TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krasnova, Hanna
A1  - Veltri, Natasha F.
A1  - Spengler, Klaus
A1  - Günther, Oliver
T1  - "Deal of the Day" Platforms what drives Consumer loyalty?
JF  - Business & information systems engineering : the international journal of Wirtschaftsinformatik
N2  - "Deal of the Day" (DoD) platforms have quickly become popular by offering savings on local services, products and vacations. For merchants, these platforms represent a new marketing channel to advertise their products and services and attract new customers. DoD platform providers, however, struggle to maintaining a stable market share and profitability, because entry and switching costs are low. To sustain a competitive market position, DoD providers are looking for ways to build a loyal customer base. However, research examining the determinants of user loyalty in this novel context is scarce. To fill this gap, this study employs Grounded Theory methodology to develop a conceptual model of customer loyalty to a DoD provider. In the next step, qualitative insights are enriched and validated using quantitative data from a survey of 202 DoD users. The authors find that customer loyalty is in large part driven by monetary incentives, but can be eroded if impressions from merchant encounters are below expectations. In addition, enhancing the share of deals relevant for consumers, i.e. signal-to-noise ratio, and mitigating perceived risks of a transaction emerge as challenges. Beyond theoretical value, the results offer practical insights into how customer loyalty to a DoD provider can be promoted.
KW  - Deal of the Day
KW  - Loyalty
KW  - Grounded theory
KW  - Structural equation modeling
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-013-0268-2
SN  - 1867-0202
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
SP  - 165
EP  - 177
PB  - Springer
CY  - Heidelberg
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Holz, Christian
T1  - 3D from 2D touch
T1  - 3D von 2D-Berührungen
N2  - While interaction with computers used to be dominated by mice and keyboards, new types of sensors now allow users to interact through touch, speech, or using their whole body in 3D space. These new interaction modalities are often referred to as "natural user interfaces" or "NUIs." While 2D NUIs have experienced major success on billions of mobile touch devices sold, 3D NUI systems have so far been unable to deliver a mobile form factor, mainly due to their use of cameras. The fact that cameras require a certain distance from the capture volume has prevented 3D NUI systems from reaching the flat form factor mobile users expect. In this dissertation, we address this issue by sensing 3D input using flat 2D sensors. The systems we present observe the input from 3D objects as 2D imprints upon physical contact. By sampling these imprints at very high resolutions, we obtain the objects' textures. In some cases, a texture uniquely identifies a biometric feature, such as the user's fingerprint. In other cases, an imprint stems from the user's clothing, such as when walking on multitouch floors. By analyzing from which part of the 3D object the 2D imprint results, we reconstruct the object's pose in 3D space. While our main contribution is a general approach to sensing 3D input on 2D sensors upon physical contact, we also demonstrate three applications of our approach. (1) We present high-accuracy touch devices that allow users to reliably touch targets that are a third of the size of those on current touch devices. We show that different users and 3D finger poses systematically affect touch sensing, which current devices perceive as random input noise. We introduce a model for touch that compensates for this systematic effect by deriving the 3D finger pose and the user's identity from each touch imprint. We then investigate this systematic effect in detail and explore how users conceptually touch targets. Our findings indicate that users aim by aligning visual features of their fingers with the target. We present a visual model for touch input that eliminates virtually all systematic effects on touch accuracy. (2) From each touch, we identify users biometrically by analyzing their fingerprints. Our prototype Fiberio integrates fingerprint scanning and a display into the same flat surface, solving a long-standing problem in human-computer interaction: secure authentication on touchscreens. Sensing 3D input and authenticating users upon touch allows Fiberio to implement a variety of applications that traditionally require the bulky setups of current 3D NUI systems. (3) To demonstrate the versatility of 3D reconstruction on larger touch surfaces, we present a high-resolution pressure-sensitive floor that resolves the texture of objects upon touch. Using the same principles as before, our system GravitySpace analyzes all imprints and identifies users based on their shoe soles, detects furniture, and enables accurate touch input using feet. By classifying all imprints, GravitySpace detects the users' body parts that are in contact with the floor and then reconstructs their 3D body poses using inverse kinematics. GravitySpace thus enables a range of applications for future 3D NUI systems based on a flat sensor, such as smart rooms in future homes. We conclude this dissertation by projecting into the future of mobile devices. Focusing on the mobility aspect of our work, we explore how NUI devices may one day augment users directly in the form of implanted devices.
N2  - Die Interaktion mit Computern war in den letzten vierzig Jahren stark von Tastatur und Maus geprägt. Neue Arten von Sensoren ermöglichen Computern nun, Eingaben durch Berührungs-, Sprach- oder 3D-Gestensensoren zu erkennen. Solch neuartige Formen der Interaktion werden häufig unter dem Begriff "natürliche Benutzungsschnittstellen" bzw. "NUIs" (englisch natural user interfaces) zusammengefasst. 2D-NUIs ist vor allem auf Mobilgeräten ein Durchbruch gelungen; über eine Milliarde solcher Geräte lassen sich durch Berührungseingaben bedienen. 3D-NUIs haben sich jedoch bisher nicht auf mobilen Plattformen durchsetzen können, da sie Nutzereingaben vorrangig mit Kameras aufzeichnen. Da Kameras Bilder jedoch erst ab einem gewissen Abstand auflösen können, eignen sie sich nicht als Sensor in einer mobilen Plattform. In dieser Arbeit lösen wir dieses Problem mit Hilfe von 2D-Sensoren, von deren Eingaben wir 3D-Informationen rekonstruieren. Unsere Prototypen zeichnen dabei die 2D-Abdrücke der Objekte, die den Sensor berühren, mit hoher Auflösung auf. Aus diesen Abdrücken leiten sie dann die Textur der Objekte ab. Anhand der Stelle der Objektoberfläche, die den Sensor berührt, rekonstruieren unsere Prototypen schließlich die 3D-Ausrichtung des jeweiligen Objektes. Neben unserem Hauptbeitrag der 3D-Rekonstruktion stellen wir drei Anwendungen unserer Methode vor. (1) Wir präsentieren Geräte, die Berührungseingaben dreimal genauer als existierende Geräte messen und damit Nutzern ermöglichen, dreimal kleinere Ziele zuverlässig mit dem Finger auszuwählen. Wir zeigen dabei, dass sowohl die Haltung des Fingers als auch der Benutzer selbst einen systematischen Einfluss auf die vom Sensor gemessene Position ausübt. Da existierende Geräte weder die Haltung des Fingers noch den Benutzer erkennen, nehmen sie solche Variationen als Eingabeungenauigkeit wahr. Wir stellen ein Modell für Berührungseingabe vor, das diese beiden Faktoren integriert, um damit die gemessenen Eingabepositionen zu präzisieren. Anschließend untersuchen wir, welches mentale Modell Nutzer beim Berühren kleiner Ziele mit dem Finger anwenden. Unsere Ergebnisse deuten auf ein visuelles Modell hin, demzufolge Benutzer Merkmale auf der Oberfläche ihres Fingers an einem Ziel ausrichten. Bei der Analyse von Berührungseingaben mit diesem Modell verschwinden nahezu alle zuvor von uns beobachteten systematischen Effekte. (2) Unsere Prototypen identifizieren Nutzer anhand der biometrischen Merkmale von Fingerabdrücken. Unser Prototyp Fiberio integriert dabei einen Fingerabdruckscanner und einen Bildschirm in die selbe Oberfläche und löst somit das seit Langem bestehende Problem der sicheren Authentifizierung auf Berührungsbildschirmen. Gemeinsam mit der 3D-Rekonstruktion von Eingaben ermöglicht diese Fähigkeit Fiberio, eine Reihe von Anwendungen zu implementieren, die bisher den sperrigen Aufbau aktueller 3D-NUI-Systeme voraussetzten. (3) Um die Flexibilität unserer Methode zu zeigen, implementieren wir sie auf einem großen, berührungsempfindlichen Fußboden, der Objekttexturen bei der Eingabe ebenfalls mit hoher Auflösung aufzeichnet. Ähnlich wie zuvor analysiert unser System GravitySpace diese Abdrücke, um Nutzer anhand ihrer Schuhsolen zu identifizieren, Möbelstücke auf dem Boden zu erkennen und Nutzern präzise Eingaben mittels ihrer Schuhe zu ermöglichen. Indem GravitySpace alle Abdrücke klassifiziert, erkennt das System die Körperteile der Benutzer, die sich in Kontakt mit dem Boden befinden. Aus der Anordnung dieser Kontakte schließt GravitySpace dann auf die Körperhaltungen aller Benutzer in 3D. GravitySpace hat daher das Potenzial, Anwendungen für zukünftige 3D-NUI-Systeme auf einer flachen Oberfläche zu implementieren, wie zum Beispiel in zukünftigen intelligenten Wohnungen. Wie schließen diese Arbeit mit einem Ausblick auf zukünftige interaktive Geräte. Dabei konzentrieren wir uns auf den Mobilitätsaspekt aktueller Entwicklungen und beleuchten, wie zukünftige mobile NUI-Geräte Nutzer in Form implantierter Geräte direkt unterstützen können.
KW  - HCI
KW  - Berührungseingaben
KW  - Eingabegenauigkeit
KW  - Modell
KW  - Mobilgeräte
KW  - HCI
KW  - touch input
KW  - input accuracy
KW  - model
KW  - mobile devices
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-67796
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Delgrande, James
A1  - Schaub, Torsten H.
A1  - Tompits, Hans
A1  - Woltran, Stefan
T1  - A model-theoretic approach to belief change in answer set programming
JF  - ACM transactions on computational logic
N2  - We address the problem of belief change in (nonmonotonic) logic programming under answer set semantics. Our formal techniques are analogous to those of distance-based belief revision in propositional logic. In particular, we build upon the model theory of logic programs furnished by SE interpretations, where an SE interpretation is a model of a logic program in the same way that a classical interpretation is a model of a propositional formula. Hence we extend techniques from the area of belief revision based on distance between models to belief change in logic programs.
 We first consider belief revision: for logic programs P and Q, the goal is to determine a program R that corresponds to the revision of P by Q, denoted P * Q. We investigate several operators, including (logic program) expansion and two revision operators based on the distance between the SE models of logic programs. It proves to be the case that expansion is an interesting operator in its own right, unlike in classical belief revision where it is relatively uninteresting. Expansion and revision are shown to satisfy a suite of interesting properties; in particular, our revision operators satisfy all or nearly all of the AGM postulates for revision.
 We next consider approaches for merging a set of logic programs, P-1,...,P-n. Again, our formal techniques are based on notions of relative distance between the SE models of the logic programs. Two approaches are examined. The first informally selects for each program P-i those models of P-i that vary the least from models of the other programs. The second approach informally selects those models of a program P-0 that are closest to the models of programs P-1,...,P-n. In this case, P-0 can be thought of as a set of database integrity constraints. We examine these operators with regards to how they satisfy relevant postulate sets.
 Last, we present encodings for computing the revision as well as the merging of logic programs within the same logic programming framework. This gives rise to a direct implementation of our approach in terms of off-the-shelf answer set solvers. These encodings also reflect the fact that our change operators do not increase the complexity of the base formalism.
KW  - Theory
KW  - Answer set programming
KW  - belief revision
KW  - belief merging
KW  - program encodings
KW  - strong equivalence
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/2480759.2480766
SN  - 1529-3785
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sawade, Christoph
A1  - Bickel, Steffen
A1  - von Oertzen, Timo
A1  - Scheffer, Tobias
A1  - Landwehr, Niels
T1  - Active evaluation of ranking functions based on graded relevance
JF  - Machine learning
N2  - Evaluating the quality of ranking functions is a core task in web search and other information retrieval domains. Because query distributions and item relevance change over time, ranking models often cannot be evaluated accurately on held-out training data. Instead, considerable effort is spent on manually labeling the relevance of query results for test queries in order to track ranking performance. We address the problem of estimating ranking performance as accurately as possible on a fixed labeling budget. Estimates are based on a set of most informative test queries selected by an active sampling distribution. Query labeling costs depend on the number of result items as well as item-specific attributes such as document length. We derive cost-optimal sampling distributions for the commonly used performance measures Discounted Cumulative Gain and Expected Reciprocal Rank. Experiments on web search engine data illustrate significant reductions in labeling costs.
KW  - Information retrieval
KW  - Ranking
KW  - Active evaluation
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-013-5372-5
SN  - 0885-6125
VL  - 92
IS  - 1
SP  - 41
EP  - 64
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Montavon, Gregoire
A1  - Braun, Mikio L.
A1  - Krüger, Tammo
A1  - Müller, Klaus-Robert
T1  - Analyzing local structure in Kernel-Based learning
JF  - IEEE signal processing magazine
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2013.2249294
SN  - 1053-5888
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SP  - 62
EP  - 74
PB  - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers
CY  - Piscataway
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Banbara, Mutsunori
A1  - Soh, Takehide
A1  - Tamura, Naoyuki
A1  - Inoue, Katsumi
A1  - Schaub, Torsten H.
T1  - Answer set programming as a modeling language for course timetabling
JF  - Theory and practice of logic programming
N2  - The course timetabling problem can be generally defined as the task of assigning a number of lectures to a limited set of timeslots and rooms, subject to a given set of hard and soft constraints. The modeling language for course timetabling is required to be expressive enough to specify a wide variety of soft constraints and objective functions. Furthermore, the resulting encoding is required to be extensible for capturing new constraints and for switching them between hard and soft, and to be flexible enough to deal with different formulations. In this paper, we propose to make effective use of ASP as a modeling language for course timetabling. We show that our ASP-based approach can naturally satisfy the above requirements, through an ASP encoding of the curriculum-based course timetabling problem proposed in the third track of the second international timetabling competition (ITC-2007). Our encoding is compact and human-readable, since each constraint is individually expressed by either one or two rules. Each hard constraint is expressed by using integrity constraints and aggregates of ASP. Each soft constraint S is expressed by rules in which the head is the form of penalty (S, V, C), and a violation V and its penalty cost C are detected and calculated respectively in the body. We carried out experiments on four different benchmark sets with five different formulations. We succeeded either in improving the bounds or producing the same bounds for many combinations of problem instances and formulations, compared with the previous best known bounds.
KW  - answer set programming
KW  - educational timetabling
KW  - course timetabling
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1471068413000495
SN  - 1471-0684
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
SP  - 783
EP  - 798
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Alsadeh, Ahmad
T1  - Augmented secure neighbor discovery: aligning security, privacy and usability
Y1  - 2013
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Yang, Haojin
T1  - Automatic video indexing and retrieval using video ocr technology
Y1  - 2013
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kiertscher, Simon
A1  - Zinke, Jörg
A1  - Schnor, Bettina
T1  - CHERUB power consumption aware cluster resource management
JF  - Cluster computing : the journal of networks, software tools and applications
N2  - This paper presents an evaluation of ACPI energy saving modes, and deduces the design and implementation of an energy saving daemon for clusters called cherub. The design of the cherub daemon is modular and extensible. Since the only requirement is a central approach for resource management, cherub is suited for Server Load Balancing (SLB) clusters managed by dispatchers like Linux Virtual Server (LVS), as well as for High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters. Our experimental results show that cherub's scheduling algorithm works well, i.e. it will save energy, if possible, and avoids state-flapping.
KW  - Green computing
KW  - Cluster computing
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-011-0176-5
SN  - 1386-7857
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SP  - 55
EP  - 63
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Steinert, Bastian
A1  - Cassou, Damien
A1  - Hirschfeld, Robert
T1  - CoExist overcoming aversion to change preserving immediate access to source code and run-time information of previous development states
JF  - ACM SIGPLAN notices
N2  - Programmers make many changes to the program to eventually find a good solution for a given task. In this course of change, every intermediate development state can of value, when, for example, a promising ideas suddenly turn out inappropriate or the interplay of objects turns out more complex than initially expected before making changes. Programmers would benefit from tool support that provides immediate access to source code and run-time of previous development states of interest. We present IDE extensions, implemented for Squeak/Smalltalk, to preserve, retrieve, and work with this information. With such tool support, programmers can work without worries because they can rely on tools that help them with whatever their explorations will reveal. They no longer have to follow certain best practices only to avoid undesired consequences of changing code.
KW  - Design
KW  - Experimentation
KW  - Human Factors
KW  - Continuous Testing
KW  - Continuous Versioning
KW  - Debugging
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Explore-first Programming
KW  - Fault Localization
KW  - Prototyping
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/2480360.2384591
SN  - 0362-1340
VL  - 48
IS  - 2
SP  - 107
EP  - 117
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Gros, Oliver
T1  - Computergestützte Wissensextraktion aus befundtexten der Pathologie
Y1  - 2013
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Phusanga, Dara
T1  - Derived algebraic systems
Y1  - 2013
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Tavangarian, Djamshid
A1  - Schroeder, Ulrik
A1  - Igel, Christoph
A1  - Magenheim, Johannes
A1  - Kundisch, Dennis
A1  - Beutner, Marc
A1  - Herrmann, Philipp
A1  - Whittaker, Michael
A1  - Reinhardt, Wolfgang
A1  - Zoyke, Andrea
A1  - Elbeshausen, Stefanie
A1  - Griesbaum, Joachim
A1  - Koelle, Ralph
A1  - Kneiphoff, Anika Hanna
A1  - Mauch, Martina
A1  - Hübner, Sandra
A1  - Walter, Satjawan
A1  - Dittler, Ullrich
A1  - Baumann, Annette
A1  - Reeh, Lucas
A1  - Beuster, Liane
A1  - Elkina, Margarita
A1  - Fortenbacher, Albrecht
A1  - Kappe, Leonard
A1  - Merceron, Agathe
A1  - Pursian, Andreas
A1  - Schwarzrock, Sebastian
A1  - Wenzlaff, Boris
A1  - Hilse, Michael
A1  - Lucke, Ulrike
ED  - Lucke, Ulrike
T1  - E-Learning Symposium 2012
BT  - Aktuelle Anwendungen, innovative Prozesse und neueste Ergebnisse aus der E-Learning-Praxis ; Potsdam, 17. November 2012
N2  - Dieser Tagungsband beinhaltet die auf dem E-Learning Symposium 2012 an der Universität Potsdam vorgestellten Beiträge zu aktuellen Anwendungen, innovativen Prozesse und neuesten Ergebnissen im Themenbereich E-Learning. Lehrende, E-Learning-Praktiker und -Entscheider tauschten ihr Wissen über etablierte und geplante Konzepte im Zusammenhang mit dem Student-Life-Cycle aus. Der Schwerpunkt lag hierbei auf der unmittelbaren Unterstützung von Lehr- und Lernprozessen, auf Präsentation, Aktivierung und Kooperation durch Verwendung von neuen und etablierten Technologien.
KW  - E-Learning
KW  - Learning Analytics
KW  - lebenslanges Lernen
KW  - E-Learning
KW  - Learning Analytics
KW  - Life-Long Learning
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62661
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Knobelsdorf, Maria
A1  - Kreitz, Christoph
T1  - Ein konstruktivistischer Lehransatz für die Einführungsveranstaltung der Theoretische Informatik
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 978-3-86956-220-9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hilse, Michael
A1  - Lucke, Ulrike
T1  - eLiS − E-Learning in Studienbereichen
JF  - E-Learning Symposium 2012 : Aktuelle Anwendungen, innovative Prozesse und neueste Ergebnisse aus der E-Learning-Praxis ; Potsdam, 17. November 2012
N2  - Deutsche Universitäten erweitern ihre E-Learning-Angebote als Service für die Studierenden und Lehrenden. Diese sind je nach Fakultät unterschiedlich ausgeprägt. Dieser Artikel zeigt, wie durch technische Erweiterung der Infrastruktur, einer Anpassung der Organisationsstruktur und einer gezielten Inhaltsentwicklung eine durchgängige und personalisierbare Lehr- und Lernumgebung (Personal Learning Environment, PLE) geschaffen und damit die Akzeptanz bei den Lehrenden und Studierenden für E-Learning erhöht werden kann. Aus der vorausgehenden, systematischen Anforderungsanalyse können Kennzahlen für die Qualitätssicherung von E-Learning-Angeboten abgeleitet werden.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-442275
SP  - 73
EP  - 75
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Böhm, Christoph
T1  - Enriching the Web of Data with topics and links
T1  - Anreicherung des Web of Data mit Themen und Verknüpfungen
N2  - This thesis presents novel ideas and research findings for the Web of Data – a global data space spanning many so-called Linked Open Data sources. Linked Open Data adheres to a set of simple principles to allow easy access and reuse for data published on the Web. Linked Open Data is by now an established concept and many (mostly academic) publishers adopted the principles building a powerful web of structured knowledge available to everybody. However, so far, Linked Open Data does not yet play a significant role among common web technologies that currently facilitate a high-standard Web experience. In this work, we thoroughly discuss the state-of-the-art for Linked Open Data and highlight several shortcomings – some of them we tackle in the main part of this work. First, we propose a novel type of data source meta-information, namely the topics of a dataset. This information could be published with dataset descriptions and support a variety of use cases, such as data source exploration and selection. For the topic retrieval, we present an approach coined Annotated Pattern Percolation (APP), which we evaluate with respect to topics extracted from Wikipedia portals. Second, we contribute to entity linking research by presenting an optimization model for joint entity linking, showing its hardness, and proposing three heuristics implemented in the LINked Data Alignment (LINDA) system. Our first solution can exploit multi-core machines, whereas the second and third approach are designed to run in a distributed shared-nothing environment. We discuss and evaluate the properties of our approaches leading to recommendations which algorithm to use in a specific scenario. The distributed algorithms are among the first of their kind, i.e., approaches for joint entity linking in a distributed fashion. Also, we illustrate that we can tackle the entity linking problem on the very large scale with data comprising more than 100 millions of entity representations from very many sources. Finally, we approach a sub-problem of entity linking, namely the alignment of concepts. We again target a method that looks at the data in its entirety and does not neglect existing relations. Also, this concept alignment method shall execute very fast to serve as a preprocessing for further computations. Our approach, called Holistic Concept Matching (HCM), achieves the required speed through grouping the input by comparing so-called knowledge representations. Within the groups, we perform complex similarity computations, relation conclusions, and detect semantic contradictions. The quality of our result is again evaluated on a large and heterogeneous dataset from the real Web. In summary, this work contributes a set of techniques for enhancing the current state of the Web of Data. All approaches have been tested on large and heterogeneous real-world input.
N2  - Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt neue Ideen sowie Forschungsergebnisse für das Web of Data vor. Hierbei handelt es sich um ein globales Netz aus sogenannten Linked Open Data (LOD) Quellen. Diese Datenquellen genügen gewissen Prinzipien, um Nutzern einen leichten Zugriff über das Internet und deren Verwendung zu ermöglichen. LOD ist bereits weit verbreitet und es existiert eine Vielzahl von Daten-Veröffentlichungen entsprechend der LOD Prinzipien. Trotz dessen ist LOD bisher kein fester Baustein des Webs des 21. Jahrhunderts. Die folgende Arbeit erläutert den aktuellen Stand der Forschung und Technik für Linked Open Data und identifiziert dessen Schwächen. Einigen Schwachstellen von LOD widmen wir uns in dem darauf folgenden Hauptteil. Zu Beginn stellen wir neuartige Metadaten für Datenquellen vor – die Themen von Datenquellen (engl. Topics). Solche Themen könnten mit Beschreibungen von Datenquellen veröffentlicht werden und eine Reihe von Anwendungsfällen, wie das Auffinden und Explorieren relevanter Daten, unterstützen. Wir diskutieren unseren Ansatz für die Extraktion dieser Metainformationen – die Annotated Pattern Percolation (APP). Experimentelle Ergebnisse werden mit Themen aus Wikipedia Portalen verglichen. Des Weiteren ergänzen wir den Stand der Forschung für das Auffinden verschiedener Repräsentationen eines Reale-Welt-Objektes (engl. Entity Linking). Für jenes Auffinden werden nicht nur lokale Entscheidungen getroffen, sondern es wird die Gesamtheit der Objektbeziehungen genutzt. Wir diskutieren unser Optimierungsmodel, beweisen dessen Schwere und präsentieren drei Ansätze zur Berechnung einer Lösung. Alle Ansätze wurden im LINked Data Alignment (LINDA) System implementiert. Die erste Methode arbeitet auf einer Maschine, kann jedoch Mehrkern-Prozessoren ausnutzen. Die weiteren Ansätze wurden für Rechnercluster ohne gemeinsamen Speicher entwickelt. Wir evaluieren unsere Ergebnisse auf mehr als 100 Millionen Entitäten und erläutern Vor- sowie Nachteile der jeweiligen Ansätze. Im verbleibenden Teil der Arbeit behandeln wir das Linking von Konzepten – ein Teilproblem des Entity Linking. Unser Ansatz, Holistic Concept Matching (HCM), betrachtet abermals die Gesamtheit der Daten. Wir gruppieren die Eingabe um eine geringe Laufzeit bei der Verarbeitung von mehreren Hunderttausenden Konzepten zu erreichen. Innerhalb der Gruppen berechnen wir komplexe Ähnlichkeiten, und spüren semantische Schlussfolgerungen und Widersprüche auf. Die Qualität des Ergebnisses evaluieren wir ebenfalls auf realen Datenmengen. Zusammenfassend trägt diese Arbeit zum aktuellen Stand der Forschung für das Web of Data bei. Alle diskutierten Techniken wurden mit realen, heterogenen und großen Datenmengen getestet.
KW  - Web of Data
KW  - graph clustering
KW  - topics
KW  - entity alignment
KW  - map/reduce
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-68624
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - van Hooland, Seth
A1  - Verborgh, Ruben
A1  - De Wilde, Max
A1  - Hercher, Johannes
A1  - Mannens, Erik
A1  - Van de Walle, Rik
T1  - Evaluating the success of vocabulary reconciliation for cultural heritage collections
JF  - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
N2  - The concept of Linked Data has made its entrance in the cultural heritage sector due to its potential use for the integration of heterogeneous collections and deriving additional value out of existing metadata. However, practitioners and researchers alike need a better understanding of what outcome they can reasonably expect of the reconciliation process between their local metadata and established controlled vocabularies which are already a part of the Linked Data cloud. This paper offers an in-depth analysis of how a locally developed vocabulary can be successfully reconciled with the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and the Arts and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) through the help of a general-purpose tool for interactive data transformation (OpenRefine). Issues negatively affecting the reconciliation process are identified and solutions are proposed in order to derive maximum value from existing metadata and controlled vocabularies in an automated manner.
KW  - semantic web
KW  - metadata
KW  - controlled vocabularies
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22763
SN  - 1532-2882
VL  - 64
IS  - 3
SP  - 464
EP  - 479
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Guziolowski, Carito
A1  - Videla, Santiago
A1  - Eduati, Federica
A1  - Thiele, Sven
A1  - Cokelaer, Thomas
A1  - Siegel, Anne
A1  - Saez-Rodriguez, Julio
T1  - Exhaustively characterizing feasible logic models of a signaling network using Answer Set Programming
JF  - Bioinformatics
N2  - Motivation: Logic modeling is a useful tool to study signal transduction across multiple pathways. Logic models can be generated by training a network containing the prior knowledge to phospho-proteomics data. The training can be performed using stochastic optimization procedures, but these are unable to guarantee a global optima or to report the complete family of feasible models. This, however, is essential to provide precise insight in the mechanisms underlaying signal transduction and generate reliable predictions.
 Results: We propose the use of Answer Set Programming to explore exhaustively the space of feasible logic models. Toward this end, we have developed caspo, an open-source Python package that provides a powerful platform to learn and characterize logic models by leveraging the rich modeling language and solving technologies of Answer Set Programming. We illustrate the usefulness of caspo by revisiting a model of pro-growth and inflammatory pathways in liver cells. We show that, if experimental error is taken into account, there are thousands (11 700) of models compatible with the data. Despite the large number, we can extract structural features from the models, such as links that are always (or never) present or modules that appear in a mutual exclusive fashion. To further characterize this family of models, we investigate the input-output behavior of the models. We find 91 behaviors across the 11 700 models and we suggest new experiments to discriminate among them. Our results underscore the importance of characterizing in a global and exhaustive manner the family of feasible models, with important implications for experimental design.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btt393
SN  - 1367-4803
VL  - 29
IS  - 18
SP  - 2320
EP  - 2326
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Heinisch, Isabelle
A1  - Romeike, Ralf
A1  - Knobelsdorf, Maria
A1  - Kreitz, Christoph
A1  - Nylén, Aletta
A1  - Dörge, Christina
A1  - Göttel, Timo
A1  - Holz, Jan
A1  - Bergner, Nadine
A1  - Schroeder, Ulrik
A1  - Metzger, Christiane
A1  - Haag, Johann
A1  - Abke, Jörg
A1  - Schwirtlich, Vincent
A1  - Sedelmaier, Yvonne
A1  - Müller, Dorothee
A1  - Frommer, Andreas
A1  - Humbert, Ludger
A1  - Berges, Marc
A1  - Mühling, Andreas
A1  - Hubwieser, Peter
A1  - Steuer, Horst
A1  - Engbring, Dieter
A1  - Selke, Harald
A1  - Drews, Paul
A1  - Schirmer, Ingrid
A1  - Morisse, Marcel
A1  - Sagawe, Arno
A1  - Rolf, Arno
A1  - Friedemann, Stefan
A1  - Gröger, Stefan
A1  - Schumann, Matthias
A1  - Klinger, Melanie
A1  - Polutina, Olena
A1  - Bibel, Ariane
A1  - Götz, Christian
A1  - Brinda, Torsten
A1  - Apel, Rebecca
A1  - Berg, Tobias
A1  - Bergner, Nadine
A1  - Chatti, Mohamed Amine
A1  - Leicht-Scholten, Carmen
A1  - Schroeder, Ulrik
A1  - Al-Saffar, Loay Talib
A1  - Petre, Marian
A1  - Schirmer, Ingrid
A1  - Rick, Detlef
ED  - Forbrig, Peter
ED  - Rick, Detlef
ED  - Schmolitzky, Axel
T1  - HDI 2012 – Informatik für eine nachhaltige Zukunft : 5. Fachtagung Hochschuldidaktik der Informatik ; 06.–07. November 2012, Universität Hamburg
N2  - Die Tagungsreihe zur Hochschuldidaktik der Informatik HDI wird vom Fachbereich Informatik und Ausbildung / Didaktik der Informatik (IAD) in der Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) organisiert. Sie dient den Lehrenden der Informatik in Studiengängen an Hochschulen als Forum der Information und des Austauschs über neue didaktische Ansätze und bildungspolitische Themen im Bereich der Hochschulausbildung aus der fachlichen Perspektive der Informatik. Diese fünfte HDI 2012 wurde an der Universität Hamburg organisiert. Für sie wurde das spezielle Motto „Informatik für eine nachhaltige Zukunft“ gewählt, um insbesondere Fragen der Bildungsrelevanz informatischer Inhalte, der Kompetenzen für Studierende informatisch geprägter Studiengänge und der Rolle der Informatik in der Hochschulentwicklung zu diskutieren.
T3  - Commentarii informaticae didacticae (CID) - 5 
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62891
SN  - 978-3-86956-220-9
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Delikostidis, Ioannis
A1  - Engel, Juri
A1  - Retsios, Bas
A1  - van Elzakker, Corne P. J. M.
A1  - Kraak, Menno-Jan
A1  - Döllner, Jürgen Roland Friedrich
T1  - Increasing the usability of pedestrian navigation interfaces by means of landmark visibility analysis
JF  - The journal of navigation
N2  - Communicating location-specific information to pedestrians is a challenging task which can be aided by user-friendly digital technologies. In this paper, landmark visibility analysis, as a means for developing more usable pedestrian navigation systems, is discussed. Using an algorithmic framework for image-based 3D analysis, this method integrates a 3D city model with identified landmarks and produces raster visibility layers for each one. This output enables an Android phone prototype application to indicate the visibility of landmarks from the user's actual position. Tested in the field, the method achieves sufficient accuracy for the context of use and improves navigation efficiency and effectiveness.
KW  - Pedestrian navigation
KW  - Landmark visibility
KW  - User-centred design
KW  - Usability testing
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0373463313000209
SN  - 0373-4633
VL  - 66
IS  - 4
SP  - 523
EP  - 537
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -