Michael Hanspeter Böhlen, Johann Gamper, Christian Jensen, Richard Snodgrass, SQL-Based Temporal Query Languages, In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 2762 - 2768, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Johann Gamper, Michael Hanspeter Böhlen, Christian S Jensen, Temporal Aggregation, In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 2924 - 2929, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Michael Hanspeter Böhlen, Temporal Coalescing, In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 2932 - 2936, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Michael Hanspeter Böhlen, Christian Jensen, Richard Snodgrass, Temporal Compatibility, In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 2936 - 2939, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Michael Hanspeter Böhlen, Temporal Query Processing, In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 3012 - 3015, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Michael Hanspeter Böhlen, Christian S Jensen, Richard Snodgrass, Current Semantics, In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 544 - 545, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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 Andrei Aurel Vancea, Burkhard Stiller, A Cooperative Semantic Caching Architecture for Answering Selection Queries, No. IFI-2009.05, Version: 1, 2009. (Technical Report)
Semantic caching is a technique used for optimizing the evaluation of database queries by caching results of old queries and using them when answering new queries. CoopSC is a cooperative database caching architecture, which extends the classic semantic caching approach by allowing clients to share their local caches in a cooperative matter. Cache entries of all clients are indexed in a distributed data structure constructed on top of a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay network. This distributed index is used for determining those cache entries that can be used for answering a specific query. Thus, this approach decreases the response time of database queries, because the server only answers those parts of queries that are not available in the cooperative cache |
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Jan Bielik, SEON - Designing Software Engineering Ontologies, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Master's Thesis)
In the field of informatics an ontology provides a commonly shared vocabulary for a domain of discourse, which is used in order to retain the intended meaning of data.
The aim of this thesis is to describe a structured set of software engineering ontologies that represents the data found in revision control systems, issue tracking systems and the static source code information underlying object-oriented programming languages. It presents an approach to an object-oriented metrics library, which identifies design disharmonies in object-oriented software projects from annotations created with the software engineering ontologies presented in this thesis.
For this purpose, we present first the state of the art in ontology development. We stress the needs for comprehensive methodologies and present in detail the available ones, which are often applied and which rely on the most intuitive use. These methodologies should enable a straight forward development of ontologies that are commonly shared and widely used in their specific domain of discourse. Next, we analyze existing ontologies in the field of software engineering with regard to their suitability for integration in our software engineering ontologies.
In a second stage, we outline the various requirements that our software engineering ontologies should fulfill and describe the system implementations and the object-oriented programming languages that are investigated for their representations in OWL. We present SEON, our structured set of software engineering ontologies. These ontologies describe the data of revision control systems, issue tracking systems and the static source code information of object-oriented programming languages. Our software engineering ontologies are subsequently used to annotate these kinds of information for further software analyses.
Finally, we present our object-oriented metrics library, which evaluates the design of object- oriented software projects on the basis of data annotated with our software engineering ontologies and points out possible weaknesses in the design of these software projects. |
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Hiroshi Yokoi, Kaori Kita Dr, Tatuhiro Nakamura, Ryu Kato, Alejandro Hernandez Arieta, Tamio Arai, Katsunori Ikoma, Hitoshi Makino, Recent advances in Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, In: null, INTERNATIONALSAR, p. 27 - 38, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Ryu Kato, Hiroshi Yokoi, Alejandro Hernandez Arieta, Wenwei Yu, Tamio Arai, Mutual Adaptation among Man and Machine by using f-MRI analysis., Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 57 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
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Wenwei Yu, Jose Gonzales, Yu Ikemoto, Alejandro Hernandez Arieta, Hiroshi Yokoi, Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, In: null, American Scientific Publisher, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Massimiliano Lungarella, Response: Developmental robotics, from black art to discipline guided by principles, In: IEEE Autonomous Mental Development Newsletter, p. 9 - 10, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Massimiliano Lungarella, Dialog initiation: Developmental robotics, from black art to discipline guided by principles, In: IEEE Autonomous Mental Development Newsletter, p. 9 - 10, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Rolf Pfeifer, Massimiliano Lungarella, Olaf Sporns, The synthetic approach to embodied cognition: a primer, In: Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach, p. 121 - 137, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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André Christian Kuzan, Erfüllung von Kundenbedürfnissen im Privatebanking, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Bachelor's Thesis)
After an analysis of two large Swiss banking institutes and their perception of their clients it is revealed, that clients today are mostly characterized by their risk tolerance and risk behavior. The goals that clients pursuit with their investments are largely ignored by the current advisory processes. Analyzing established and modern portfolio and investment theories, we look for possibilities to support customer confidence in banking institutions and provide for a more customer centric advisory process. Life cycle and psychological categorizations are shown to support the disclosure of information about the fundamental needs of the customer. Summarizing the findings, suggestions for changes in current advisory processes and supporting IT are presented. |
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Remo Welti, Planung und Implementierung eines JBioDC-Gerätetreibers für den Panasonic Iris Reader BM-ET 200, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Master's Thesis)
Biometrics are a technically and economically contemporary issue. Identification devices have lately become much cheaper as their components did. Meanwhile, they are able to fully replace current door locking systems. The biometric passport is a politically up-to-date subject. It's also a fact that nowadays people own more passwords than they can remember and they carry around lots of smartcards and keys. Doesn't it make sense to replace well-tried identification systems by biometric ones? Within the scope of this diploma thesis a JBioDC device driver for the Panasonic Iris Reader BM-ET 200 was implemented. This device scans the structure of the colored part around the pupil of the human eye. The platform dependent software development kit of the iris reader had to be deployed on a machine different to the BioXes server avoiding to bind BioXes to Windows platform. A way to call the COM-Interfaces provided by the software development kit from Java had to be found. All well-known methods have been evaluated before deciding to choose the Java/COM-Bridge Java2COM. The second issue known from the beginning was that biometric data cannot be read out the embedded device. This means that the user management database stays out of BioXes on the embedded device where the software development kit is also located. To make use of external data sources a new interface had to be added to JBioDC. Its functionality was implemented in BioXes during progression of this diploma thesis. The driver has been extensively tested. In this document some solved issues related to the use of a Java/COM-Bridge are shown. In retrospect, the application of Java2COM is under onsideration, examining other alternatives that may have emerged since the comparison of Java/COM-Bridges. The new interface ConnectionUserStorage is now integrated into JBioDC. Its comprehensibility and usability are part of the discussion as well as the use of external databases.
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Cornelia Kradolfer, Wirksamkeit des IT-Architexturmanagements der Credit Suisse: Erfolg der Managed Evolution-Strategie, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Master's Thesis)
It is a well-known problem that the architecture of IT systems erodes over time. A systematic enterprise architecture management is the solution for the problem of architectural erosion. This thesis discusses the question of how the effectiveness of enterprise architecture management in a company can be verified. In a case study, the enterprise architecture management at Credit Suisse for an application landscape of about 800 applications and its effectiveness is being analysed. The enterprise architecture management at Credit Suisse follows a strategy called ìManaged Evolutionî. Its goal is to increase the architectural quality o the IT system and the efficiency of software development projects regarding cost and time to market. In order to verify the effectiveness of enterprise architecture management, 21 interviews were conducted and quantitative data was analysed. Architectural quality is being measured using an Architecture Scorecard, the efficiency of projects using a data set of 152 projects over a time period of 7 years. |
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Ralph Mogicato, Gerhard Schwabe, Philipp Nussbaumer, Eric Stehli, Matthias Eberhard, Beratungsqualität in Banken. Was der Kunde erwartet. Was der Kunde erlebt, Solution Providers AG, Dübendorf, http://www.solutionproviders.com/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-86/76_read-120/, 2009. (Published Research Report)
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Daniel Bisig, Tatsuo Unemi, Swarms on Stage - Swarm Simulations for Dance Performance, In: Proceedings of the Generative Art Conference, 2009. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
Simulations of swarm behavior have been employed as a generative processes in many musical and artistic realizations. Despite this popularity, the application of swarm simulations as a visual and interactive component for stage performances seems to be very rare. This paper tries to show that swarm simulations can be employed as flexible and fascinating choreographic elements for dance performance. In particular, a swarm's strong spatial presence and it's behavioral flexibility provide a wide range of choreographic possibilities that accentuate or complement the human dancers' activities. This paper places a particular focus on the presentation of several examples of swarm based stage effects that have been realized as collaboration between the authors and choreographers. |
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Shuhei Miyashita, Zoltan Nagy, Bradly Nelson, Rolf Pfeifer, The Influence of Shape on Parallel Self-Assembly, null, Vol. 11 (4), 2009. (Journal Article)
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