We were fortunate to spend the 2004 fall semester in residence at MSRI, participating in the program on Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications. It was an intense, stimulating, productive, enlightening, eventful and most enjoyable experience. It was especially so for us long-timers in the field because the program truly marked a coming-of-age in the evolution of the subject from relative obscu...

The occurrence of first significant digits of numbers in large data is often governed by a logarithmically decreasing distribution called Benford’s law (BL), reported first by S. Newcomb (SN) and many decades later independently by F. Benford (FB). Due to its counter-intuitiveness the law was ignored for decades as a mere curious observation. However, an indication of its remarkable resurgence ...

Die Praxis der Informatisierung – Drei Schlaglichter Virtuelle Produktentwicklung in der Automobilindustrie 37 Reiner Anderl Informatisierung in der Finanzdienstleistungsbranche 53 Von der Hollerith-Maschine zum Straight Through Processing Antje Stobbe Informatisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit im Bauwesen 68 Dietmar Wiegand

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User studies were conducted to explore the different conditions and constraints that affect people’s perceived privacy in a networked home environment. Context-aware applications for an extended home environment provided the setting and conditions for inducing privacy-sensitive situations. A presence detection and sharing system was placed in people’s homes to conduct a longitudinal field test ...

This longitudinal investigation examined covariation among specific maternal behaviors and their differential prediction of children’s language comprehension across the transition to beginning speech. Forty mother-infant dyads were videotaped during free play in their homes when children were 9 and 13 months old. At each age, six maternal behaviors and children’s language comprehension were ass...

Composites are more and more increasing their importance as one of the most interesting group of materials, because of their unique properties. Hole drilling operations are common in composite parts to facilitate fastener assembly. As composites are non-homogeneous this operation causes some damages like delamination and others that reduce bearing and fatigue strength of the composite part. A p...

Territorial transformation processes can be seen as complex decision problems, due to the presence of multiple conflicting objectives, many different stakeholders to be involved, high levels of uncertainty associated with the decision outcomes, long term consequences, the presence of intangible elements and the spatial distribution of the different impacts. The present research aims at providin...

Privacy concerns and a lack of trust have been shown to reduce consumer’s willingness to transact with an online vendor. Understandably, firms are searching for methods to reduce consumer privacy concerns and increase trust. In this study, we introduce a new construct – consumer privacy empowerment. We then propose and test a theoretical model that examines the relationship between consumer pri...

A 3-D test circuit examining power grid noise in a 3-D integrated stack has been designed, fabricated, and tested. Fabrication and vertical bonding were performed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a 150 nm, three metal layer SOI process. Three wafers are vertically bonded to form a 3-D stack. Noise analysis of a power delivery topology is described. The effect of the through silicon via (TSV) densi...