arbeitsablauf von Entwurfsprozessen eingesetzt werden. Dabei verwendet Cicero ein restriktives Argumentationsmodell, das einerseits strukturierte Diskussionen von schwierigen Prozessen fördert und andererseits den Entscheidungsfindungsprozess unterstützt. Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Evaluation von Cicero, wobei im vorhergehenden theoretischen Teil die Hintergründe und Funktionsweisen vorgestellt werden und im nachfolgenden praktischen Teil die Anwendung anhand einer Fallstudie evaluiert wird. Die Studie wurde im Rahmen der Übungsveranstaltung zu Grundlagen der Datenbanken der Universität Koblenz im Wintersemester 2008/2009 durchgeführt , und die Studenten hatten die Aufgabe, einen Entwurfsprozess mit Hilfe von Cicero zu diskutieren. Über die erhobenen Daten der Fallstudie wird ein Akzeptanztest durchgeführt. Hierbei wird überprüft, ob die Benutzer Cicero positiv annehmen und die Methodik richtig anwenden. Denn aufgrund des vorgegebenen Argumentationsmodells müssen die Benutzer ihr Kommunikationsverhalten ändern und ihren herkömmlichen Diskussionsstil der Anwendung anpassen. Ziel der Evaluation ist es, kritische Erfolgsfaktoren im Umgang mit Cicero ausfindig zu machen. Anhand der identifizierten Schwachstellen werden abschließend gezielte Maßnahmen vorgeschlagen, die die Akzeptanz der Benutzer gegenüber Cicero erhöhen könnten.
In dieser Masterarbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Konzepte des analytischen CRM Unternehmen brauchen und inwieweit sich diese von BI-Software realisieren lassen. Es soll dabei empirisch untersucht werden, welche Analyseinstrumente des analytischen CRM von Unternehmen benötigt werden und wie sie mit Techniken des Business Intelligences umgesetzt werden können. Zu der konzeptionellen Aufgabenstel-lung gehört die Entwicklung eines Konzeptes für die Realisierung von analytischem CRM mit Hilfe von Business Intelligence für die CRM-Software "GEDYS IntraWare 7".
In this thesis, a computer simulation model created in the early 1960s by Robert P. Abelson and Alex Bernstein is examined. The simulation described was built to reflect processes involved in formation of a public opinion within a population taking into account direct communication as well as communication mediated through mass media. After describing and thoroughly analyzing the available description of the simulation model this thesis produces the implementation of a running software simulation system implementing this model. The software is developed and described using common computer science procedures and finally examined for its properties during different tests.
In der Betriebswirtschaft wird das Steuern von Preis und Kapazität einer be- stimmten Ware oder Dienstleistung als Yield oder Revenue Management bezeich- net. Im wesentlichen geht es darum, die vorhandenen knappen Gütter ertrags- bzw. erlösmaximal zu vermarkten. Dies wird zum einen durch Erstellen von Pro- gnosen über das zukünftige Kundenverhalten, zum anderen durch den Einsatz verschiedener Ertragsmaximierungstechniken, wie z.B. Preisdifferenzierung oder Überbuchung, erreicht. So lassen sich die Zahlungsbereitschaften verschiedener Nachfragegruppen optimal abschöpfen, der Auslastungsgrad erhöhen und somit der Ertrag optimieren. Das Yield-Management entstand nach der Deregulierung des amerikanischen Luft- verkehrsmarktes im Jahre 1978, als zahlreiche Fluggesellschaften den etablierten Airlines Konkurenz machten. Sie zielten mit ihren günstigen Preisen vor allem auf Freizeitreisende und konnten so erhebliche Marktanteile gewinnen. Im Zuge des Preiskampfes entwickelten Fluggesellschaften verschiedene Techniken zur Steuerung der Preise und Kapazitäten um ihre Erlöse zu maximieren. So konnte z.B. American Airlines trotzt schlechterer Kostenstruktur viele Wettbewerber vom Markt drängen, als sie 1985 zum ersten mal das neue Konzept vollständig eingesetzt haben. Vergl. (vergl. uRK05, Kap. A). Im folgenden haben andere Branchen, wie Autovermieter und Hoteliers, die Kon- zepte des Yield-Managements adoptiert und erfolgreich eingesetzt. Die Mechanis- men der Nachfrageprognosen und Optimierung der Produktsegmente, Kontingente und Preise sind stets die gleichen. Es ädern sich lediglich die branchenspezifischen Parameter sowie Optimierungsziele. Im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit werden die möglichen Einsatzgebiete des Yield- Managements untersucht. Es wird der Versuch unternommen ein allgemeingültiges Model zur Steuerung von Preis und Kapazität von Dienstleistungen oder Pro- dukten zu entwickeln. Das Model wird dann am speziellen Beispiel der Touris- musbranche, insbesondere der Produkte eines Reiseveranstalters, in einem Yield- Management-Modul des Reiseveranstaltersystems TourPaX implementiert.
The internet is becoming more and more important in daily life. Fundamental changes can be observed in the private sector as well as in the public sector. In the course of this, active involvement of citizens in planning political procedures is more and more supported electronically. The expectations culminate in the assumption that information and communication technology (ICT) can enhance civic participation and reduce disenchantment with politics. Out of these expectations, a lot of eparticipation projects were initiated in Germany. Initiatives were established, e.g. the "Initiative eParticipation", which gave many incentives of electronic participation for policy and administration in order to strengthen decision-making processes with internet supported participation practices. This thesis consists of two major parts. In the first part, definitions of the essential terms are presented. The position of e-participation within the dimension of ebusiness is pointed out. In order to explain e-participation, basics of the classical offline participation are delivered. It will be shown that a change is in progress, not only because of the deployment of ICT. Subsequently, a framework to characterize eparticipation is presented. The European Union is encouraging the implementation of e-participation. So, the city of Koblenz should be no exception. But what is the current situation in Koblenz? To provide an answer to this question, the status quo was examined with the help of a survey among the citizens of Koblenz, which was developed, conducted and evaluated. This is the second major part of this thesis.
Public electronic procurement (eProcurement), here electronic sourcing (eSourcing) in particular, is almost certainly on the agenda when eGovernment experts meet. Not surprisingly is eProcurement the first high-impact service to be addressed in the European Union- recent Action Plan. This is mainly dedicated to the fact that public procurement makes out almost 20% of Europe- GDP and therefore holds a huge saving potential. To some extent this potential lies in the common European market, since effective cross-boarder eSourcing solutions can open many doors, both for buyers and suppliers. To achieve this, systems and processes and tools, need to be adoptable, transferable as well as be able to communicate with each other. In one word, they need to be interoperable. In many relevant domains, interoperability has reached a very positive level, standards have been established, workflows been put in place. In other domains however, there is still a long road ahead. As a consequence it is crucial to define requirements for such interoperable eSourcing systems and to identify the progress in research and practice.
The thesis develops and evaluates a hypothetical model of the factors that influence user acceptance of weblog technology. Previous acceptance studies are reviewed, and the various models employed are discussed. The eventual model is based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) by Davis et al. It conceptualizes and operationalizes a quantitative survey conducted by means of an online questionnaire, strictly from a user perspective. Finally, it is tested and validated by applying methods of data analysis.
Mit dieser Arbeit werden die folgenden Ziele verfolgt: Eine repräsentative Auswahl und Sammlung von Beispielen für Mobile Ticketing Systeme (insbesondere aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum) zu recherchieren, die sich im praktischen Einsatz befinden. Eine Zusammenstellung sinnvoller Kategorien (Charakteristika) zu erarbeiten, anhand derer sich Mobile Ticketing Systeme unterscheiden oder strukturieren lassen. Eine Gegenüberstellung der Beispiele und Kategorien zu erstellen, um zu untersuchen, welche typischen Klassen bei Mobile Ticketing Systemen identifiziert werden können.
In dieser Arbeit wird eine Softwarebibliothek zur Nutzung des USB-Hostmodus von Mikrocontrollern der Baureihe AT90USB entwickelt. Die Eigenschaften des USB werden erläutert und darauf aufbauend die Hardware des verwendeten Mikrocontrollers beschrieben. Anschließend wird die entwickelte Software und deren Funktionsweise erläutert. Abschließend werden Treiber für diverse Geräteklassen vorgestellt, die auch dem Test der entwickelten Bibliothek dienen.
In usage of information systems the maintenance of their actuality and their extensibility is of importance. There is a constant reoccurrence of situations, when these goals cannot be supported by keeping on the old system, the legacy system. A solution for that is its migration into a new environment. The migration of software is to be considered as a subdiscipline of software engineering, more precisely, as a part of software maintenance. In this thesis the reference migration process model ReMiP, introduced in another thesis of the institute, was applied. The goal of this examination is to bring this model to practice in a website migration project and to analyze its validity. Here, especially the subject of completeness and generalizability of the model for migration processes and the gathering of concrete experiences with the intensity of its activities is of interest. The target environment for the website migration will be the content management system Plone. Within this thesis it will be described thoroughly. Finally, the website to migrate will be brought to its new target environment. The result of this thesis is the migrated GXL-Website in the target system Plone using the ReMiP. By this migration, the ReMiP was successfully validated as a reference process model for software migrations.
Problems in the analysis of requirements often lead to failures when developing software systems. This problem is nowadays being faced by requirements engineering. The early involvement of all kinds of stakeholders in the development of such a system and a structured process to elicitate and analyse requirements have made it a crucial factor as a first step in software development. The increasing complexity of modern softwaresystems though leads to a rising amount of information which has to be dealt with during analysis. Without the support of appropriate tools this would be almost impossible to do. Especially in bigger projects, which tend to be spatially distributed, an effective requirements engineering could not be implemented without this kind of support. Today there is a wide range of tools dealing with this matter. They have been in use since some time now and, in their most recent versions, realize the most important aspects of requirements engineering. Within the scope of this thesis some of these tools will be analysed, focussing on both the major functionalities concerning the management of requirements and the repository of these tools. The results of this analyis will be integrated into a reference model.
Currently more than 850 biological databases exist. The majority of biological knowledge is not in these databases but rather contained as free text in scientific literature. For systems biology tasks it is often necessary to integrate and extract data from heterogeneous databases and free text as well as to analyse the information in the context of experimental data. ONDEX is an integration framework which aims to address these challenges by combining features of database integration, text mining and sequence analysis with methods for graph-based data analysis and visualisation. The main topics of this diploma thesis are the redesign of the ONDEX backend, the development of a data exchange format, the development of a query environment and the allocation of Web services for data integration, data exchange and queries. These Web services allow backend workflow control from both local and remote workstations.