Der Beitrag stellt auf Basis einer ersten empirischen Untersuchung den Status Quo des Geschäftsprozessmanagements (GPM) in der kommunalen Wirtschaftsförderung dar. Obwohl GPM in der öffentlichen Verwaltung ein Instrument von wachsender Bedeutung darstellt, wurde der Bereich kommunaler Selbstverwaltung hierzu bislang wissenschaftlich nicht evaluiert. Die vorliegende qualitative Voruntersuchung b...

Neuroscience simulators allow scientists to express models in terms of biological concepts, without having to concern themselves with low-level computational details of their implementation. The expressiveness, power and ease-of-use of the simulator interface is critical in efficiently and accurately translating ideas into a working simulation. We review long-term trends in the development of p...

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For far too long an end-user’s interaction with an application using cryptography has been ignored. Cryptography needs to be simplified and evolve such that users do not need to know they are even using it. While the required user-input must remain minimal the difficulties related to securing communication must be resolved automatically. Ubiquitous encrypted communication will not occur until t...

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Leo Harrington surprisingly constructed a machine which can learn any computable function f according to the following criterion (called Bc-identification). His machine, on the successive graph points of f , outputs a corresponding infinite sequence of programs p0, p1, p2, . . ., and, for some i, the programs pi, pi+1, pi+2, . . . each compute a variant of f which differs from f at only finitel...

Scientific literature postulates that nanotechnology is to be considered as general purpose technology (GPT), characterized by pervasiveness, high technological dynamism and the inducement of innovations within a variety of applications. We set out to not only further systematize existing approaches investigating nanotechnology’s GPT traits based on patent applications, but to extend the analys...

As cellular automata are becoming popular in many research areas, the need for an easy-to-use system for cellular automata programming is becoming greater. Traditionally, cellular automata transition functions were manually depicted in a tabular format, which is often time-consuming and error prone. A more promising approach is to design a generalpurpose cellular automata programming environmen...