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The E-Government research area has gained in importance in Europe and specially Germany in the last few years, causing the number of researchers, institutes and publications to increase rapidly. This makes it difficult for outsiders to get an overview of the relevant actors in the E-Government field. This issue can be addressed by implementing a research map for the E-Government field, where all relevant actors and objects and their information are shown on the map according to their location. In order to give a complete overview, information which was valid at a certain time in the past needs to be available on the research map. This can be only achieved if the contents of the research map are historicized. This means that a new version of an object needs to be created and saved in the database, if changes occur to the object. Older versions need to be retained on the database, so that the user is able to navigate the website based on temporal information. Past experience has shown that the temporal aspects of historicization should be managed and planned during the conceptual phase of the website rather than during implementation. This Bachelor thesis proposes a concept for the E-Government research map which includes the modeling of relevant temporal dimensions needed to historicize the contents of the research map.
This paper shows how multiagent systems can be modeled by a combination of UML statecharts and hybrid automata. This allows formal system specification on different levels of abstraction on the one hand, and expressing real-time system behavior with continuous variables on the other hand. It is not only shown how multi-robot systems can be modeled by a combination of hybrid automata and hierarchical state machines, but also how model checking techniques for hybrid automata can be applied. An enhanced synchronization concept is introduced that allows synchronization taking time and avoids state explosion to a certain extent.
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.
The goal of this Bachelor thesis is to implement and evaluate the "Simulating of Collective Misbelief"-model into the NetLogo programming language. Therefore, the model requirements have to be specified and implemented into the NetLogo environment. Further tool-related re-quirements have to be specified to enable the model to work in NetLogo. After implementation several simulations will be conducted to answer the research question stated above.
In this thesis we discuss the increasingly important routing aggregation and its consequences on avoiding routing loops. As basis for implementation and evaluation I will use the RMTI protocol, developed at the University of Koblenz, which is an evolution of the RFC2453 specified in the Routing Information Protocol version 2. The virtual network environment Virtual Network User Mode Linux (VNUML) is used within this thesis as environment. With VNUML it is possible to operate and evaluate real network scenarios in a virtual environment. The RMTI has already proven its ability to detect topological loops and thereby prevent the formation of these routing loops. In this thesis we will describe the function of the RMTI and then discuss under which circumstances we can use routing aggregation, without it resulting in routing anomalies. In order to implement these changes it is essential to have a deeper understanding of the structure of routing tables, so the construction will be explained using reference to examples. There follows a description of which points have to be changed, in the RMTI in order to avoid loops despite aggregation. In Summary we will evaluate the affect the routing aggregation has on the reorganization ability of the virtual network.
This paper consists of the observation of existing first aid applications for smartphones and comparing them to a first aid application developed by the University of Koblenz called "Defi Now!". The main focus lies on examining "Defi Now!" in respect to its usability based on the dialogue principles referring to the seven software ergonomic principles due to the ISO 9241-110 standard. These are known as suitability for learning, controllability, error tolerance, self-descriptiveness, conformity with user expectations, suitability for the task, and suitability for individualization.
Therefore a usability study was conducted with 74 participants. A questionnaire was developed, which was to be filled out by the test participants anonymously. The test results were used for an optimization of the app referring its' usability.
Infinite worlds
(2013)
This work is concerned with creating a 2D action-adventure with roleplay elements. It provides an overview over various tasks of the implementation. First, the game idea and the used gamemechanism are verified and a definfinition of requirements is created. After introducing the used framework, the software engineering concept for realization is presented. The implementation of control components, game editor, sound and graphics is shown. The graphical implementation pays special attention to the abstraction of light and shadow into the 2D game world.
Informatik hautnah erleben
(2010)
In vielen Köpfen - sowohl bei Erwachsenen wie auch bei Schülern - geistert der Glaube, dass Informatik die Wissenschaft der "Computerlehre" ist. Schon der berühmte Satz "In der Informatik geht es genauso wenig um Computer wie in der Astronomie um Teleskope", der dem Informatiker Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930 - 2002) zugeschrieben wird, drückt historisch schon früh den Gedanken aus, dass die Informatik den Computer nur als ein Hilfsmittel und Medium nutzt, genauso wie die Mathematik den Taschenrechner. Die Fehlvorstellung, die leider auch häufig in den Schulen vermittelt wird, zeigt, dass hier Aufklärung nötig ist.
Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist die Entwicklung einer Software, die Standorte von Gegenständen barrierefrei für sehbehinderte Menschen auf einem mobilen Gerät ausgibt. Hierzu soll ein Konzept der Orientierung von bekannten und mit Markern versehenen Objekten im Raum entwickelt werden. Eine barrierefreie Ausgabe für sehbehinderte Menschen muss ebenfalls ausgewählt werden. Das Programm soll markierte, weiter entfernte Objekte erfassen und beschreiben. Dadurch würde der wahrnehmbare Bereich von sehbehinderten Personen erweitert. Dieser wahrnehmbare Bereich beschränkt sich meist auf den Boden, sehbehinderte Menschen können ihn gefahrlos mit den Füßen abtasten, und die durch die Armlänge begrenzte Reichweite in Brustnähe. Das zu entwickelnde System kann eine Lebenshilfe für Menschen sein, die ohne oder nur mit wenigen visuellen Informationen auskommen müssen. Die prototypische Umsetzung erfolgt auf einem Laptop mit externer Kamera und Maus. Die Evaluation des Systems bezieht sich auf die für sehbehinderte Menschen barrierefreie Ausgabe von Informationen. Zu diesem Zweck wird eine für sehbehinderte Menschen sichere Testumgebung geschaffen, in der die ausgewählte Ausgabeform evaluiert wird.
We propose a new approach for mobile visualization and interaction of temporal information by integrating support for time with today's most prevalent visualization of spatial information, the map. Our approach allows for an easy and precise selection of the time that is of interest and provides immediate feedback to the users when interacting with it. It has been developed in an evolutionary process gaining formative feedback from end users.
The Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O) provides a generic modeling framework for representing multimedia metadata. It has been designed based on an analysis of existing metadata standards and metadata formats. The M3O abstracts from the existing metadata standards and formats and provides generic modeling solutions for annotations, decompositions, and provenance of metadata. Being a generic modeling framework, the M3O aims at integrating the existing metadata standards and metadata formats rather than replacing them. This is in particular useful as today's multimedia applications often need to combine and use more than one existing metadata standard or metadata format at the same time. However, applying and specializing the abstract and powerful M3O modeling framework in concrete application domains and integrating it with existing metadata formats and metadata standards is not always straightforward. Thus, we have developed a step-by-step alignment method that describes how to integrate existing multimedia metadata standards and metadata formats with the M3O in order to use them in a concrete application. We demonstrate our alignment method by integrating seven different existing metadata standards and metadata formats with the M3O and describe the experiences made during the integration process.
With the Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O), we have developed a sophisticated model for representing among others the annotation, decomposition, and provenance of multimedia metadata. The goal of the M3O is to integrate the existing metadata standards and metadata formats rather than replacing them. To this end, the M3O provides a scaffold needed to represent multimedia metadata. Being an abstract model for multimedia metadata, it is not straightforward how to use and specialize the M3O for concrete application requirements and existing metadata formats and metadata standards. In this paper, we present a step-by-step alignment method describing how to integrate and leverage existing multimedia metadata standards and metadata formats in the M3O in order to use them in a concrete application. We demonstrate our approach by integrating three existing metadata models: the Core Ontology on Multimedia (COMM), which is a formalization of the multimedia metadata standard MPEG-7, the Ontology for Media Resource of the W3C, and the widely known industry standard EXIF for image metadata
Integration von CRM-Systemen mit Kollaborations-Systemen am Beispiel von DocHouse und Lotus Quickr
(2012)
Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht "Integration von CRM-Systemen mit Kollaborations-Systemen am Beispiel von DocHouse/ BRM und IBM Lotus Quickr" ist Ergebnis einer studentischen Projektarbeit. Ziel des Projekts war es Integrationsszenarien zwischen einem CRM-System und einem Kollaborati-onssystem zu erarbeiten und eine prototypische Schnittstelle mit entsprechender Funktion zwischen den Systemen DocHouse/ BRM und IBM Lotus Quickr zu implementieren.
Ein besonderer Dank geht in diesem Zusammenhang an Herr Wolfgang Brugger (Geschäftsführer der DocHouse GmbH), der die Idee einer solchen Entwicklung hatte und die FG BAS mit deren Durchführung betraute. Die Erstellung des Konzepts und des Prototyps wurde vom Winter 2010 bis Sommer 2011 von den Studenten Björn Lilge, Ludwig Paulsen, Marco Wolf, Markus Aldenhövel, Martin Surrey und Mike Reuthers im Rahmen ihres Projektpraktikums durchgeführt. Das Projektteam wurde bei der Konzeption und Implementierung inhaltlich und organisatorisch von Dipl.-Wirt.-Inform. Roland Diehl betreut.
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.
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, eine Anwendung für ein Augmented Reality Fernrohr zu entwickeln, die verschiedene Interaktions- und Explorationsmöglichkeiten umsetzt. Darüber hinaus sollen Erkenntnisse über den Einfluss auf die Vermittlung von Wissen gewonnen werden. Dafür soll innerhalb von sechs Monaten neben der Einarbeitung in die verschiedenen Themengebiete, dem Entwurf eines Konzepts und der Implementierung der Anwendung auch eine gründliche Evaluation durchgeführt werden. Da der Standort des Fernrohrs im Rahmen der Bundesgartenschau 2011 [BUG] in Koblenz am Rheinufer in der Nähe der Talstation der Seilbahn ist, bietet es sich an die Festung Ehrenbreitstein in den Fokus zu setzen. Dabei soll vor allem die Festungsarchitektur im Mittelpunkt stehen. Die Anwendung soll dem Benutzer einen Überblick über die Festungsanlagen geben und nebenbei auch einige geschichtliche Fakten vermitteln.
Um die verschiedenen Anforderungen und die damit verbundenen Aufgaben zu erfüllen und strukturiert zu erarbeiten, wurde vor Beginn der Arbeit ein Projektplan erstellt, der die 6 Monate in fünf verschiedenen Phasen unterteilt, die jeweils mit Meilensteinen enden. Die Phase soll die Einarbeitung in die Grundlagen, die Entwicklung des Konzepts und die softwaretechnische Planung umfassen. Die nächste Phase beschäftigt sich mit der Präevaluation, die genaueren Aufschluss über die Qualität des entwickelten Konzepts geben soll. Im Anschluss an die Auswertung der Präevaluation kommt die erste Implementierungsphase, die mit einem Prototypen abschließen soll. Im zweiten Implementierungsschritt sollen dann die grafischen Inhalte erstellt und die prototypische Anwendung mit Inhalten gefüllt werden.
Zum Abschluss des Projekts wird eine Evaluation durchgeführt, die Erkenntnisse über den Einfluss von Augmented Reality auf die Vermittlung von Wissen liefern soll.
The objective of this contribution is to conceptually analyze the potentials of entrepreneurial design thinking as being a rather new method for entrepreneurship education. Based on a literature review of different design thinking concepts we carve out a generic design thinking model upon we conceptually build a new model that considers entrepreneurial thinking as a valuable characteristic.
The results of our work show that the characteristics of entrepreneurial design thinking can enhance entrepreneurship education by supporting respective action fields of entrepreneurial learning. In addition we reveal that entrepreneurial design thinking offers beneficial guidelines for the design of entrepreneurship education programs.
Die vorliegende Arbeit bildet den Abschluss eines Forschungspraktikums von Studierenden der Masterstudiengänge Informationsmanagement und Wirtschaftsinformatik unter Betreuung der wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin Daniela Simić-Draws und von Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Grimm. Eine wesentliche Vorlage zu dieser Arbeit war ein Vorgehensmodell zur Sicherheitsanalyse von Geschäftsprozessen, das von D. Simić-Draws im Rahmen ihrer Dissertation erarbeitet wird und zu dessen laufender Verbesserung dieses studentische Forschungspraktikum wertvolle Hinweise liefern konnte. Als Anwendungsbeispiel wurden die sicherheitskritischen Prozesse "Kommunalwahl" und "Geldauszahlung am Bankautomaten" gewählt, weil die Arbeitsgruppe von Prof. Grimm in diesen beiden Anwendungen aus vorhergehender wissenschaftlicher Arbeit Erfahrung gesammelt hat. Insbesondere zum Anwendungsbeispiel "Kommunalwahl" hatte sich dankenswerterweise das Ordnungsamt Koblenz, das für die Kommunalwahlen zuständig ist, unter aktiver Mithilfe ihres Leiters Dirk Urmersbach zur Zusammenarbeit angeboten, so dass dieser Geschäftsprozess wirklichkeitsnah untersucht werden konnte.
IT-Sicherheitsmodelle
(2008)
Es wird erklärt, was ein Beschreibungsmodell ist, wie IT-Sicherheitsmodelle grundsätzlich aufgebaut sind und welchem Zweck sie dienen. Zur Illustration werden vier verschiedene IT-Sicherheitsmodelle vorgestellt, die historisch zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten entstanden sind. Sie passen zu vier verschiedenen typischen Anwendungsumgebungen und charakterisieren die zugehörigen Sicherheitsanforderungen. Vorgestellt werden das Bell-LaPadula-Modell zum Vertraulichkeitsschutz in hierarchischen Institutionen, das Clark-Wilson-Modell zum Integri-tätsschutz von Geschäftsanwendungen, das Chinese-Wall-Modell zum Konkurrentenschutz von Unternehmen und das Gleichgewichtsmodell zum Schutz verbindlichen Handelns im offenen Internet.
Iterative Signing of RDF(S) Graphs, Named Graphs, and OWL Graphs: Formalization and Application
(2013)
When publishing graph data on the web such as vocabulariesrnusing RDF(S) or OWL, one has only limited means to verify the authenticity and integrity of the graph data. Today's approaches require a high signature overhead and do not allow for an iterative signing of graph data. This paper presents a formally defined framework for signing arbitrary graph data provided in RDF(S), Named Graphs, or OWL. Our framework supports signing graph data at different levels of granularity: minimum self-contained graphs (MSG), sets of MSGs, and entire graphs. It supports for an iterative signing of graph data, e. g., when different parties provide different parts of a common graph, and allows for signing multiple graphs. Both can be done with a constant, low overhead for the signature graph, even when iteratively signing graph data.
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.
Knowledge compilation is a common technique for propositional logic knowledge bases. The idea is to transform a given knowledge base into a special normal form ([MR03],[DH05]), for which queries can be answered efficiently. This precompilation step is very expensive but it only has to be performed once. We propose to apply this technique to knowledge bases defined in Description Logics. For this, we introduce a normal form, called linkless concept descriptions, for ALC concepts. Further we present an algorithm, based on path dissolution, which can be used to transform a given concept description into an equivalent linkless concept description. Finally we discuss a linear satisfiability test as well as a subsumption test for linkless concept descriptions.
Dieses Dokument schlägt ein Konzept für eine Personal Key Infrastruktur in iCity vor. Über ein Trust Center (TC) ausgestellte Zertiffkate gewährleisten einen sicheren Schlüsselaustausch mit nachweisbarer Authentisierung des Kommunikationspartners, Abhörsicherheit sowie Unverf älschtheit und Nachweisbarkeit der Nachrichten. Das gemeinsam vertrauensw ürdige TC muss während der Kommunikation nicht erreichbar sein. Es erhält lediglich öffentliche Informationen. Das Konzept stellt mehrere Sicherheitsstufen vor, die sichere Identiffkation und Anonymität unterschiedlich gewichten.
This bachelor thesis deals with the concept of a smartphone application for emergencies. It describes the basic problem and provides a conceptual approach.
The core content of this thesis is a requirement analysis of the newly to be designed emergency application. Furthermore the functional and non-functional requirements such as usability are specified to give insights for the concept of the application. In addition, single sub-functions of the mHealth applications of the University Koblenz which exists or are still under construction can be integrated in the future emergency application. Based on the catalog of requirements a market analysis for strengths and weaknesses of existing emergency application systems is realized. In the to-be concept the findings were summarized and possible architectural sketches for future emergency applications were given. Furthermore, one conclusion of dealing with this topic is that a design alone is not sufficient to guarantee a good working app. That is why the requirements for the thesis were expanded by the connection to and integration of rescue centers in the architecture of the emergency app.
At the end of the thesis, the reader will receive a comprehensive overview of the provision of emergency data to the rescue control centers by different transmission channels. Furthermore, conditions for the system requirements are also presented as possible scenarios of the architecture of the whole system of the emergency application. The generic and modular approach guarantees that the system is open for future development and integration of functions of other applications.
The Budget Management System IRM@ doesn"t comply anymore with the needs of Rhineland-Palatinate for a modern management information system. Therefore this bachelor thesis introduces the concept "KoRe Light" as a reporting system for cost accounting, which is based on the data of the system IRM@. For the public budget management, this system should be used as a base for decision making. System analysis is the type of systems engineering used, which consists of analysis, conceptual design and implementation.
Implementation is no part of this thesis anymore. Focus of the conceptual design is in the enhanced search function, which allows more comprehensive and easier to read reports. The result contains the components use case diagram, requirements definition, data model, process model and mock-ups for "KoRe Light". In conclusion recommendations for the implementation and a short résumé are given.
ERP-Systeme stellen einen wichtigen Kompetenzbereich der Forschungsgruppe Betriebliche Anwendungssysteme (FG BAS) am Institut für Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsinformatik (IWVI) der Universität Koblenz-Landau dar. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit Partnern aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft vermittelt die Forschungsgruppe sowohl Grundlagenforschung als auch praxisbezogenes Wissen an Studierende und Unternehmen. Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht "Künftige Anforderungen an ERP-Systeme: Deutsche Anbieter im Fokus" beleuchtet auf vier Ebenen die Architektur, die verwendete Technologie, die praktischen Einsatzmöglichkeiten und die allgemeine Marktsituation aktueller ERP-Systeme auf dem deutschsprachigen Markt. Ein besonderer Dank geht in diesem Zusammenhang an Peter Herzog (zum damaligen Zeitpunkt Marketingleiter der Bison AG), der die Idee einer solchen Untersuchung hatte und die FG BAS mit deren Durchführung betraute. Die Studie wurde vom Sommer 2007 bis zum Frühling 2008 von Norbert Frick im Rahmen seiner Diplomarbeit im Fach Informatik durchgeführt. Die Auswertung der Ergebnisse wurde inhaltlich und wissenschaftlich betreut von Prof. Dr. Petra Schubert. Die Arbeit entstand aufgrund von Literaturrecherchen, schriftlichen Umfragen und Telefoninterviews mit ERPAnbietern.
Der Fachbereich 4: Informatik der Universität Koblenz-Landau bietet seit seiner Gründung 1990 wissenschaftliche Studiengänge (Diplom) in Informatik mit verschiedenen Schwerpunkten, darunter Wirtschaft- und Verwaltungsinformatik an, dem nach und nach weitere Studiengänge zur Seite gestellt wurden: seit 1997 Computervisualistik (Diplom) und seit 2000 Informationsmanagement (Bachelor und Master). Der Fachbereich 4: Informatik hat zum Wintersemester 2006/2007 sein Lehrangebot in den Nicht-Lehramtsstudiengängen vollständig auf konsekutive Bachelor- und Masterstudiengänge umgestellt. Die Akkreditierung erfolgte über die Akkreditierungsagentur ASIIN. Die Aufnahme von Studienanfängern für die bis dahin angebotenen Diplomstudiengänge "Informatik" bzw. "Computervisualistik" wurde gleichzeitig eingestellt, und diese wurden durch ein integriertes Programm mit zwei konsekutiven Bachelor-Master-Studienprogrammen in "Informatik" und "Computervisualistik" ersetzt. Das bereits bestehende Bachelor-Master-Programm in "Informationsmanagement" wurde reformiert, und ein weiterer Masterstudiengang in "Wirtschaftsinformatik" wurde eingerichtet. Bei der Konzeption dieser sieben Studiengänge wurde auf eine hohe Integration und Studiengangs-übergreifende Wiederverwendung von Modulen geachtet. Die in diesem Papier vorgestellten Studiengänge für das Lehramt wurden schon bei der damaligen Planung mit einbezogen. Da mit Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller der Leiter der Landesarbeitsgruppe zur Erarbeitung der curricularen Standards für das Fach Informatik bei der Planung eng mit eingebunden war, konnten die Module der Bachelor- und Masterstudiengänge von Anfang an im Hinblick auf eine spätere Verwendung auch im Lehramt konzipiert werden.
Knowledge compilation is a common technique for propositional logic knowledge bases. A given knowledge base is transformed into a normal form, for which queries can be answered efficiently. This precompilation step is expensive, but it only has to be performed once. We apply this technique to concepts defined in the Description Logic ALC. We introduce a normal form called linkless normal form for ALC concepts and discuss an efficient satisability test for concepts given in this normal form. Furthermore, we will show how to efficiently calculate uniform interpolants of precompiled concepts w.r.t. a given signature.
Customization is a phenomenon which was introduced quite early in information systems literature. As the need for customized information technology is rising, different types of customization have emerged. In this study, customization processes in information systems are analyzed from a perspective based on the concept of open innovation. The objective is to identify how customization of information systems can be performed in an open innovation context. The concept of open innovation distinguishes three processes: Outside-in process, inside-out process and coupled process. After categorizing the selected journals into three core processes, the findings of this analysis indicated that there is a major concentration on outside-in processes. Further research on customization in coupled and inside-out processes is recommended. In addition, the establishment of an extensive up-to-date definition of customization in information systems is suggested.
This thesis describes the implementation of a Path-planning algorithm for multi-axle vehicles using machine learning algorithms. For that purpose, a general overview over Genetic Algorithms is given and alternative machine learning algorithms are briefly explained. The software developed for this purpose is based on the EZSystem Simulation Software developed by the AG Echtzeitysteme at the University Koblenz-Landau and a path correction algorithm developed by Christian Schwarz, which is also detailed in this paper. This also includes a description of the vehicle used in these simulations. Genetic Algorithms as a solution for path-planning in complex scenarios are then evaluated based on the results of the developed simulation software and compared to alternative, non-machine learning solutions, which are also shortly presented.
In this paper we describe a series of projects on location based and personalised information systems. We start wit a basic research project and we show how we came with the help of two other more application oriented project to a product. This is developed by a consortium of enterprises and it already is in use in the city of Koblenz.
Various best practices and principles guide an ontology engineer when modeling Linked Data. The choice of appropriate vocabularies is one essential aspect in the guidelines, as it leads to better interpretation, querying, and consumption of the data by Linked Data applications and users.
In this paper, we present the various types of support features for an ontology engineer to model a Linked Data dataset, discuss existing tools and services with respect to these support features, and propose LOVER: a novel approach to support the ontology engineer in modeling a Linked Data dataset. We demonstrate that none of the existing tools and services incorporate all types of supporting features and illustrate the concept of LOVER, which supports the engineer by recommending appropriate classes and properties from existing and actively used vocabularies. Hereby, the recommendations are made on the basis of an iterative multimodal search. LOVER uses different, orthogonal information sources for finding terms, e.g. based on a best string match or schema information on other datasets published in the Linked Open Data cloud. We describe LOVER's recommendation mechanism in general and illustrate it alongrna real-life example from the social sciences domain.
MapReduce with Deltas
(2011)
The MapReduce programming model is extended slightly in order to use deltas. Because many MapReduce jobs are being re-executed over slightly changing input, processing only those changes promises significant improvements. Reduced execution time allows for more frequent execution of tasks, yielding more up-to-date results in practical applications. In the context of compound MapReduce jobs, benefits even add up over the individual jobs, as each job gains from processing less input data. The individual steps necessary in working with deltas are being analyzed and examined for efficiency. Several use cases have been implemented and tested on top of Hadoop. The correctness of the extended programming model relies on a simple correctness criterion.
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.
Semantic Web technologies have been recognized to be key for the integration of distributed and heterogeneous data sources on the Web, as they provide means to define typed links between resources in a dynamic manner and following the principles of dataspaces. The widespread adoption of these technologies in the last years led to a large volume and variety of data sets published as machine-readable RDF data, that once linked constitute the so-called Web of Data. Given the large scale of the data, these links are typically generated by computational methods that given a set of RDF data sets, analyze their content and identify the entities and schema elements that should be connected via the links. Analogously to any other kind of data, in order to be truly useful and ready to be consumed, links need to comply with the criteria of high quality data (e.g., syntactically and semantically accurate, consistent, up-to-date). Despite the progress in the field of machine learning, human intelligence is still essential in the quest for high quality links: humans can train algorithms by labeling reference examples, validate the output of algorithms to verify their performance on a data set basis, as well as augment the resulting set of links. Humans —especially expert humans, however, have limited availability. Hence, extending data quality management processes from data owners/publishers to a broader audience can significantly improve the data quality management life cycle.
Recent advances in human computation and peer-production technologies opened new avenues for human-machine data management techniques, allowing to involve non-experts in certain tasks and providing methods for cooperative approaches. The research work presented in this thesis takes advantage of such technologies and investigates human-machine methods that aim at facilitating link quality management in the Semantic Web. Firstly, and focusing on the dimension of link accuracy, a method for crowdsourcing ontology alignment is presented. This method, also applicable to entities, is implemented as a complement to automatic ontology alignment algorithms. Secondly, novel measures for the dimension of information gain facilitated by the links are introduced. These entropy-centric measures provide data managers with information about the extent the entities in the linked data set gain information in terms of entity description, connectivity and schema heterogeneity. Thirdly, taking Wikidata —the most successful case of a linked data set curated, linked and maintained by a community of humans and bots— as a case study, we apply descriptive and predictive data mining techniques to study participation inequality and user attrition. Our findings and method can help community managers make decisions on when/how to intervene with user retention plans. Lastly, an ontology to model the history of crowd contributions across marketplaces is presented. While the field of human-machine data management poses complex social and technical challenges, the work in this thesis aims to contribute to the development of this still emerging field.
Colonoscopy is one of the best methods for screening colon cancer. As the automatic detection of polyps in endoscopic images is a challenging task for image processing, a variety of research groups have proposed methods that try to fulfill this task to develop a system which supports the doctors during examination. However, the problem is still "at least partially" not solved. This paper gives a summary of 16 different polyp detection methods published in the last ten years. We found out that the major draw-back of many approaches is the lack of representative video data, which hinders comparison and evaluation of the published methods.
In this study, the author evaluates four visualization methods (FlexViz, the Jambalaya applet, Experimental jOWL TouchGraph, and Plone ontology) from the pool of currently available web based visualization methods.
Further, this study attempts to answer of the following research questions: 1. What are the requirements for ontology visualization? 2. How is comparative analysis and evaluation carried out? 3. How can a chosen method be tested? Based on the results of the evaluation, the visualization method FlexViz was found to be the most suitable for the given scenario. The deployment of FlexViz was carried out and integrated within Plone CMS and logical parts of the VCD ontology are tested. Finally, FlexViz was analyzed from different stakeholder- perspectives. Results showed that FleViz is a reliable tool for visualizing, understanding and analyzing a developed ontology because of its user-friendly and interactive interface, but performs poorly in regards to the editing, extension and development process.
The way information is presented to users in online community platforms has an influence on the way the users create new information. This is the case, for instance, in question-answering fora, crowdsourcing platforms or other social computation settings. To better understand the effects of presentation policies on user activity, we introduce a generative model of user behaviour in this paper. Running simulations based on this user behaviour we demonstrate the ability of the model to evoke macro phenomena comparable to the ones observed on real world data.
We present the user-centered, iterative design of Mobile Facets, a mobile application for the faceted search and exploration of a large, multi-dimensional data set of social media on a touchscreen mobile phone. Mobile Facets provides retrieval of resources such as places, persons, organizations, and events from an integration of different open social media sources and professional content sources, namely Wikipedia, Eventful, Upcoming, geo-located Flickr photos, and GeoNames. The data is queried live from the data sources. Thus, in contrast to other approaches we do not know in advance the number and type of facets and data items the Mobile Facets application receives in a specific contextual situation. While developingrnMobile Facets, we have continuously evaluated it with a small group of fifive users. We have conducted a task-based, formative evaluation of the fifinal prototype with 12 subjects to show the applicability and usability of our approach for faceted search and exploration on a touchscreen mobile phone.
Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es, innerhalb von sechs Monaten eine gamebasierte Anwendung für Android-Smartphones zu entwickeln, die durch eng beieinander liegende Stationen historisches Wissen vermittelt. Die einzelnen Spielstationen sollen mit Hilfe von GPS1-Positionen festgelegt und erkannt werden. Als Gelände wurde die Burgruine Reichenstein in der Verbandsgemeinde Puderbach im Westerwald ausgewählt. Es soll untersucht werden, wie viele GPS-Stationen auf engem Raum unterzubringen sind und wie weit sie voneinander entfernt sein müssen, um gute Ergebnisse erzielen zu können. Dazu ist es nötig, sowohl den Grundriss der Burg als auch die Beschaffenheit des Geländes mit einzubeziehen.
An den einzelnen Stationen sollen auf spielerische Art und Weise historische Informationen über die Burgruine Reichenstein vermittelt werden. Neben der Recherche, der Konzepterstellung und der Implementierung umfasst diese Arbeit auch eine Evaluation, die eine Bewertung der Anwendung ermöglicht.
Existing tools for generating application programming interfaces (APIs) for ontologies lack sophisticated support for mapping the logics-based concepts of the ontology to an appropriate object-oriented implementation of the API. Such a mapping has to overcome the fundamental differences between the semantics described in the ontology and the pragmatics, i.e., structure, functionalities, and behavior implemented in the API. Typically, concepts from the ontology are mapped one-to-one to classes in the targeted programming language. Such a mapping only produces concept representations but not an API at the desired level of granularity expected by an application developer. We present a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) process to generate customized APIs for ontologies. This API generation is based on the semantics defined in the ontology but also leverages additional information the ontology provides. This can be the inheritance structure of the ontology concepts, the scope of relevance of an ontology concept, or design patterns defined in the ontology.
This paper proposes model-driven techniques to extend IBM- SOMA method towards migrating legacy systems into Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The proposal explores how graph-based querying and transformation techniques enable the integration of legacy assets into a new SOA. The presented approach is applied to the identification and migration of services in an open source Java software system.
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.
The impact of innovation in order to secure a company- existence is increasing. Especially in the field of information and communication systems, modified conditions, reduced product life cycles (in some markets e.g. in the software market down to a few months), and increased competition force many companies to adapt their innovation speed. Long-term profit will just be obtained by those companies that will manage to consolidate or further to enlarge their competitive position with technological innovation. The increasing relevance of new developments requires a separate treatment of technological innovations and demands for a technology and innovation management. Not every innovation is thereby a result of a single, spontaneous idea. Many innovations evolve from the integration or combination of already existing technologies. Especially in markets with insignificant growing rates, this kind of innovation is quite important. The purpose of this article is a case-oriented identification of existing deficiencies within established recommendations for a strategic technology and innovation management and the discussion about the role of modularity and technology integration as an alternative way to innovate.
In this thesis, a first prototype of a mobile instruction device with mixed reality (MR) funktionality is developed. This system shall be capable to support training on the job through interaction with the work item. The concept corresponds to a didactic approach presented by Martens-Parree that combines constructivism with situated learning. As an application example, the training of glider pilots checked out on a new type was chosen. Whether the MR device could increase the competence, or facilitiate the completion of certain tasks, was examined in a survey with fifteen testers. The results of the study show that in general, the didactic approach of Martens-Parree is valid. While an increase in fact knowledge has been observed, it was not (yet) possible to demonstrate an increase in skills with respect to the work tasks.