TY - CHAP A1 - Saha, Debjoy A1 - Nayak, Shravan A1 - Baumann, Timo T1 - Merkel Podcast Corpus: A Multimodal Dataset Compiled from 16 Years of Angela Merkel's Weekly Video Podcasts T2 - Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marseille, 20-25 June 2022 N2 - We introduce the Merkel Podcast Corpus, an audio-visual-text corpus in German collected from 16 years of (almost) weekly Internet podcasts of former German chancellor Angela Merkel. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first single speaker corpus in the German language consisting of audio, visual and text modalities of comparable size and temporal extent. We describe the methods used with which we have collected and edited the data which involves downloading the videos, transcripts and other metadata, forced alignment, performing active speaker recognition and face detection to finally curate the single speaker dataset consisting of utterances spoken by Angela Merkel. The proposed pipeline is general and can be used to curate other datasets of similar nature, such as talk show contents. Through various statistical analyses and applications of the dataset in talking face generation and TTS, we show the utility of the dataset. We argue that it is a valuable contribution to the research community, in particular, due to its realistic and challenging material at the boundary between prepared and spontaneous speech. Accepted at LREC 2022 KW - corpus KW - speaker diarization KW - multi-modal KW - forced alignment KW - single-speaker KW - cross-modal learning KW - German Y1 - 2022 UR - http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/pdf/2022.lrec-1.270.pdf N1 - Preprint unter: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12194 SP - 2536 EP - 2540 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Käss, Sebastian A1 - Strahringer, Susanne A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Drivers and Inhibitors of Low Code Development Platform Adoption T2 - 2022 IEEE 24th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI): 15.06. - 17.06.2022, Amsterdam N2 - When done right, the use of low code development promises a significant competitive advantage in the software development process for organizations. Thus, multiple vendors have created low code development platforms to ease the use of low code development. However, current research on low code development platforms mainly focuses on the technological aspects of the platforms but not on their adoption. Hence, it remains unclear what drives and inhibits the adoption of low code development platforms. We conducted a literature review and identified thirteen factors that inhibit the adoption and seven factors that drive it. We structure these factors along with the diffusion of innovation framework that helps to disentangle drivers and inhibitors. As a result, we provide an initial explanation of the adoption of low code development platforms. Nevertheless, we conclude that existing research on the adoption of low code development platforms is not specific enough to understand the phenomenon substantially. Further, for some factors (e.g., cost), there is a disagreement in the academic literature on whether they are drivers or inhibitors. Hence, we identify gaps and derive avenues for future research. KW - low code KW - no code KW - adoption KW - driver KW - inhibitor Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI54897.2022.00028 SP - 196 EP - 205 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Baumann, Timo A1 - Schlangen, David ED - Fingscheidt, T. T1 - The INPROTK 2012 release BT - A toolkit for incremental spoken dialogue processing T2 - Sprachkommunikation 2012 : Beiträge zur 10. ITG-Fachtagung vom 26. bis 28. September 2012 in Braunschweig N2 - We describe the 2012 release of INPROTK1, our “Incremental Processing Toolkit“ which combines a powerful and extensible architecture for incremental processing with components for incremental speech recognition and, new to this release, incremental speech synthesis. These components work domainindependently; we also provide example implementations of higher-level components such as natural language understanding and dialogue management that are somewhat more tied to a particular domain. The toolkit is accompanied by evaluation tools for analysing timing behaviour, and we highlight some timing results on conversational speech input in this paper. We offer our toolkit to foster research in this new and exciting area, which promises to help increase the naturalness of behaviours that can be modelled in such systems. KW - Speech synthesis Y1 - 2012 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6309600 SN - 978-3-8007-3455-9 SP - 147 EP - 150 PB - VDE-Verl CY - Berlin ; Offenbach ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Terbrack, Hajo A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Established production planning and control and its enhancement with sustainability T2 - Proceedings of the 37th ECMS International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS 2023): June 20th - June 23rd, 2023, Florence, Italy N2 - Against the background of the energy crisis, shortage of skilled workers, demographic change and other drivers, sustainable development is also becoming increasingly important for industrial companies. In this respect, production planning and control has an enormous influence on relevant objectives. In classical approaches of production planning and control as presented in this paper, economic-oriented objectives are taken into account to a large extent in decision making. This paper demonstrates that besides these classical models, a variety of approaches exist to influence ecological and social targets through production planning. These different models are assigned to sustainability areas and outlined by exemplary literature sources. Further research is needed, for instance, in the joint consideration of sustainability criteria along different planning levels and sustainable dimensions. KW - Sustainability KW - Social KW - Ecological KW - Hierarchical Production Planning Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-937436-80-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2023-0320 SN - 2522-2422 SP - 320 EP - 327 PB - ECMS ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dünnweber, Jan A1 - Gorlatch, Sergei A1 - Parlavantzas, Nikos A1 - Baude, Francoise A1 - Legrand, Virginie T1 - Towards automatic creation of web services for grid component composition T2 - Integrated Research in GRID Computing : CoreGRID Integration Workshop 2005 (Selected Papers), November 28-30, Pisa, Italy N2 - While high-level software components simplify the programming of grid applications and Web services increase their interoperability, developing such components and configuring the interconnecting services is a demanding task. In this paper, we consider the combination of Higher-Order Components (HOCs) with the Fractal component model and the ProActive library. HOCs are parallel programming components, made accessible on the grid via Web services that use a special class loader enabling code mobility: executable code can be uploaded to a HOC, allowing one to customize the HOC. Fractal simplifies the composition of components and the ProActive library offers a generator for automatically creating Web services from components composed with Fractal, as long as all the parameters of these services have primitive types. Taking all the advantages of HOCs, ProActive and Fractal together, the obvious conclusion is that composing HOCs using Fractal and automatically exposing them as Web services on the grid via ProActive minimizes the required efforts for building complex grid systems. In this context, we solved the problem of exchanging code-carrying parameters in automatically generated Web services by integrating the HOC class loading mechanism into the ProActive library. KW - CoreGRID Component Model (GCM) & Fractal KW - Higher-Order Components Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-0-387-47658-2 SN - 978-0-387-47656-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-47658-2_3 SP - 31 EP - 42 PB - Springer Science+Business Media CY - Boston, MA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barannyk, Lyudmyla L. A1 - Frikel, Jürgen A1 - Nguyen, Linh V. T1 - On artifacts in limited data spherical Radon transform: Curved observation surface JF - Inverse Problems N2 - We study the limited data problem of the spherical Radon transform in two and three-dimensional spaces with general acquisition surfaces. In such situations, it is known that the application of filtered-backprojection reconstruction formulas might generate added artifacts and degrade the quality of reconstructions. In this article, we explicitly analyze a family of such inversion formulas, depending on a smoothing function that vanishes to order k on the boundary of the acquisition surfaces. We show that the artifacts are k orders smoother than their generating singularity. Moreover, in two-dimensional space, if the generating singularity is conormal satisfying a generic condition then the artifacts are even k+1/2 orders smoother than the generating singularity. Our analysis for three-dimensional space contains an important idea of lifting up space. We also explore the theoretical findings in a series of numerical experiments. Our experiments show that a good choice of the smoothing function leads to a significant improvement of reconstruction quality. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/0266-5611/32/1/015012 SN - 1361-6420 SN - 0266-5611 VL - 32 IS - 1 PB - Institute of Physics CY - Bristol [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heckner, Markus A1 - Schworm, Silke T1 - The tagblog: Exploring social web user contribution to encourage students to actively engage in learning content JF - International Journal of Web Based Communities N2 - After leaving the lecture hall, students hardly reflect about the lesson's contents. To foster learning, the lesson content should be reorganised, elaborated and critically reflected. Tagging and blogging offer the opportunity to actively engage students in follow-up course work. This paper presents the results of a case study exploring the use of a social web application to encourage student contributions within the context of an undergraduate university seminar. The tagblog combines blogging, tagging and rating as three forms of online user contribution on Web 2.0 to develop a shared, emergent group knowledge repository. Blog posts, tags and comments are analysed to examine how user contributions reflect the active processing of learning content. KW - web 20 KW - social web KW - higher education KW - contribution KW - learning content KW - student participation KW - universities KW - tagging KW - tags KW - blogging KW - blogs KW - weblogs KW - rating KW - undergraduate seminars Y1 - 2009 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWBC.2009.028088 SN - 1741-8216 SN - 1477-8394 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 528 EP - 542 PB - Inderscience Enterprises CY - Olney ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heckner, Markus A1 - Wolff, Christian T1 - Wissensmanagement mit Social Software [Editorial] JF - Information - Wissenschaft und Praxis : IWP Y1 - 2009 UR - https://www.b-i-t-online.de/pdf/iwp/IWP2009-4.pdf SN - 1619-4292 SN - 1434-4653 VL - 60 IS - 4 SP - 185 EP - 187 PB - DGI ; De Gruyter CY - Frankfurt, Main ; Berlin ; New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Middel, Luise A1 - Popp, Christof A1 - Raptis, Georgios A1 - Sutter, Tamara A1 - Gutbrod, Max T1 - Konzeption und Aufbau einer technischen Telepräsenzrobotik-Plattform für die Unterstützung von Schlaganfallpatient*innen in der Pflege, Logopädie und Physiotherapie T2 - Digitale Technik für ambulante Pflege und Therapie Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462355-002 SP - 19 EP - 58 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Braun, Stefan A1 - Schildgen, Johannes A1 - Deßloch, Stefan T1 - Visualization of NoSQL transformations using sampling techniques | Visualisierung von NoSQL-Transformationen unter der Verwendung von Sampling-Techniken T2 - Proceedings of the LWA 2015 workshops: KDML, FGWM, IR, and FGDB : Trier, Germany, October 7-9, 2015 N2 - Analysen auf NoSQL-Datenbanken sind oft langdauernd und die Ergebnisse fur den Benutzer haufig schwer verst ̈andlich. Wir prasentieren eine Möglichkeit, Datenmengen aus Wide-Column Stores mittels der Transformationssprache NotaQL zu transformieren sowie zu aggregieren und die Ergebnisse in Form von Diagrammen dem Benutzer darzustellen. Dabei kommen Sampling-Techniken zum Einsatz, um die Berechnung auf Kosten der Genauigkeit zu beschleunigen. Das von uns verwendete iterative Samplingverfahren sorgt fur eine kontinuierliche Verbesserung der Berechnungsgenauigkeit und bietet zudem Möglichkeiten zur Genauigkeitsabschätzung, die in Form von Konfidenzintervallen in den Diagrammen dargestellt werden kann. Y1 - 2015 UR - https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1458/H06_CRC77_Braun.pdf SP - 427 EP - 438 PB - RWTH Aachen CY - Aachen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haertl, Petra Maria A1 - Löschel, Rainer A1 - Repp, Natalia A1 - Pohl, Fabian A1 - Kölbl, Oliver A1 - Dobler, Barbara T1 - Frameless fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy of intracranial lesions: Impact of cone beam CT based setup correction on dose distribution JF - Radiation Oncology N2 - Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of Cone Beam CT (CBCT) based setup correction on total dose distributions in fractionated frameless stereotactic radiation therapy of intracranial lesions. Methods Ten patients with intracranial lesions treated with 30 Gy in 6 fractions were included in this study. Treatment planning was performed with Oncentra® for a SynergyS® (Elekta Ltd, Crawley, UK) linear accelerator with XVI® Cone Beam CT, and HexaPOD™ couch top. Patients were immobilized by thermoplastic masks (BrainLab, Reuther). After initial patient setup with respect to lasers, a CBCT study was acquired and registered to the planning CT (PL-CT) study. Patient positioning was corrected according to the correction values (translational, rotational) calculated by the XVI® system. Afterwards a second CBCT study was acquired and registered to the PL-CT to confirm the accuracy of the corrections. An in-house developed software was used for rigid transformation of the PL-CT to the CBCT geometry, and dose calculations for each fraction were performed on the transformed CT. The total dose distribution was achieved by back-transformation and summation of the dose distributions of each fraction. Dose distributions based on PL-CT, CBCT (laser set-up), and final CBCT were compared to assess the influence of setup inaccuracies. Results The mean displacement vector, calculated over all treatments, was reduced from (4.3 ± 1.3) mm for laser based setup to (0.5 ± 0.2) mm if CBCT corrections were applied. The mean rotational errors around the medial-lateral, superior-inferior, anterior-posterior axis were reduced from (−0.1 ± 1.4)°, (0.1 ± 1.2)° and (−0.2 ± 1.0)°, to (0.04 ± 0.4)°, (0.01 ± 0.4)° and (0.02 ± 0.3)°. As a consequence the mean deviation between planned and delivered dose in the planning target volume (PTV) could be reduced from 12.3% to 0.4% for D95 and from 5.9% to 0.1% for Dav. Maximum deviation was reduced from 31.8% to 0.8% for D95, and from 20.4% to 0.1% for Dav. Conclusion Real dose distributions differ substantially from planned dose distributions, if setup is performed according to lasers only. Thermoplasic masks combined with a daily CBCT enabled a sufficient accuracy in dose distribution. KW - CBCT KW - Setup error KW - Reproducibility KW - Daily dose distribution KW - Cumulative dose distribution KW - Actual dose distribution KW - Intracranial lesions Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-8-153 VL - 8 IS - 1 PB - BioMed Central CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Högele, Wolfgang A1 - Dobler, Barbara A1 - Kölbl, Oliver A1 - Beard, Clair A1 - Zygmanski, Piotr A1 - Löschel, Rainer T1 - Stochastic triangulation for prostate positioning during radiotherapy using short CBCT arcs JF - Radiotherapy and Oncology N2 - Background and purpose: Fast and reliable tumor localization is an important part of today's radiotherapy utilizing new delivery techniques. This proof-of-principle study demonstrates the use of a method called herein 'stochastic triangulation' for this purpose. Stochastic triangulation uses very short imaging arcs and a few projections. Materials and methods: A stochastic Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimator is proposed based on an uncertainty-driven model of the acquisition geometry and inter-/intra-fractional deformable anatomy. The application of this method was designed to use the available linac-mounted cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and/or electronic portal imaging devices (EPID) for the patient setup based on short imaging arcs. For the proof-of-principle clinical demonstration, the MAP estimator was applied to 5 CBCT scans of a prostate cancer patient with 2 implanted gold markers. Estimation was performed for several (18) very short imaging arcs of 5° with 10 projections resulting in 90 estimations. Results: Short-arc stochastic triangulation led to residual radial errors compared to manual inspection with a mean value of 1.4mm and a standard deviation of 0.9 mm (median 1.2mm, maximum 3.8mm) averaged over imaging directions all around the patient. Furthermore, abrupt intra-fractional motion of up to 10mm resulted in radial errors with a mean value of 1.8mm and a standard deviation of 1.1mm (median 1.5mm, maximum 5.6mm). Slow periodic intra-fractional motions in the range of 12 mm resulted in radial errors with a mean value of 1.8mm and a standard deviation of 1.1mm (median 1.6mm, maximum 4.7 mm). Conclusion: Based on this study, the proposed stochastic method is fast, robust and can be used for inter- as well as intra-fractional target localization using current CBCT units. KW - Patient positioning KW - Setup error KW - Maximum A Posteriori estimation KW - Short arc KW - Stochastic triangulation Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2013.01.005 VL - 106 IS - 2 SP - 241 EP - 249 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Högele, Wolfgang A1 - Zygmanski, Piotr A1 - Dobler, Barbara A1 - Kroiss, M. A1 - Kölbl, Oliver A1 - Löschel, Rainer T1 - Localization of deformable tumors from short-arc projections using Bayesian estimation JF - Medical Physics N2 - Purpose: The authors present a stochastic framework for radiotherapy patient positioning directly utilizing radiographic projections. This framework is developed to be robust against anatomical nonrigid deformations and to cope with challenging imaging scenarios, involving only a few cone beam CT projections from short arcs. Methods: Specifically, a Bayesian estimator (BE) is explicitly derived for the given scanning geometry. This estimator is compared to reference methods such as chamfer matching (CM) and the minimization of the median absolute error adapted as tools of robust image processing and statistics. In order to show the performance of the stochastic short-arc patient positioning method, a CIRS IMRT thorax phantom study is presented with movable markers and the utilization of an Elekta Synergy® XVI system. Furthermore, a clinical prostate CBCT scan of a Varian® On-Board Imager® system is utilized to investigate the robustness of the method for large variations of image quality (anterior-posterior vs lateral views). Results: The results show that the BE shifts reduce the initial setup error of up to 3 cm down to 3 mm at maximum for an imaging arc as short as 10° while CM achieves residual errors of 7 mm at maximum only for arcs longer than 40°. Furthermore, the BE can compensate robustly for low image qualities using several low quality projections simultaneously. Conclusions: In conclusion, an estimation method for marker-based patient positioning for short imaging arcs is presented and shown to be robust and accurate for deformable anatomies. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4764483 VL - 39 IS - 12 SP - 7205 EP - 7214 PB - Wiley ER - TY - JOUR A1 - auf der Heide, Friedhelm Meyer A1 - Schindelhauer, Christian A1 - Volbert, Klaus A1 - Grünewald, Matthias T1 - Congestion, dilation, and energy in radio networks JF - Theory of Computing Systems N2 - We investigate the problem of path selection in radio networks for a given static set of n sites in two- and three-dimensional space. For static point-to-point communication we define measures for congestion, dilation, and energy consumption that take interferences among communication links into account. We show that energy-optimal path selection for radio networks can be computed in polynomial time. Then we introduce the diversity g(V) of a set V ⫅ ℝd for any constant d. It can be used to upper bound the number of interfering edges. For real-world applications it can be regarded as Θ(log n). A main result is that a c-spanner construction as a communication network allows one to approximate the congestion-optimal path system by a factor of O(g(V)2). Furthermore, we show that there are vertex sets where only one of the performance parameters congestion, dilation, and energy can be optimized at a time. We show trade-offs lower bounding congestion × dilation and dilation × energy. The trade-off between congestion and dilation increases with switching from two-dimensional to three-dimensional space. For congestion and energy the situation is even worse. It is only possible to find a reasonable approximation for either congestion or energy minimization, while the other parameter is at least a polynomial factor worse than in the optimal network. KW - Medium Access Control KW - Minimum Span Tree KW - Communication Link KW - Unit Energy KW - Radio Station Y1 - 2004 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-004-1124-z VL - 37 IS - 3 SP - 343 EP - 370 PB - Springer Nature ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Högele, Wolfgang A1 - Löschel, Rainer A1 - Dobler, Barbara A1 - Kölbl, Oliver A1 - Zygmanski, Piotr T1 - Bayesian estimation applied to stochastic localization with constraints due to interfaces and boundaries JF - Mathematical Problems in Engineering N2 - Purpose We present a systematic Bayesian formulation of the stochastic localization/triangulation problem close to constraining interfaces. Methods For this purpose, the terminology of Bayesian estimation is summarized suitably for applied researchers including the presentation of Maximum Likelihood (ML), Maximum A Posteriori (MAP), and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) estimation. Explicit estimators for triangulation are presented for the linear 2D parallel beam and the nonlinear 3D cone beam model. The priors in MAP and MMSE optionally incorporate (A) the hard constraints about the interface and (B) knowledge about the probability of the object with respect to the interface. All presented estimators are compared in several simulation studies for live acquisition scenarios with 10,000 samples each. Results First, the presented application shows that MAP and MMSE perform considerably better, leading to lower Root Mean Square Errors (RMSEs) in the simulation studies compared to the ML approach by typically introducing a bias. Second, utilizing priors including (A) and (B) is very beneficial compared to just including (A). Third, typically MMSE leads to better results than MAP, by the cost of significantly higher computational effort. Conclusion Depending on the specific application and prior knowledge, MAP and MMSE estimators strongly increase the estimation accuracy for localization close to interfaces. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/960421 SN - 1563-5147 VL - 213 PB - HIndawi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heckner, Markus A1 - Mühlbacher, Susanne A1 - Wolff, Christian T1 - Tagging tagging. Analysing user keywords in scientific bibliography management systems JF - Journal of Digital Information N2 - In this paper, an empirical study of tagging behaviour in web-based bibliographic annotation systems is presented. Starting from an initial category finding phase in which tags attributed to selected articles from Connotea were classified we have set up a category model for linguistic and functional aspects of tag usage as well as for the relationship between tags and document full text. In a second phase this model is applied to approx. 500 tagged articles from the information and computer technology domain randomly selected from Connotea. Our findings show significant differences to other tagging research which was primarily conducted using popular (non-scientific) tagging platforms like Flickr or Delicious. We observe a great overlap of tag material and document text and rather few non-content related tags. The comparison of user tags with author keywords shows that users tend to use less and more general tags. Finally, system functionality seems to play a role for users’ tagging behaviour. Y1 - 2008 UR - https://jodi-ojs-tdl.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/246 VL - 9 IS - 2 PB - Multimedia Research Group ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hager, Markus A1 - Finke, Thomas A1 - Seitz, Jochen A1 - Waas, Thomas T1 - Software-based management for Ethernet networks JF - Wireless Personal Communications N2 - An adequate network management is an essential part for each network permitting to keep the network performance at a suitable level. In this paper, we present our work focusing on an Ethernet network which is used as background interconnection technology for a smart home system in large buildings like tenements or an office block. In this case the network is larger and especially the applications are quite heterogeneous as compared to a private smart home system. Therefore, it is hard to supply a fair and quality of service aware network meeting all the demands. This is especially challenging in the case of an Ethernet network because this technology was intended to use it as a transparent connection system without the feature to support hard quality of service. We present how this problem could be solved by a middleware which best meets the special requirement of the mentioned use case. Finally, we discuss possible design improvements of this solution and present the recent Ethernet standards that could help solve this problem in an alternative way. KW - Network management KW - Ethernet KW - Middleware Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1341-3 VL - 74 IS - 3 SP - 1021 EP - 1032 PB - Springer Nature ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heckner, Markus A1 - Neubauer, Tanja A1 - Wolff, Christian T1 - Tree, funny, to-read, google: What are tags supposed to achieve?: A comparative analysis of user keywords for different digital resource types JF - Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Search in social media (SSM '08), Napa Valley California, USA, 30 October 2008 N2 - Social tagging systems have become increasingly popular over the past years. Users' tagging practices have been little studied and understood so far. However, understanding tagging behaviour can contribute towards a thorough understanding of the tagging phenomenon from multiple perspectives. In the present paper, results of a comparative analysis of tag characteristics on the tagging platforms connotea.org (scientific articles), del.icio.us (bookmarks), flickr.com (photos), and youtube.com (videos) are presented. Results show that differences in tagging behaviour can be observed for different digital resource types. Finally, a short discussion of the possible implications of the results for the design of future tagging systems is presented. Y1 - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/1458583.1458589 SP - 3 EP - 10 PB - ACM ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lukovszki, Tamas A1 - Schindelhauer, Christian A1 - Volbert, Klaus T1 - Resource efficient maintenance of wireless network topologies JF - Journal of Universal Computer Science N2 - Multiple hop routing in mobile ad hoc networks can minimize energy consumption and increase data throughput. Yet, the problem of radio interferences remain. However if the routes are restricted to a basic network based on local neighborhoods, these interferences can be reduced such that standard routing algorithms can be applied. We compare different network topologies for these basic networks, i.e. the Yao-graph (aka. Θ-graph) and some also known related models, which will be called the SymmYgraph (aka. YS-graph), the SparsY-graph (aka. YY-graph) and the BoundY-graph. Further, we present a promising network topology called the HL-graph (based on Hierarchical Layers). We compare these topologies regarding degree, spanner-properties, and communication features. We investigate how these network topologies bound the number of (uni- and bidirectional) interferences and whether these basic networks provide energy-optimal or congestion-minimal routing. Then, we compare the ability of these topologies to handle dynamic changes of the network when radio stations appear and disappear. For this we measure the number of involved radio stations and present distributed algorithms for repairing the network structure. KW - ad hoc networks KW - topology control KW - distributed algorithms Y1 - 2006 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-012-09-1292 VL - 12 IS - 9 SP - 1292 EP - 1311 PB - Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rührup, Stefan A1 - Schindelhauer, Christian A1 - Volbert, Klaus T1 - Performance analysis of the hierarchical layer graph for wireless networks T2 - 4th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2005, Cancun, Mexico, October 6-8, 2005 N2 - The Hierarchical Layer Graph (HL graph) is a promising network topology for wireless networks with variable transmission ranges. It was introduced and analyzed by Meyer auf der Heide et al. 2004. In this paper we present a distributed, localized and resource-efficient algorithm for constructing this graph. The qualtiy of the HL graph depends on the domination radius and the publication radius, which affect the amount of interference in the network. These parameters also determine whether the HL graph is a c-spanner, which implies an energy-efficient topology. We investigate the performance on randomly distributed node sets and show that the restrictions on these parameters derived from a worst case analysis are not so tight using realistic settings. Here, we present the results of our extensive experimental evaluation, measuring congestion, dilation and energy. Congestion includes the load that is induced by interfering edges. We distinguish between congestion and realistic congestion where we also take the signal-to-interference ratio into account. Our experiments show that the HL graph contains energy-efficient paths as well as paths with a few number of hops while preserving a low congestion. KW - Wireless Network KW - Transmission Range KW - Topology Control KW - Leader Election KW - Unit Disk Graph Y1 - 2005 SN - 978-3-540-29132-9 SN - 978-3-540-32086-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/11561354_21 SP - 244 EP - 257 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reinhardt, Dominik A1 - Kucera, Markus T1 - Domain controlled architecture: A new approach for large scale software integrated automotive systems T2 - PECCS 2013 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, 19 - 21 February 2013, Barcelona, Spain N2 - Electric and electronic functionalities increase exponentially in every mobility domain. The automotive in-dustry is confronted with a rising system complexity and several restricting requirements and standards (likeAUTOSAR), in particular to design embedded software for electronic control units. To stand against rampantfunctionalities software units could be restructured according to their affiliation and should not be attached toa certain place. This can be effected by integration on single controllers. On the one hand the system wideamount of hardware controllers could such be limited. On the other hand the workload for integration CPUswill rise. To support this paradigm, multi-core systems can provide enough processing power in an efficientway. This paper shows a first approach to combine automotive functionality on such a single controller. KW - Large Scale Software Integration KW - LSSI KW - Automotive Real Time KW - Multi-Core KW - Many-Core KW - EmbeddedAutomotive Software Architecture Y1 - 2013 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259623365_Domain_Controlled_Architecture_-_A_New_Approach_for_Large_Scale_Software_Integrated_Automotive_Systems SP - 221 EP - 226 PB - IEEE ER -