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Der an der Universität Koblenz-Landau entwickelte RIP-MTI-Algorithmus stellt eine Modifikation des Routingalgorithmus RIP dar, die es dem RIP-Algorithmus ermöglichen soll, die Häufigkeit des Auftretens des Counting-to-infinity-Problems (CTI) zu reduzieren. Um die Korrektheit und Zuverlässigkeit dieses Algorithmus nachweisen, aber auch Schwächen aufdecken zu können, bedarf es der Möglichkeit, das Verhalten des Algorithmus zu testen. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Nutzbarmachung der von unter VNUML laufenden RIP-Routern dezentral verwalteten Routing-Informationen, um die Entstehung von CTIs zentral protokollieren und analysieren zu können. Zu diesem Zweck wird eine Software entwickelt, die Informationen zur Netzkonfiguration, zu Erreichbarkeiten und Update-Aufkommen sammelt, verwaltet und analysiert. So können neben den bereits bekannten problematischen Netztopologien weitere für die einzelnen RIP-Ausprägungen problematische Topologien ermittelt werden.
The trends of industry 4.0 and the further enhancements toward an ever changing factory lead to more mobility and flexibility on the factory floor. With that higher need of mobility and flexibility the requirements on wireless communication rise. A key requirement in that setting is the demand for wireless Ultra-Reliability and Low Latency Communication (URLLC). Example use cases therefore are cooperative Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and mobile robotics in general. Working along that setting this thesis provides insights regarding the whole network stack. Thereby, the focus is always on industrial applications. Starting on the physical layer, extensive measurements from 2 GHz to 6 GHz on the factory floor are performed. The raw data is published and analyzed. Based on that data an improved Saleh-Valenzuela (SV) model is provided. As ad-hoc networks are highly depended onnode mobility, the mobility of AGVs is modeled. Additionally, Nodal Encounter Patterns (NEPs) are recorded and analyzed. A method to record NEP is illustrated. The performance by means of latency and reliability are key parameters from an application perspective. Thus, measurements of those two parameters in factory environments are performed using Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) (IEEE 802.11n), private Long Term Evolution (pLTE) and 5G. This showed auto-correlated latency values. Hence, a method to construct confidence intervals based on auto-correlated data containing rare events is developed. Subsequently, four performance improvements for wireless networks on the factory floor are proposed. Of those optimization three cover ad-hoc networks, two deal with safety relevant communication, one orchestrates the usage of two orthogonal networks and lastly one optimizes the usage of information within cellular networks.
Finally, this thesis is concluded by an outlook toward open research questions. This includes open questions remaining in the context of industry 4.0 and further the ones around 6G. Along the research topics of 6G the two most relevant topics concern the ideas of a network of networks and overcoming best-effort IP.
Das Routing Information Protocol (RIP) ist ein Internet-Standard-Routing-Protokoll, das einst mit zu den am meisten eingesetzten Routing-Protokollen in IP-Netzwerken gehörte. Es basiert auf dem sogenannten Distanzvektoralgorithmus und ist in seiner Funktion und seinem Aufbau sehr einfach ausgelegt. Seit jeher leidet es allerdings unter dem sogenannten Counting-to-Infinity (CTI) Problem, bei dem die Erreichbarkeit einer eigentlich ausgefallenen Verbindung zu einem Ziel scheinbar aufrechterhalten wird. Die Distanz zu diesem Ziel wird aufgrund des fortwährenden Austauschs von nicht mehr gültigen Verbindungsinformationen zwischen in einem Ring geschalteten RIP-Routern hochgezählt, theoretisch bis ins Unendliche. Dabei entstehen Routingschleifen, die den Netzwerkbetrieb erheblich stören können, da die gesendeten Netzwerkpakete aufgrund der Schleife die selben Router immer wieder passieren und weder an ihr eigentliches Ziel gelangen noch verworfen werden können. Die Gefahr des Auftretens des CTI-Problems schränkt die Einsetzbarkeit von RIP enorm ein. Die Netzwerke, in denen RIP eingesetzt wird, können nicht beliebig wachsen, da die maximale Größe des Netzwerks auf eine relativ kleine Distanz zwischen den Routern begrenzt ist, um die Dauer und die Folgen des CTI-Problems im Falle des Auftretens gering zu halten. Je stärker auch die Topologie eines Netzwerks vermascht ist, um mit zusätzlichen, alternativen Verbindungen Ausfällen entgegenzuwirken, umso stärker steigt auch die Gefahr des Auftretens des CTI-Problems nach einem Ausfall. Bislang existierten für RIP lediglich Mechanismen, die das Risiko des Auftretens und die Auswirkungen des CTI-Problems verringern, das Problem selbst aber nicht beheben können. Mit "RIP with minimal topology information" (RIP-MTI) wurde in der AG Rechnernetze an der Universität Koblenz-Landau eine abwärtskompatible Erweiterung zu RIP geschaffen, die das CTI-Problem zu beheben verspricht. Der RIP-MTI-Algorithmus sammelt zusätzliche Informationen über die Topologie des Netzwerks und nutzt diese, um nach dem Ausfall einer Verbindung richtige Informationen über die Erreichbarkeit von Zielen von falschen Informationen unterscheiden zu können. In dieser Diplomarbeit wird die Implementierung des RIP-MTI-Algorithmus behandelt. Mit Hilfe der speziell entwickelten RIP-Netzwerk-Testumgebung XTPeer, in der das CTI-Problem kontrolliert provoziert werden kann, wird die Wirksamkeit der Implementierung eines Quagga RIP-MTI-Routers überprüft und entsprechend weiterentwickelt. Dafür wird der RIP-MTI-Algorithmus an die Implementierung des Quagga RIP-Routing-Software sowie an die der Netzwerk-Testumgebung XTPeer angepasst. Diese Diplomarbeit wird vom Autor selbst als fortgeschrittene Zwischenstation eingestuft, vor der Herstellung und Herausgabe der Implementierung einer RIP-MTI-Routing-Software, die auch in produktiven Netzwerken eingesetzt werden könnte.
In unserer heutigen Welt spielen soziale Netzwerke eine immer größere werdende Rolle. Im Internet entsteht fast täglich eine neue Anwendung in der Kategorie Web 2.0. Aufgrund dieser Tatsache wird es immer wichtiger die Abläufe in sozialen Netzwerken zu verstehen und diese für Forschungszwecke auch simulieren zu können. Da alle gängigen sozialen Netzwerke heute nur im eindimensionalen Bereich arbeiten, beschäftigt sich diese Diplomarbeit mit mehrdimensionalen sozialen Netzwerken. Mehrdimensionale soziale Netzwerke bieten die Möglichkeit verschiedene Beziehungsarten zu definieren. Beispielsweise können zwei Akteure nicht nur in einer "kennt"-Beziehung stehen, sondern diese Beziehungsart könnte auch in diverse Unterbeziehungsarten, wie z.B. Akteur A "ist Arbeitskollege von" Akteur B oder Akteur C "ist Ehepartner von" Akteur D, unterteilt werden. Auf diese Art und Weise können beliebig viele, völlig verschiedene Beziehungsarten nebeneinander existieren. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, in welchem Grad die Eigenschaften von eindimensionalen auch bei mehrdimensionalen sozialen Netzwerken gelten. Um das herauszufinden werden bereits bestehende Metriken weiterentwickelt. Diese Metriken wurden für eindimensionale soziale Netzwerke entwickelt und können nun auch für die Bewertung mehrdimensionaler sozialer Netzwerke benutzt werden. Eine zentrale Fragestellung ist hierbei wie gut sich Menschen finden, die sich etwas zu sagen haben. Um möglichst exakte Ergebnisse zu erhalten, ist es notwendig reale Daten zu verwenden. Diese werden aus einem Web 2.0-Projekt, in das Benutzer Links zu verschiedenen Themen einstellen, gewonnen (siehe Kapitel 4). Der erste praktische Schritte dieser Arbeit besteht daher darin, das soziale Netzwerk einzulesen und auf diesem Netzwerk eine Kommunikation, zwischen zwei Personen mit ähnlichen Themengebieten, zu simulieren. Die Ergebnisse der Simulation werden dann mit Hilfe der zuvor entwicklelten Metriken ausgewertet.
Die Motivation für diese Arbeit bestand darin, den Studierenden in den Rechnerpools der Universität Koblenz die Möglichkeit zu geben, mit der Simulationssoftware VNUML (Virtual Network User Mode Linux) zu arbeiten. Eingesetzt wird diese Software in den Vorlesungen und Übungen zu Rechnernetzen I und II, was eine Anwendung der Software für die Studenten unumgänglich macht. In der Vergangenheit gab es jedoch immer wieder Probleme bei der Installation und Einrichtung auf den privaten Rechnern, obwohl in früheren Studienarbeiten mehrfach vereinfachte Installationsroutinen entwickelt worden waren. Ein weiteres Problem für die Verwendung von VNUML stellt auch die Tatsache dar, dass die Software nur in einer Linux-Umgebung lauffähig ist. Da aber nicht alle Studierenden das Betriebssystem Linux benutzen und viele vor einer Installation allein zur Verwendung von VNUML zurückschrecken, war es schon länger angedacht, diese Software an den Rechnern der Universität zur Verfügung zu stellen. In dieser Arbeit wird der Prozess beschrieben, wie eine Installation der VNUML-Software in den Rechnerpools möglich war, welche Probleme dabei aufgetreten sind und welche Alternativen zur gewählten Vorgehensweise möglich gewesen wären. Das Ergebnis bietet auch eine sehr einfache Installation für den privaten Anwender, ohne dass hierfür eine eigenständige Linux-Installation nötig wäre. Auch wurden während der Entwicklung immer weitere Verbesserungen vorgenommen, welche die Anwenderfreundlichkeit der endgültigen Lösung weiter erhöhten. Die Möglichkeiten und Ideen sind dabei auch so vielfältig, dass sich die Arbeitsgruppe noch weiter mit diesem Thema beschäftigen wird und weitere Optimierungen vorgenommen werden können.
In this work, some network protocols with Wireshark Protokollanalyser should be observed and described the deal with them. Wireshark is an offshoot of "Ethereal", one of the most popular protocol analyzer. Wireshark analysis network traffic, draws on it and make it clear . For the simulation of the network is used VNUML. Since VNUML can only be used under Linux, andLinux is running as a virtual machine in between to work in Windows to be able to.
This work is about three subjects: Virtualisation, real-time computing and parallel computing. Taken by itself, each of these subjects has already been wellresearched, however, when considering all three together, as is necessary when looking at embedded systems, numerous questions as well as new possibilities arise. In this work we develop models describing the behaviour and requirements of real-time applications which execute in a hierarchy of processes as they do when running in a virtual machine. Also, the real-time capabilities of existing virtual machines are evaluated and new interfaces for virtualisation of multiprocessor machines which take into account the characteristics of embedded systems"specifically real-time computing" are defined, implemented and tested. This enables safe, secure and efficient coexistence of programs with largely differing time constraints within separate virtual machines on a single, common multiprocessor computer.
Diese Studienarbeit soll eine Einführung in die Arbeit mit virtual network user mode linux (VNUML) geben. Mit Hilfe dieser Arbeit möchte ich speziell die Version VNUML 1.6 näher bringen und die wesentlichen Unterschiede, Vor- und Nachteile zur Version 1.5 zeigen. In den nächsten zwei Kapiteln wird auf das Thema VNUML und UML oberflächlich eingegangen. Das darauffolgende Kapitel befasst sich mit der Installation von VNUML 1.6, der Vorraussetzung und den möglichen Fehlermeldungen. Wenn dies abgeschlossen ist, wird VNUML 1.6 mit eigenen Beispielen ausfürlich, praktisch und theoretisch vorgestellt. Danach werden die wesentlichen Unterschiede von VNUML 1.5 zu VNUML 1.6 beschrieben. Zum Abschluss sind noch ein Kapitel mit kurzen Begriffsdefinitionen und der Anhang mit allen XML-Dateien zu finden. Auf den Aufbau einer XML-Datei möchte ich in meiner Arbeit nicht weiter eingehen. Dazu verweise ich auf die Arbeit von Thomas Chmielowiec und Tim Keupen. In diesen Arbeiten sind die XML-Syntax und Semantik ausfürlich beschrieben.
Die Entwicklung von Algorithmen im Sinne des Algorithm Engineering geschieht zyklisch. Der entworfene Algorithmus wird theoretisch analysiert und anschließend implementiert. Nach der praktischen Evaluierung wird der Entwurf anhand der gewonnenen Kenntnisse weiter entwickelt. Formale Verifffizierung der Implementation neben der praktischen Evaluierung kann den Entwicklungsprozess verbessern. Mit der Java Modeling Language (JML) und dem KeY tool stehen eine einfache Spezififfkationssprache und ein benutzerfreundliches, automatisiertes Verififfkationstool zur Verfügung. Diese Arbeit untersucht, inwieweit das KeY tool für die Verifffizierung von komplexeren Algorithmen geeignet ist und welche Rückmeldungen für Algorithmiker aus der Verififfkation gewonnen werden können.Die Untersuchung geschieht anhand von Dijkstras Algorithmus zur Berechnung von kürzesten Wegen in einem Graphen. Es sollen eine konkrete Implementation des Standard-Algorithmus und anschließend Implementationen weiterer Varianten verifffiziert werden. Dies ahmt den Entwicklungsprozess des Algorithmus nach, um in jeder Iteration nach möglichen Rückmeldungen zu suchen. Bei der Verifffizierung der konkreten Implementation merken wir, dass es nötig ist, zuerst eine abstraktere Implementation mit einfacheren Datenstrukturen zu verififfzieren. Mit den dort gewonnenen Kenntnissen können wir dann die Verifikation der konkreten Implementation fortführen. Auch die Varianten des Algorithmus können dank der vorangehenden Verififfkationen verifiziert werden. Die Komplexität von Dijkstras Algorithmus bereitet dem KeY tool einige Schwierigkeiten bezüglich der Performanz, weswegen wir während der Verifizierung die Automatisierung etwas reduzieren müssen. Auf der anderenrn Seite zeigt sich, dass sich aus der Verifffikation einige Rückmeldungen ableiten lassen.
Hybrid systems are the result of merging the two most commonly used models for dynamical systems, namely continuous dynamical systems defined by differential equations and discrete-event systems defined by automata. One can view hybrid systems as constrained systems, where the constraints describe the possible process flows, invariants within states, and transitions on the one hand, and to characterize certain parts of the state space (e.g. the set of initial states, or the set of unsafe states) on the other hand. Therefore, it is advantageous to use constraint logic programming (CLP) as an approach to model hybrid systems. In this paper, we provide CLP implementations, that model hybrid systems comprising several concurrent hybrid automata, whose size is only straight proportional to the size of the given system description. Furthermore, we allow different levels of abstraction by making use of hierarchies as in UML statecharts. In consequence, the CLP model can be used for analyzing and testing the absence or existence of (un)wanted behaviors in hybrid systems. Thus in summary, we get a procedure for the formal verification of hybrid systems by model checking, employing logic programming with constraints.
Community-Plattformen im Internet verwenden codebasierte Governance, um ihre hohe Anzahl an Nutzerbeiträgen zu verwalten. Dazu gehören alle Arten von Funktionalitäten, mit denen die Community Nutzerbeiträge in irgendeiner Form direkt oder indirekt beurteilen kann. Diese Arbeit erklärt zunächst die Bedeutung codebasierter Governance und der verschiedenen dafür nutzbaren Funktionalitäten. Anschließend werden die erfolgreichsten 50 Community-Plattformen auf codebasierte Governance untersucht. Das Ergebnis zeigt die Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Aufbau einer Plattform, der Beschaσffenheit der Nutzerbeiträge und der darauf ausübbaren codebasierten Governance auf.
Im Rahmen von Projekten haben die Mitarbeiter in einem Unternehmen oft komplexe Problemstellungen zu bearbeiten, für die es keine objektiv richtigen oder falschen Lösungen gibt. Stattdessen werden im Rahmen der Entwurfs- und Entscheidungsprozesse mehrere Lösungsvorschläge erarbeitet um dann unter Abwägung von Pro- und Contra-Argumenten eine möglichst optimale Lösung zu finden.
UML models and OWL ontologies constitute modeling approaches with different strength and weaknesses that make them appropriate for use of specifying different aspects of software systems. In particular, OWL ontologies are well suited to specify classes using an expressive logical language with highly flexible, dynamic and polymorphic class membership, while UML diagrams are much more suitable for specifying not only static models including classes and associations, but also dynamic behavior. Though MOF based metamodels and UML profiles for OWL have been proposed in the past, an integrated use of both modeling approaches in a coherent framework has been lacking so far. We present such a framework, TwoUse, for developing integrated models, comprising the benefits of UML models and OWL ontologies
Im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit wird ein Transaktionskonzept für die aktuelle Implementationsversion der TGraphenbibliothek JGraLab Carnotaurus umgesetzt. Nach einer grundlegenden Einführung in das Konzept der TGraphen werden die relevanten Implementationsdetails der TGraphenbibliothek erläutert. Anschließend erfolgt ein konzeptueller Entwurf, in dem die formalen Grundlagen des Transaktionskonzepts beschrieben werden. Das aus der Datenbankwelt bekannte ACID-Paradigma für Transaktionen dient dabei als wissenschaftliche Grundlage. In einem nächsten Schritt erfolgt der objektorientierte Feinentwurf der Integration des zu entwickelnden Transaktionskonzepts in das vorhandene Gesamtsystem, anhand dessen die Implementation durchgeführt wird. Eine Analyse und Bewertung des umgesetzten Transaktionskonzepts (vor allem im Hinblick auf den Speicherverbrauch und das Laufzeitverhalten) schließen die Arbeit ab.
Towards Improving the Understanding of Image Semantics by Gaze-based Tag-to-Region Assignments
(2011)
Eye-trackers have been used in the past to identify visual foci in images, find task-related image regions, or localize affective regions in images. However, they have not been used for identifying specific objects in images. In this paper, we investigate whether it is possible to assign image regions showing specific objects with tags describing these objects by analyzing the users' gaze paths. To this end, we have conducted an experiment with 20 subjects viewing 50 image-tag-pairs each. We have compared the tag-to-region assignments for nine existing and four new fixation measures. In addition, we have investigated the impact of extending region boundaries, weighting small image regions, and the number of subjects viewing the images. The paper shows that a tag-to-region assignment with an accuracy of 67% can be achieved by using gaze information. In addition, we show that multiple regions on the same image can be differentiated with an accuracy of 38%.
The provision of electronic participation services (e-participation) is a complex socio-technical undertaking that needs comprehensive design and implementation strategies. E-participation service providers, in the most cases administrations and governments, struggle with changing requirements that demand more transparency, better connectivity and increased collaboration among different actors. At the same time, less staff are available. As a result, recent research assesses only a minority of e-participation services as successful. The challenge is that the e-participation domain lacks comprehensive approaches to design and implement (e-)participation services. Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks have evolved in information systems research as an approach to guide the development of complex socio-technical systems. This approach can guide the design and implementation services, if the collection of organisations with the commonly held goal to provide participation services is understood as an E Participation Enterprise (EE). However, research & practice in the e participation domain has not yet exploited EA frameworks. Consequently, the problem scope that motivates this dissertation is the existing gap in research to deploy EA frameworks in e participation design and implementation. The research question that drives this research is: What methodical and technical guides do architecture frameworks provide that can be used to design and implement better and successful e participation?
This dissertation presents a literature study showing that existing approaches have not covered yet the challenges of comprehensive e participation design and implementation. Accordingly, the research moves on to investigate established EA frameworks such as the Zachman Framework, TOGAF, the DoDAF, the FEA, the ARIS, and the ArchiMate for their use. While the application of these frameworks in e participation design and implementation is possible, an integrated approach is lacking so far. The synthesis of literature review and practical insights in design and implementation of e participation services from four projects show the challenges of adapting architecture frameworks for this domain. However, the research shows also the potential of a combination of the different approaches. Consequently, the research moves on to develop the E-Participation Architecture Framework (EPART-Framework). Therefore, the dissertation applies design science research including literature review and action research. Two independent settings test an initial EPART-Framework version. The results yield into the EPART-Framework presented in this dissertation.
The EPART-Framework comprises of the EPART-Metamodel with six EPART-Viewpoints, which frame the stakeholder concerns: the Participation Scope, the Participant Viewpoint, the Participation Viewpoint, the Data & Information Viewpoint, the E-participation Viewpoint, and Implementation & Governance Viewpoint. The EPART-Method supports the stakeholders to design the EE and implement e participation and stores its output in an architecture description and a solution repository. It consists of five consecutive phases accompanied by requirements management: Initiation, Design, Implementation and Preparation, Participation, and Evaluation. The EPART-Framework fills the gap between the e participation domain and the enterprise architecture framework domain. The evaluation gives reasonable evidence that the framework is a valuable addition in academia and in practice to improve e-participation design and implementation. The same time, it shows opportunities for future research to extend and advance the framework.
Dualizing marked Petri nets results in tokens for transitions (t-tokens). A marked transition can strictly not be enabled, even if there are sufficient "enabling" tokens (p-tokens) on its input places. On the other hand, t-tokens can be moved by the firing of places. This permits flows of t-tokens which describe sequences of non-events. Their benefiit to simulation is the possibility to model (and observe) causes and effects of non-events, e.g. if something is broken down.
The model evolution calculus
(2004)
The DPLL procedure is the basis of some of the most successful propositional satisfiability solvers to date. Although originally devised as a proof procedure for first-order logic, it has been used almost exclusively for propositional logic so far because of its highly inefficient treatment of quantifiers, based on instantiation into ground formulas. The recent FDPLL calculus by Baumgartner was the first successful attempt to lift the procedure to the first-order level without resorting to ground instantiations. FDPLL lifts to the first-order case the core of the DPLL procedure, the splitting rule, but ignores other aspects of the procedure that, although not necessary for completeness, are crucial for its effectiveness in practice. In this paper, we present a new calculus loosely based on FDPLL that lifts these aspects as well. In addition to being a more faithful litfing of the DPLL procedure, the new calculus contains a more systematic treatment of universal literals, one of FDPLL's optimizations, and so has the potential of leading to much faster implementations.
This volume contains those research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Tests and Proofs (TAP 2008) that were not included in the main conference proceedings. TAP was the second conference devoted to the convergence of proofs and tests. It combines ideas from both areas for the advancement of software quality. To prove the correctness of a program is to demonstrate, through impeccable mathematical techniques, that it has no bugs; to test a program is to run it with the expectation of discovering bugs. On the surface, the two techniques seem contradictory: if you have proved your program, it is fruitless to comb it for bugs; and if you are testing it, that is surely a sign that you have given up on any hope of proving its correctness. Accordingly, proofs and tests have, since the onset of software engineering research, been pursued by distinct communities using rather different techniques and tools. And yet the development of both approaches leads to the discovery of common issues and to the realization that each may need the other. The emergence of model checking has been one of the first signs that contradiction may yield to complementarity, but in the past few years an increasing number of research efforts have encountered the need for combining proofs and tests, dropping earlier dogmatic views of their incompatibility and taking instead the best of what each of these software engineering domains has to offer. The first TAP conference (held at ETH Zurich in February 2007) was an attempt to provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches from the testing and proving communities. For the 2008 edition we found the Monash University Prato Centre near Florence to be an ideal place providing a stimulating environment. We wish to sincerely thank all the authors who submitted their work for consideration. And we would like to thank the Program Committee members as well as additional referees for their great effort and professional work in the review and selection process. Their names are listed on the following pages. In addition to the contributed papers, the program included three excellent keynote talks. We are grateful to Michael Hennell (LDRA Ltd., Cheshire, UK), Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University, Israel), and Elaine Weyuker (AT&T Labs Inc., USA) for accepting the invitation to address the conference. Two very interesting tutorials were part of TAP 2008: "Parameterized Unit Testing with Pex" (J. de Halleux, N. Tillmann) and "Integrating Verification and Testing of Object-Oriented Software" (C. Engel, C. Gladisch, V. Klebanov, and P. Rümmer). We would like to express our thanks to the tutorial presenters for their contribution. It was a team effort that made the conference so successful. We are grateful to the Conference Chair and the Steering Committee members for their support. And we particularly thank Christoph Gladisch, Beate Körner, and Philipp Rümmer for their hard work and help in making the conference a success. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Microsoft Research Redmond, who financed an invited speaker.
One of the main goals of the artificial intelligence community is to create machines able to reason with dynamically changing knowledge. To achieve this goal, a multitude of different problems have to be solved, of which many have been addressed in the various sub-disciplines of artificial intelligence, like automated reasoning and machine learning. The thesis at hand focuses on the automated reasoning aspects of these problems and address two of the problems which have to be overcome to reach the afore-mentioned goal, namely 1. the fact that reasoning in logical knowledge bases is intractable and 2. the fact that applying changes to formalized knowledge can easily introduce inconsistencies, which leads to unwanted results in most scenarios.
To ease the intractability of logical reasoning, I suggest to adapt a technique called knowledge compilation, known from propositional logic, to description logic knowledge bases. The basic idea of this technique is to compile the given knowledge base into a normal form which allows to answer queries efficiently. This compilation step is very expensive but has to be performed only once and as soon as the result of this step is used to answer many queries, the expensive compilation step gets worthwhile. In the thesis at hand, I develop a normal form, called linkless normal form, suitable for knowledge compilation for description logic knowledge bases. From a computational point of view, the linkless normal form has very nice properties which are introduced in this thesis.
For the second problem, I focus on changes occurring on the instance level of description logic knowledge bases. I introduce three change operators interesting for these knowledge bases, namely deletion and insertion of assertions as well as repair of inconsistent instance bases. These change operators are defined such that in all three cases, the resulting knowledge base is ensured to be consistent and changes performed to the knowledge base are minimal. This allows us to preserve as much of the original knowledge base as possible. Furthermore, I show how these changes can be applied by using a transformation of the knowledge base.
For both issues I suggest to adapt techniques successfully used in other logics to get promising methods for description logic knowledge bases.
Empirical studies in software engineering use software repositories as data sources to understand software development. Repository data is either used to answer questions that guide the decision-making in the software development, or to provide tools that help with practical aspects of developers’ everyday work. Studies are classified into the field of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), and more specifically into Mining Software Repositories (MSR). Studies working with repository data often focus on their results. Results are statements or tools, derived from the data, that help with practical aspects of software development. This thesis focuses on the methods and high order methods used to produce such results. In particular, we focus on incremental methods to scale the processing of repositories, declarative methods to compose a heterogeneous analysis, and high order methods used to reason about threats to methods operating on repositories. We summarize this as technical and methodological improvements. We contribute the improvements to methods and high-order methods in the context of MSR/ESE to produce future empirical results more effectively. We contribute the following improvements. We propose a method to improve the scalability of functions that abstract over repositories with high revision count in a theoretically founded way. We use insights on abstract algebra and program incrementalization to define a core interface of highorder functions that compute scalable static abstractions of a repository with many revisions. We evaluate the scalability of our method by benchmarks, comparing a prototype with available competitors in MSR/ESE. We propose a method to improve the definition of functions that abstract over a repository with a heterogeneous technology stack, by using concepts from declarative logic programming and combining them with ideas on megamodeling and linguistic architecture. We reproduce existing ideas on declarative logic programming with languages close to Datalog, coming from architecture recovery, source code querying, and static program analysis, and transfer them from the analysis of a homogeneous to a heterogeneous technology stack. We provide a prove-of-concept of such method in a case study. We propose a high-order method to improve the disambiguation of threats to methods used in MSR/ESE. We focus on a better disambiguation of threats, operationalizing reasoning about them, and making the implications to a valid data analysis methodology explicit, by using simulations. We encourage researchers to accomplish their work by implementing ‘fake’ simulations of their MSR/ESE scenarios, to operationalize relevant insights about alternative plausible results, negative results, potential threats and the used data analysis methodologies. We prove that such way of simulation based testing contributes to the disambiguation of threats in published MSR/ESE research.
Generalized methods for automated theorem proving can be used to compute formula transformations such as projection elimination and knowledge compilation. We present a framework based on clausal tableaux suited for such tasks. These tableaux are characterized independently of particular construction methods, but important features of empirically successful methods are taken into account, especially dependency directed backjumping and branch local operation. As an instance of that framework an adaption of DPLL is described. We show that knowledge compilation methods can be essentially improved by weaving projection elimination partially into the compilation phase.
Education and training of the workforce have become an important competitive factor for companies because of the rapid technological changes in the economy and the corresponding ever shorter innovation cycles. Traditional training methods, however, are limited in terms of meeting the resulting demand for education and training in a company, which continues to grow and become faster all the time. Therefore, the use of technology-based training programs (that is, courseware) is increasing because courseware enables self-organized and self-paced learning and, through integration into daily work routines, allows optimal transfer of knowledge and skills, resulting in high learning outcome. To achieve these prospects, high-quality courseware is required, with quality being defined as supporting learners optimally in achieving their learning goals. Developing high-quality courseware, however, usually requires more effort and takes longer than developing other programs, which limits the availability of this courseware in time and with the required quality.
This dissertation therefore deals with the research question of how courseware has to be developed in order to produce high-quality courseware with less development effort and shorter project duration. In addition to its high quality, this courseware should be optimally aligned to the characteristics and learning goals of the learners as well as to the planned usage scenarios for the knowledge and skills being trained. The IntView Method for the systematic and efficient development of high-quality courseware was defined to answer the research question of this dissertation. It aims at increasing the probability of producing courseware in time without exceeding project schedules and budgets while developing a high-quality product optimally focused on the target groups and usage scenarios.
The IntView Methods integrates those execution variants of all activities and activity steps required to develop high-quality courseware, which were identified in a detailed analysis of existing courseware development approaches as well as production approaches from related fields, such as multimedia, web, or software engineering, into a systematic process that in their interaction constitute the most efficient way to develop courseware. The main part of the proposed method is therefore a systematic process for engineering courseware that encompasses all courseware lifecycle phases and integrates the activities and methods of all disciplines involved in courseware engineering, including a lifecycle encompassing quality assurance, into a consolidated process. This process is defined as a lifecycle model as well as a derived process model in the form of a dependency model in order to optimally support courseware project teams in coordinating and synchronizing their project work. In addition to the models, comprehensive, ready-to-apply enactment support materials are provided, consisting of work sheets and document templates that include detailed activity descriptions and examples.
The evaluation of the IntView Method proved that the method together with the enactment support materials enables efficient as well as effective courseware development. The projects and case studies conducted in the context of this evaluation demonstrate that, on the one hand, the method is easily adaptable to the production of different kinds of courseware or to different project contexts, and, on the other hand, that it can be used efficiently and effectively.
The E-KRHyper system is a model generator and theorem prover for first-order logic with equality. It implements the new E-hyper tableau calculus, which integrates a superposition-based handling of equality into the hyper tableau calculus. E-KRHyper extends our previous KRHyper system, which has been used in a number of applications in the field of knowledge representation. In contrast to most first order theorem provers, it supports features important for such applications, for example queries with predicate extensions as answers, handling of large sets of uniformly structured input facts, arithmetic evaluation and stratified negation as failure. It is our goal to extend the range of application possibilities of KRHyper by adding equality reasoning.
A network like the internet is a set of subnets that are connected to each other by a router. A router is a computer, containing multiple network devices to be connected to multiple subnets. So, it is able to forward packages from one subnet to another. A network can be represented as a graph with its routers as vertices and subnets as edges. This graph is called the topology of the network. A packet send to a host outside the own subnet usually will be send first to the so-called default router. This router (like any router) contains a table (the so-called forwarding table) with every subnet. Additionally for each net, the table contains the router through which the subnet can be reached best. So, the packet will be forwarded from router to router until it reaches the destination subnet. On this way every router looks up in its forwarding table for the best next router. A routing protocol takes care of the automatic exchange of informations between the routers to build the forwarding tables and keep them up to date. If the forwarding tables of all routers are up to date the network is called convergent. The time needed to build or update the routing tables is called the convergence time The RIP routing protocol is a well known and well explored distance vector protocol. But there are only few examinations about the convergence properties (e.g. the time needed to converge or the traffic volume produced by the routing messages). This work tries to examine a relationship between the topology properties of a network and the convergence properties of the rip routing protocol. Therefore, over 5000 single measurements were performed and statistically analyzed. Mathematical formulas have been derived from the results that are able to approximate the convergence properties of a network from its topology properties.
The term “Software Chrestomaty” is defined as a collection of software systems meant to be useful in learning about or gaining insight into software languages, software technologies, software concepts, programming, and software engineering. 101companies software chrestomathy is a community project with the attributes of a Research 2.0 infrastructure for various stakeholders in software languages and technology communities. The core of 101companies combines a semantic wiki and confederated open source repositories. We designed and developed an integrated ontology-based knowledge base about software languages and technologies. The knowledge is created by the community of contributors and supported with a running example and structured documentation. The complete ecosystem is exposed by using Linked Data principles and equipped with the additional metadata about individual artifacts. Within the context of software chrestomathy we explored a new type of software architecture – linguistic architecture that is targeted on the language and technology relationships within a software product and based on the megamodels. Our approach to documentation of the software systems is highly structured and makes use of the concepts of the newly developed megamodeling language MegaL. We “connect” an emerging ontology with the megamodeling artifacts to raise the cognitive value of the linguistic architecture.
SNMP in VNUML Simulationen
(2007)
Das Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) gilt als die Universalsprache des Netzwerkmanagements. Bereits Anfang der 90er Jahre wurde die erste Version von SNMP durch die Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) zum Standard-Internet Management Protocol erklärt und Teil der TCP/IP Protocol-Suite. Für die meisten Betriebssystemplattformen sind SNMP Implementierungen verfügbar und viele netzwerkfähige Geräte und Netzwerkmanagement-Programme unterstützen SNMP, das sich vor allem für die Verwaltung plattformübergreifender und herstellerunabhängiger Netzwerke bewährt. Virtual Network User Mode Linux (VNUML) ist ein mächtiges Netzwerk-Simulationsprogramm für Linux mit dem virtuelle Linux-Rechnernetze aufgebaut werden können, um darin Programmabläufe zu simulieren. Die VNUML Netzwerk-Simulationen sind in erster Linie für das Entwickeln, Analysieren und Testen von Linux Netzwerk-Software, wie zum Beispiel Netzwerk-Protokollen, geeignet. Das Simulationsprogramm entstand im Rahmen des Euro6IX-Projektes, zur Einführung des IPv6 Standards in Europa, am Telematics Engineering Department der Technischen Universität Madrid. Die Rechner der virtuellen Netze, die VNUML aufbaut, basieren auf User Mode Linux (UML), einer in breitem Spektrum eingesetzten Virtualisierung des Linux-Kernels. Diese Studienarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Möglichkeiten und der Funktionsweise des Netzwerkmanagements mit SNMP. Dafür wird die SNMP-Software Net-SNMP in VNUML Simulationen eingesetzt, um die Möglichkeiten der Konfiguration und des Umgangs mit SNMP in einer praxisnahen Umgebung zu untersuchen. Der Einsatz von Net-SNMP in VNUML Simulationen kann dazu dienen, die Integration von Netzwerkmanagement mit SNMP für relevante Rechnernetze vorzubereiten und Möglichkeiten der Konfiguration und der Verwendung auszuloten oder VNUML Simulationen im Allgemeinen mit diesem bewährten Netzwerkmanagement-System zur Unterstützung auszustatten.
The aim of this work was to present the accident and traffic modeling of Oman (Muskat City) under theoretical assumptions by means of agent-based simulation. TRASS should be taken as the basis for the simulation environment. In addition, possible counter-measures should be proposed with regard to the high accident rate, which result from different simulation variants.
It was not part of this work whether the theoretical assumptions by the simulation should actually be applied and implemented in reality.
It was also necessary to check whether three different simulation variants could be represented differently by TRASS. The three variants were divided into simulation sequence with traffic light control, without traffic light control and finally with traffic light control, which however should be ignored with a probability of 70%. All three variants could produce different results. It has been shown that all three variants have advantages and disadvantages with respect to traffic flow and accident rate.
Not to be neglected is the fact that this work is modeled, analyzed and evaluated exclusively with TRASS framework. All potentials and deficits thus flow into the overall framework of this work. Therefore, after critical observation, this statement was viewed from a single angle only: the theoretical assumptions of Oman and the modeling limits of TRASS. In order to be able to make a promising statement about the actual implementation of the proposals, further comprehensive analyzes and simulations are necessary in a much wider range of variants of transport for Oman.
Simulation mit VNUML
(2008)
Diese Studienarbeit soll als Einführung in das Thema Netzwerksimulation dienen und unter anderem auch als Einstiegs-Referenz für zukünftige Besucher der Rechnernetze-Veranstaltungen an der Universität Koblenz nutzbar sein. Die Ausarbeitung beginnt mit den Grundlagen zu UML und VNUML und beschreibt dann die Installation, Konfiguration und das Arbeiten mit dem Netzwerksimulator sowie oft genutzter Tools. Im Anschluss daran werden konkrete Anwendungsfelder vorgestellt: der simulierte Einsatz des Paketfilter iptables zur Realisierung von Firewalls und NAT, verschiedene Netzwerkdienste und zuguterletzt simuliertes Routing mit der quagga-Suite.
So far VNUML (Virtual Network User Mode Linux) has been used by the group for Computer Networks at the University of Koblenz in such a way as to test its own protocol enhancement for RIP (Routing Information Protocol) on strengths and weaknesses. The modified version of RIP is called RMTI (RIP with minimal topology information). In particular, special test scenarios have been used to investigate wether a Count-to-Infinity (CTI) problem can be completely avoided and how quickly the network converges after the failure or breakdown of a router. Tius thesis investigates whether the MTI enhancement also provides for better performance in larger networks. Furthermore, it will be investigated if it is worth using the script tool EDIV ((spanish: Escenarios DIstribuidos con VNUML, english: Distributed Scenarios using VNUML) due to its enhanced scalability and whether the distribution of an XML scenario on several computers has a significant impact on the convergence time. Apart from simulations, test scenarios will be developed and tested in order to generate results about the efficiency and scalability of the Distance Vector Routing Protocol.
The high cost of routing infrastructure makes checking theories about larger nets a very difficult and expensive task. One possible approach to fight this problem is the use of virtual instead of physical infrastructure. OPNet- IT Guru software is a suite designed to simulate large nets and present relevant information. This allows validating extensive changes before actually implementing them on a productive network or testing theories without the overhead of a physical infrastructure.
Reactive local algorithms are distributed algorithms which suit the needs of battery-powered, large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks particularly well. By avoiding both unnecessary wireless transmissions and proactive maintenance of neighborhood tables (i.e., beaconing), such algorithms minimize communication load and overhead, and scale well with increasing network size. This way, resources such as bandwidth and energy are saved, and the probability of message collisions is reduced, which leads to an increase in the packet reception ratio and a decrease of latencies.
Currently, the two main application areas of this algorithm type are geographic routing and topology control, in particular the construction of a node's adjacency in a connected, planar representation of the network graph. Geographic routing enables wireless multi-hop communication in the absence of any network infrastructure, based on geographic node positions. The construction of planar topologies is a requirement for efficient, local solutions for a variety of algorithmic problems.
This thesis contributes to reactive algorithm research in two ways, on an abstract level, as well as by the introduction of novel algorithms:
For the very first time, reactive algorithms are considered as a whole and as an individual research area. A comprehensive survey of the literature is given which lists and classifies known algorithms, techniques, and application domains. Moreover, the mathematical concept of O- and Omega-reactive local topology control is introduced. This concept unambiguously distinguishes reactive from conventional, beacon-based, topology control algorithms, serves as a taxonomy for existing and prospective algorithms of this kind, and facilitates in-depth investigations of the principal power of the reactive approach, beyond analysis of concrete algorithms.
Novel reactive local topology control and geographic routing algorithms are introduced under both the unit disk and quasi unit disk graph model. These algorithms compute a node's local view on connected, planar, constant stretch Euclidean and topological spanners of the underlying network graph and route messages reactively on these spanners while guaranteeing the messages' delivery. All previously known algorithms are either not reactive, or do not provide constant Euclidean and topological stretch properties. A particularly important partial result of this work is that the partial Delaunay triangulation (PDT) is a constant stretch Euclidean spanner for the unit disk graph.
To conclude, this thesis provides a basis for structured and substantial research in this field and shows the reactive approach to be a powerful tool for algorithm design in wireless ad hoc and sensor networking.
In diesem Bericht wird der Einsatz von drahtlosen Sensornetzen zur Temperaturmessung in Fließgewässern untersucht. Es wird dargestellt, inwieweit solche Netze als Bindeglied zwischen Fernerkundung und stationären Sensoren eingesetzt werden können. Es werden die Anforderungen an Sensornetze für die Anwendung Gewässermonitoring ermittelt und eine prototypische Realisierung von Netzknoten für ein solches Sensornetz dargestellt. Als Ergebnis dieser Arbeit werden die Genauigkeit von Temperaturmessungen mit solchen Sensorknoten im Vergleich zu einem Temperaturlogger als Referenzsystem dargestellt. Die Messungen zeigen, dass eine vergleichsweise gute Messgenauigkeit zu geringen Kosten erreichbar ist. Durch Weiterentwicklung des hier dargestellten Prototypen steht für die Temperaturüberwachung in Gewässern ein vielversprechendes und kostengünstiges neues Messinstrument zur Verfügung. Dieses kann auf der einen Seite in tieferen Regionen Gewässertemperaturen messen, als dies mit Fernerkundung möglich ist, und auf der anderen Seite eine höhere räumliche Auflösung als stationäre Messstationen erreichen. Zusätzlich dienen die Literaturrecherche und die Formulierung der Kriterien einer Eingrenzung des Anwendungsbereichs für weiterführende Arbeiten.
Using semantic data from general-purpose programming languages does not provide the unified experience one would want for such an application. Static error checking is lacking, especially with regards to static typing of the data. Based on the previous work of λ-DL, which integrates semantic queries and concepts as types into a typed λ-calculus, this work takes its ideas a step further to meld them into a real-world programming language. This thesis explores how λ-DL's features can be extended and integrated into an existing language, researches an appropriate extension mechanism and produces Semantics4J, a JastAdd-based Java language semantic data extension for type-safe OWL programming, together with examples of its usage.
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are often listed as the three major requirements for achieving data security and are collectively referred to as the C-I-A triad. Confidentiality of data restricts the data access to authorized parties only, integrity means that the data can only be modified by authorized parties, and availability states that the data must always be accessible when requested. Although these requirements are relevant for any computer system, they are especially important in open and distributed networks. Such networks are able to store large amounts of data without having a single entity in control of ensuring the data's security. The Semantic Web applies to these characteristics as well as it aims at creating a global and decentralized network of machine-readable data. Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data is therefore also important and must be achieved by corresponding security mechanisms. However, the current reference architecture of the Semantic Web does not define any particular security mechanism yet which implements these requirements. Instead, it only contains a rather abstract representation of security.
This thesis fills this gap by introducing three different security mechanisms for each of the identified security requirements confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Semantic Web data. The mechanisms are not restricted to the very basics of implementing each of the requirements and provide additional features as well. Confidentiality is usually achieved with data encryption. This thesis not only provides an approach for encrypting Semantic Web data, it also allows to search in the resulting ciphertext data without decrypting it first. Integrity of data is typically implemented with digital signatures. Instead of defining a single signature algorithm, this thesis defines a formal framework for signing arbitrary Semantic Web graphs which can be configured with various algorithms to achieve different features. Availability is generally supported by redundant data storage. This thesis expands the classical definition of availability to compliant availability which means that data must only be available as long as the access request complies with a set of predefined policies. This requirement is implemented with a modular and extensible policy language for regulating information flow control. This thesis presents each of these three security mechanisms in detail, evaluates them against a set of requirements, and compares them with the state of the art and related work.
The University of Koblenz-Landau would like to apply for participation in the RoboCup Mixed Reality League in Suzhou, China 2008. Our team is composed of ten team members and two supervisors. All members are graduate students of Computational Visualistics. Our supervisors are Ph.D. candidates currently researching in the working groups of artificial intelligence and computer graphics.
Diffusion imaging captures the movement of water molecules in tissue by applying varying gradient fields in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based setting. It poses a crucial contribution to in vivo examinations of neuronal connections: The local diffusion profile enables inference of the position and orientation of fiber pathways. Diffusion imaging is a significant technique for fundamental neuroscience, in which pathways connecting cortical activation zones are examined, and for neurosurgical planning, where fiber reconstructions are considered as intervention related risk structures.
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is currently applied in clinical environments in order to model the MRI signal due to its fast acquisition and reconstruction time. However, the inability of DTI to model complex intra-voxel diffusion distributions gave rise to an advanced reconstruction scheme which is known as high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI). HARDI received increasing interest in neuroscience due to its potential to provide a more accurate view of pathway configurations in the human brain.
In order to fully exploit the advantages of HARDI over DTI, advanced fiber reconstructions and visualizations are required. This work presents novel approaches contributing to current research in the field of diffusion image processing and visualization. Diffusion classification, tractography, and visualizations approaches were designed to enable a meaningful exploration of neuronal connections as well as their constitution. Furthermore, an interactive neurosurgical planning tool with consideration of neuronal pathways was developed.
The research results in this work provide an enhanced and task-related insight into neuronal connections for neuroscientists as well as neurosurgeons and contribute to the implementation of HARDI in clinical environments.
The present thesis deals with the realization of a stepper motor driver on an 8-bit microcontroller by the company Atmel. The focus is on the devel- opment of a current control, which allows microstepping in addition to the basic modes of operation like full- and halfstep. For this purpose, a PI con- troller is derived using physical and control engineering principles, which is implemented on the microcontroller. In this context, essential knowledge for the practical implementation will be discussed. In addition, the development of the hardware is documented, which is of great significance for the current measurement.
Motion capture refers to the process of capturing, processing and trans- lating real motions onto a 3D model. Not only in the movie and gaming industries, motion capture creates an indispensable realism of human and animal movement. Also in the context of robotics, medical movement therapy, as well as in AR and VR, motion capture is used extensively. In addition to the well established optical processes, especially in the last three areas, alternative systems based on inertial navigation (IMUs) are being used in-creasingly, because they do not rely on external cameras and thus limit the area of movement considerably less.
Fast evolving technical progress in the manufacturing of such IMUs allows building small sensors, wearable on the body which can transfer movements to a computer. The development of applying inertial systems to a motion capture context, however, is still at an early state. Problems like drift can currently only be minimized by adding additional hardware for correcting the read data.
In the following master thesis an IMU based motion capture system is designed and constructed. This contains the assembly of the hardware components as well as processing of the received movement data on the software side and their application to a 3D model.
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.
Querying for meta knowledge
(2008)
The Semantic Web is based on accessing and reusing RDF data from many different sources, which one may assign different levels of authority and credibility. Existing Semantic Web query languages, like SPARQL, have targeted the retrieval, combination and reuse of facts, but have so far ignored all aspects of meta knowledge, such as origins, authorship, recency or certainty of data, to name but a few. In this paper, we present an original, generic, formalized and implemented approach for managing many dimensions of meta knowledge, like source, authorship, certainty and others. The approach re-uses existing RDF modeling possibilities in order to represent meta knowledge. Then, it extends SPARQL query processing in such a way that given a SPARQL query for data, one may request meta knowledge without modifying the query proper. Thus, our approach achieves highly flexible and automatically coordinated querying for data and meta knowledge, while completely separating the two areas of concern.
The paper deals with a specific introduction into probability propagation nets. Starting from dependency nets (which in a way can be considered the maximum information which follows from the directed graph structure of Bayesian networks), the probability propagation nets are constructed by joining a dependency net and (a slightly adapted version of) its dual net. Probability propagation nets are the Petri net version of Bayesian networks. In contrast to Bayesian networks, Petri nets are transparent and easy to operate. The high degree of transparency is due to the fact that every state in a process is visible as a marking of the Petri net. The convenient operability consists in the fact that there is no algorithm apart from the firing rule of Petri net transitions. Besides the structural importance of the Petri net duality there is a semantic matter; common sense in the form of probabilities and evidencebased likelihoods are dual to each other.
Probability propagation nets
(2007)
A class of high level Petri nets, called "probability propagation nets", is introduced which is particularly useful for modeling probability and evidence propagation. These nets themselves are well suited to represent the probabilistic Horn abduction, whereas specific foldings of them will be used for representing the flows of probabilities and likelihoods in Bayesian networks.
Connected vehicles will have a tremendous impact on tomorrow’s mobility solutions. Such systems will heavily rely on information delivery in time to ensure the functional reliability, security and safety. However, the host-centric communication model of today’s networks questions efficient data dissemination in a scale, especially in networks characterized by a high degree of mobility. The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm has evolved as a promising candidate for the next generation of network architectures. Based on a loosely coupled communication model, the in-network processing and caching capabilities of ICNs are promising to solve the challenges set by connected vehicular systems. In such networks, a special class of caching strategies which take action by placing a consumer’s anticipated content actively at the right network nodes in time are promising to reduce the data delivery time. This thesis contributes to the research in active placement strategies in information-centric and computation-centric vehicle networks for providing dynamic access to content and computation results. By analyzing different vehicular applications and their requirements, novel caching strategies are developed in order to reduce the time of content retrieval. The caching strategies are compared and evaluated against the state-of-the-art in both extensive simulations as well as real world deployments. The results are showing performance improvements by increasing the content retrieval (availability of specific data increased up to 35% compared to state-of-the-art caching strategies), and reducing the delivery times (roughly double the number of data retrieval from neighboring nodes). However, storing content actively in connected vehicle networks raises questions regarding security and privacy. In the second part of the thesis, an access control framework for information-centric connected vehicles is presented. Finally, open security issues and research directions in executing computations at the edge of connected vehicle networks are presented.
In the last decade, policy-makers around the world have turned their attention toward the creative industry as the economic engine and significant driver of employments. Yet, the literature suggests that creative workers are one of the most vulnerable work-forces of today’s economy. Because of the highly deregulated and highly individuated environment, failure or success are believed to be the byproduct of individual ability and commitment, rather than a structural or collective issue. This thesis taps into the temporal, spatial, and social resolution of digital behavioural data to show that there are indeed structural and historical issues that impact individuals’ and
groups’ careers. To this end, this thesis offers a computational social science research framework that brings together the decades-long theoretical and empirical knowledge of inequality studies, and computational methods that deal with the complexity and scale of digital data. By taking music industry and science as use cases, this thesis starts off by proposing a novel gender detection method that exploits image search and face-detection methods.
By analysing the collaboration patterns and citation networks of male and female computer scientists, it sheds lights on some of the historical biases and disadvantages that women face in their scientific career. In particular, the relation of scientific success and gender-specific collaboration patterns is assessed. To elaborate further on the temporal aspect of inequalities in scientific careers, this thesis compares the degree of vertical and horizontal inequalities among the cohorts of scientists that started their career at different point in time. Furthermore, the structural inequality in music industry is assessed by analyzing the social and cultural relations that breed from live performances and musics releases. The findings hint toward the importance of community belonging at different stages of artists’ careers. This thesis also quantifies some of the underlying mechanisms and processes of inequality, such as the Matthew Effect and the Hipster Paradox, in creative careers. Finally, this thesis argues that online platforms such as Wikipedia could reflect and amplify the existing biases.
Performanz von RIP-MTIfi
(2009)
Diese Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Performanz von RIP-MTI, insbesondere mit der Performanz der Schleifenerkennung. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Zeitdauer der Schleifenerkennung von RIP-MTI zu untersuchen und Probleme, welche bei der Erkennung von Schleifen auftreten könen, aufzudecken und zu lösen.