@phdthesis{Maerz2016, author = {M{\"a}rz, Armin}, title = {Three Essays on Understanding Mobile Consumer Behavior: Business Models, Perceptions, and Features}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-3948}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {145 S.}, year = {2016}, abstract = {For about a decade, consumers have been carrying the Internet in their pockets. The rapid penetration of modern smartphones has meant that more than two-thirds of the people in the West can access and use online resources, anytime and anywhere. Consumers also can communicate and share their consumption experiences instantaneously. Platforms reach users for time-critical events through highly personal communication channels, in the sense that smartphones serve as constant companions. Many mobile applications and their basic services and contents also are available for free. The digital and mobile worlds thus are changing the very means of communication, suggesting the powerful need for marketing research and practice to find the opportunities and meet the challenges of the mobile Internet. In particular, scientific investigations are required to describe new business models in the free e-service industry and the consumer behavior affected by mobile features. This thesis examines these topics in three essays. Study 1 considers business models that offer their services without charge. Offering services for free is symptomatic of not only mobile apps (90\% of all apps are available for free) but the digital economy in general. For companies offering free e-services, this situation raises several important questions, in that, without any access device restrictions, how do customers of free e-services contribute value without paying? What are the nature and dynamics of nonmonetary value contributions by nonpaying customers? With a literature review and interviews with senior executives of free e-service providers, Study 1 presents a comprehensive overview of nonmonetary value contributions in the free e-service sector, including word of mouth, co-production, and network effects. Moreover, adding attention and data into this framework reveals two further aspects that have not been addressed in prior customer value research. By putting the findings in the context of the existing literature on customer value and customer engagement, this study sheds light on the complex processes of value creation in the emerging e-service sector, while advancing marketing and service research in general. Study 2 deepens the findings from the first study; specifically, the focus is on the way that mobile users co-produce content and how this contribution is perceived by recipients in the network. With field data and a scenario experiment, this study demonstrates that recipients appreciate mobile-generated customer reviews fundamentally differently from other reviews. In particular, they discount the helpfulness of mobile reviews, due to their text-specific content and style particularities. The very fact that a review has been identified as written on a mobile device also lowers recipients' perceptions of its value. Recipients use information about the device as a source cue to assess their compatibility with the review contribution channel. If they perceive themselves as compatible with the method used to generate the review (mobile or non-mobile), recipients regard the review as more helpful, because they attribute the review to the quality of the reviewed subject. If they perceive it as incompatible though, recipients assume that the review reflects the personal dispositions of the reviewer and discount its helpfulness. Finally, Study 3 takes up the attention and cross-market network effects in a mobile setting; these were two nonmonetary dimensions identified by Study 1. Platform providers should develop measures to draw the attention of nonpaying customers to the offers of their paying customers. One attention-grabbing mobile-specific feature is push notifications to the device, which provide information about temporally or spatially relevant events. More concretely, Study 3 investigates how mobile push notifications remind users of upcoming deadlines in online auctions and therefore improve late bidding success. Late bidding is a prevalent strategy, in which bidders submit their bids at the very end of an online auction. This research uses field data about an online auction platform to demonstrate that late bidders use these mobile push notifications more frequently than do bidders with different bidding patterns. Within the group of late bidders, the chance to win an auction increases with their use of push notifications. After a mobile push notification, late bidders submit bids through mobile devices but also through non-mobile channels. Less experienced late bidders also benefit from push notifications, which increase their chances of success. In summary, this dissertation contributes to an enhanced understanding of mobile consumer behavior by using various methods, including qualitative interviews, field observations, and online experiments. From a theoretical perspective, it contributes to current knowledge about nonmonetary costumer value contributions in general and their role in mobile settings in particular. This thesis highlights the role of mobile devices in co-production and perceptions of co-produced content. It also reveals how mobile-specific interactive features, like push notifications, affect late bidding efficiency. Therefore, it specifies the role of mobile devices in cross-market effects, in that they enable the platform to direct the relationship between buyers and sellers. The insights presented herein encourage managers to reevaluate their current practices, think about whether they should label co-produced content as generated through a mobile channel or not, and contemplate whether to develop mobile push notifications as helpful features for users (not as intrusive marketing messages).}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Alsarem2016, author = {Alsarem, Mazen}, title = {Semantic Snippets via Query-Biased Ranking of Linked Data Entities}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-3959}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {148 S.}, year = {2016}, abstract = {In our knowledge-driven society, the acquisition and the transfer of knowledge play a principal role. Web search engines are somehow tools for knowledge acquisition and transfer from the web to the user. The search engine results page (SERP) consists mainly of a list of links and snippets (excerpts from the results). The snippets are used to express, as efficiently as possible, the way a web page may be relevant to the query. As an extension of the existing web, the semantic web or "web 3.0" is designed to convert the presently available web of unstructured documents into a web of data consumable by both human and machines. The resulting web of data and the current web of documents coexist and interconnect via multiple mechanisms, such as the embedded structured data, or the automatic annotation. In this thesis, we introduce a new interactive artifact for the SERP: the "Semantic Snippet". Semantic Snippets rely on the coexistence of the two webs to facilitate the transfer of knowledge to the user thanks to a semantic contextualization of the user's information need. It makes apparent the relationships between the information need and the most relevant entities present in the web page. The generation of semantic snippets is mainly based on the automatic annotation of the LOD1's entities in web pages. The annotated entities have different level of impor- tance, usefulness and relevance. Even with state of the art solutions for the automatic annotations of LOD entities within web pages, there is still a lot of noise in the form of erroneous or off-topic annotations. Therefore, we propose a query-biased algorithm (LDRANK) for the ranking of these entities. LDRANK adopts a strategy based on the linear consensual combination of several sources of prior knowledge (any form of con- textual knowledge, like the textual descriptions for the nodes of the graph) to modify a PageRank-like algorithm. For generating semantic snippets, we use LDRANK to find the more relevant entities in the web page. Then, we use a supervised learning algorithm to link each selected entity to excerpts from the web page that highlight the relationship between the entity and the original information need. In order to evaluate our semantic snippets, we integrate them in ENsEN (Enhanced Search Engine), a software system that enhances the SERP with semantic snippets. Finally, we use crowdsourcing to evaluate the usefulness and the efficiency of ENsEN.}, subject = {World Wide Web 3.0}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Tomashevich2016, author = {Tomashevich, Victor}, title = {Fault Tolerance Aspects of Virtual Massive MIMO Systems}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-4047}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {183}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Employment of a very large number of antennas is seen as the key technology to provide future users with very high data rates. At the same time, the implementation complexity will rise due to large memories required and sophisticated signal processing algorithms employed. Continuous technology downscaling allows implementation of such complex digital designs. At the same time, its inherent variability and vulnerability to physical disturbances violate the assumption of perfectly reliable hardware operation. This work considers Unique Word OFDM which represents the alternative to the standard Cyclic Prefix OFDM providing superior detection quality. The generalization of Unique Word OFDM to a MIMO system is performed which allows interpretation as a virtual massive MIMO system with only few physical antennas. Detection methods for the introduced generalization are discussed and their performance is quantified. Because of the large memory size required, linear detection represents the cost and performance effective solution. The possible memory errors due to radiation effects or voltage scaling are addressed and the nonlinear MMSE detection algorithm is proposed. This algorithm keeps track of the memory errors and is able to significantly mitigate their effect on the quality of the estimated data. Apart of memory issues, reliability of the actual computational hardware which constitutes the receiver is of concern in this work. An own implementation of the MMSE Sorted Givens Rotations is subjected to transient fault injection. The impact of faults in various parts of the implemented circuit on the detection performance is quantified. Most vulnerable components of the implemented circuit in terms of reliability are identified. Security is another major address of this work, since most current implementations include cryptographic devices. Fault-based attacks on such systems are known to be able to extract the secret key in feasible time. The remaining part of this work addresses such fault injection-based malicious attacks. Countermeasures based on a combination of information and hardware redundancy are considered. Recently introduced robust codes target such attacks by providing guaranteed detection capability. The performance of these codes is assessed by application to actual cryptographic and general purpose circuits. The work introduces metrics that help to identify fault locations in the circuit which could escape detection with high probability. These locations are targeted by transistor resizing that renders fault injection unfeasible.}, subject = {MIMO}, language = {en} } @misc{OPUS4-406, title = {Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online. Ausgabe 2}, number = {2}, editor = {Nies, Martin}, organization = {Virtuelles Zentrum f{\"u}r kultursemiotische Forschung}, issn = {2364-9224}, doi = {10.15475/skms.2016.1}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-4062}, pages = {123 S.}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Inhalt der zweiten Ausgabe der Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online Martin Nies (Hrsg.) Vorwort zur zweiten Ausgabe Matthias Bauer Szenopragmatik Annika Rockenberger Materiality and Meaning in Literary Studies Stephanie Großmann / Hans Krah ‚Poetologie des Prosaischen': E.T.A. Hoffmanns Der Sandmann aus der Perspektive einer (kulturL)semiotisch orientierten Literaturwissenschaft Bj{\"o}rn Hayer Arbeit auf dem H{\"o}llengrund: Natur, Arbeit und Gender in Lars von Triers ANTICHRIST Matthias Bauer / Tanja Br{\"u}mmer / Martin Nies / Christian Stolz Katastrophen-Diegese und Katastrophen-Exegese (KDE): Projekt des VZKF zum Verh{\"a}ltnis von Erkl{\"a}rung und Erz{\"a}hlung sowie von natur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Schoetz2016, author = {Sch{\"o}tz, Lukas}, title = {Vier Artikel zur Lokalen Politischen {\"O}konomie}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-3457}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {119}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Die vorgelegte Dissertationsschrift setzt sich empirisch mit Themen der Lokalen Politischen {\"O}konomie auseinander. Durch die Analyse bayerischer Kommunaldaten werden kausale Effekte parteipolitischer Machtverh{\"a}ltnisse, kausale Effekte von Parteibanden auf das Zuteilen legaler Renten sowie kausale Effekte steigender Bezahlung auf die Eigenschaften von Lokalpolitikern untersucht.}, subject = {Kommunalpolitik}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{dePonteMueller2016, author = {de Ponte M{\"u}ller, Fabian}, title = {Cooperative Relative Positioning for Vehicular Environments}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-5411}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {vii, 247 Seiten}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Fahrerassistenzsysteme sind ein wesentlicher Baustein zur Steigerung der Sicherheit im Straßenverkehr. Vor allem sicherheitsrelevante Applikationen ben{\"o}tigen eine genaue Information {\"u}ber den Ort und der Geschwindigkeit der Fahrzeuge in der unmittelbaren Umgebung, um m{\"o}gliche Gefahrensituationen vorherzusehen, den Fahrer zu warnen oder eigenst{\"a}ndig einzugreifen. Repr{\"a}sentative Beispiele f{\"u}r Assistenzsysteme, die auf eine genaue, kontinuierliche und zuverl{\"a}ssige Relativpositionierung anderer Verkehrsteilnehmer angewiesen sind, sind Notbremsassitenten, Spurwechselassitenten und Abstandsregeltempomate. Moderne L{\"o}sungsans{\"a}tze benutzen Umfeldsensorik wie zum Beispiel Radar, Laser Scanner oder Kameras, um die Position benachbarter Fahrzeuge zu sch{\"a}tzen. Dieser Sensorsysteme gemeinsame Nachteile sind deren limitierte Erfassungsreichweite und die Notwendigkeit einer direkten und nicht blockierten Sichtlinie zum Nachbarfahrzeug. Kooperative L{\"o}sungen basierend auf einer Fahrzeug-zu-Fahrzeug Kommunikation k{\"o}nnen die eigene Wahrnehmungsreichweite erh{\"o}hen, in dem Positionsinformationen zwischen den Verkehrsteilnehmern ausgetauscht werden. In dieser Dissertation soll die M{\"o}glichkeit der kooperativen Relativpositionierung von Straßenfahrzeugen mittels Fahrzeug-zu-Fahrzeug Kommunikation auf ihre Genauigkeit, Kontinuit{\"a}t und Robustheit untersucht werden. Anstatt die in jedem Fahrzeug unabh{\"a}ngig ermittelte Position zu {\"u}bertragen, werden in einem neuartigem Ansatz GNSS-Rohdaten, wie Pseudoranges und Doppler-Messungen, ausgetauscht. Dies hat den Vorteil, dass sich korrelierte Fehler in beiden Fahrzeugen potentiell herausk{\"u}rzen. Dies wird in dieser Dissertation mathematisch untersucht, simulativ modelliert und experimentell verifiziert. Um die Zuverl{\"a}ssigkeit und Kontinuit{\"a}t auch in "gest{\"o}rten" Umgebungen zu erh{\"o}hen, werden in einem Bayesischen Filter die GNSS-Rohdaten mit Inertialsensormessungen aus zwei Fahrzeugen fusioniert. Die Validierung des Sensorfusionsansatzes wurde im Rahmen dieser Dissertation in einem Verkehrs- sowie in einem GNSS-Simulator durchgef{\"u}hrt. Zur experimentellen Untersuchung wurden zwei Testfahrzeuge mit den verschiedenen Sensoren ausgestattet und Messungen in diversen Umgebungen gefahren. In dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass auf Autobahnen, die Relativposition eines anderen Fahrzeugs mit einer Genauigkeit von unter einem Meter kontinuierlich gesch{\"a}tzt werden kann. Eine hohe Zuverl{\"a}ssigkeit in der longitudinalen und lateralen Richtung k{\"o}nnen erzielt werden und das System erweist 90\% der Zeit eine Unsicherheit unter 2.5m. In l{\"a}ndlichen Umgebungen w{\"a}chst die Unsicherheit in der relativen Position. Mit Hilfe der on-board Sensoren k{\"o}nnen Fehler bei der Fahrt durch W{\"a}lder und D{\"o}rfer korrekt gest{\"u}tzt werden. In st{\"a}dtischen Umgebungen werden die Limitierungen des Systems deutlich. Durch die erschwerte Sch{\"a}tzung der Fahrtrichtung des Ego-Fahrzeugs ist vor Allem die longitudinale Komponente der Relativen Position in st{\"a}dtischen Umgebungen stark verf{\"a}lscht.}, subject = {Fahrerassistenzsystem}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Lucke2016, author = {Lucke, Robin Jan}, title = {How Securitization Theory Can Benefit from Psychology Findings}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-6216}, pages = {20 Seiten}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Securitization Theory has been applied and advanced continuously since the publication of the seminal work "Security - A New Framework for Analysis" by Buzan et al. in 1998. Various extensions, clarifications and definitions have been added over the years. Ontological and epistemological debates as well as debates about the normativity of the concept have taken place, furthering the approach incrementally and adapting it to new empirical cases. This paper aims at contributing to the improvement of the still useful framework in a more general way by amending it with well-established findings from another discipline: Psychology. The exploratory article will point out what elements of Securitization Theory might benefit most from incorporating insights from Psychology and in which ways they might change our understanding of the phenomenon. Some well-studied phenomena in the field of (Social) Psychology, it is argued here, play an important role for the construction and perception of security threats and the acceptance of the audience to grant the executive branch extraordinary measures to counter these threats: availability heuristic, loss-aversion and social identity theory are central psychological concepts that can help us to better understand how securitization works, and in which situations securitizing moves have great or little chances to reverberate. The empirical cases of the 9/11 and Paris terror attacks will serve to illustrate the potential of this approach, allowing for variances in key factors, among them: (point in) time, system of government and ideological orientation. As a hypotheses-generating pilot study, the paper will conclude by discussing further research possibilities in the field of Securitization.}, subject = {Securitization}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Lehner2016, author = {Lehner, Sabrina}, title = {The Asymptotic Behaviour of the Riemann Mapping Function at Analytic Cusps}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-3587}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {97}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The well-known Riemann Mapping Theorem states the existence of a conformal map of a simply connected proper domain of the complex plane onto the upper half plane. One of the main topics in geometric function theory is to investigate the behaviour of the mapping functions at the boundary of such domains. In this work, we always assume that a piecewise analytic boundary is given. Hereby, we have to distinguish regular and singular boundary points. While the asymptotic behaviour for regular boundary points can be investigated by using the Schwarz Reflection at analytic arcs, the situation for singular boundary points is far more complicated. In the latter scenario two cases have to be differentiated: analytic corners and analytic cusps. The first part of the thesis deals with the asymptotic behaviour at analytic corners where the opening angle is greater than 0. The results of Lichtenstein and Warschawski on the asymptotic behaviour of the Riemann map and its derivatives at an analytic corner are presented as well as the much stronger result of Lehman that the mapping function can be developed in a certain generalised power series which in turn enables to examine the o-minimal content of the Riemann Mapping Theorem. To obtain a similar statement for domains with analytic cusps, it is necessary to investigate the asymptotic behaviour of a Riemann map at the cusp and based on this result to determine the asymptotic power series expansion. Therefore, the aim of the second part of this work is to investigate the asymptotic behaviour of a Riemann map at an analytic cusp. A simply connected domain has an analytic cusp if the boundary is locally given by two analytic arcs such that the interior angle vanishes. Besides the asymptotic behaviour of the mapping function, the behaviour of its derivatives, its inverse, and the derivatives of the inverse are analysed. Finally, we present a conjecture on the asymptotic power series expansion of the mapping function at an analytic cusp.}, subject = {Geometrische Funktionentheorie}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-380, title = {Rechtsschutz und Verfahren im Vertragspartnerrecht}, editor = {Jabornegg, Peter and Resch, Reinhard and Seewald, Otfried and Jungwirth, Carola}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-3803}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {135 S.}, year = {2016}, abstract = {VORWORT Anlass f{\"u}r die Befassung mit dem Thema „Rechtsschutz und Verfahren" sind {\"A}nderungen im {\"o}sterreichischen Verfahrensrecht, und zwar des Verwaltungs- und Gerichtsverfahrens im Bereich des Vertragspartnerrechts der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung durch die Schaffung von Verwaltungsgerichten in {\"O}sterreich. Darzustellen ist dabei einerseits das neu geschaffene System der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit an sich (Referat Pabel) und andererseits die konkreten Verfahrensvorschriften f{\"u}r den niedergelassenen Bereich (Referat Raschauer) und den station{\"a}ren Bereich (Referat St{\"o}ger). Ein Bericht aus der bisherigen Praxis des (neuen {\"o}sterreichischen) Bundesverwaltungsgerichts rundet den {\"o}sterreichischen Teil des Programms ab (Referat Parzer). Gem{\"a}ß dem rechtsvergleichenden Anliegen der Deutsch-{\"O}sterreichischen Sozialrechtsgespr{\"a}che wurden des Weiteren die entsprechenden Regelungen und Institutionen in Deuschland dargestellt. Der {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber das Verfahren und den Rechtsschutz im Vertragspartenerbereich (Referat Seewald) wurde erg{\"a}nzt und vertieft durch den Bericht {\"u}ber die Schieds- und Schlichtungsverfahren sowie den Rechtsschutz im Krankenhausbereich (Referat Felix). Weiterhin wurden Verfahren und Rechtsschutz im vertrags{\"a}rztlichen Schiedswesen, insbesondere auf der Grundlage der h{\"o}chstrichterlichen Rechtsprechung des Bundessozialgerichts, dargestellt (Referat D{\"u}ring). Jeder Beitrag ist - f{\"u}r sich betrachtet - aufschlussreich f{\"u}r die Bem{\"u}hungen der Gestalter sowohl der {\"o}sterreichischen als auch der deutschen Rechtsordnung (in erster Linie die Gesetzgeber und die zur Streitentscheidung berufenen Institutionen), bereichsspezifische L{\"o}sungen f{\"u}r ein Gebiet zu finden, das einerseits sozialrechtlich gepr{\"a}gt ist, mit einer ausgepr{\"a}gten Bevorzugung partnerschaftlicher L{\"o}sungen, andererseits dem Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht zuzuordnen ist; aus beiden Bereichen stammt offenbar eine gewisse Affinit{\"a}t f{\"u}r das Schiedswesen. Zumindest ebenso interessant ist auch die rechtsvergleichende Analyse auf der Grundlage der Zusammenschau der Beitr{\"a}ge. Sie zeigt Gemeinsamkeiten in den Bem{\"u}hungen f{\"u}r bereichsad{\"a}quate L{\"o}sungen, aber auch - in beiden L{\"a}ndern - deutliche Kritikpunkte; diese betreffen sowohl die Kompliziertheit der jeweils gefundenen Regelungen als auch Schw{\"a}chen bei ihrem Vollzug. Ein diesbez{\"u}glich „gelobtes Land" hat sich nicht gezeigt. So gesehen d{\"u}rfen die Ergebnisse dieser Tagung - gemeinsamen Erkenntnisse aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht - auch als eine hilfreiche Grundlage gesehen werden f{\"u}r eine weitere Fortentwicklung in diesem Bereich. INHALTSVERZEICHNIS Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Pabel Die Neuordnung des Rechtsschutzes im Verwaltungsverfahren in {\"O}sterreich 11 PD Dr. Nicolas Raschauer Rechtsschutz und Verfahren im niedergelassenen Bereich 27 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Otfried Seewald Verfahren und Rechtsschutz im Vertragspartnerbereich in Deutschland - {\"U}berblick und Vertragsarztbereich/Kassenarztbereich 51 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl St{\"o}ger Vertragspartnerrechtliches Verfahren und Rechtsschutz im station{\"a}ren Bereich in {\"O}sterreich nach der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeitsnovelle 2012 75 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dagmar Felix Schieds- und Schlichtungsverfahren sowie Rechtsschutz im station{\"a}ren Bereich in Deutschland 91 Dr. Ruth D{\"u}ring Verfahren und Rechtsschutz im vertrags{\"a}rztlichen Schiedswesen in Deutschland 109 Dr. Maria Parzer Praktische Erfahrungen aus der Sicht des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts 129 Hinweis auf die bisherigen Tagungsb{\"a}nde der 1. bis 14. Deutsch{\"O}sterreichischen Sozialrechtsgespr{\"a}che 135}, language = {de} } @misc{Bauer2016, author = {Bauer, Matthias}, title = {Szenopragmatik}, doi = {10.15475/skms.2016.1.1}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-4079}, pages = {7-38}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Wie h{\"a}ngen Zeichen, Szenen und Medien in der Lebenswelt des Menschen zusammen? Eine Antwort auf diese Frage erfordert konzeptionelle {\"U}berlegungen, die sich synoptisch zu einer Reihe relevanter Theorien verhalten m{\"u}ssen. Wie die einschl{\"a}gigen Begriffe, aufeinander bezogen werden k{\"o}nnten, soll hier - eher vorl{\"a}ufig als abschließend - erkundet werden.}, language = {de} }