The market and users requirements have been rapidly changing and diversified. Under these heterogeneous and dynamic situations, not only the system structure itself, but also the accessible information services would be changed constantly. Therefor, the integration of wired and wireless devices, control and information systems to achieve real-time, high-performance and high-reliability for hete...

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the importance of innovative Science Fiction Prototyping systems in different sectors with focus on educational aspects and the support of virtual environments. Therefor we investigate the utility of Science Fiction Prototypes in different environments and introduce a design model to implement flexible setups in virtual world. We illustrate how config...

This work follows an ongoing discussion on the implications of skeuomorphic vs. flat design for interface design. Therefor two subsets of the standard iOS6 and iOS7 system icons were reviewed with a semiotic inspection method and compared against each other. The subsets were chosen according to an open online user rating. The findings suggest that missing information due to design simplificatio...

For humanoid robots to be used in real world scenarios, there is a need of robust and simple walking controllers. Limitation to flat terrain is a drawback of many walking controllers. We overcome this limitation by extending the concept of Divergent Component of Motion (DCM, also called ‘Capture Point’) to 3D. Therefor, we introduce the “Enhanced Centroidal Moment Pivot point” (eCMP) and the “V...

Background Allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) is the only specific, disease-modifying treatment for allergy and may have long-lasting effects. It is given traditionally in the form of multiple subcutaneous injections which makes the treatment inconvenient. Furthermore, systemic allergenadministration may cause severe side effects. Therefor the development of alternative routes for SIT has be...

Robocode is a virtual environment in which in Java programmed bots compete. It is a perfect environment to apply and test Genetic Programming. This thesis describes an implementation which uses both grammar and trees to generate and mutate Java code. Populations, which evolve parallel, focus on different aspects of Robocode bots to refrain from converging to local maxima. The are mixed at the e...

We study quantitative stability of linear multistage stochastic programs under perturbations of the underlying stochastic processes. It is shown that the optimal values behave Lipschitz continuous with respect to an Lp-distance. Therefor, we have to make a crucial regularity assumption on the conditional distributions, that allows to establish continuity of the recourse function with respect to...

ONE of the most difficult therapeutic problems for the ophthalmologist at the present time is that of headaches associated with eye strain. The majority of these are associated with heterophoria and standard therapy has been disappointing. The initial response to drugs, e.g. atropine, and cholinesterase inhibition, has not been impressive and relapse after a while has been the rule. Costenbader...

Abstract An application of the Pose-detection using Range-image usually uses characteristic matching of the geometrical model but this method has two problems. 1 Picking for characteristic from Range-images is difficult. 2 It is difficult to make geometrical model for a complicated shape. Recently Parametric Eigen-space Method is proposed to Pose-detect approaching such as Eigen-face. This meth...

In this paper we survey the behavior of various graph operations on the graph parameters clique-width and NLC-width. We give upper and lower bounds for the clique-width and NLC-width of the modi ed graphs in terms of the clique-width and NLC-width of the involved graphs. Therefor we consider the binary graph operations join, co-join, sum, di erence, products, corona, substitution, and 1-sum, an...