@book{SchneiderLambersOrejas2019, author = {Schneider, Sven and Lambers, Leen and Orejas, Fernando}, title = {A logic-based incremental approach to graph repair}, number = {126}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-462-3}, issn = {1613-5652}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42751}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-427517}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {34}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Graph repair, restoring consistency of a graph, plays a prominent role in several areas of computer science and beyond: For example, in model-driven engineering, the abstract syntax of models is usually encoded using graphs. Flexible edit operations temporarily create inconsistent graphs not representing a valid model, thus requiring graph repair. Similarly, in graph databases—managing the storage and manipulation of graph data—updates may cause that a given database does not satisfy some integrity constraints, requiring also graph repair. We present a logic-based incremental approach to graph repair, generating a sound and complete (upon termination) overview of least-changing repairs. In our context, we formalize consistency by so-called graph conditions being equivalent to first-order logic on graphs. We present two kind of repair algorithms: State-based repair restores consistency independent of the graph update history, whereas deltabased (or incremental) repair takes this history explicitly into account. Technically, our algorithms rely on an existing model generation algorithm for graph conditions implemented in AutoGraph. Moreover, the delta-based approach uses the new concept of satisfaction (ST) trees for encoding if and how a graph satisfies a graph condition. We then demonstrate how to manipulate these STs incrementally with respect to a graph update.}, language = {en} } @book{PolyvyanyyKuropka2007, author = {Polyvyanyy, Artem and Kuropka, Dominik}, title = {A quantitative evaluation of the enhanced topic-based vector space model}, isbn = {978-3-939469-95-7}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33816}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2007}, abstract = {This contribution presents a quantitative evaluation procedure for Information Retrieval models and the results of this procedure applied on the enhanced Topic-based Vector Space Model (eTVSM). Since the eTVSM is an ontology-based model, its effectiveness heavily depends on the quality of the underlaying ontology. Therefore the model has been tested with different ontologies to evaluate the impact of those ontologies on the effectiveness of the eTVSM. On the highest level of abstraction, the following results have been observed during our evaluation: First, the theoretically deduced statement that the eTVSM has a similar effecitivity like the classic Vector Space Model if a trivial ontology (every term is a concept and it is independet of any other concepts) is used has been approved. Second, we were able to show that the effectiveness of the eTVSM raises if an ontology is used which is only able to resolve synonyms. We were able to derive such kind of ontology automatically from the WordNet ontology. Third, we observed that more powerful ontologies automatically derived from the WordNet, dramatically dropped the effectiveness of the eTVSM model even clearly below the effectiveness level of the Vector Space Model. Fourth, we were able to show that a manually created and optimized ontology is able to raise the effectiveness of the eTVSM to a level which is clearly above the best effectiveness levels we have found in the literature for the Latent Semantic Index model with compareable document sets.}, language = {en} } @book{NastanskyMehnertStrohe2014, author = {Nastansky, Andreas and Mehnert, Alexander and Strohe, Hans Gerhard}, title = {A vector error correction model for the relationship between public debt and inflation in Germany}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-50246}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2014}, abstract = {In the paper, the interaction between public debt and inflation including mutual impulse response will be analysed. The European sovereign debt crisis brought once again the focus on the consequences of public debt in combination with an expansive monetary policy for the development of consumer prices. Public deficits can lead to inflation if the money supply is expansive. The high level of national debt, not only in the Euro-crisis countries, and the strong increase in total assets of the European Central Bank, as a result of the unconventional monetary policy, caused fears on inflating national debt. The transmission from public debt to inflation through money supply and long-term interest rate will be shown in the paper. Based on these theoretical thoughts, the variables public debt, consumer price index, money supply m3 and long-term interest rate will be analysed within a vector error correction model estimated by Johansen approach. In the empirical part of the article, quarterly data for Germany from 1991 by 2010 are to be examined.}, language = {en} } @book{HuCordelMeinel2006, author = {Hu, Ji and Cordel, Dirk and Meinel, Christoph}, title = {A virtual machine architecture for creating IT-security laboratories}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-939469-13-1}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33077}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {50}, year = {2006}, abstract = {E-learning is a flexible and personalized alternative to traditional education. Nonetheless, existing e-learning systems for IT security education have difficulties in delivering hands-on experience because of the lack of proximity. Laboratory environments and practical exercises are indispensable instruction tools to IT security education, but security education in con-ventional computer laboratories poses the problem of immobility as well as high creation and maintenance costs. Hence, there is a need to effectively transform security laboratories and practical exercises into e-learning forms. This report introduces the Tele-Lab IT-Security architecture that allows students not only to learn IT security principles, but also to gain hands-on security experience by exercises in an online laboratory environment. In this architecture, virtual machines are used to provide safe user work environments instead of real computers. Thus, traditional laboratory environments can be cloned onto the Internet by software, which increases accessibilities to laboratory resources and greatly reduces investment and maintenance costs. Under the Tele-Lab IT-Security framework, a set of technical solutions is also proposed to provide effective functionalities, reliability, security, and performance. The virtual machines with appropriate resource allocation, software installation, and system configurations are used to build lightweight security laboratories on a hosting computer. Reliability and availability of laboratory platforms are covered by the virtual machine management framework. This management framework provides necessary monitoring and administration services to detect and recover critical failures of virtual machines at run time. Considering the risk that virtual machines can be misused for compromising production networks, we present security management solutions to prevent misuse of laboratory resources by security isolation at the system and network levels. This work is an attempt to bridge the gap between e-learning/tele-teaching and practical IT security education. It is not to substitute conventional teaching in laboratories but to add practical features to e-learning. This report demonstrates the possibility to implement hands-on security laboratories on the Internet reliably, securely, and economically.}, language = {en} } @book{SmirnovWeidlichMendlingetal.2009, author = {Smirnov, Sergey and Weidlich, Matthias and Mendling, Jan and Weske, Mathias}, title = {Action patterns in business process models}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-009-0}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33586}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {19}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Business process management experiences a large uptake by the industry, and process models play an important role in the analysis and improvement of processes. While an increasing number of staff becomes involved in actual modeling practice, it is crucial to assure model quality and homogeneity along with providing suitable aids for creating models. In this paper we consider the problem of offering recommendations to the user during the act of modeling. Our key contribution is a concept for defining and identifying so-called action patterns - chunks of actions often appearing together in business processes. In particular, we specify action patterns and demonstrate how they can be identified from existing process model repositories using association rule mining techniques. Action patterns can then be used to suggest additional actions for a process model. Our approach is challenged by applying it to the collection of process models from the SAP Reference Model.}, language = {en} } @book{DraisbachNaumannSzottetal.2012, author = {Draisbach, Uwe and Naumann, Felix and Szott, Sascha and Wonneberg, Oliver}, title = {Adaptive windows for duplicate detection}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-143-1}, issn = {1613-5652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53007}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {41}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Duplicate detection is the task of identifying all groups of records within a data set that represent the same real-world entity, respectively. This task is difficult, because (i) representations might differ slightly, so some similarity measure must be defined to compare pairs of records and (ii) data sets might have a high volume making a pair-wise comparison of all records infeasible. To tackle the second problem, many algorithms have been suggested that partition the data set and compare all record pairs only within each partition. One well-known such approach is the Sorted Neighborhood Method (SNM), which sorts the data according to some key and then advances a window over the data comparing only records that appear within the same window. We propose several variations of SNM that have in common a varying window size and advancement. The general intuition of such adaptive windows is that there might be regions of high similarity suggesting a larger window size and regions of lower similarity suggesting a smaller window size. We propose and thoroughly evaluate several adaption strategies, some of which are provably better than the original SNM in terms of efficiency (same results with fewer comparisons).}, language = {en} } @book{AbedjanNaumann2011, author = {Abedjan, Ziawasch and Naumann, Felix}, title = {Advancing the discovery of unique column combinations}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-148-6}, issn = {1613-5652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53564}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {25}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Unique column combinations of a relational database table are sets of columns that contain only unique values. Discovering such combinations is a fundamental research problem and has many different data management and knowledge discovery applications. Existing discovery algorithms are either brute force or have a high memory load and can thus be applied only to small datasets or samples. In this paper, the wellknown GORDIAN algorithm and "Apriori-based" algorithms are compared and analyzed for further optimization. We greatly improve the Apriori algorithms through efficient candidate generation and statistics-based pruning methods. A hybrid solution HCAGORDIAN combines the advantages of GORDIAN and our new algorithm HCA, and it significantly outperforms all previous work in many situations.}, language = {en} } @book{Xhindi2013, author = {Xhindi, Nevila}, title = {Albania towards a sustainable regional development}, series = {Praxis Kultur- und Sozialgeographie | PKS}, journal = {Praxis Kultur- und Sozialgeographie | PKS}, number = {56}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-223-0}, issn = {0934-716X}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62691}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2013}, abstract = {As Albania is accelerating its preparations towards the European Union candidate status, numerous areas of public policy and practices undergo intensive development processes. Regional development policy is a very new area of public policy in Albania, and needs research and development. This study focuses on the process of sustainable development in Albania, by analyzing and comparing the regional development of regions of Tirana, Shkodra and Kukes. The methodology used consists of a literature/desk review; analytical and comparative approach; qualitative interviews; quantitative data collection; analysis. The research is organized in five chapters. First chapter provides an overview of the study framework. The second outlines the theory and scientific framework for sustainable and regional development in relation with geography. The third chapter presents the picture of the regional development in Albania, analyzing the disparities and regional development in the light of EU requirements and NUTS division. Chapter 4 continues by analyzing and comparing the regional development of the regions: Tirana - driver for change, Shkodra - the North in Development and Kukes - the "shrinking" region. Chapter 5 presents the conclusions and recommendations. This research comes to the conclusions that if growth in Albania is to be increased and sustained, a regional development policy needs to be established.}, language = {en} } @book{KleineHirschfeldBracha2011, author = {Kleine, Matthias and Hirschfeld, Robert and Bracha, Gilad}, title = {An abstraction for version control systems}, series = {Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts f{\"u}r Softwaresystemtechnik an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, journal = {Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts f{\"u}r Softwaresystemtechnik an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, number = {54}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-158-5}, issn = {1613-5652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-55629}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {77}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Versionsverwaltungssysteme (VCS) erm{\"o}glichen es Entwicklern, {\"A}nderungen an Softwareartifakten zu verwalten. VCS werden mit Hilfe einer Vielzahl verschiedener Werkzeuge bedient, wie z.\,B. graphische Front-ends oder Kommandozeilenwerkzeuge. Es ist w{\"u}nschenswert mit einzelnen solcher Werkzeuge unterschiedliche VCS bedienen zu k{\"o}nnen. Bislang hat sich jedoch keine Abstraktion f{\"u}r Versionsverwaltungssysteme durchgesetzt, mit deren Hilfe solche Werkzeuge erstellt werden k{\"o}nnen. Stattdessen implementieren Werkzeuge zur Interaktion mit mehreren VCS ad-hoc L{\"o}sungen. Diese Masterarbeit stellt Pur vor, eine Abstraktion {\"u}ber Versionsverwaltungskonzepte. Mit Hilfe von Pur k{\"o}nnen Anwendungsprogramme entwickelt werden, die mit mehreren Versionsverwaltungssystemen interagieren k{\"o}nnen. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird eine Implementierung dieser Abstraktion bereitgestellt und mit Hilfe eines Anwendungsprogramms validiert.}, language = {en} } @book{LinckelsMeinel2005, author = {Linckels, Serge and Meinel, Christoph}, title = {An e-librarian service : natural language interface for an efficient semantic search within multimedia resources}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-937786-89-6}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-33088}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {40}, year = {2005}, abstract = {1 Introduction 1.1 Project formulation 1.2 Our contribution 2 Pedagogical Aspect 4 2.1 Modern teaching 2.2 Our Contribution 2.2.1 Autonomous and exploratory learning 2.2.2 Human machine interaction 2.2.3 Short multimedia clips 3 Ontology Aspect 3.1 Ontology driven expert systems 3.2 Our contribution 3.2.1 Ontology language 3.2.2 Concept Taxonomy 3.2.3 Knowledge base annotation 3.2.4 Description Logics 4 Natural language approach 4.1 Natural language processing in computer science 4.2 Our contribution 4.2.1 Explored strategies 4.2.2 Word equivalence 4.2.3 Semantic interpretation 4.2.4 Various problems 5 Information Retrieval Aspect 5.1 Modern information retrieval 5.2 Our contribution 5.2.1 Semantic query generation 5.2.2 Semantic relatedness 6 Implementation 6.1 Prototypes 6.2 Semantic layer architecture 6.3 Development 7 Experiments 7.1 Description of the experiments 7.2 General characteristics of the three sessions, instructions and procedure 7.3 First Session 7.4 Second Session 7.5 Third Session 7.6 Discussion and conclusion 8 Conclusion and future work 8.1 Conclusion 8.2 Open questions A Description Logics B Probabilistic context-free grammars}, language = {en} } @book{BaltzerHradilakPfennigschmidtetal.2021, author = {Baltzer, Wanda and Hradilak, Theresa and Pfennigschmidt, Lara and Prestin, Luc Maurice and Spranger, Moritz and Stadlinger, Simon and Wendt, Leo and Lincke, Jens and Rein, Patrick and Church, Luke and Hirschfeld, Robert}, title = {An individual-centered approach to visualize people's opinions and demographic information}, number = {136}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-504-0}, issn = {1613-5652}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-49145}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-491457}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {326}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The noble way to substantiate decisions that affect many people is to ask these people for their opinions. For governments that run whole countries, this means asking all citizens for their views to consider their situations and needs. Organizations such as Africa's Voices Foundation, who want to facilitate communication between decision-makers and citizens of a country, have difficulty mediating between these groups. To enable understanding, statements need to be summarized and visualized. Accomplishing these goals in a way that does justice to the citizens' voices and situations proves challenging. Standard charts do not help this cause as they fail to create empathy for the people behind their graphical abstractions. Furthermore, these charts do not create trust in the data they are representing as there is no way to see or navigate back to the underlying code and the original data. To fulfill these functions, visualizations would highly benefit from interactions to explore the displayed data, which standard charts often only limitedly provide. To help improve the understanding of people's voices, we developed and categorized 80 ideas for new visualizations, new interactions, and better connections between different charts, which we present in this report. From those ideas, we implemented 10 prototypes and two systems that integrate different visualizations. We show that this integration allows consistent appearance and behavior of visualizations. The visualizations all share the same main concept: representing each individual with a single dot. To realize this idea, we discuss technologies that efficiently allow the rendering of a large number of these dots. With these visualizations, direct interactions with representations of individuals are achievable by clicking on them or by dragging a selection around them. This direct interaction is only possible with a bidirectional connection from the visualization to the data it displays. We discuss different strategies for bidirectional mappings and the trade-offs involved. Having unified behavior across visualizations enhances exploration. For our prototypes, that includes grouping, filtering, highlighting, and coloring of dots. Our prototyping work was enabled by the development environment Lively4. We explain which parts of Lively4 facilitated our prototyping process. Finally, we evaluate our approach to domain problems and our developed visualization concepts. Our work provides inspiration and a starting point for visualization development in this domain. Our visualizations can improve communication between citizens and their government and motivate empathetic decisions. Our approach, combining low-level entities to create visualizations, provides value to an explorative and empathetic workflow. We show that the design space for visualizing this kind of data has a lot of potential and that it is possible to combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to data analysis.}, language = {en} } @book{Pilipenko2014, author = {Pilipenko, Andrey}, title = {An introduction to stochastic differential equations with reflection}, series = {Lectures in pure and applied mathematics}, journal = {Lectures in pure and applied mathematics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-297-1}, issn = {2199-4951}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-70782}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {ix, 75}, year = {2014}, abstract = {These lecture notes are intended as a short introduction to diffusion processes on a domain with a reflecting boundary for graduate students, researchers in stochastic analysis and interested readers. Specific results on stochastic differential equations with reflecting boundaries such as existence and uniqueness, continuity and Markov properties, relation to partial differential equations and submartingale problems are given. An extensive list of references to current literature is included. This book has its origins in a mini-course the author gave at the University of Potsdam and at the Technical University of Berlin in Winter 2013.}, language = {en} } @book{VanHalVanLoonMercelisetal.2023, author = {Van Hal, Toon and Van Loon, Zanna and Mercelis, Wouter and Steckley, John and Peetermans, Andy and Van Rooy, Raf and Dionne, Fannie}, title = {Anchored in ink}, editor = {Van Loon, Zanna and Steckley, John and Van Hal, Toon and Peetermans, Andy}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-516-3}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-51306}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-513062}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {448}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This book serves as a gateway to the Elementa grammaticae Huronicae, an eighteenth-century grammar of the Wendat ('Huron') language by Jesuit Pierre-Philippe Potier (1708-1781). The volume falls into three main parts. The first part introduces the grammar and some of its contexts, offering information about the Huron-Wendat and Wyandot, the early modern Jesuit mission in New France and the Jesuits' linguistic output. The heart of the volume is made up by its second part, a text edition of the Elementa. The third part presents some avenues of research by way of specific case studies.}, language = {en} } @book{KunzeStrohe2010, author = {Kunze, Karl-Kuno and Strohe, Hans Gerhard}, title = {Antipersistence in German stock returns}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-45582}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Persistence of stock returns is an extensively studied and discussed theme in the analysis of financial markets. Antipersistence is usually attributed to volatilities. However, not only volatilities but also stock returns can exhibit antipersistence. Antipersistent noise has a somewhat rougher appearance than Gaussian noise. Heuristically spoken, price movements are more likely followed by movements in the opposite direction than in the same direction. The pertaining integrated process exhibits a smaller range - prices seem to stay in the vicinity of the initial value. We apply a widely used test based upon the modified R/S-Method by Lo [1991] to daily returns of 21 German stocks from 1960 to 2008. Combining this test with the concept of moving windows by Carbone et al. [2004], we are able to determine periods of antipersistence for some of the series under examination. Our results suggest that antipersistence can be found for stocks and periods where extraordinary corporate actions such as mergers \& acquisitions or financial distress are present. These effects should be properly accounted for when choosing and designing models for inference.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-724, title = {Approaches and findings in oral, written and gestural language}, editor = {Dipper, Stefanie and G{\"o}tze, Michael and Stede, Manfred}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-4725}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8255}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {244}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Der vorliegende dritte Band der Serie "Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure" enth{\"a}lt sieben Beitr{\"a}ge aus verschiedenen Projekten des Sonderforschungsbereiches "Informationsstruktur: Die sprachlichen Mittel der Gliederung von {\"A}ußerung, Satz und Text" (SFB 632). Der Titel "Approaches and Findings in Oral, Written and Gestural Language" reflektiert die Bandbreite der Untersuchungen zum Thema Informationsstruktur. In ihrem Artikel hinterfragt Elke Kasimir die Zuverl{\"a}ssigkeit des sog. Frage-Antwort-Tests zur Bestimmung des fokussierten Elementes in S{\"a}tzen. Ihr alternativer L{\"o}sungsvorschlag wird in dem Kommentar von Thomas Weskott kritisch diskutiert. Der Artikel von Paul Elbourne befasst sich mit Ph{\"a}nomenen der Ellipse und bietet eine neue semantische Analyse an. Spezielle morphologisch stark markierte Fokuskonstruktionen aus f{\"u}nf verschiedenen afrikanischen Sprachen der Gur- und Kwa-Sprachgruppe werden von Ines Fiedler und Anne Schwarz analysiert und diachronisch interpretiert. Ebenfalls sprachhistorisch ausgerichtet ist der Artikel von Roland Hinterh{\"o}lzl, Svetlana Petrova und Michael Solf, die Belege f{\"u}r die Interaktion von Wortstellung und Informationsstruktur bereits in der althochdeutschen Tatian-{\"U}bersetzung fanden. Anke Sennema, Ruben van de Vijver, Susanne E. Carroll und Anne Zimmer-Stahl diskutieren anhand einer Serie von Experimenten die Nutzung von Prosodie, Wortl{\"a}nge und -Stellung f{\"u}r die semantischen Interpretation in der Erst- und Zweitsprache. Die besondere Rolle von Gestik in Verbindung mit Intonation f{\"u}r die Strukturierung des sprachlichen Diskurses wird von Stefanie Jannedy und Norma Mendoza-Denton hervorgehoben.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-2806, title = {Armenia : a human rights perspective for peace and democracy; human rights, human rights education and minorities}, editor = {Mihr, Anja and Mkrtichyan, Artur and Mahler, Claudia and Toivanen, Reetta}, isbn = {978-3-937786-66-7}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-29740}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2005}, abstract = {I. Human Rights and Democratic Movements in Armenia - Human Rights as an "Attractor" of Europeanization Processes of Transcaucasian "Neither War nor Peace Societies" (Artur Mkrtichyan) - Human Rights Defender's Office Armenia (Larisa Alaverdyan) - The Factor of Human Rights Protection as Criteria for the Development in the Social System (Hovhannes Hovhannisyan) - Two Priorities and Two Suggestions in Leading the Way to Human Rights Protection (Gevork Manoukian) - Intrastate Mechanisms of the Protection of Human Political Rights and Freedoms in Armenia (Ashot A. Alexanyan) - The Future of Democracy in Armenia: Institutional and Mass Beliefs Perspectives (Alexander Markarov) II. Human Rights and Education in Armenia - Human Rights in the System of Civic Education Values (Valery Poghosyan) - The Role of Academic Knowledge in Maintaining Tolerance (Ani Muradyan) - Rights of a Child or Duties of Adults...? (Mira Antonyan) - The Right to Education for Children with Special Needs: Inclusive Education in Armenia (Marina Hovhannissyan) - Human Rights Awareness and UNDP Evaluation in Armenia (Kristina Henschen) - Human Rights Education in Armenia - A Base Line Study (Litit Umroyan; Lucig Danielian) III. Human Rights and Minorities in Armenia - Human Rights, Minorities and Human Rights Education in Armenia: An External Perspective (Claudia Mahler; Anja Mihr; Reetta Toivanen) - Minorities and Identity in Armenia (Tatevik Margaryan) - Legal and Real Opportunities for the National Minorities Residing on the Territory of the Republic of Armenia (Hranush Kharatyan)}, language = {en} } @book{Taneja2007, author = {Taneja, Preti}, title = {Assimilation, exodus, eradication}, publisher = {Minority Rights Group International}, address = {London}, isbn = {1-904584-60-8}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-bbdig-87}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {40}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @book{DyckGieseLambers2017, author = {Dyck, Johannes and Giese, Holger and Lambers, Leen}, title = {Automatic verification of behavior preservation at the transformation level for relational model transformation}, number = {112}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-391-6}, issn = {1613-5652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-100279}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {viii, 112}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The correctness of model transformations is a crucial element for model-driven engineering of high quality software. In particular, behavior preservation is the most important correctness property avoiding the introduction of semantic errors during the model-driven engineering process. Behavior preservation verification techniques either show that specific properties are preserved, or more generally and complex, they show some kind of behavioral equivalence or refinement between source and target model of the transformation. Both kinds of behavior preservation verification goals have been presented with automatic tool support for the instance level, i.e. for a given source and target model specified by the model transformation. However, up until now there is no automatic verification approach available at the transformation level, i.e. for all source and target models specified by the model transformation. In this report, we extend our results presented in [27] and outline a new sophisticated approach for the automatic verification of behavior preservation captured by bisimulation resp. simulation for model transformations specified by triple graph grammars and semantic definitions given by graph transformation rules. In particular, we show that the behavior preservation problem can be reduced to invariant checking for graph transformation and that the resulting checking problem can be addressed by our own invariant checker even for a complex example where a sequence chart is transformed into communicating automata. We further discuss today's limitations of invariant checking for graph transformation and motivate further lines of future work in this direction.}, language = {en} } @book{FelgentreffBorningHirschfeld2013, author = {Felgentreff, Tim and Borning, Alan and Hirschfeld, Robert}, title = {Babelsberg : specifying and solving constraints on object behavior}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-265-0}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-67296}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {53}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Constraints allow developers to specify desired properties of systems in a number of domains, and have those properties be maintained automatically. This results in compact, declarative code, avoiding scattered code to check and imperatively re-satisfy invariants. Despite these advantages, constraint programming is not yet widespread, with standard imperative programming still the norm. There is a long history of research on integrating constraint programming with the imperative paradigm. However, this integration typically does not unify the constructs for encapsulation and abstraction from both paradigms. This impedes re-use of modules, as client code written in one paradigm can only use modules written to support that paradigm. Modules require redundant definitions if they are to be used in both paradigms. We present a language - Babelsberg - that unifies the constructs for en- capsulation and abstraction by using only object-oriented method definitions for both declarative and imperative code. Our prototype - Babelsberg/R - is an extension to Ruby, and continues to support Ruby's object-oriented se- mantics. It allows programmers to add constraints to existing Ruby programs in incremental steps by placing them on the results of normal object-oriented message sends. It is implemented by modifying a state-of-the-art Ruby virtual machine. The performance of standard object-oriented code without con- straints is only modestly impacted, with typically less than 10\% overhead compared with the unmodified virtual machine. Furthermore, our architec- ture for adding multiple constraint solvers allows Babelsberg to deal with constraints in a variety of domains. We argue that our approach provides a useful step toward making con- straint solving a generic tool for object-oriented programmers. We also provide example applications, written in our Ruby-based implementation, which use constraints in a variety of application domains, including interactive graphics, circuit simulations, data streaming with both hard and soft constraints on performance, and configuration file Management.}, language = {en} } @book{FelgentreffHirschfeldMillsteinetal.2015, author = {Felgentreff, Tim and Hirschfeld, Robert and Millstein, Todd and Borning, Alan}, title = {Babelsberg/RML}, number = {103}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-348-0}, issn = {1613-5652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83826}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {68}, year = {2015}, abstract = {New programming language designs are often evaluated on concrete implementations. However, in order to draw conclusions about the language design from the evaluation of concrete programming languages, these implementations need to be verified against the formalism of the design. To that end, we also have to ensure that the design actually meets its stated goals. A useful tool for the latter has been to create an executable semantics from a formalism that can execute a test suite of examples. However, this mechanism so far did not allow to verify an implementation against the design. Babelsberg is a new design for a family of object-constraint languages. Recently, we have developed a formal semantics to clarify some issues in the design of those languages. Supplementing this work, we report here on how this formalism is turned into an executable operational semantics using the RML system. Furthermore, we show how we extended the executable semantics to create a framework that can generate test suites for the concrete Babelsberg implementations that provide traceability from the design to the language. Finally, we discuss how these test suites helped us find and correct mistakes in the Babelsberg implementation for JavaScript.}, language = {en} }