S Fricker, Requirements value chains: stakeholder management and requirements engineering in software ecosystems, In: REFSQ 2010: 16th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010-06-30. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
[Context & motivation] Market-oriented development involves the collaboration of many stakeholders that do not necessarily directly interact with a given development project but still influence its results. These stakeholders are part of the requirements value chain for the concerned software product. [Question/problem] Understanding the structure and functioning of requirements value chains is essential for effective stakeholder management and requirements engineering within the software product’s ecosystem. [Principal ideas/results] The paper explores and exemplifies fundamental concepts that are needed to characterize and reason about requirements value chains. [Contribution] This characterization is used to describe the relevant knowledge landscape and to suggest research avenues for understanding the principles needed for managing requirements-based stakeholder collaboration. |
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Helmut Max Dietl, Der Penalty aus spieltheoretischer Sicht, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 148, p. 22, 30 June 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Martin Waldburger, Automated Determination of Jurisdiction and Applicable Law for International Service Contracts: Modeling Method, Information Model, and Implementation, In: 18th Biennial and Silver Anniversary International Telecommunications Society Conference (ITS 2010). 2010. (Conference Presentation)
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Maria Olivares, How do Swiss Universities Master the Reforms of the last Ten Years? – Empirical Evidence froma Data Envelopment Analysis, In: 3rd Halle Workshop on Efficiency and Productvity Analysis (HAWEPA), 2010. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Shirley Beul, Sarah Mennicken, Martina Ziefle, Eva-Maria Jakobs, What Happens After Calling the Ambulance: Information, Communication, and Acceptance Issues in a Telemedical Workflow, In: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010), iSociety 2010/ IEEE, London, UK, 2010. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Christian Vögtlin, Moritz Patzer, Andreas Scherer, Responsible Leadership in Global Business: A Contingency Approach, In: EGOS 2010 Colloquium. 2010. (Conference Presentation)
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Anselm Jakob Schneider, Andreas Scherer, Closing the legitimacy gap in corporate governance: governing the multinational corporation by means of democratic decision making, In: 26th EGOS Colloquium . 2010. (Conference Presentation)
Corporate governance practice is mainly centered on the protection of investors’ rights. However, this view neglects the fundamental changes in the operating conditions of business due to globalization and the weakening of regulatory frameworks. Weak or absent enforcement of contracts, increasingly unfettered negative externalities of corporate action, and involvement of private actors in the provision of public goods change the role of business in a fundamental way, rendering it a political actor. Resulting in the extension of corporate power these developments challenge the very assumptions of efficiency based corporate governance theory. Recurrent misuse of power poses a threat to organizational legitimacy as well as to the legitimacy of the capitalist system. Drawing on suggestions to restore organizational legitimacy by means of discursive processes, we argue that opening corporate governance to such processes is a suitable means to safeguard organizational legitimacy in a globalized world. Based on these considerations, basic requirements as well as limits for modification of current corporate governance practice are introduced. |
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Andrei Aurel Vancea, Burkhard Stiller, CoopSC: A Cooperative Database Caching Architecture, In: 19th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2010), IEEE Computer Society, Larissa, Greece, 2010-06-28. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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 and the amount of data
sent by database server, because the server only answers
those parts of queries that are not available in the cooperative
cache. |
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M Waldburger, M Charalambides, T Schaaf, Burkhard Stiller, Automated determination of jurisdiction and applicable law for international service contracts: Modeling method, information Model, and implementation, In: 18th Biennial and Silver Anniversary International Telecommunications Society Conference (ITS 2010), published by the ITS 2010 conference, 2010-06-28. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
Jurisdiction and applicable law constitute two parameters
of international service contracts with a high potential
impact on business risk. The legally compliant determination
of jurisdiction and applicable law, however, is highly complex and costly as it must consider the case-specific connecting factor setting applicable to a given international contract relation. With the aim to support contract parties in concluding an international
service contract, hence, a decision support tool to produce a list of recommended jurisdiction(s) and/or applicable law(s) in an automated and compliant manner is developed in this paper.
This implies to address the following three challenges. First, in the light of a method lacking to identify, select, and formally model the relevant legal basis, such a method has to be developed. Second, a common information model basis has to be built in order to reflect and integrate different notions originating from different jurisdictions and their laws. Third, and in consideration of both, modeling method and information model, an implementation of those laws modeled becomes necessary. Therefore, this paper addresses these challenges and it shows for the example of the main European jurisdiction-oriented regulation modeled and implemented that an automated determination is feasible
and fully operational. |
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Daniel Germann, W Schatz, P Eggenberger Hotz, Bivalve burrowing robots: correlating shell morphology and movement pattern with burrowing efficiency, In: Fifth International Conference on Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering (Design and Nature), 2010-06-28. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
This work examines correlations between functional morphology and behaviour in the instance of the burrowing locomotion of bivalves. A comparatively simple and assessable behaviour and a rich fossil record documenting the evolutionary adaptations in morphology make these animals adequate for investigation. In this paper a robotic setup to simulate the burrowing behaviour of bivalves is presented. Models of both natural bivalve shell shapes and artificially designed shapes are pulled into sediment in the rocking modality these animals typically use. Different shapes, motion patterns and a water expulsion mechanism are evaluated and compared in terms of burrowing performance. The results presented here and further experiments using the (improved) platform may shed light on how bivalves burrow, how features of functional morphology evolved and how efficient automatic burrowing devices may be constructed. Keywords: biorobotics, biomimetics, underwater robots, functional morphology, burrowing locomotion, shell morphology, bivalves, artificial evolution. |
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Urs Wenger, Mit Wissenslücken umgehen können, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 145, p. 77, 26 June 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Matej Hoffmann, Noelia Oses, Randal A Koene, Embodied moving-target seeking with prediction and planning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6077, 2010. (Journal Article)
We present a bio-inspired control method for moving-target seeking with a mobile robot, which resembles a predator-prey scenario. The motor repertoire of a simulated Khepera robot was restricted to a discrete number of "gaits". After an exploration phase, the robot automatically synthesizes a model of its motor repertoire, acquiring a forward model. Two additional components were introduced for the task of catching a prey robot. First, an inverse model to the forward model, which is used to determine the action (gait) needed to reach a desired location. Second, while hunting the prey, a model of the prey's behavior is learned online by the hunter robot. All the models are learned ab initio, without assumptions, work in egocentric coordinates, and are probabilistic in nature. Our architecture can be applied to robots with any physical constraints (or embodiment), such as legged robots. |
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Maria Olivares, Effects of Competitive Fundingon University Productivity, In: Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), Annual Meeting. 2010. (Conference Presentation)
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Fourth international conference on autonomous infrastructure, management and security (AIMS 2010), Edited by: Burkhard Stiller, Filip De Turck, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010-06-23. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Fabio Victora Hecht, Burkhard Stiller, Report- and Reciprocity-based Incentive Mechanisms for Live and On-demand P2P Video Streaming, In: 4th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2010, Springer, Berlin, 2010-06-23. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Enrico De Giorgi, D.B. Brown, M. Sim, Dual Representation of Choice and Aspirational Preferences, In: Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision 2010 (RUD) conference. 2010. (Conference Presentation)
We consider choice over a set of monetary acts and study a general class of preferences. These preferences favor diversification, except perhaps on a subset of sufficiently disliked acts, over which concentration is instead preferred. This structure encompasses a number of known models, such as expected utility theory, maxmin utility theory, and convex risk measures. We show that such preferences share a dual representation in terms of a family of measures of risk and a target function. Specifically, the choice function is equivalent to selection of a maximum index level such that the risk of beating the target function at that level is acceptable. This dual representation may help to uncover new models of choice. One that we explore in detail is the special case of a bounded target function. This case corresponds to a type of satisficing and has descriptive relevance. Moreover, the model results in optimization problems that may be efficiently solved in large-scale. |
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P Mahler, Freiwillige Arbeit macht erfolgreich, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 139, p. 77, 19 June 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Bruno Frey, Margit Osterloh, How to Improve the Use of Metrics, Nature, Vol. 465 (7300), 2010. (Journal Article)
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Bruno Frey, Margit Osterloh, Motivate people with prizes, Nature, Vol. 465, 2010. (Journal Article)
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Thorsten Hens, Vom Secret Banking zum Private Banking, In: NZZ, p. 1, 16 June 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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