@inproceedings{Kellner2015, author = {Kellner, Florian}, title = {Analysing the greenhouse gas sensitivity of distribution networks}, series = {Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference}, booktitle = {Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StubenrauchSeligerSchusteketal.2015, author = {Stubenrauch, Franz and Seliger, Norbert and Schustek, Maximilian and Lebedev, Alexey and Schmitt-Landsiedel, Doris}, title = {A 13.56MHz class e power amplifier for inductively coupled DC supply with 95\% power added efficiency (PAE)}, series = {2015 International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology (EURFID), Rosenheim}, booktitle = {2015 International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology (EURFID), Rosenheim}, pages = {87 -- 93}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Recent development of GaN power transistors with blocking voltages up to 650V enables novel power electronics applications with outstanding performance in high-frequency operation. This paper demonstrates a class E power amplifier with 13.56MHz switching frequency for inductively coupled DC power supplies. Continuous wave output power up to 200W is achieved with 95\% Power Added Efficiency (PAE).}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BolzernKonradSumilo2015, author = {Bolzern-Konrad, Britta and Sumilo, Erika}, title = {Trust and employee competence utilization - empirical testing of a model}, series = {Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Knowledge Management 4-5 September 2014, Santarem, Portugal}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Knowledge Management 4-5 September 2014, Santarem, Portugal}, isbn = {978-1-910309-34-6}, pages = {127 -- 137}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In today's business practice, but also in academic research the aspect of trust has gained remarkable importance. The usage of resources is still often pictured on a short perspective. Especially the usage of human resources must be sustainable, based on long term balance of interests and supported by procedures and systems that anchor the anabolic balance of interest between company and employee (Moldaschl,2008). Within the management of competencies, culture and values, the "social capital" in terms of an "asset of mutual trust" plays and important role. If the "homo reciprocans" feels to be treated fair his own willingness to cooperate increases (Falk, 2002). Furthermore "Trust in human relations is a binding framework under insecurity and allows decisions and actions that would not be possible based on pure rational information and consideration" (Strasser/ Voswinkel, 1997). The question behind the research paper at hand is: "Is a culture of trust leading to higher employee competence utilization?" This is of relevance as "it is human capability and commitment that distinguishes successful organizations from the rest" (Storay, J. 2007), which is explicitly valid in times of skilled worker shortage. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a research approach to test the correlation between Trust and Employee Competence Utilization (ECU) - embedded in a Business Excellence (BE) setting. Based on a short insight in the theoretical foundation of the basic model behind the empirical study and the subsequent operationalization of the variables the basic empirical methodology is described. With this the paper shows the process of focussing and bounding from the general theoretical relation of Trust and ECU to a specific research question and it's correlating stepwise empirical approach. The paper at hand gives detailed insights in the logic of planning of the empirical test methods as well as the development of the derived interview lines and questionnaires. The findings of this paper broaden the research focus towards the complexity of the two variables, trust and ECU, but simultaneously introduce and suggest an empirical approach to lighten the possibilities of measuring both variables. First empirical results underline the concrete tangible approach towards a focussed structural equation model. As a next step the empirical results will be analyzed in detail and finally pictured in a validated Structural Equation Model.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BolzernKonrad2015, author = {Bolzern-Konrad, Britta}, title = {A new integrative model on trust in organizations - a quantitative approach for application in strategic management}, series = {The proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning}, booktitle = {The proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning}, editor = {Ribiere, Vincent and Worasinchai, Lugkana}, publisher = {ACPIL}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Being of a particular character "trust" eludes a purely strategic approach as it has to be balanced with the special needs of a fragile human resource. Still trust is a resource of strategic relevance since it establishes security, reduces complexity and opens potentials being bigger than simply the reduction of "cost of control". These characteristics are of special interest for management, as competent action is always bound to problem-solving-abilities under circumstances of insecurity. Further to this there are numerous situations where control is not applicable and where we simply don't have full knowledge. Also trust is particular as it bypasses financial efforts and grows through usage; an investment of high amortization though that deserves closer attention of management especially valid in times of skilled worker shortage and with respect to organizational learning as a valuable competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to develop direct and indirect measurable on the impact of trust on employee competence utilization and its subsequent realization in a strategic scorecard approach. This is based on a new integrative model in the organizational context applicable for strategicmanagement. With this the objective of the paper is to answer the question if culture of trust is an adequate instrument for strategic management. The empirical evaluation of the model is based on a survey directed to employees of selected companies in a pragmatic mixed methods application. The selected view considers the trust level of employees with regard to management as another individual and the organization itself; personal and institutional trust mechanisms are affected.Thus the employee evaluates its management. As a result, the empirical study suggests that it is possible to specify frameworks for the establishment of trust, and that its impact on competence utilization is moreover significant. However the concept of trust creates challenging requirements on managers. Based on the assumption that employees basically think and act in the sense of the company, benevolence and goodwill must be involved to avoid an opportunistic approach. Further to this accountability, shared norms and freedom to take responsibility need to be proven by behavior. The allowance of constructive seriously taken criticism, problem solving attitude, the acceptance of decisions are further key points for trust supporting frameworks that have to be accepted and shown through behavior.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MoehrleZellerHoefigetal.2015, author = {M{\"o}hrle, Felix and Zeller, Marc and H{\"o}fig, Kai and Rothfelder, Martin and Liggesmeyer, Peter}, title = {Automated compositional safety analysis using component fault trees}, series = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW 2015), November 2015, Gaithersburg, MD.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW 2015), November 2015, Gaithersburg, MD.}, pages = {152 -- 159}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Safety assurance is a major challenge in the design of today's complex embedded systems and future Cyber-physical systems. Especially changes in a system's architectural design invalidate former safety analyses and require an adaptation of related safety analysis models in order to restore consistency. In this work, we present an approach for automatically generating mappings between failure ports in compositional safety analysis models. This way, automatic and system-wide safety analyses are enabled that can be easily repeated after making modifications to the system's architecture. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach using a case study from the automotive domain.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{HoefigZellerSchorp2015, author = {H{\"o}fig, Kai and Zeller, Marc and Schorp, Konstantin}, title = {Automated failure propagation using inner port dependency traces}, series = {2015 11th International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA), Mai 2015, Montreal, QC, Canada.}, booktitle = {2015 11th International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA), Mai 2015, Montreal, QC, Canada.}, pages = {123 -- 128}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Safety assurance is a major challenge in the design of complex embedded and Cyber-physical Systems. Especially, changes and adoptions during the design or run-time of an embedded system invalidate former safety analyses and require an adaptation of the system's safety analysis models. In this paper, we present a methodology to fill up empty safety analysis artifacts in component fault trees using so-called inner port dependency traces to describe failure propagation. Thus, enabling a imprecise but rapid safety analysis of an entire system at early development stages or during system run-time for the automated certification of Cyber-physical Systems. We evaluate our approach using case study from the automotive domain.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{HoefigZellerHeilmann2015, author = {H{\"o}fig, Kai and Zeller, Marc and Heilmann, Reiner}, title = {ALFRED: a methodology to enable component fault trees for layered architectures}, series = {2015 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), August 2015,Funchal, Portugal. IEEE.}, booktitle = {2015 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), August 2015,Funchal, Portugal. IEEE.}, pages = {167 -- 176}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Identifying drawbacks or insufficiencies in terms of safety is important also in early development stages of safety critical systems. In industry, development artefacts such as components or units, are often reused from existing artefacts to save time and costs. When development artefacts are reused, their existing safety analysis models are an important input for an early safety assessment for the new system, since they already provide a valid model. Component fault trees support such reuse strategies by a compositional horizontal approach. But current development strategies do not only divide systems horizontally, e.g., By encapsulating different functionality into separate components and hierarchies of components, but also vertically, e.g. Into software and hardware architecture layers. Current safety analysis methodologies, such as component fault trees, do not support such vertical layers. Therefore, we present here a methodology that is able to divide safety analysis models into different layers of a systems architecture. We use so called Architecture Layer Failure Dependencies to enable component fault trees on different layers of an architecture. These dependencies are then used to generate safety evidence for the entire system and over all different architecture layers. A case study applies the approach to hardware and software layers.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{SchoepferHopkinsMayretal.2015, author = {Sch{\"o}pfer, Fabian and Hopkins, Carl and Mayr, Andreas R. and Schanda, Ulrich}, title = {Structure-borne sound propagation across a double leaf timber-frame wall}, series = {22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV22, Florence, Italy, July 2015.}, booktitle = {22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV22, Florence, Italy, July 2015.}, year = {2015}, abstract = {With the increasing mechanization of buildings, it is necessary to be able to predict both the structure-borne sound power input from building machinery and the subsequent propagation of structure-borne sound in the building. This paper considers lightweight constructions and describes the results of an experimental study in the laboratory on a T-junction that was constructed from a timber joist floor and two double leaf timber-frame walls. The focus in this paper is on the vibrational behaviour of one of the timber-frame walls. To assess the vibration pattern and the propagation of structure-borne sound, the surface velocity levels were measured on a grid on both leaves of the wall with point force excitation on one side. This grid allowed calculation of structural intensity vectors. The influence of elements such as the timber studs and tongue and grooved joints between the boards were apparent in different frequency regions. Experimental modal analysis was carried out using measurements on both leaves of the wall, giving information about the coupling in different frequency regions. The results give insight into how such a timber-frame wall could be modelled using statistical energy analysis.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KaiserSimmlerWachteretal.2015, author = {Kaiser, D. and Simmler, M. and Wachter, M. and Becker, F. and Sayala, M. and Kaden, T. and Schulze, Achim and H{\"u}ttl, B.}, title = {Concept for fast and precise PV Module Outdoor Characterization}, series = {Proceedings of the 31st EU-PVSEC}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st EU-PVSEC}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{SchoepferHopkinsMayretal.2015, author = {Sch{\"o}pfer, Fabian and Hopkins, Carl and Mayr, Andreas R. and Schanda, Ulrich}, title = {Measured transmission functions from structure-borne sound sources in a timber-frame construction}, series = {Proceedings of Euronoise 2015, Maastricht, Netherlands}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Euronoise 2015, Maastricht, Netherlands}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The aim of prEN 15657-2 is to provide engineering methods to estimate the structure-borne sound power input from machinery in situations where the source mobility matches or is lower than the receiver mobility. This situation often affects lightweight constructions such as timber-frame buildings. To estimate the sound pressure level in a room that is adjacent or distant from the room containing the source, the installed structure-borne sound power has to be propagated across at least one junction in the timber-frame construction. However, at present there are no generic, validated calculation models due to the complexity and the large variety of timber-frame constructions. A simplified approach to investigate and compare the structure-borne sound transmission is to treat the framed construction as a black box and only consider one parameter, a transmission function which is the ratio of the sound pressure level in the receiving room to the injected structure-borne sound power level. To get information about the variation of this transmission function in different timber-frame constructions, measurements were made in both the laboratory and the field. Experimental results are presented showing the variation due to different building configurations and the effect of the excitation position on the transmission function.}, language = {en} }