25 Mycotoxins are toxigenic metabolites of fungi. They occur worldwide and are a potential risk to humans and animals when feeds and cereals are contaminated. Their importance and occurrence have been recognised for over 30 years. Following the eating of contaminated foods and feeds, so called mycotoxicoses are observed in animals. These intoxications should be differentiated from mycoses, whic...

Semantic Web reasoning systems are confronted with the task to process growing amounts of distributed, dynamic resources. This thesis presents a novel way of approaching the challenge by RDF graph traversal, exploiting the advantages of swarm intelligence. The nature-inspired and index-free methodology is realised by self-organising swarms of autonomous, light-weight entities that traverse RDF ...

Title: Risk Identification in Offshore Outsourcing of Services in Small and Medium sized Enterprises Authors: Oleksandra Volianska & Christian Schulz Supervisor: Andrea Fried, PD Dr. Background: Development of technologies and worldwide reductions of trade barriers during the last decades increased competition and the need to offer high-quality products and services for a reasonable price. Part...

PUBLISHED BY THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY ■ 1540-7993/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE ■ IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY 17 A fundamental goal of information security is to design computer systems that prevent the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. There are many ways to assure this information privacy. One of the oldest and most common techniques is physical isolation: keeping confidential data on...