@misc{AlbersUestuenWitzeletal.2018, author = {Albers, Philip and Uestuen, Suayib and Witzel, Katja and Bornke, Frederik}, title = {Identification of a novel target of the bacterial effector HopZ1a}, series = {Phytopathology}, volume = {108}, journal = {Phytopathology}, number = {10}, publisher = {American Phytopathological Society}, address = {Saint Paul}, issn = {0031-949X}, pages = {1}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae is a gram-negative bacterium which infects a wide range of plant species including important crops plants. To suppress plant immunity and cause disease P.syringae injects type-III effector proteins (T3Es) into the plant cell cytosol. In this study, we identified a novel target of the well characterized bacterial T3E HopZ1a. HopZ1a is an acetyltransferase that was shown to disrupt vesicle transport during innate immunity by acetylating tubulin. Using a yeast-two-hybrid screen approach, we identified a REMORIN (REM) protein from tobacco as a novel HopZ1a target. HopZ1a interacts with REM at the plasma membrane (PM) as shown by split-YFP experiments. Interestingly, we found that PBS1, a well-known kinase involved in plant immunity also interacts with REM in pull-down assays, and at the PM as shown by BiFC. Furthermore, we confirmed that REM is phosphorylated by PBS1 in vitro. Overexpression of REM provokes the upregulation of defense genes and leads to disease-like phenotypes pointing to a role of REM in plant immune signaling. Further protein-protein interaction studies reveal novel REM binding partners with a possible role in plant immune signaling. Thus, REM might act as an assembly hub for an immune signaling complex targeted by HopZ1a. Taken together, this is the first report describing that a REM protein is targeted by a bacterial effector. How HopZ1a might mechanistically manipulate the plant immune system through interfering with REM function will be discussed.}, language = {en} } @misc{WarschburgerSproesserZahn2018, author = {Warschburger, Petra and Sproesser, Gudrun and Zahn, Daniela}, title = {Fachgruppe Gesundheitspsychologie: Methoden sind wichtig, Inhalte aber genauso}, series = {Psychologische Rundschau : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Psychologie}, volume = {69}, journal = {Psychologische Rundschau : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Psychologie}, number = {4}, publisher = {Hogrefe}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, issn = {0033-3042}, doi = {10.1026/0033-3042/a000418}, pages = {340 -- 341}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @misc{Henze2018, author = {Henze, Andrea}, title = {Proteinoxidation als Indikator des Alterungsph{\"a}notyps und Target einer individualisierten Ern{\"a}hrungsintervention (ProAID)}, series = {Ern{\"a}hrungs-Umschau : Forschung \& Praxis}, volume = {65}, journal = {Ern{\"a}hrungs-Umschau : Forschung \& Praxis}, number = {10}, publisher = {Umschau-Zeitschriftenverl.}, address = {Frankfurt, Main}, issn = {0174-0008}, pages = {M566 -- M567}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Oxidative posttranslationale Modifikationen endogener Proteine werden v. a. durch reaktive Sauerstoff- und Stickstoffspezies (engl:. Reactive Oxygen Species, ROS, reactive nitrogen species, RNS) hervorgerufen und k{\"o}nnen sowohl reversibel (z. B. Disulfidbindungen) als auch irreversibel (z. B. Proteincarbonyle) erfolgen [1-3]. Lange wurde angenommen, dass oxidative posttranslationale Proteinmodifikationen (oxPTPM) nur von untergeordneter Bedeutung f{\"u}r den Metabolismus sind. Tats{\"a}chlich handelt es sich jedoch um einen physiologischen Prozess, der {\"u}ber die Modulation der Proteinstruktur auch die Proteinfunktion (z. B. Enzymaktivit{\"a}t, Stabilit{\"a}t) und somit zahlreiche Stoffwechselwege wie den Energiestoffwechsel, die Immunfunktion, die vaskul{\"a}re Funktion sowie Apoptose und Genexpression beeinflussen kann. Die Bildung von oxPTPM ist dabei hochreguliert und h{\"a}ngt u. a. von der Proteinstruktur, der Verf{\"u}gbarkeit von ROS und RNS sowie dem lokalen Mikromilieu der Zelle ab [2, 4].}, language = {de} } @misc{Kleuser2018, author = {Kleuser, Burkhard}, title = {The enigma of sphingolipids in health and disease}, series = {International journal of molecular sciences}, volume = {19}, journal = {International journal of molecular sciences}, number = {10}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {1422-0067}, doi = {10.3390/ijms19103126}, pages = {3}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{TammenKoemhoffMarketal.2018, author = {Tammen, Harald and Koemhoff, Martin and Mark, Michael and Hocher, Berthold and Delic, Denis and Hess, R{\"u}diger and von Eynatten, Maximilian and Klein, Thomas}, title = {Linagliptin treatment is associated with improved cobalamin (vitamin B-12) storage in mice and potentially in humans}, series = {Diabetologia : journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)}, volume = {61}, journal = {Diabetologia : journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {0012-186X}, pages = {S252 -- S253}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{GruenthalStromeyerBosseetal.2018, author = {Gr{\"u}nthal, Gottfried and Stromeyer, Dietrich and Bosse, Christian and Cotton, Fabrice Pierre and Bindi, Dino}, title = {Correction to: The probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of Germanyversion 2016, considering the range of epistemic uncertainties and aleatory variability (vol 16, pg 4339, 2018)}, series = {Bulletin of earthquake engineering : official publication of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering}, volume = {16}, journal = {Bulletin of earthquake engineering : official publication of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering}, number = {10}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {1570-761X}, doi = {10.1007/s10518-018-0398-5}, pages = {4397 -- 4398}, year = {2018}, abstract = {One paragraph of the manuscript of the paper has been inadvertently omitted in the very final stage of its compilation due to a technical mistake. Since this paragraph discusses the declustering of the used earthquake catalogue and is therefore necessary for the understanding of the seismicity data preprocessing, the authors decided to provide this paragraph in form of a correction. The respective paragraph belongs to chapter 2 of the paper, where it was placed originally, and should be inserted into the published paper before the second to the last paragraph. The omitted text reads as follows:}, language = {en} } @misc{SendGillesCoddetal.2018, author = {Send, T. S. and Gilles, M. and Codd, V. and Wolf, I. A. C. and Bardtke, S. and Streit, Fabian and Strohmaier, Jana and Frank, Josef and Schendel, D. and Sutterlin, M. W. and Denniff, M. and Laucht, Manfred and Samani, N. J. and Deuschle, Michael and Rietschel, Marcella and Witt, Stephanie H.}, title = {Telomere length in newborns is related to maternal stress during pregnancy Response}, series = {Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology}, volume = {43}, journal = {Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology}, number = {11}, publisher = {Nature Publ. Group}, address = {London}, issn = {0893-133X}, doi = {10.1038/s41386-018-0079-8}, pages = {2164 -- 2164}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{JaraSanchezReyesSocquetetal.2018, author = {Jara, Jorge and S{\´a}nchez-Reyes, Hugo and Socquet, Anne and Cotton, Fabrice Pierre and Virieux, Jean and Maksymowicz, Andrei and D{\´i}az-Mojica, John and Walpersdorf, Andrea and Ruiz, Javier and Cotte, Nathalie and Norabuena, Edmundo}, title = {Corrigendum to: Kinematic study of Iquique 2014 Mw 8.1 earthquake: Understanding the segmentation of the seismogenic zone. - (Earth and planetary science letters. - 503 (2018) S. 131 - 143)}, series = {Earth and planetary science letters}, volume = {506}, journal = {Earth and planetary science letters}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0012-821X}, doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2018.11.026}, pages = {347 -- 347}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We study the rupture processes of Iquique earthquake 8.1 (2014/04/01) and its largest aftershock 7.7 (2014/04/03) that ruptured the North Chile subduction zone. High-rate Global Positioning System (GPS) recordings and strong motion data are used to reconstruct the evolution of the slip amplitude, rise time and rupture time of both earthquakes. A two-step inversion scheme is assumed, by first building prior models for both earthquakes from the inversion of the estimated static displacements and then, kinematic inversions in the frequency domain are carried out taken into account this prior information. The preferred model for the mainshock exhibits a seismic moment of 1.73 × 1021 Nm ( 8.1) and maximum slip of ∼9 m, while the aftershock model has a seismic moment of 3.88 × 1020 ( 7.7) and a maximum slip of ∼3 m. For both earthquakes, the final slip distributions show two asperities (a shallow one and a deep one) separated by an area with significant slip deficit. This suggests a segmentation along-dip which might be related to a change of the dipping angle of the subducting slab inferred from gravimetric data. Along-strike, the areas where the seismic ruptures stopped seem to be well correlated with geological features observed from geophysical information (high-resolution bathymetry, gravimetry and coupling maps) that are representative of the long-term segmentation of the subduction margin. Considering the spatially limited portions that were broken by these two earthquakes, our results support the idea that the seismic gap is not filled yet.}, language = {en} } @misc{MesserschmidtMachensHochreinetal.2018, author = {Messerschmidt, Katrin and Machens, Fabian and Hochrein, Lena and Naseri, Gita}, title = {Orthogonal, light-inducible protein expression platform in yeast Sacchararomyces cerevisiae}, series = {New biotechnology}, volume = {44}, journal = {New biotechnology}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1871-6784}, doi = {10.1016/j.nbt.2018.05.153}, pages = {S19 -- S19}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{BjoerkHoelzle2018, author = {Bj{\"o}rk, Jennie and H{\"o}lzle, Katharina}, title = {Editorial}, series = {Creativity and innovation management}, volume = {27}, journal = {Creativity and innovation management}, number = {4}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0963-1690}, doi = {10.1111/caim.12298}, pages = {373 -- 374}, year = {2018}, abstract = {"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead." With the last issue of this year we want to point out directions towards what will come and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead of us. More needed than ever are joint creative efforts to find ways to collaborate and innovate in order to secure the wellbeing of our earth for the next generation to come. We have found ourselves puzzled that we could assemble a sustainability issue without having a call for papers or a special issue. In fact, many of the submissions we currently receive, deal with sustainable, ecological or novel approaches to management and organizations. As creativity and innovation are undisputable necessary ingredients for reaching the sustainable development goals, empirical proof and research in this area are still in their infancy. While the role of design and design thinking has been highlighted before for solving wicked societal problems, a lot more research is needed which creative and innovative ways organisations and societies can take to find solutions to climate change, poverty, hunger and education. We would therefore like to call to you, our readers and writers to tackle these problems with your research. The first article in this issue addresses one of the above named challenges - the role of innovation for achieving the transition to a low-carbon energy world. In "Innovating for low-carbon energy through hydropower: Enabling a conservation charity's transition to a low-carbon community", the authors John Gallagher, Paul Coughlan, A. Prysor Williams and Aonghus McNabola look at how an eco-design approach has supported a community transition to low-carbon. They highlight the importance of effective management as well as external collaboration and how the key for success lay in fostering an open environment for creativity and idea sharing. The second article addresses another of the grand challenges, the future of mobility and uses a design-driven approach to develop scenarios for mobility in cities. In "Designing radical innovations of meanings for society: envisioning new scenarios for smart mobility", the authors Claudio Dell'Era, Naiara Altuna and Roberto Verganti investigate how new meanings can be designed and proposed to society rather than to individuals in the particular context of smart mobility. Through two case studies the authors argue for a multi-level perspective, taking the perspective of the society to solve societal challenges while considering the needs of the individual. The latter is needed because we will not change if our needs are not addressed. Furthermore, the authors find that both, meaning and technology need to be considered to create radical innovation for society. The role of meaning continues in the third article in this issue. The authors Marta Gasparin and William Green show in their article "Reconstructing meaning without redesigning products: The case of the Serie7 chair" how meaning changes over time even though the product remains the same. Through an in-depth retrospective study of the Serie 7 chair the authors investigate the relationship between meaning and the materiality of the object, and show the importance of materiality in constructing product meaning over long periods. Translating this meaning over the course of the innovation process is an important task of management in order to gain buy-in from all involved stakeholders. In the following article "A systematic approach for new technology development by using a biomimicry-based TRIZ contradiction matrix" the authors Byungun Yoon, Chaeguk Lim, Inchae Park and Dooseob Yoon develop a systematic process combining biomimicry and technology-based TRIZ in order to solve technological problems or develop new technologies based on completely new sources or combinations from technology and biology. In the fifth article in this issue "Innovating via Building Absorptive Capacity: Interactive Effects of Top Management Support of Learning, Employee Learning Orientation, and Decentralization Structure" the authors Li-Yun Sun, Chenwei Li and Yuntao Dong examine the effect of learning-related personal and contextual factors on organizational absorptive capability and subsequent innovative performance. The authors find positive effects as well as a moderation influence of decentralized organizational decision-making structures. In the sixth article "Creativity within boundaries: social identity and the development of new ideas in franchise systems" the authors Fanny Simon, Catherine Allix-Desfautaux, Nabil Khelil and Anne-Laure Le Nadant address the paradox of balancing novelty and conformity for creativity in a franchise system. This research is one of the first we know to explicitly address creativity and innovation in such a rigid and pre-determined system. Using a social identity perspective, they can show that social control, which may be exerted by manipulating group identity, is an efficient lever to increase both the creation and the diffusion of the idea. Furthermore, they show that franchisees who do not conform to the norm of the group are stigmatized and must face pressure from the group to adapt their behaviors. This has important implications for future research. In the following article "Exploring employee interactions and quality of contributions in intra-organisational innovation platforms" the authors Dimitra Chasanidou, Nj{\aa}l Sivertstol and Jarle Hildrum examine the user interactions in an intra-organisational innovation platform, and also address the influence of user interactions for idea development. The authors find that employees communicate through the innovation platform with different interaction, contribution and collaboration types and propose three types of contribution qualities—passive, efficient and balanced contribution. In the eighth article "Ready for Take-off": How Open Innovation influences startup success" Cristina Marullo, Elena Casprini, Alberto di Minin and Andrea Piccaluga seek to predict new venture success based on factors that can be observed in the pre-startup phase. The authors introduce different variables of founding teams and how these relate to startup success. Building on large-scale dataset of submitted business plans at UC Berkeley, they can show that teams with high skills diversity and past joint experience are a lot better able to prevent the risk of business failure at entry and to adapt the internal resources to market conditions. Furthermore, it is crucial for the team to integrate many external knowledge sources into their process (openness) in order to be successful. The crucial role of knowledge and how it is communicated and shared is the focal point of Natalya Sergeeva's and Anna Trifilova's article on "The role of storytelling in the innovation process". They authors can show how storytelling has an important role to play when it comes to motivating employees to innovate and promoting innovation success stories inside and outside the organization. The deep human desire to hear and experience stories is also addressed in the last article in this issue "Gamification Approaches to the Early Stage of Innovation" by Rui Patricio, Antonio Moreira and Francesco Zurlo. Using gamification approaches at the early stage of innovation promises to create better team coherence, let employees experience fun and engagement, improve communication and foster knowledge exchange. Using an analytical framework, the authors analyze 15 articles that have looked at gamification in the context of innovation management before. They find that gamification indeed supports firms in becoming better at performing complex innovation tasks and managing innovation challenges. Furthermore, gamification in innovation creates a space for inspiration, improves creativity and the generation of high potential ideas.}, language = {en} } @misc{SchaubWoltran2018, author = {Schaub, Torsten H. and Woltran, Stefan}, title = {Special issue on answer set programming}, series = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, volume = {32}, journal = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, number = {2-3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {0933-1875}, doi = {10.1007/s13218-018-0554-8}, pages = {101 -- 103}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{BestZhengBorgiaetal.2018, author = {Best, Robert B. and Zheng, Wenwei and Borgia, Alessandro and Buholzer, Karin and Borgia, Madeleine B. and Hofmann, Hagen and Soranno, Andrea and Nettels, Daniel and Gast, Klaus and Grishaev, Alexander and Schuler, Benjamin}, title = {Comment on "Innovative scattering analysis shows that hydrophobic disordered proteins are expanded in water"}, series = {Science}, volume = {361}, journal = {Science}, number = {6405}, publisher = {American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science}, address = {Washington}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.aar7101}, pages = {2}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Riback et al. (Reports, 13 October 2017, p. 238) used small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments to infer a degree of compaction for unfolded proteins in water versus chemical denaturant that is highly consistent with the results from Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments. There is thus no "contradiction" between the two methods, nor evidence to support their claim that commonly used FRET fluorophores cause protein compaction.}, language = {en} } @misc{JamnokSanchaisuriyaYamsrietal.2018, author = {Jamnok, Jutatip and Sanchaisuriya, Kanokwan and Yamsri, Supawadee and Fucharoen, Goonnapa and Fucharoen, Supan and Schweigert, Florian J. and Sanchaisuriya, Pattara}, title = {Application of a new portable nephelometer for screening thalassemia in countries with limited resources}, series = {International Journal of Laboratory Hematology}, volume = {40}, journal = {International Journal of Laboratory Hematology}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {1751-5521}, pages = {62 -- 62}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{MiklashevskyLindemannFischer2018, author = {Miklashevsky, Alex A. and Lindemann, Oliver and Fischer, Martin H.}, title = {Think of the future in the right way}, series = {Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science}, volume = {19}, journal = {Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {1612-4782}, pages = {S46 -- S46}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{LenziNeugebauerWeissflog2018, author = {Lenzi, Roland and Neugebauer, Jonas and Weißflog, Clemens}, title = {Milit{\"a}rhistorische Gel{\"a}ndebegehung im Rahmen eines Seminars des Lehrstuhls »War and Conflict Studies« an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam, K{\"o}niggr{\"a}tz, 8. bis 11. Mai 2017}, series = {Milit{\"a}rgeschichtliche Zeitschrift}, volume = {77}, journal = {Milit{\"a}rgeschichtliche Zeitschrift}, number = {1}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2193-2336}, doi = {10.1515/mgzs-2018-0006}, pages = {122 -- 127}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @misc{JacobClahsen2018, author = {Jacob, Gunnar and Clahsen, Harald}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition}, volume = {21}, journal = {Bilingualism : language and cognition}, number = {3}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {1366-7289}, doi = {10.1017/S1366728918000135}, pages = {435 -- 436}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The present thematic set of studies comprises five concise review articles on the use of priming paradigms in different areas of bilingualism research. Their aim is to provide readers with a quick overview of how priming paradigms can be employed in particular subfields of bilingualism research and to make readers aware of the methodological issues that need to be considered when using priming techniques.}, language = {en} } @misc{Brune2018, author = {Brune, Sascha}, title = {Forces within continental and oceanic rifts}, series = {Geology}, volume = {46}, journal = {Geology}, number = {2}, publisher = {American Institute of Physics}, address = {Boulder}, issn = {0091-7613}, doi = {10.1130/focus022018.1}, pages = {191 -- 192}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{ZoellerHolschneider2018, author = {Z{\"o}ller, Gert and Holschneider, Matthias}, title = {Reply to "Comment on 'The Maximum Possible and the Maximum Expected Earthquake Magnitude for Production-Induced Earthquakes at the Gas Field in Groningen, The Netherlands' by Gert Z{\"o}ller and Matthias Holschneider" by Mathias Raschke}, series = {Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America}, volume = {108}, journal = {Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America}, number = {2}, publisher = {Seismological Society of America}, address = {Albany}, issn = {0037-1106}, doi = {10.1785/0120170131}, pages = {1029 -- 1030}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{HiggsHarrisHegeretal.2018, author = {Higgs, Eric S. and Harris, Jim A. and Heger, Tina and Hobbs, Richard J. and Murphy, Stephen D. and Suding, Katharine N.}, title = {Keep ecological restoration open and flexible}, series = {Nature Ecology \& Evolution}, volume = {2}, journal = {Nature Ecology \& Evolution}, number = {4}, publisher = {Nature Publ. Group}, address = {London}, issn = {2397-334X}, doi = {10.1038/s41559-018-0483-9}, pages = {580 -- 580}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{HorowitzFeiRamosetal.2018, author = {Horowitz, Carol R. and Fei, Kezhen and Ramos, Michelle A. and Hauser, Diane and Ellis, Stephen B. and Calman, Neil and B{\"o}ttinger, Erwin}, title = {Receipt of genetic risk information significantly improves blood pressure control among African anecestry adults with hypertension}, series = {Journal of General Internal Medicine}, volume = {33}, journal = {Journal of General Internal Medicine}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {0884-8734}, doi = {10.1007/s11606-018-4413-y}, pages = {S322 -- S323}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{FrankKreitz2018, author = {Frank, Mario and Kreitz, Christoph}, title = {A theorem prover for scientific and educational purposes}, series = {Electronic proceedings in theoretical computer science}, journal = {Electronic proceedings in theoretical computer science}, number = {267}, publisher = {Open Publishing Association}, address = {Sydney}, issn = {2075-2180}, doi = {10.4204/EPTCS.267.4}, pages = {59 -- 69}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We present a prototype of an integrated reasoning environment for educational purposes. The presented tool is a fragment of a proof assistant and automated theorem prover. We describe the existing and planned functionality of the theorem prover and especially the functionality of the educational fragment. This currently supports working with terms of the untyped lambda calculus and addresses both undergraduate students and researchers. We show how the tool can be used to support the students' understanding of functional programming and discuss general problems related to the process of building theorem proving software that aims at supporting both research and education.}, language = {en} } @misc{MolnarKokEngeletal.2018, author = {Molnar, Marco and Kok, Manor and Engel, Tilman and Kaplic, Hannes and Mayer, Frank and Seel, Thomas}, title = {A method for lower back motion assessment using wearable 6D inertial sensors}, series = {21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)}, journal = {21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-0-9964-5276-2}, pages = {799 -- 806}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of activity limitation. Objective assessment of the spinal motion plays a key role in diagnosis and treatment of LBP. We propose a method that facilitates clinical assessment of lower back motions by means of a wireless inertial sensor network. The sensor units are attached to the right and left side of the lumbar region, the pelvis and the thighs, respectively. Since magnetometers are known to be unreliable in indoor environments, we use only 3D accelerometer and 3D gyroscope readings. Compensation of integration drift in the horizontal plane is achieved by estimating the gyroscope biases from automatically detected initial rest phases. For the estimation of sensor orientations, both a smoothing algorithm and a filtering algorithm are presented. From these orientations, we determine three-dimensional joint angles between the thighs and the pelvis and between the pelvis and the lumbar region. We compare the orientations and joint angles to measurements of an optical motion tracking system that tracks each skin-mounted sensor by means of reflective markers. Eight subjects perform a neutral initial pose, then flexion/extension, lateral flexion, and rotation of the trunk. The root mean square deviation between inertial and optical angles is about one degree for angles in the frontal and sagittal plane and about two degrees for angles in the transverse plane (both values averaged over all trials). We choose five features that characterize the initial pose and the three motions. Interindividual differences of all features are found to be clearly larger than the observed measurement deviations. These results indicate that the proposed inertial sensor-based method is a promising tool for lower back motion assessment.}, language = {en} } @misc{SchaepersNiemuellerLakemeyeretal.2018, author = {Sch{\"a}pers, Bj{\"o}rn and Niemueller, Tim and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Gebser, Martin and Schaub, Torsten H.}, title = {ASP-Based Time-Bounded Planning for Logistics Robots}, series = {Twenty-Eighth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2018)}, journal = {Twenty-Eighth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2018)}, publisher = {ASSOC Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence}, address = {Palo Alto}, issn = {2334-0835}, pages = {509 -- 517}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Manufacturing industries are undergoing a major paradigm shift towards more autonomy. Automated planning and scheduling then becomes a necessity. The Planning and Execution Competition for Logistics Robots in Simulation held at ICAPS is based on this scenario and provides an interesting testbed. However, the posed problem is challenging as also demonstrated by the somewhat weak results in 2017. The domain requires temporal reasoning and dealing with uncertainty. We propose a novel planning system based on Answer Set Programming and the Clingo solver to tackle these problems and incentivize robot cooperation. Our results show a significant performance improvement, both, in terms of lowering computational requirements and better game metrics.}, language = {en} } @misc{AlvianoRomeroDavilaSchaub2018, author = {Alviano, Mario and Romero Davila, Javier and Schaub, Torsten H.}, title = {Preference Relations by Approximation}, series = {Sixteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning}, journal = {Sixteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning}, publisher = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, address = {Palo Alto}, pages = {2 -- 11}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Declarative languages for knowledge representation and reasoning provide constructs to define preference relations over the set of possible interpretations, so that preferred models represent optimal solutions of the encoded problem. We introduce the notion of approximation for replacing preference relations with stronger preference relations, that is, relations comparing more pairs of interpretations. Our aim is to accelerate the computation of a non-empty subset of the optimal solutions by means of highly specialized algorithms. We implement our approach in Answer Set Programming (ASP), where problems involving quantitative and qualitative preference relations can be addressed by ASPRIN, implementing a generic optimization algorithm. Unlike this, chains of approximations allow us to reduce several preference relations to the preference relations associated with ASP's native weak constraints and heuristic directives. In this way, ASPRIN can now take advantage of several highly optimized algorithms implemented by ASP solvers for computing optimal solutions}, language = {en} } @misc{LucknerDunsingChiantiaetal.2018, author = {Luckner, Madlen and Dunsing, Valentin and Chiantia, Salvatore and Hermann, Andreas}, title = {Oligomerization and nuclear shuttling dynamics of viral proteins studied by quantitative molecular brightness analysis using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy}, series = {Biophysical journal}, volume = {114}, journal = {Biophysical journal}, number = {3}, publisher = {Cell Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {0006-3495}, doi = {10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.1951}, pages = {350A -- 350A}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{DunsingMagnusLiebschetal.2018, author = {Dunsing, Valentin and Magnus, Mayer and Liebsch, Filip and Multhaup, Gerhard and Chiantia, Salvatore}, title = {Direct Evidence of APLP1 Trans Interactions in Cell-Cell Adhesion Platforms Investigated via Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy}, series = {Biophysical journal}, volume = {114}, journal = {Biophysical journal}, number = {3}, publisher = {Cell Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {0006-3495}, doi = {10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.2067}, pages = {373A -- 373A}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The Amyloid-precursor-like protein 1 (APLP1) is a neuronal type I transmembrane protein which plays a role in synaptic adhesion and synaptogenesis. Past investigations indicated that APLP1 is involved in the formation of protein-protein complexes that bridge the junctions between neighboring cells. Nevertheless, APLP1-APLP1 trans interactions have never been directly observed in higher eukaryotic cells. Here, we investigate APLP1 interactions and dynamics directly in living human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells, using fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy techniques, namely cross-correlation scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (sFCS) and Number\&Brightness (N\&B). Our results show that APLP1 forms homotypic trans complexes at cell-cell contacts. In the presence of zinc ions, the protein forms macroscopic clusters, exhibiting an even higher degree of trans binding and strongly reduced dynamics. Further evidence from Giant Plasma Membrane Vesicles and live cell actin staining suggests that the presence of an intact cortical cytoskeleton is required for zinc-induced cis multimerization. Subsequently, large adhesion platforms bridging interacting cells are formed through APLP1-APLP1 direct trans interactions. Taken together, our results provide direct evidence that APLP1 functions as a neuronal zinc-dependent adhesion protein and provide a more detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving the formation of APLP1 adhesion platforms. Further, they show that fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy techniques are useful tools for the investigation of protein-protein interactions at cell-cell adhesion sites.}, language = {en} } @misc{HocherZeng2018, author = {Hocher, Berthold and Zeng, Shufei}, title = {Clear the fog around parathyroid hormone assays}, series = {Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology}, volume = {13}, journal = {Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology}, number = {4}, publisher = {American Society of Nephrology}, address = {Washington}, issn = {1555-9041}, doi = {10.2215/CJN.01730218}, pages = {524 -- 526}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{DammhahnDingemanseNiemelaeetal.2018, author = {Dammhahn, Melanie and Dingemanse, Niels J. and Niemelae, Petri T. and Reale, Denis}, title = {Pace-of-life syndromes}, series = {Behavioral ecology and sociobiology}, volume = {72}, journal = {Behavioral ecology and sociobiology}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {0340-5443}, doi = {10.1007/s00265-018-2473-y}, pages = {8}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This introduction to the topical collection on Pace-of-life syndromes: a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology, and life history provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and empirical progress in research on pace-of-life syndromes (POLSs) over the last decade. The topical collection has two main goals. First, we briefly describe the history of POLS research and provide a refined definition of POLS that is applicable to various key levels of variation (genetic, individual, population, species). Second, we summarise the main lessons learned from current POLS research included in this topical collection. Based on an assessment of the current state of the theoretical foundations and the empirical support of the POLS hypothesis, we propose (i) conceptual refinements of theory, particularly with respect to the role of ecology in the evolution of (sexual dimorphism in) POLS, and (ii) methodological and statistical approaches to the study of POLS at all major levels of variation. This topical collection further holds (iii) key empirical examples demonstrating how POLS structures may be studied in wild populations of (non) human animals, and (iv) a modelling paper predicting POLS under various ecological conditions. Future POLS research will profit from the development of more explicit theoretical models and stringent empirical tests of model assumptions and predictions, increased focus on how ecology shapes (sex-specific) POLS structures at multiple hierarchical levels, and the usage of appropriate statistical tests and study designs. Significance statement As an introduction to the topical collection, we summarise current conceptual, theoretical, methodological and empirical progress in research on pace-of-life syndromes (POLSs), a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology and life history at multiple hierarchical levels of variation (genetic, individual, population, species). Mixed empirical support of POLSs, particularly at the within-species level, calls for an evaluation and refinement of the hypothesis. We provide a refined definition of POLSs facilitating testable predictions. Future research on POLSs will profit from the development of more explicit theoretical models and stringent empirical tests of model assumptions and predictions, increased focus on how ecology shapes (sex-specific) POLSs structures at multiple hierarchical levels and the usage of appropriate statistical tests and study designs.}, language = {en} } @misc{RischKrestel2018, author = {Risch, Julian and Krestel, Ralf}, title = {My Approach = Your Apparatus?}, series = {Libraries}, journal = {Libraries}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5178-2}, issn = {2575-7865}, doi = {10.1145/3197026.3197038}, pages = {283 -- 292}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Comparative text mining extends from genre analysis and political bias detection to the revelation of cultural and geographic differences, through to the search for prior art across patents and scientific papers. These applications use cross-collection topic modeling for the exploration, clustering, and comparison of large sets of documents, such as digital libraries. However, topic modeling on documents from different collections is challenging because of domain-specific vocabulary. We present a cross-collection topic model combined with automatic domain term extraction and phrase segmentation. This model distinguishes collection-specific and collection-independent words based on information entropy and reveals commonalities and differences of multiple text collections. We evaluate our model on patents, scientific papers, newspaper articles, forum posts, and Wikipedia articles. In comparison to state-of-the-art cross-collection topic modeling, our model achieves up to 13\% higher topic coherence, up to 4\% lower perplexity, and up to 31\% higher document classification accuracy. More importantly, our approach is the first topic model that ensures disjunct general and specific word distributions, resulting in clear-cut topic representations.}, language = {en} } @misc{KhajooeiLinSteffanetal.2018, author = {Khajooei, Mina and Lin, Chiao-I and Steffan, M{\"u}ller and Mayer, Frank}, title = {Effect of Instability in Legpress Testing on Strength \& Muscle Activity in Functional Ankle Instability}, series = {Medicine and science in sports and exercise : official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine}, volume = {50}, journal = {Medicine and science in sports and exercise : official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine}, number = {5S}, publisher = {Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins}, address = {Philadelphia}, issn = {0195-9131}, doi = {:10.1249/01.mss.0000537073.01736.db}, pages = {602 -- 602}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{AhlgrimmWestphalHeck2018, author = {Ahlgrimm, Frederik and Westphal, Andrea and Heck, Sebastian}, title = {Why students travel abroad (and so many others do not)}, publisher = {Universitat Politecnica de Valencia}, address = {Valencia}, isbn = {978-84-9048-690-0}, doi = {10.4995/HEAd18.2018.8161}, pages = {1135 -- 1142}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Over the past few years, studying abroad and other educational international experiences have become increasingly highly regarded. Nevertheless, research shows that only a minority of students actually take part in academic mobility programs. But what is it that distinguishes those students who take up these international opportunities from those who do not? In this study we reviewed recent quantitative studies on why (primarily German) students choose to travel abroad or not. This revealed a pattern of predictive factors. These indicate the key role played by students' personal and social background, as well as previous international travel and the course of studies they are enrolled in. The study then focuses on teaching students. Both facilitating and debilitating factors are discussed and included in a model illustrating the decision-making process these students use. Finally, we discuss the practical implications for ways in which international, studyrelated travel might be increased in the future. We suggest that higher education institutions analyze individual student characteristics, offering differentiated programs to better meet the needs of different groups, thus raising the likelihood of disadvantaged students participating in academic international travel.}, language = {en} } @misc{WiegmannRutschmannWillemsen2018, author = {Wiegmann, Alex and Rutschmann, Ronja and Willemsen, Pascale}, title = {Correction to: Empirically Investigating the Concept of Lying (vol 34, pg 591, 2017)}, series = {Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research}, volume = {35}, journal = {Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New Dehli}, issn = {0970-7794}, doi = {10.1007/s40961-017-0123-9}, pages = {223 -- 223}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{MaierWolfKeiligetal.2018, author = {Maier, Philipp and Wolf, J{\"u}rgen and Keilig, Thomas and Krabbe, Alfred and Duffard, Rene and Ortiz, Jose-Luis and Klinkner, Sabine and Lengowski, Michael and M{\"u}ller, Thomas and Lockowandt, Christian and Krockstedt, Christian and Kappelmann, Norbert and Stelzer, Beate and Werner, Klaus and Geier, Stephan Alfred and Kalkuhl, Christoph and Rauch, Thomas and Schanz, Thomas and Barnstedt, J{\"u}rgen and Conti, Lauro and Hanke, Lars}, title = {Towards a European Stratospheric Balloon Observatory}, series = {Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII}, volume = {10700}, journal = {Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII}, publisher = {SPIE-INT Soc Optical Engineering}, address = {Bellingham}, isbn = {978-1-5106-1954-8}, issn = {0277-786X}, doi = {10.1117/12.2319248}, pages = {12}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This paper presents the concept of a community-accessible stratospheric balloon-based observatory that is currently under preparation by a consortium of European research institutes and industry. We present the technical motivation, science case, instrumentation, and a two-stage image stabilization approach of the 0.5-m UV/visible platform. In addition, we briefly describe the novel mid-sized stabilized balloon gondola under design to carry telescopes in the 0.5 to 0.6 m range as well as the currently considered flight option for this platform. Secondly, we outline the scientific and technical motivation for a large balloon-based FIR telescope and the ESBO DS approach towards such an infrastructure.}, language = {en} } @misc{AutenriethErnstDeavilleetal.2018, author = {Autenrieth, Marijke and Ernst, Anja and Deaville, Rob and Demaret, Fabien and Ijsseldijk, Lonneke L. and Siebert, Ursula and Tiedemann, Ralph}, title = {Putative origin and maternal relatedness of male sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) recently stranded in the North Sea}, series = {Mammalian biology = Zeitschrift f{\"u}r S{\"a}ugetierkunde}, volume = {88}, journal = {Mammalian biology = Zeitschrift f{\"u}r S{\"a}ugetierkunde}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, issn = {1616-5047}, doi = {10.1016/j.mambio.2017.09.003}, pages = {156 -- 160}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The globally distributed sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) has a partly matrilineal social structure with predominant male dispersal. At the beginning of 2016, a total of 30 male sperm whales stranded in five different countries bordering the southern North Sea. It has been postulated that these individuals were on a migration route from the north to warmer temperate and tropical waters where females live in social groups. By including samples from four countries (n = 27), this event provided a unique chance to genetically investigate the maternal relatedness and the putative origin of these temporally and spatially co-occuring male sperm whales. To utilize existing genetic resources, we sequenced 422 bp of the mitochondrial control region, a molecular marker for which sperm whale data are readily available from the entire distribution range. Based on four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the mitochondrial control region, five matrilines could be distinguished within the stranded specimens, four of which matched published haplotypes previously described in the Atlantic. Among these male sperm whales, multiple matrilineal lineages co-occur. We analyzed the population differentiation and could show that the genetic diversity of these male sperm whales is comparable to the genetic diversity in sperm whales from the entire Atlantic Ocean. We confirm that within this stranding event, males do not comprise maternally related individuals and apparently include assemblages of individuals from different geographic regions. (c) 2017 Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Saugetierkunde. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.}, language = {en} } @misc{StojanovicTrappRichteretal.2018, author = {Stojanovic, Vladeta and Trapp, Matthias and Richter, Rico and D{\"o}llner, J{\"u}rgen Roland Friedrich}, title = {A service-oriented approach for classifying 3D points clouds by example of office furniture classification}, series = {Web3D 2018: Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology}, journal = {Web3D 2018: Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5800-2}, doi = {10.1145/3208806.3208810}, pages = {1 -- 9}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The rapid digitalization of the Facility Management (FM) sector has increased the demand for mobile, interactive analytics approaches concerning the operational state of a building. These approaches provide the key to increasing stakeholder engagement associated with Operation and Maintenance (O\&M) procedures of living and working areas, buildings, and other built environment spaces. We present a generic and fast approach to process and analyze given 3D point clouds of typical indoor office spaces to create corresponding up-to-date approximations of classified segments and object-based 3D models that can be used to analyze, record and highlight changes of spatial configurations. The approach is based on machine-learning methods used to classify the scanned 3D point cloud data using 2D images. This approach can be used to primarily track changes of objects over time for comparison, allowing for routine classification, and presentation of results used for decision making. We specifically focus on classification, segmentation, and reconstruction of multiple different object types in a 3D point-cloud scene. We present our current research and describe the implementation of these technologies as a web-based application using a services-oriented methodology.}, language = {en} } @misc{FrickeDoellnerAsche2018, author = {Fricke, Andreas and D{\"o}llner, J{\"u}rgen Roland Friedrich and Asche, Hartmut}, title = {Servicification - Trend or Paradigm Shift in Geospatial Data Processing?}, series = {Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2018, PT III}, volume = {10962}, journal = {Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2018, PT III}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-95168-3}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-95168-3_23}, pages = {339 -- 350}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Currently we are witnessing profound changes in the geospatial domain. Driven by recent ICT developments, such as web services, serviceoriented computing or open-source software, an explosion of geodata and geospatial applications or rapidly growing communities of non-specialist users, the crucial issue is the provision and integration of geospatial intelligence in these rapidly changing, heterogeneous developments. This paper introduces the concept of Servicification into geospatial data processing. Its core idea is the provision of expertise through a flexible number of web-based software service modules. Selection and linkage of these services to user profiles, application tasks, data resources, or additional software allow for the compilation of flexible, time-sensitive geospatial data handling processes. Encapsulated in a string of discrete services, the approach presented here aims to provide non-specialist users with geospatial expertise required for the effective, professional solution of a defined application problem. Providing users with geospatial intelligence in the form of web-based, modular services, is a completely different approach to geospatial data processing. This novel concept puts geospatial intelligence, made available through services encapsulating rule bases and algorithms, in the centre and at the disposal of the users, regardless of their expertise.}, language = {en} } @misc{ReimannKlingbeilPasewaldtetal.2018, author = {Reimann, Max and Klingbeil, Mandy and Pasewaldt, Sebastian and Semmo, Amir and Trapp, Matthias and D{\"o}llner, J{\"u}rgen Roland Friedrich}, title = {MaeSTrO: A Mobile App for Style Transfer Orchestration using Neural Networks}, series = {International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW)}, journal = {International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW)}, editor = {Sourin, A Sourina}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-7315-7}, doi = {10.1109/CW.2018.00016}, pages = {9 -- 16}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Mobile expressive rendering gained increasing popularity among users seeking casual creativity by image stylization and supports the development of mobile artists as a new user group. In particular, neural style transfer has advanced as a core technology to emulate characteristics of manifold artistic styles. However, when it comes to creative expression, the technology still faces inherent limitations in providing low-level controls for localized image stylization. This work enhances state-of-the-art neural style transfer techniques by a generalized user interface with interactive tools to facilitate a creative and localized editing process. Thereby, we first propose a problem characterization representing trade-offs between visual quality, run-time performance, and user control. We then present MaeSTrO, a mobile app for orchestration of neural style transfer techniques using iterative, multi-style generative and adaptive neural networks that can be locally controlled by on-screen painting metaphors. At this, first user tests indicate different levels of satisfaction for the implemented techniques and interaction design.}, language = {en} } @misc{LimbergerGroplerBuschmannetal.2018, author = {Limberger, Daniel and Gropler, Anne and Buschmann, Stefan and D{\"o}llner, J{\"u}rgen Roland Friedrich and Wasty, Benjamin}, title = {OpenLL}, series = {22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)}, journal = {22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-7202-0}, doi = {10.1109/iV.2018.00039}, pages = {175 -- 181}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Today's rendering APIs lack robust functionality and capabilities for dynamic, real-time text rendering and labeling, which represent key requirements for 3D application design in many fields. As a consequence, most rendering systems are barely or not at all equipped with respective capabilities. This paper drafts the unified text rendering and labeling API OpenLL intended to complement common rendering APIs, frameworks, and transmission formats. For it, various uses of static and dynamic placement of labels are showcased and a text interaction technique is presented. Furthermore, API design constraints with respect to state-of-the-art text rendering techniques are discussed. This contribution is intended to initiate a community-driven specification of a free and open label library.}, language = {en} } @misc{SalzwedelHadzicBuhlertetal.2018, author = {Salzwedel, Annett and Hadzic, Miralem and Buhlert, Hermann and V{\"o}ller, Heinz}, title = {Impact of self-assessment of return to work on employable discharge from multi-component cardiac rehabilitation}, series = {European heart journal}, volume = {39}, journal = {European heart journal}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0195-668X}, pages = {21 -- 22}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Impact of self-assessment of return to work on employable discharge from multi-component cardiac rehabilitation. Retrospective unicentric analysis of routine data from cardiac rehabilitation in patients below 65 years of age. Presentation in the "Cardiovascular rehabilitation revisited" high impact abstract session during ESC Congress 2018.}, language = {en} } @misc{HasenbringLevenigHallneretal.2018, author = {Hasenbring, Monika Ilona and Levenig, Claudia and Hallner, D. and Puschmann, Anne-Katrin and Weiffen, A. and Kleinert, Jens and Belz, Johanna and Schiltenwolf, Marcus and Pfeifer, Ann-Christin and Heidari, Jahan and Kellmann, Michael and Wippert, Pia-Maria}, title = {Screeninginstrumente}, series = {Der Schmerz : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft zum Studium des Schmerzes, der {\"O}sterreichischen Schmerzgesellschaft und der Deutschen Interdisziplin{\"a}ren Vereinigung f{\"u}r Schmerztherapie}, volume = {32}, journal = {Der Schmerz : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft zum Studium des Schmerzes, der {\"O}sterreichischen Schmerzgesellschaft und der Deutschen Interdisziplin{\"a}ren Vereinigung f{\"u}r Schmerztherapie}, number = {6}, publisher = {Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {0932-433X}, doi = {10.1007/s00482-018-0340-4}, pages = {479 -- 481}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @misc{KoetzingKrejca2018, author = {K{\"o}tzing, Timo and Krejca, Martin Stefan}, title = {First-Hitting times under additive drift}, series = {Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XV, PT II}, volume = {11102}, journal = {Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XV, PT II}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-99259-4}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-99259-4_8}, pages = {92 -- 104}, year = {2018}, abstract = {For the last ten years, almost every theoretical result concerning the expected run time of a randomized search heuristic used drift theory, making it the arguably most important tool in this domain. Its success is due to its ease of use and its powerful result: drift theory allows the user to derive bounds on the expected first-hitting time of a random process by bounding expected local changes of the process - the drift. This is usually far easier than bounding the expected first-hitting time directly. Due to the widespread use of drift theory, it is of utmost importance to have the best drift theorems possible. We improve the fundamental additive, multiplicative, and variable drift theorems by stating them in a form as general as possible and providing examples of why the restrictions we keep are still necessary. Our additive drift theorem for upper bounds only requires the process to be nonnegative, that is, we remove unnecessary restrictions like a finite, discrete, or bounded search space. As corollaries, the same is true for our upper bounds in the case of variable and multiplicative drift.}, language = {en} } @misc{KoetzingKrejca2018, author = {K{\"o}tzing, Timo and Krejca, Martin Stefan}, title = {First-Hitting times for finite state spaces}, series = {Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XV, PT II}, volume = {11102}, journal = {Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XV, PT II}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-99259-4}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-99259-4_7}, pages = {79 -- 91}, year = {2018}, abstract = {One of the most important aspects of a randomized algorithm is bounding its expected run time on various problems. Formally speaking, this means bounding the expected first-hitting time of a random process. The two arguably most popular tools to do so are the fitness level method and drift theory. The fitness level method considers arbitrary transition probabilities but only allows the process to move toward the goal. On the other hand, drift theory allows the process to move into any direction as long as it move closer to the goal in expectation; however, this tendency has to be monotone and, thus, the transition probabilities cannot be arbitrary. We provide a result that combines the benefit of these two approaches: our result gives a lower and an upper bound for the expected first-hitting time of a random process over {0,..., n} that is allowed to move forward and backward by 1 and can use arbitrary transition probabilities. In case that the transition probabilities are known, our bounds coincide and yield the exact value of the expected first-hitting time. Further, we also state the stationary distribution as well as the mixing time of a special case of our scenario.}, language = {en} } @misc{BarrettEcksteinHurleyetal.2018, author = {Barrett, Lindsay and Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew Wright and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement}, series = {Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy}, volume = {21}, journal = {Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1368-8790}, doi = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671}, pages = {1 -- 5}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{Graef2018, author = {Gr{\"a}f, Ralph}, title = {Comparative Biology of Centrosomal Structures in Eukaryotes}, series = {Cells}, volume = {7}, journal = {Cells}, number = {11}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2073-4409}, doi = {10.3390/cells7110202}, pages = {9}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The centrosome is not only the largest and most sophisticated protein complex within a eukaryotic cell, in the light of evolution, it is also one of its most ancient organelles. This special issue of "Cells" features representatives of three main, structurally divergent centrosome types, i.e., centriole-containing centrosomes, yeast spindle pole bodies (SPBs), and amoebozoan nucleus-associated bodies (NABs). Here, I discuss their evolution and their key-functions in microtubule organization, mitosis, and cytokinesis. Furthermore, I provide a brief history of centrosome research and highlight recently emerged topics, such as the role of centrioles in ciliogenesis, the relationship of centrosomes and centriolar satellites, the integration of centrosomal structures into the nuclear envelope and the involvement of centrosomal components in non-centrosomal microtubule organization.}, language = {en} } @misc{KoetzingLagodzinskiLengleretal.2018, author = {K{\"o}tzing, Timo and Lagodzinski, Gregor J. A. and Lengler, Johannes and Melnichenko, Anna}, title = {Destructiveness of Lexicographic Parsimony Pressure and Alleviation by a Concatenation Crossover in Genetic Programming}, series = {Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XV}, volume = {11102}, journal = {Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XV}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-99259-4}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-99259-4_4}, pages = {42 -- 54}, year = {2018}, abstract = {For theoretical analyses there are two specifics distinguishing GP from many other areas of evolutionary computation. First, the variable size representations, in particular yielding a possible bloat (i.e. the growth of individuals with redundant parts). Second, the role and realization of crossover, which is particularly central in GP due to the tree-based representation. Whereas some theoretical work on GP has studied the effects of bloat, crossover had a surprisingly little share in this work. We analyze a simple crossover operator in combination with local search, where a preference for small solutions minimizes bloat (lexicographic parsimony pressure); the resulting algorithm is denoted Concatenation Crossover GP. For this purpose three variants of the wellstudied Majority test function with large plateaus are considered. We show that the Concatenation Crossover GP can efficiently optimize these test functions, while local search cannot be efficient for all three variants independent of employing bloat control.}, language = {en} } @misc{BordihnNagyVaszil2018, author = {Bordihn, Henning and Nagy, Benedek and Vaszil, Gy{\"o}rgy}, title = {Preface: Non-classical models of automata and applications VIII}, series = {RAIRO-Theoretical informatics and appli and applications}, volume = {52}, journal = {RAIRO-Theoretical informatics and appli and applications}, number = {2-4}, publisher = {EDP Sciences}, address = {Les Ulis}, issn = {0988-3754}, doi = {10.1051/ita/2018019}, pages = {87 -- 88}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{KewenigZhouFischer2018, author = {Kewenig, Viktor and Zhou, Yuefang and Fischer, Martin H.}, title = {Commentary: Robots as intentional agents}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {9}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01131}, pages = {2}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{LifschitzSchaubWoltran2018, author = {Lifschitz, Vladimir and Schaub, Torsten H. and Woltran, Stefan}, title = {Interview with Vladimir Lifschitz}, series = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, volume = {32}, journal = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, number = {2-3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {0933-1875}, doi = {10.1007/s13218-018-0552-x}, pages = {213 -- 218}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This interview with Vladimir Lifschitz was conducted by Torsten Schaub at the University of Texas at Austin in August 2017. The question set was compiled by Torsten Schaub and Stefan Woltran.}, language = {en} } @misc{BrewkaSchaubWoltran2018, author = {Brewka, Gerhard and Schaub, Torsten H. and Woltran, Stefan}, title = {Interview with Gerhard Brewka}, series = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, volume = {32}, journal = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, number = {2-3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {0933-1875}, doi = {10.1007/s13218-018-0549-5}, pages = {219 -- 221}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This interview with Gerhard Brewka was conducted by correspondance in May 2018. The question set was compiled by Torsten Schaub and Stefan Woltran.}, language = {en} } @misc{LazurasBarkoukisLoukovitisetal.2018, author = {Lazuras, Lambros and Barkoukis, Vassilis and Loukovitis, Andreas and Brand, Ralf and Hudson, Andy and Mallia, Luca and Michaelides, Michalis and Muzi, Milena and Petroczi, Andrea and Zelli, Arnaldo}, title = {Corrigendum: "I Want It All, and I Want It Now": Lifetime Prevalence and Reasons for Using and Abstaining from Controlled Performance and Appearance Enhancing Substances (PAES) among Young Exercisers and Amateur Athletes in Five European Countries (Frontiers in psychology. - 8 (2017), 717.)}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {9}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01162}, pages = {4}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{CaupinHoltenQiuetal.2018, author = {Caupin, Frederic and Holten, Vincent and Qiu, Chen and Guillerm, Emmanuel and Wilke, Max and Frenz, Martin and Teixeira, Jose and Soper, Alan K.}, title = {Comment on "Maxima in the thermodynamic response and correlation functions of deeply supercooled water"}, series = {Science}, volume = {360}, journal = {Science}, number = {6390}, publisher = {American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science}, address = {Washington}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.aat1634}, pages = {2}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Kim et al. recently measured the structure factor of deeply supercooled water droplets (Reports, 22 December 2017, p. 1589). We raise several concerns about their data analysis and interpretation. In our opinion, the reported data do not lead to clear conclusions about the origins of water's anomalies.}, language = {en} } @misc{BrandUlrich2018, author = {Brand, Ralf and Ulrich, Lukas}, title = {I can see it in your face}, series = {Journal of sport \& exercise psychology}, volume = {40}, journal = {Journal of sport \& exercise psychology}, publisher = {Human Kinetics Publ.}, address = {Champaign}, issn = {0895-2779}, doi = {10.1123/jsep.2018-0169}, pages = {S77 -- S78}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{Lendlein2018, author = {Lendlein, Andreas}, title = {Fabrication of reprogrammable shape-memory polymer actuators for robotics}, series = {Science robotics}, volume = {3}, journal = {Science robotics}, number = {18}, publisher = {American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science}, address = {Washington}, issn = {2470-9476}, doi = {10.1126/scirobotics.aat9090}, pages = {2}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Shape-memory polymer actuators, whose actuation geometry and switching temperatures are reprogrammable by physical fabrication schemes, were recently suggested for robotics with the option for self-healing and degradability.}, language = {en} } @misc{GeissmanJolivetNiemietal.2018, author = {Geissman, John and Jolivet, Laurent and Niemi, Nathan and Schildgen, Taylor F.}, title = {Thank you to our 2017 Peer Reviewers}, series = {Tectonics}, volume = {37}, journal = {Tectonics}, number = {8}, publisher = {American Geophysical Union}, address = {Washington}, issn = {0278-7407}, doi = {10.1029/2018TC005194}, pages = {2272 -- 2277}, year = {2018}, abstract = {An essential, respected, and critical aspect of the modern practice of science and scientific publishing is peer review. The process of peer review facilitates best practices in scientific conduct and communication, ensuring that manuscripts published as accurate, valuable, and clearly communicated. The over 152 papers published in Tectonics in 2017 benefit from the time, effort, and expertise of our reviewers who have provided thoughtfully considered advice on each manuscript. This role is critical to advancing our understanding of the evolution of the continents and their margins, as these reviews lead to even clearer and higher-quality papers. In 2017, the over 423 papers submitted to Tectonics were the beneficiaries of more than 786 reviews provided by 562 members of the tectonics community and related disciplines. To everyone who has volunteered their time and intellect to peer reviewing, thank you for helping Tectonics and all other AGU Publications provide the best science possible.}, language = {en} } @misc{JamnokSanchaisuriyaYamsrietal.2018, author = {Jamnok, Jutatip and Sanchaisuriya, Kanokwan and Yamsri, Supawadee and Fucharoen, Goonnapa and Fucharoen, Supan and Schweigert, Florian J. and Sanchaisuriya, Pattara}, title = {Application of a new portable nephelometer for screening thalassemia in countries with limited resources}, series = {International journal of laboratory hematology}, volume = {40}, journal = {International journal of laboratory hematology}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {1751-5521}, pages = {62 -- 62}, year = {2018}, abstract = {One-tube osmotic fragility (OF) test is a rapid test used widely for screening thalassemia in countries with limited resources. The test has important limitation in that its accuracy relies on observers' experience. The iCheck Turbidity is a prototype of portable nephelometer developed by BioAnalyt (Bioanalyt GmbH, Germany). In this study, we assessed the applicability of the iCheck Turbidity, for checking turbidity of the OF-test}, language = {en} } @misc{GianelliGentilucci2018, author = {Gianelli, Claudia and Gentilucci, Maurizio}, title = {Editorial: Reaching to Grasp Cognition: Analyzing Motor Behavior to Investigate Social Interactions}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {9}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01236}, pages = {2}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{JayNorellKunnusetal.2018, author = {Jay, Raphael J. and Norell, Jesper and Kunnus, Kristjan and Lundberg, Marcus and Gaffney, Kelly and Wernet, Philippe and Odelius, Michael and F{\"o}hlisch, Alexander}, title = {Dynamcis of local charge densities and metal-ligand covalency in iron complexes from femtosecond resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering}, series = {Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society}, volume = {256}, journal = {Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society}, publisher = {American Chemical Society}, address = {Washington}, issn = {0065-7727}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-370051}, pages = {2}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{DahmHeimannFunkeetal.2018, author = {Dahm, Torsten and Heimann, Sebastian and Funke, Sigward and Wendt, Siegfried and Rappsilber, Ivo and Bindi, Dino and Plenefisch, Thomas and Cotton, Fabrice Pierre}, title = {Correction to: Seismicity in the block mountains between Halle and Leipzig, Central Germany: centroid moment tensors, ground motion simulation, and felt intensities of two M approximate to 3 earthquakes in 2015 and 2017 (vol 22, pg 985, 2018)}, series = {Journal of seismology}, volume = {22}, journal = {Journal of seismology}, number = {6}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {1383-4649}, doi = {10.1007/s10950-018-9773-6}, pages = {1669 -- 1671}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{NeubauerHaubeltWankoetal.2018, author = {Neubauer, Kai and Haubelt, Christian and Wanko, Philipp and Schaub, Torsten H.}, title = {Utilizing quad-trees for efficient design space exploration with partial assignment evaluation}, series = {2018 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)}, journal = {2018 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5090-0602-1}, issn = {2153-6961}, doi = {10.1109/ASPDAC.2018.8297362}, pages = {434 -- 439}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Recently, it has been shown that constraint-based symbolic solving techniques offer an efficient way for deciding binding and routing options in order to obtain a feasible system level implementation. In combination with various background theories, a feasibility analysis of the resulting system may already be performed on partial solutions. That is, infeasible subsets of mapping and routing options can be pruned early in the decision process, which fastens the solving accordingly. However, allowing a proper design space exploration including multi-objective optimization also requires an efficient structure for storing and managing non-dominated solutions. In this work, we propose and study the usage of the Quad-Tree data structure in the context of partial assignment evaluation during system synthesis. Out experiments show that unnecessary dominance checks can be avoided, which indicates a preference of Quad-Trees over a commonly used list-based implementation for large combinatorial optimization problems.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bournot2018, author = {Bournot, Estefan{\´i}a}, title = {Imaginar la naci{\´o}n}, series = {Iberoamercana}, volume = {18}, journal = {Iberoamercana}, number = {67}, publisher = {Vervuert}, address = {Frankfurt, Main}, issn = {1577-3388}, doi = {10.18441/ibam.18.2018.67.7-10}, pages = {7 -- 10}, year = {2018}, language = {es} } @misc{DiazMendezSchoelzel2018, author = {Diaz, Sergio and Mendez, Diego and Sch{\"o}lzel, Mario}, title = {Dynamic Gallager-Humblet-Spira Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks}, series = {2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)}, journal = {2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-6820-7}, pages = {6}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The problem of constructing and maintaining a tree topology in a distributed manner is a challenging task in WSNs. This is because the nodes have limited computational and memory resources and the network changes over time. We propose the Dynamic Gallager-Humblet-Spira (D-GHS) algorithm that builds and maintains a minimum spanning tree. To do so, we divide D-GHS into four phases, namely neighbor discovery, tree construction, data collection, and tree maintenance. In the neighbor discovery phase, the nodes collect information about their neighbors and the link quality. In the tree construction, D-GHS finds the minimum spanning tree by executing the Gallager-Humblet-Spira algorithm. In the data collection phase, the sink roots the minimum spanning tree at itself, and each node sends data packets. In the tree maintenance phase, the nodes repair the tree when communication failures occur. The emulation results show that D-GHS reduces the number of control messages and the energy consumption, at the cost of a slight increase in memory size and convergence time.}, language = {en} } @misc{MawassAroraSandigetal.2018, author = {Mawass, Mohamad-Assaad and Arora, Ashima and Sandig, Oliver and Luo, Chen and Unal, Ahmet A. and Radu, Florin and Valencia, Sergio and Kronast, Florian}, title = {Spatially resolved investigation of all optical magnetization switching in TbFe alloys}, series = {2018 IEEE International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG)}, journal = {2018 IEEE International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-6425-4}, doi = {10.1109/INTMAG.2018.8508211}, pages = {1}, year = {2018}, abstract = {High storage density magnetic devices rely on the precise, reliable and ultrafast switching times of the magnetic states. Optical control of magnetization using femtosecond laser without applying any external magnetic field offers the advantage of switching magnetic states at ultrashort time scales, which has attracted a significant attention. Recently, it has been reported and demonstrated the,so-called, all-optical helicity-dependent switching (AO-HDS) in which a circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulse switches the magnetization of a ferromagnetic thin film as function of laser helicity [1]. Afterward, in more recent studies, it has been reported that AO-HDS is a general phenomenon existing in magnetic materials ranging from rare earth - transition metals ferrimagnetic (e.g. alloys, multilayers and hetero-structures system) to even ferromagnetic thin films. Among numerous studies in the literature which are discussing the microscopic origin of AO-HDS in ferromagnets or ferrimagnetic alloys, the most renowned concepts are momentum transfer via Inverse Faraday Effect (IFE) [1-3]and the concept of preferential thermal demagnetization for one magnetization direction by heating close to Tc (Curie temperature) in the presence of magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) [4-6]. In this study, we investigate all-optical magnetic switching using a stationary femtosecond laser spot (3-5 μm) in TbFe alloys via photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) with a spatial resolution of approximately 30 nm. We spatially characterize the effect of laser heating and local temperature profile created across the laser spot on AO-HDS in TbFe thin films. We find that AO-HDS occurs only in a `ring' shaped region surrounding the thermally demagnetized region formed by the laser spot and the formation of switched domains relies further on thermally induced domain wall motion. Our temperature dependent measurements highlight the importance of attainin...}, language = {en} } @misc{McElvenny2018, author = {McElvenny, James}, title = {Otto Neuraths Isotype and C. K. Ogdens Basic English}, series = {Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, Diagrams 2018}, volume = {10871}, journal = {Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, Diagrams 2018}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-91376-6}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6}, pages = {800 -- 802}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{BoissierKurzynski2018, author = {Boissier, Martin and Kurzynski, Daniel}, title = {Workload-Driven Horizontal Partitioning and Pruning for Large HTAP Systems}, series = {2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)}, journal = {2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-6306-6}, doi = {10.1109/ICDEW.2018.00026}, pages = {116 -- 121}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Modern server systems with large NUMA architectures necessitate (i) data being distributed over the available computing nodes and (ii) NUMA-aware query processing to enable effective parallel processing in database systems. As these architectures incur significant latency and throughout penalties for accessing non-local data, queries should be executed as close as possible to the data. To further increase both performance and efficiency, data that is not relevant for the query result should be skipped as early as possible. One way to achieve this goal is horizontal partitioning to improve static partition pruning. As part of our ongoing work on workload-driven partitioning, we have implemented a recent approach called aggressive data skipping and extended it to handle both analytical as well as transactional access patterns. In this paper, we evaluate this approach with the workload and data of a production enterprise system of a Global 2000 company. The results show that over 80\% of all tuples can be skipped in average while the resulting partitioning schemata are surprisingly stable over time.}, language = {en} } @misc{BlanchardScott2018, author = {Blanchard, Gilles and Scott, Clayton}, title = {Corrigendum to: Classification with asymmetric label noise}, series = {Electronic journal of statistics}, volume = {12}, journal = {Electronic journal of statistics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Institute of Mathematical Statistics}, address = {Cleveland}, issn = {1935-7524}, doi = {10.1214/18-EJS1422}, pages = {1779 -- 1781}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We point out a flaw in Lemma 15 of [1]. We also indicate how the main results of that section are still valid using a modified argument.}, language = {en} } @misc{PoppenhagenTemmen2018, author = {Poppenhagen, Nicole and Temmen, Jens}, title = {Across currents: Connections between Atlantic and (Trans) Pacific studies}, series = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, volume = {15}, journal = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1478-8810}, doi = {10.1080/14788810.2017.1394131}, pages = {149 -- 159}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{Jakupec2018, author = {Jakupec, Viktor}, title = {Preface}, series = {Development Aid-Populism and the End of the Neoliberal Agenda}, journal = {Development Aid-Populism and the End of the Neoliberal Agenda}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-72748-6}, issn = {2211-4548}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-72748-6}, pages = {V -- IX}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{PatalasMaliszewskaKrebs2018, author = {Patalas-Maliszewska, Justyna and Krebs, Irene}, title = {An Information System Supporting the Eliciting of Expert Knowledge for Successful IT Projects}, series = {Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2018}, volume = {920}, journal = {Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2018}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-319-99972-2}, issn = {1865-0929}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-99972-2_1}, pages = {3 -- 13}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In order to guarantee the success of an IT project, it is necessary for a company to possess expert knowledge. The difficulty arises when experts no longer work for the company and it then becomes necessary to use their knowledge, in order to realise an IT project. In this paper, the ExKnowIT information system which supports the eliciting of expert knowledge for successful IT projects, is presented and consists of the following modules: (1) the identification of experts for successful IT projects, (2) the eliciting of expert knowledge on completed IT projects, (3) the expert knowledge base on completed IT projects, (4) the Group Method for Data Handling (GMDH) algorithm, (5) new knowledge in support of decisions regarding the selection of a manager for a new IT project. The added value of our system is that these three approaches, namely, the elicitation of expert knowledge, the success of an IT project and the discovery of new knowledge, gleaned from the expert knowledge base, otherwise known as the decision model, complement each other.}, language = {en} } @misc{RudKaethnerGiesseretal.2018, author = {Rud, R. and K{\"a}thner, Jana and Giesser, J. and Pasche, R. and Giebel, Antje and Selbeck, J{\"o}rn and Shenderey, C. and Fleury, D. and Zude-Sasse, Manuela and Alchanatis, Victor}, title = {Monitoring spatial variability in an apple orchard under different water regimes}, series = {International Symposium on Sensing Plant Water Status - Methods and Applications in Horticultural Science}, volume = {1197}, journal = {International Symposium on Sensing Plant Water Status - Methods and Applications in Horticultural Science}, publisher = {International Society for Horticultural Science}, address = {The Hague}, isbn = {978-94-62611-93-1}, issn = {0567-7572}, doi = {10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1197.19}, pages = {139 -- 146}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Precision fruticulture addresses site or tree-adapted crop management. In the present study, soil and tree status, as well as fruit quality at harvest were analysed in a commercial apple (Malus × domestica 'Gala Brookfield'/Pajam1) orchard in a temperate climate. Trees were irrigated in addition to precipitation. Three irrigation levels (0, 50 and 100\%) were applied. Measurements included readings of apparent electrical conductivity of soil (ECa), stem water potential, canopy temperature obtained by infrared camera, and canopy volume estimated by LiDAR and RGB colour imaging. Laboratory analyses of 6 trees per treatment were done on fruit considering the pigment contents and quality parameters. Midday stem water potential (SWP), normalized crop water stress index (CWSI) calculated from thermal data, and fruit yield and quality at harvest were analysed. Spatial patterns of the variability of tree water status were estimated by CWSI imaging supported by SWP readings. CWSI ranged from 0.1 to 0.7 indicating high variability due to irrigation and precipitation. Canopy volume data were less variable. Soil ECa appeared homogeneous in the range of 0 to 4 mS m-1. Fruit harvested in a drought stress zone showed enhanced portion of pheophytin in the chlorophyll pool. Irrigation affected soluble solids content and, hence, the quality of fruit. Overall, results highlighted that spatial variation in orchards can be found even if marginal variability of soil properties can be assumed.}, language = {en} } @misc{Ernst2018, author = {Ernst, Marion Eva}, title = {R{\"a}umliche Metaphern in der Computer- und Internet-Terminologie}, series = {Sprachen verbinden : Beitr{\"a}ge der 24. Linguistik- und Literaturtage, Brno/Tschechien, 2016}, volume = {6}, journal = {Sprachen verbinden : Beitr{\"a}ge der 24. Linguistik- und Literaturtage, Brno/Tschechien, 2016}, publisher = {Kovac}, address = {Hamburg}, isbn = {978-3-8300-9698-6}, issn = {2364-561X}, pages = {61 -- 70}, year = {2018}, abstract = {No other means of communication determines through its seemingly unrestricted possibilities our everyday life more than the internet. From the mid-90s onwards, more and more technical advancements in the field of communication appear on the market, which in turn call for new terminology. In the first place, it is the internet (essentially based on the interaction between users and experts), which requires effective nomenclature in order to mediate between lay users and their restricted knowledge on the one, and experts and their sophisticated terminology on the other hand. At the interface between the new and complex realities and the need for simple linguistic access, a huge quantity of metaphoric denominations is used, making abstract innovations more comprehensible. Metaphor in the internet discourse serves to "reduce verticality" (Stenschke 2006) between specialized terminology and common language. The paper deals with metaphors based on spatial concepts. Space and spatiality play a key role in cognitive theories of metaphor as these theories themselves (according to Lakoff/Johnson 1980) are often based on the application of spatial concepts to non-spatial relations. After describing spatial concepts in general (referring to the internet), the paper explores which kind of metaphor takes advantage of the complexity present in the internet and how the medial space is linguistically recaptured in terms of spatial perception.}, language = {de} } @misc{AyzelIzhitskiy2018, author = {Ayzel, Georgy and Izhitskiy, Alexander}, title = {Coupling physically based and data-driven models for assessing freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea}, series = {Innovative Water Resources Management in a Changing Environment - Understanding and Balancing Interactions between Humankind and Nature}, volume = {379}, journal = {Innovative Water Resources Management in a Changing Environment - Understanding and Balancing Interactions between Humankind and Nature}, editor = {Xu, Z Peng}, publisher = {Copernicus}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, issn = {2199-899X}, doi = {10.5194/piahs-379-151-2018}, pages = {151 -- 158}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The Aral Sea desiccation and related changes in hydroclimatic conditions on a regional level is a hot topic for past decades. The key problem of scientific research projects devoted to an investigation of modern Aral Sea basin hydrological regime is its discontinuous nature - the only limited amount of papers takes into account the complex runoff formation system entirely. Addressing this challenge we have developed a continuous prediction system for assessing freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea based on coupling stack of hydrological and data-driven models. Results show a good prediction skill and approve the possibility to develop a valuable water assessment tool which utilizes the power of classical physically based and modern machine learning models both for territories with complex water management system and strong water-related data scarcity. The source code and data of the proposed system is available on a Github page (https://github.com/SMASHIproject/IWRM2018).}, language = {en} } @misc{RychkovStojharovKuznetsovetal.2018, author = {Rychkov, Andrey and Stojharov, Valery and Kuznetsov, Alexey and Rychkov, Dmitry}, title = {The influence of recrystallization regimes on electret charge stability in low-density polyethylene films}, series = {2018 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Dielectrics (ICD)}, journal = {2018 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Dielectrics (ICD)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-6389-9}, doi = {10.1109/ICD.2018.8514638}, pages = {4}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The electret state stability in nonpolar semicrystalline polymers is largely determined by the traps located at crystalline/ amorphous phase interfaces. Thus, the thermal history of such polymers should considerably influence their electret properties. In the present work, we investigate how recrystallization influences charge stability in low-density polyethylene corona electrets. It has been found that electret charge stability in quenched samples is higher than in slowly-crystallized ones. Phenomenologicaly, this can be explained by the increased number of deeper traps in samples with smaller crystallite size.}, language = {en} } @misc{GieblerRuthTanneberg2018, author = {Giebler, Heiko and Ruth, Saskia P. and Tanneberg, Dag}, title = {Why choice matters}, series = {Politics and Governance}, volume = {6}, journal = {Politics and Governance}, number = {1}, publisher = {Cogitatio Press}, address = {Lisbon}, issn = {2183-2463}, doi = {10.17645/pag.v6i1.1428}, pages = {1 -- 10}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research.}, language = {en} } @misc{SchmidtWellenburgLebaron2018, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Lebaron, Frederic}, title = {There is no such thing as "the Economy"}, series = {Historical Social Research}, volume = {43}, journal = {Historical Social Research}, number = {3}, publisher = {GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences}, address = {Cologne}, issn = {0172-6404}, doi = {10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.7-38}, pages = {7 -- 38}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This introductory essay to the HSR Special Issue "Economists, Politics, and Society" argues for a strong field-theoretical programme inspired by Pierre Bourdieu to research economic life as an integral part of different social forms. Its main aim is threefold. First, we spell out the very distinct Durkheimian legacy in Bourdieu's thinking and the way he applies it in researching economic phenomena. Without this background, much of what is actually part of how Bourdieu analysed economic aspects of social life would be overlooked or reduced to mere economic sociology. Second, we sketch the main theoretical concepts and heuristics used to analyse economic life from a field perspective. Third, we focus on practical methodological issues of field-analytical research into economic phenomena. We conclude with a short summary of the basic characteristics of this approach and discuss the main insights provided by the contributions to this special issue.}, language = {en} } @misc{GeirhosTemmeRauberetal.2018, author = {Geirhos, Robert and Temme, Carlos R. Medina and Rauber, Jonas and Sch{\"u}tt, Heiko Herbert and Bethge, Matthias and Wichmann, Felix A.}, title = {Generalisation in humans and deep neural networks}, series = {Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems}, volume = {31}, journal = {Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems}, publisher = {Curran Associates Inc.}, address = {Red Hook}, issn = {1049-5258}, pages = {7549 -- 7561}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We compare the robustness of humans and current convolutional deep neural networks (DNNs) on object recognition under twelve different types of image degradations. First, using three well known DNNs (ResNet-152, VGG-19, GoogLeNet) we find the human visual system to be more robust to nearly all of the tested image manipulations, and we observe progressively diverging classification error-patterns between humans and DNNs when the signal gets weaker. Secondly, we show that DNNs trained directly on distorted images consistently surpass human performance on the exact distortion types they were trained on, yet they display extremely poor generalisation abilities when tested on other distortion types. For example, training on salt-and-pepper noise does not imply robustness on uniform white noise and vice versa. Thus, changes in the noise distribution between training and testing constitutes a crucial challenge to deep learning vision systems that can be systematically addressed in a lifelong machine learning approach. Our new dataset consisting of 83K carefully measured human psychophysical trials provide a useful reference for lifelong robustness against image degradations set by the human visual system.}, language = {en} } @misc{BosserCabalarDieguezetal.2018, author = {Bosser, Anne-Gwenn and Cabalar, Pedro and Dieguez, Martin and Schaub, Torsten H.}, title = {Introducing temporal stable models for linear dynamic logic}, series = {16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning}, journal = {16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning}, publisher = {ASSOC Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence}, address = {Palo Alto}, pages = {12 -- 21}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We propose a new temporal extension of the logic of Here-and-There (HT) and its equilibria obtained by combining it with dynamic logic over (linear) traces. Unlike previous temporal extensions of HT based on linear temporal logic, the dynamic logic features allow us to reason about the composition of actions. For instance, this can be used to exercise fine grained control when planning in robotics, as exemplified by GOLOG. In this paper, we lay the foundations of our approach, and refer to it as Linear Dynamic Equilibrium Logic, or simply DEL. We start by developing the formal framework of DEL and provide relevant characteristic results. Among them, we elaborate upon the relationships to traditional linear dynamic logic and previous temporal extensions of HT.}, language = {en} } @misc{IonBaudisch2018, author = {Ion, Alexandra and Baudisch, Patrick Markus}, title = {Metamaterial Devices}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5819-4}, doi = {10.1145/3214822.3214827}, pages = {2}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In our hands-on demonstration, we show several objects, the functionality of which is defined by the objects' internal micro-structure. Such metamaterial machines can (1) be mechanisms based on their microstructures, (2) employ simple mechanical computation, or (3) change their outside to interact with their environment. They are 3D printed from one piece and we support their creating by providing interactive software tools.}, language = {en} } @misc{Steinberg2018, author = {Steinberg, Pablo}, title = {Only one Component of a holistic Nutrition Policy}, series = {Fleischwirtschaft}, volume = {98}, journal = {Fleischwirtschaft}, number = {11}, publisher = {Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, issn = {0015-363X}, pages = {8 -- 9}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @misc{EllisBauerBacigalupoetal.2018, author = {Ellis, S. C. and Bauer, S. and Bacigalupo, C. and Bland-Hawthorn, J. and Bryant, J. J. and Case, S. and Content, R. and Fechner, T. and Giannone, D. and Haynes, R. and Hernandez, E. and Horton, A. J. and Klauser, U. and Lawrence, J. S. and Leon-Saval, S. G. and Lindley, E. and L{\"o}hmannsr{\"o}ben, Hans-Gerd and Min, S. -S. and Pai, N. and Roth, M. and Shortridge, K. and Waller, L. and Xavier, Pascal and Zhelem, Ross}, title = {PRAXIS: an OH suppression optimised near infrared spectrograph}, series = {Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII}, volume = {10702}, journal = {Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII}, publisher = {SPIE-INT Soc Optical Engineering}, address = {Bellingham}, isbn = {978-1-5106-1958-6}, issn = {0277-786X}, doi = {10.1117/12.2311898}, pages = {16}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The problem of atmospheric emission from OH molecules is a long standing problem for near-infrared astronomy. PRAXIS is a unique spectrograph which is fed by fibres that remove the OH background and is optimised specifically to benefit from OH-Suppression. The OH suppression is achieved with fibre Bragg gratings, which were tested successfully on the GNOSIS instrument. PRAXIS uses the same fibre Bragg gratings as GNOSIS in its first implementation, and will exploit new, cheaper and more efficient, multicore fibre Bragg gratings in the second implementation. The OH lines are suppressed by a factor of similar to 1000, and the expected increase in the signal-to-noise in the interline regions compared to GNOSIS is a factor of similar to 9 with the GNOSIS gratings and a factor of similar to 17 with the new gratings. PRAXIS will enable the full exploitation of OH suppression for the first time, which was not achieved by GNOSIS (a retrofit to an existing instrument that was not OH-Suppression optimised) due to high thermal emission, low spectrograph transmission and detector noise. PRAXIS has extremely low thermal emission, through the cooling of all significantly emitting parts, including the fore-optics, the fibre Bragg gratings, a long length of fibre, and the fibre slit, and an optical design that minimises leaks of thermal emission from outside the spectrograph. PRAXIS has low detector noise through the use of a Hawaii-2RG detector, and a high throughput through a efficient VPH based spectrograph. PRAXIS will determine the absolute level of the interline continuum and enable observations of individual objects via an IFU. In this paper we give a status update and report on acceptance tests.}, language = {en} } @misc{BazhenovaZerbatoWeske2018, author = {Bazhenova, Ekaterina and Zerbato, Francesca and Weske, Mathias}, title = {Data-Centric Extraction of DMN Decision Models from BPMN Process Models}, series = {Business Process Management Workshops}, volume = {308}, journal = {Business Process Management Workshops}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-319-74030-0}, issn = {1865-1348}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-74030-0_43}, pages = {542 -- 555}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Operational decisions in business processes can be modeled by using the Decision Model and Notation (DMN). The complementary use of DMN for decision modeling and of the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for process design realizes the separation of concerns principle. For supporting separation of concerns during the design phase, it is crucial to understand which aspects of decision-making enclosed in a process model should be captured by a dedicated decision model. Whereas existing work focuses on the extraction of decision models from process control flow, the connection of process-related data and decision models is still unexplored. In this paper, we investigate how process-related data used for making decisions can be represented in process models and we distinguish a set of BPMN patterns capturing such information. Then, we provide a formal mapping of the identified BPMN patterns to corresponding DMN models and apply our approach to a real-world healthcare process.}, language = {en} } @misc{NeubauerWankoSchaubetal.2018, author = {Neubauer, Kai and Wanko, Philipp and Schaub, Torsten H. and Haubelt, Christian}, title = {Exact multi-objective design space exploration using ASPmT}, series = {Proceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation \& Test in Europe Conference \& Exhibition (DATE)}, journal = {Proceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation \& Test in Europe Conference \& Exhibition (DATE)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-3-9819-2630-9}, issn = {1530-1591}, doi = {10.23919/DATE.2018.8342014}, pages = {257 -- 260}, year = {2018}, abstract = {An efficient Design Space Exploration (DSE) is imperative for the design of modern, highly complex embedded systems in order to steer the development towards optimal design points. The early evaluation of design decisions at system-level abstraction layer helps to find promising regions for subsequent development steps in lower abstraction levels by diminishing the complexity of the search problem. In recent works, symbolic techniques, especially Answer Set Programming (ASP) modulo Theories (ASPmT), have been shown to find feasible solutions of highly complex system-level synthesis problems with non-linear constraints very efficiently. In this paper, we present a novel approach to a holistic system-level DSE based on ASPmT. To this end, we include additional background theories that concurrently guarantee compliance with hard constraints and perform the simultaneous optimization of several design objectives. We implement and compare our approach with a state-of-the-art preference handling framework for ASP. Experimental results indicate that our proposed method produces better solutions with respect to both diversity and convergence to the true Pareto front.}, language = {en} } @misc{PufahlWongWeske2018, author = {Pufahl, Luise and Wong, Tsun Yin and Weske, Mathias}, title = {Design of an extensible BPMN process simulator}, series = {Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2017)}, volume = {308}, journal = {Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2017)}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-319-74030-0}, issn = {1865-1348}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-74030-0_62}, pages = {782 -- 795}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Business process simulation is an important means for quantitative analysis of a business process and to compare different process alternatives. With the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) being the state-of-the-art language for the graphical representation of business processes, many existing process simulators support already the simulation of BPMN diagrams. However, they do not provide well-defined interfaces to integrate new concepts in the simulation environment. In this work, we present the design and architecture of a proof-of-concept implementation of an open and extensible BPMN process simulator. It also supports the simulation of multiple BPMN processes at a time and relies on the building blocks of the well-founded discrete event simulation. The extensibility is assured by a plug-in concept. Its feasibility is demonstrated by extensions supporting new BPMN concepts, such as the simulation of business rule activities referencing decision models and batch activities.}, language = {en} } @misc{SahlmannSchwotzer2018, author = {Sahlmann, Kristina and Schwotzer, Thomas}, title = {Ontology-based virtual IoT devices for edge computing}, series = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things}, journal = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-6564-2}, doi = {10.1145/3277593.3277597}, pages = {1 -- 7}, year = {2018}, abstract = {An IoT network may consist of hundreds heterogeneous devices. Some of them may be constrained in terms of memory, power, processing and network capacity. Manual network and service management of IoT devices are challenging. We propose a usage of an ontology for the IoT device descriptions enabling automatic network management as well as service discovery and aggregation. Our IoT architecture approach ensures interoperability using existing standards, i.e. MQTT protocol and SemanticWeb technologies. We herein introduce virtual IoT devices and their semantic framework deployed at the edge of network. As a result, virtual devices are enabled to aggregate capabilities of IoT devices, derive new services by inference, delegate requests/responses and generate events. Furthermore, they can collect and pre-process sensor data. These tasks on the edge computing overcome the shortcomings of the cloud usage regarding siloization, network bandwidth, latency and speed. We validate our proposition by implementing a virtual device on a Raspberry Pi.}, language = {en} } @misc{BoehneKreitz2018, author = {B{\"o}hne, Sebastian and Kreitz, Christoph}, title = {Learning how to prove}, series = {Electronic proceedings in theoretical computer science}, journal = {Electronic proceedings in theoretical computer science}, number = {267}, publisher = {Open Publishing Association}, address = {Sydney}, issn = {2075-2180}, doi = {10.4204/EPTCS.267.1}, pages = {1 -- 18}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We have developed an alternative approach to teaching computer science students how to prove. First, students are taught how to prove theorems with the Coq proof assistant. In a second, more difficult, step students will transfer their acquired skills to the area of textbook proofs. In this article we present a realisation of the second step. Proofs in Coq have a high degree of formality while textbook proofs have only a medium one. Therefore our key idea is to reduce the degree of formality from the level of Coq to textbook proofs in several small steps. For that purpose we introduce three proof styles between Coq and textbook proofs, called line by line comments, weakened line by line comments, and structure faithful proofs. While this article is mostly conceptional we also report on experiences with putting our approach into practise.}, language = {en} } @misc{MuellerLocaneLoy2018, author = {M{\"u}ller, Gesine and Locane, Jorge Joaquin and Loy, Benjamin}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Re-mapping World Literature: Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, journal = {Re-mapping World Literature: Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-054957-7}, issn = {2513-0757}, doi = {10.1515/9783110549577-001}, pages = {1 -- 12}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{LuterbacherSprinz2018, author = {Luterbacher, Urs and Sprinz, Detlef F.}, title = {Foreword}, series = {Global climate policy: actors, concepts, and enduring challenges}, journal = {Global climate policy: actors, concepts, and enduring challenges}, editor = {Luterbacher, Urs and Sprinz, Detlef F.}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {978-0-262-53534-2}, pages = {IX -- XI}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{Sprinz2018, author = {Sprinz, Detlef F.}, title = {Our Conclusions}, series = {Global Climate Policy: Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges}, journal = {Global Climate Policy: Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges}, editor = {Luterbacher, Urs and Sprinz, Detlef F.}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {978-0-262-53534-2}, pages = {323 -- 335}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{PlauthPolze2018, author = {Plauth, Max and Polze, Andreas}, title = {Towards improving data transfer efficiency for accelerators using hardware compression}, series = {Sixth International Symposium on Computing and Networking Workshops (CANDARW)}, journal = {Sixth International Symposium on Computing and Networking Workshops (CANDARW)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-9184-7}, doi = {10.1109/CANDARW.2018.00031}, pages = {125 -- 131}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The overhead of moving data is the major limiting factor in todays hardware, especially in heterogeneous systems where data needs to be transferred frequently between host and accelerator memory. With the increasing availability of hardware-based compression facilities in modern computer architectures, this paper investigates the potential of hardware-accelerated I/O Link Compression as a promising approach to reduce data volumes and transfer time, thus improving the overall efficiency of accelerators in heterogeneous systems. Our considerations are focused on On-the-Fly compression in both Single-Node and Scale-Out deployments. Based on a theoretical analysis, this paper demonstrates the feasibility of hardware-accelerated On-the-Fly I/O Link Compression for many workloads in a Scale-Out scenario, and for some even in a Single-Node scenario. These findings are confirmed in a preliminary evaluation using software-and hardware-based implementations of the 842 compression algorithm.}, language = {en} } @misc{MatthiesTeusnerHesse2018, author = {Matthies, Christoph and Teusner, Ralf and Hesse, G{\"u}nter}, title = {Beyond Surveys}, series = {2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference}, journal = {2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1174-6}, issn = {0190-5848}, pages = {9}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{TeusnerMatthiesStaubitz2018, author = {Teusner, Ralf and Matthies, Christoph and Staubitz, Thomas}, title = {What Stays in Mind?}, series = {IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)}, journal = {IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1174-6}, issn = {0190-5848}, doi = {10.1109/FIE.2018.8658890}, pages = {9}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{RepkeKrestelEddingetal.2018, author = {Repke, Tim and Krestel, Ralf and Edding, Jakob and Hartmann, Moritz and Hering, Jonas and Kipping, Dennis and Schmidt, Hendrik and Scordialo, Nico and Zenner, Alexander}, title = {Beacon in the Dark}, series = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management}, journal = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-6014-2}, doi = {10.1145/3269206.3269231}, pages = {1871 -- 1874}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The large amount of heterogeneous data in these email corpora renders experts' investigations by hand infeasible. Auditors or journalists, e.g., who are looking for irregular or inappropriate content or suspicious patterns, are in desperate need for computer-aided exploration tools to support their investigations. We present our Beacon system for the exploration of such corpora at different levels of detail. A distributed processing pipeline combines text mining methods and social network analysis to augment the already semi-structured nature of emails. The user interface ties into the resulting cleaned and enriched dataset. For the interface design we identify three objectives expert users have: gain an initial overview of the data to identify leads to investigate, understand the context of the information at hand, and have meaningful filters to iteratively focus onto a subset of emails. To this end we make use of interactive visualisations based on rearranged and aggregated extracted information to reveal salient patterns.}, language = {en} } @misc{LosterNaumannEhmuelleretal.2018, author = {Loster, Michael and Naumann, Felix and Ehmueller, Jan and Feldmann, Benjamin}, title = {CurEx}, series = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management}, journal = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-4503-6014-2}, doi = {10.1145/3269206.3269229}, pages = {1883 -- 1886}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The integration of diverse structured and unstructured information sources into a unified, domain-specific knowledge base is an important task in many areas. A well-maintained knowledge base enables data analysis in complex scenarios, such as risk analysis in the financial sector or investigating large data leaks, such as the Paradise or Panama papers. Both the creation of such knowledge bases, as well as their continuous maintenance and curation involves many complex tasks and considerable manual effort. With CurEx, we present a modular system that allows structured and unstructured data sources to be integrated into a domain-specific knowledge base. In particular, we (i) enable the incremental improvement of each individual integration component; (ii) enable the selective generation of multiple knowledge graphs from the information contained in the knowledge base; and (iii) provide two distinct user interfaces tailored to the needs of data engineers and end-users respectively. The former has curation capabilities and controls the integration process, whereas the latter focuses on the exploration of the generated knowledge graph.}, language = {en} } @misc{Matthies2018, author = {Matthies, Christoph}, title = {Scrum2kanban}, series = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for Millennials}, journal = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for Millennials}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-45035-750-0}, doi = {10.1145/3194779.3194784}, pages = {48 -- 55}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Using university capstone courses to teach agile software development methodologies has become commonplace, as agile methods have gained support in professional software development. This usually means students are introduced to and work with the currently most popular agile methodology: Scrum. However, as the agile methods employed in the industry change and are adapted to different contexts, university courses must follow suit. A prime example of this is the Kanban method, which has recently gathered attention in the industry. In this paper, we describe a capstone course design, which adds the hands-on learning of the lean principles advocated by Kanban into a capstone project run with Scrum. This both ensures that students are aware of recent process frameworks and ideas as well as gain a more thorough overview of how agile methods can be employed in practice. We describe the details of the course and analyze the participating students' perceptions as well as our observations. We analyze the development artifacts, created by students during the course in respect to the two different development methodologies. We further present a summary of the lessons learned as well as recommendations for future similar courses. The survey conducted at the end of the course revealed an overwhelmingly positive attitude of students towards the integration of Kanban into the course.}, language = {en} } @misc{ArandaSchoelzelMendezetal.2018, author = {Aranda, Juan and Sch{\"o}lzel, Mario and Mendez, Diego and Carrillo, Henry}, title = {An energy consumption model for multiModal wireless sensor networks based on wake-up radio receivers}, series = {2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)}, journal = {2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5386-6820-7}, doi = {10.1109/ColComCon.2018.8466728}, pages = {6}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Energy consumption is a major concern in Wireless Sensor Networks. A significant waste of energy occurs due to the idle listening and overhearing problems, which are typically avoided by turning off the radio, while no transmission is ongoing. The classical approach for allowing the reception of messages in such situations is to use a low-duty-cycle protocol, and to turn on the radio periodically, which reduces the idle listening problem, but requires timers and usually unnecessary wakeups. A better solution is to turn on the radio only on demand by using a Wake-up Radio Receiver (WuRx). In this paper, an energy model is presented to estimate the energy saving in various multi-hop network topologies under several use cases, when a WuRx is used instead of a classical low-duty-cycling protocol. The presented model also allows for estimating the benefit of various WuRx properties like using addressing or not.}, language = {en} } @misc{HaarmannBatoulisNikajetal.2018, author = {Haarmann, Stephan and Batoulis, Kimon and Nikaj, Adriatik and Weske, Mathias}, title = {DMN Decision Execution on the Ethereum Blockchain}, series = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAISE 2018}, volume = {10816}, journal = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAISE 2018}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-91563-0}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-91563-0_20}, pages = {327 -- 341}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Recently blockchain technology has been introduced to execute interacting business processes in a secure and transparent way. While the foundations for process enactment on blockchain have been researched, the execution of decisions on blockchain has not been addressed yet. In this paper we argue that decisions are an essential aspect of interacting business processes, and, therefore, also need to be executed on blockchain. The immutable representation of decision logic can be used by the interacting processes, so that decision taking will be more secure, more transparent, and better auditable. The approach is based on a mapping of the DMN language S-FEEL to Solidity code to be run on the Ethereum blockchain. The work is evaluated by a proof-of-concept prototype and an empirical cost evaluation.}, language = {en} } @misc{KimSunWendietal.2018, author = {Kim, Dongeon and Sun, Yabin and Wendi, Dadiyorto and Jiang, Ze and Liong, Shie-Yui and Gourbesville, Philippe}, title = {Flood modelling framework for Kuching City, Malaysia}, series = {Advances in Hydroinformatics: SimHydro 2017 - Choosing The Right Model in Applied Hydraulics}, journal = {Advances in Hydroinformatics: SimHydro 2017 - Choosing The Right Model in Applied Hydraulics}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Singapore}, isbn = {978-981-10-7218-5}, issn = {2364-6934}, doi = {10.1007/978-981-10-7218-5_39}, pages = {559 -- 568}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Several areas in Southeast Asia are very vulnerable to climate change and unable to take immediate/effective actions on countermeasures due to insufficient capabilities. Malaysia, in particular the east coast of peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak, is known as one of the vulnerable regions to flood disaster. Prolonged and intense rainfall, natural activities and increase in runoff are the main reasons to cause flooding in this area. In addition, topographic conditions also contribute to the occurrence of flood disaster. Kuching city is located in the northwest of Borneo Island and part of Sarawak river catchment. This area is a developing state in Malaysia experiencing rapid urbanization since 2000s, which has caused the insufficient data availability in topography and hydrology. To deal with these challenging issues, this study presents a flood modelling framework using the remote sensing technologies and machine learning techniques to acquire the digital elevation model (DEM) with improved accuracy for the non-surveyed areas. Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves were derived from climate model for various scenario simulations. The developed flood framework will be beneficial for the planners, policymakers, stakeholders as well as researchers in the field of water resource management in the aspect of providing better ideas/tools in dealing with the flooding issues in the region.}, language = {en} } @misc{GrossTiwariHammer2018, author = {Gross, Sascha and Tiwari, Abhishek and Hammer, Christian}, title = {PlAnalyzer}, series = {Computer Security(ESORICS 2018), PT II}, volume = {11099}, journal = {Computer Security(ESORICS 2018), PT II}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-98989-1}, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-98989-1_3}, pages = {41 -- 59}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In this work we propose PIAnalyzer, a novel approach to analyze PendingIntent related vulnerabilities. We empirically evaluate PIAnalyzer on a set of 1000 randomly selected applications from the Google Play Store and find 1358 insecure usages of Pendinglntents, including 70 severe vulnerabilities. We manually inspected ten reported vulnerabilities out of which nine correctly reported vulnerabilities, indicating a high precision. The evaluation shows that PIAnalyzer is efficient with an average execution time of 13 seconds per application.}, language = {en} } @misc{GalkeGerstenkornScherp2018, author = {Galke, Lukas and Gerstenkorn, Gunnar and Scherp, Ansgar}, title = {A case atudy of closed-domain response suggestion with limited training data}, series = {Database and Expert Systems Applications : DEXA 2018 Iinternational workshops}, volume = {903}, journal = {Database and Expert Systems Applications : DEXA 2018 Iinternational workshops}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-319-99133-7}, issn = {1865-0929}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-99133-7_18}, pages = {218 -- 229}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We analyze the problem of response suggestion in a closed domain along a real-world scenario of a digital library. We present a text-processing pipeline to generate question-answer pairs from chat transcripts. On this limited amount of training data, we compare retrieval-based, conditioned-generation, and dedicated representation learning approaches for response suggestion. Our results show that retrieval-based methods that strive to find similar, known contexts are preferable over parametric approaches from the conditioned-generation family, when the training data is limited. We, however, identify a specific representation learning approach that is competitive to the retrieval-based approaches despite the training data limitation.}, language = {en} } @misc{SteteSchossauKoopmanetal.2018, author = {Stete, Felix and Schossau, Phillip Gerald and Koopman, Wouter-Willem Adriaan and Bargheer, Matias}, title = {Size Dependence of the Coupling Strength in Plasmon-Exciton Nanoparticles}, series = {Quantum Nano-Photonics}, journal = {Quantum Nano-Photonics}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, isbn = {978-94-024-1546-9}, issn = {1871-465X}, doi = {10.1007/978-94-024-1544-5_26}, pages = {381 -- 383}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The coupling between molecular excitations and nanoparticles leads to promising applications. It is for example used to enhance the optical cross-section of molecules in surface enhanced Raman scattering, Purcell enhancement or plasmon enhanced dye lasers. In a coupled system new resonances emerge resulting from the original plasmon (ωpl) and exciton (ωex) resonances as ω±=12(ωpl+ωex)±14(ωpl-ωex)2+g2---------------√, (1) where g is the coupling parameter. Hence, the new resonances show a separation of Δ = ω+ - ω- from which the coupling strength can be deduced from the minimum distance between the two resonances, Ω = Δ(ω+ = ω-).}, language = {en} } @misc{SteteKoopmanBargheer2018, author = {Stete, Felix and Koopman, Wouter-Willem Adriaan and Bargheer, Matias}, title = {Signatures of strong coupling on nanoparticles}, series = {Quantum Nano-Photonics}, journal = {Quantum Nano-Photonics}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, isbn = {978-94-024-1546-9}, issn = {1871-465X}, doi = {10.1007/978-94-024-1544-5_53}, pages = {445 -- 447}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The electromagnetic coupling of molecular excitations to plasmonic nanoparticles offers a promising method to manipulate the light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. Plasmonic nanoparticles foster exceptionally high coupling strengths, due to their capacity to strongly concentrate the light-field to sub-wavelength mode volumes. A particularly interesting coupling regime occurs, if the coupling increases to a level such that the coupling strength surpasses all damping rates in the system. In this so-called strong-coupling regime hybrid light-matter states emerge, which can no more be divided into separate light and matter components. These hybrids unite the features of the original components and possess new resonances whose positions are separated by the Rabi splitting energy h Omega. Detuning the resonance of one of the components leads to an anticrossing of the two arising branches of the new resonances omega(+) and omega(-) with a minimal separation of Omega = omega(+) - omega(-).}, language = {en} }