CONTROL OF UNCERTAIN DYNAMIC-SYSTEMS USING STRICTLY POSITIVE REAL SYSTEMS

This paper presents necessary and sufficient conditions to turn a linear time-invariant system with p outputs, m inputs, p greater-than-or-equal-to m and using only inputs and outputs measurements into a Strictly Positive Real (SPR).Two results are presented. In the first, the system compensation is made by two static compensators, one of which forward feeds the outputs and the second back feeds the outputs of the nominal system.The second result presents conditions for the Walcott and Zak variable structure observer-controller synthesis. In this problem, if the nominal system is given by {A,B,C}, then the compensated system is given by {A+GC,B,FC} where F and G are the constant compensation matrices. These results are useful in the control system with uncertainties.

Studying properties of Lagrangian bounds for many-to-many assignment problems

Classical and modified Lagrangian bounds for the optimal value of optimization problems with a double decomposable structure are studied. For the class of many-to-many assignment problems, this property of constraints is used to design a subgradient algorithm for solving the modified dual problem. Numerical results are presented to compare the quality of classical and modified bounds, as well as the properties of the corresponding Lagrangian solutions.

3D semantic models for dental education

This paper explores the benefits of using immersive and interactive virtual reality environments to teach Dentistry. We present a tool for educators to manipulate and edit virtual models. One of the main contributions is that multimedia information can be semantically associated with parts of the model, through an ontology, enriching the experience; for example, videos can be linked to each tooth demonstrating how to extract them. The use of semantic information gives a greater flexibility to the models, since filters can be applied to create temporary models that show subsets of the original data in a human friendly way. We also explain how the software was written to run in arbitrary multi-projection environments. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

Model of a game for improving integrated decisions in production management

This paper presents the results obtained with a business game whose model represents the decision making process related to two moments at an industrial company. The first refers to the project of the industrial plant, and the second to its management. The game model was conceived so the player's first decision would establish capacity and other parameters such as quantities of each product to produce, marketing expenses, research and development, quality, advertising, salaries, if purchases will be made in installments or in cash, if there will be credit sales and how many installments will be allowed and the number of workers in the assembly area. An experiment was conducted with employees of a Brazilian company. Data obtained indicate that the players have lack of contents, especially in finances. Although these results cannot be generalized, they confirm prior results with undergraduate and graduate students and they indicate the need for reinforcement in this undergraduate area. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Performance evaluation of the fuzzy ARTMAP for network intrusion detection

Recently, considerable research work have been conducted towards finding fast and accurate pattern classifiers for training Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs). This paper proposes using the so called Fuzzy ARTMAT classifier to detect intrusions in computer network. Our investigation shows, through simulations, how efficient such a classifier can be when used as the learning mechanism of a typical IDS. The promising evaluation results in terms of both detection accuracy and training duration indicate that the Fuzzy ARTMAP is indeed viable for this sort of application.

On a model for the growth of an invasive avascular tumor

This paper is devoted to study the 1D model of invasive avascular tumor growth, which takes into account cell division, death, and motility, proposed by Kolobov and collaborators in 2009. First, we examine the existence and uniqueness of the solution to this model. Second, we studied qualitatively and numerically the traveling wave solutions. Finally, we show some numerical simulations for the cell density and nutrient concentration. © 2013 NSP Natural Sciences Publishing Cor.

MR-Radix: a multi-relational data mining algorithm

Background: Once multi-relational approach has emerged as an alternative for analyzing structured data such as relational databases, since they allow applying data mining in multiple tables directly, thus avoiding expensive joining operations and semantic losses, this work proposes an algorithm with multi-relational approach. Methods: Aiming to compare traditional approach performance and multi-relational for mining association rules, this paper discusses an empirical study between PatriciaMine - an traditional algorithm - and its corresponding multi-relational proposed, MR-Radix. Results: This work showed advantages of the multi-relational approach in performance over several tables, which avoids the high cost for joining operations from multiple tables and semantic losses. The performance provided by the algorithm MR-Radix shows faster than PatriciaMine, despite handling complex multi-relational patterns. The utilized memory indicates a more conservative growth curve for MR-Radix than PatriciaMine, which shows the increase in demand of frequent items in MR-Radix does not result in a significant growth of utilized memory like in PatriciaMine. Conclusion: The comparative study between PatriciaMine and MR-Radix confirmed efficacy of the multi-relational approach in data mining process both in terms of execution time and in relation to memory usage. Besides that, the multi-relational proposed algorithm, unlike other algorithms of this approach, is efficient for use in large relational databases.

MR-Radix: a multi-relational data mining algorithm

Abstract Background Once multi-relational approach has emerged as an alternative for analyzing structured data such as relational databases, since they allow applying data mining in multiple tables directly, thus avoiding expensive joining operations and semantic losses, this work proposes an algorithm with multi-relational approach. Methods Aiming to compare traditional approach performance and multi-relational for mining association rules, this paper discusses an empirical study between PatriciaMine - an traditional algorithm - and its corresponding multi-relational proposed, MR-Radix. Results This work showed advantages of the multi-relational approach in performance over several tables, which avoids the high cost for joining operations from multiple tables and semantic losses. The performance provided by the algorithm MR-Radix shows faster than PatriciaMine, despite handling complex multi-relational patterns. The utilized memory indicates a more conservative growth curve for MR-Radix than PatriciaMine, which shows the increase in demand of frequent items in MR-Radix does not result in a significant growth of utilized memory like in PatriciaMine. Conclusion The comparative study between PatriciaMine and MR-Radix confirmed efficacy of the multi-relational approach in data mining process both in terms of execution time and in relation to memory usage. Besides that, the multi-relational proposed algorithm, unlike other algorithms of this approach, is efficient for use in large relational databases.

Hierarchical multi-label classification using local neural networks

Hierarchical multi-label classification is a complex classification task where the classes involved in the problem are hierarchically structured and each example may simultaneously belong to more than one class in each hierarchical level. In this paper, we extend our previous works, where we investigated a new local-based classification method that incrementally trains a multi-layer perceptron for each level of the classification hierarchy. Predictions made by a neural network in a given level are used as inputs to the neural network responsible for the prediction in the next level. We compare the proposed method with one state-of-the-art decision-tree induction method and two decision-tree induction methods, using several hierarchical multi-label classification datasets. We perform a thorough experimental analysis, showing that our method obtains competitive results to a robust global method regarding both precision and recall evaluation measures.

Das neue digitale ‚Shakespeare-Bildarchiv Oppel-Hammerschmidt‘ an der Universitätsbibliothek Mainz : Reden und Beiträge anlässlich seiner öffentlichen Vorstellung am 17. November 2008 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

On the basis of illustrations of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the new digital 'Oppel-Hammerschmidt Shakespeare Illustration Archive' at the Mainz University Library - together with a lavishly-constructed and multiply-linked Web interface version - was presented to the public on 17 November 2008. This e-book, edited by Andreas Anderhub and Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, contains the speeches and presentations given on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the electronic archive. The collection of the new archive, published here for the first time, holds about 3,500 images and is part of the only Shakespeare illustration archive in the world. The Shakespeare Illustration Archive was founded in 1946 by the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare and Goethe scholar, Prof. Horst Oppel. This part of the archive was donated to the Mainz University Library on condition that its holdings be digitalised and made available to the public. The collection has been named 'The Oppel-Hammerschmidt Shakespeare Illustration Archive' in accordance with the terms of the Agreement of Donation of 9, 15, and 16 September 2005, and honouring the 16 March 1988 Delegation of Authority and Declaration of Intent by Frau Ingeborg Oppel, Prof. Oppel's widow and legal assignee. Vice-President Prof. Jürgen Oldenstein opened the proceedings by noting that 2008 had been a good year for international Shakespeare scholarship. For, in London, the site of the 'Theatre' in Shoreditch, where Shakespeare's company performed, had been unearthed, and in Mainz the Shakespeare Archive had gone online with thousands of illustrations. The Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Philology, Prof. Mechthild Dreyer, who mentioned that she herself had long been successfully employing interdisciplinary research methods, took particular pleasure in the transdisciplinary approach to research resolutely pursued by Prof. Hammerschmidt-Hummel. Prof. Clemens Zintzen (Cologne), former President of the Mainz Academy of Literature and Sciences, recalled highlights from the more than sixty-year-long history of the Shakespeare Illustration Archive. Prof. Kurt Otten (Heidelberg and Cambridge) drew an impressive portrait of Horst Oppel's personality as an academic and praised his influential books on Goethe and Shakespeare. He pointed out that Oppel's Shakespeare Illustration Archive, the basis for many a dissertation, had enjoyed great popularity around the world. Prof. Otten also delineated the academic career of Prof. Hammerschmidt-Hummel and her new findings regarding Shakespeare's time, life and work. Prof. Rüdiger Ahrens OBE (Würzburg) drew attention to Prof. Hammerschmidt-Hummel's research results, directly or indirectly arising out of her work on the Shakespeare Illustration Archive. This research had centred on proving the authenticity of four visual representations of Shakespeare (the Chandos and Flower portraits, the Davenant bust and the Darmstadt Shakespeare death mask); solving the mystery around Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady'; and establishing the dramatist's Catholic religion. Prof. Hammerschmidt-Hummel reported on her 'Shakespeare Illustration' project, describing the nature, dimensions and significance of the Archive's pictorial material, which relates to all of Shakespeare's plays and stretches over five centuries. She explained that the digital 'Oppel-Hammerschmidt Illustration Archive' was an addition to the three-volume edition she had compiled, authored and edited for publication in 2003. Unlike the print version, however, the digital collection had only been partly editorially prepared. It represented source material and a basis for further work. Hammerschmidt-Hummel expressed her thanks to the Head of the Central University Library, Dr Andreas Anderhub, for his untiring commitment. After the initial donation had been made, he had entered enthusiastically into setting up the necessary contacts, getting all the work underway, and clearing the legal hurdles. Hammerschmidt-Hummel was especially grateful to University of Mainz librarian Heike Geisel, who had worked for nearly five years to carry out the large-scale digitalization of a total of 8,800 items. Frau Geisel was also extremely resourceful in devising ways of making the collection yield even more, e.g. by classifying and cross-linking the data, assembling clusters of individual topics that lend themselves to research, and (in collaboration with the art historian Dr Klaus Weber) making the archive's index of artists compatible with the data-bank of artists held by the University of Mainz Institute of Art History. In addition, she compiled an extremely helpful 'users' guide' to the new digital collection. Frau Geisel had enjoyed invaluable support from Dr Annette Holzapfel-Pschorn, the leading academic in the Central IT Department at the University, who set up an intelligent, most impressive Web interface using the latest application technologies. Frau Geisel and Dr Holzapfel-Pschorn were highly praised for their convincing demonstration, using illustrations to Hamlet, of how to access this well-devised and exceptionally user-friendly Web version. For legal reasons, Prof. Hammerschmidt-Hummel pointed out, the collection could not be released for open access on the internet. The media - as Dr Anderhub stressed in his foreword - had shown great interest in the new digital collection of thousands of Shakespearean illustrations (cf. Benjamin Cor's TV feature in "Tagesthemen", 17 November 2008, presented by Tom Buhrow). The ‘Oppel-Hammerschmidt Shakespeare Illustration Archive’ should also meet with particular interest not only among academic specialists, but also among the performers of the arts and persons active in the cultural realm in general, as well as theatre and film directors, literary managers, teachers, and countless Shakespeare enthusiasts.

Strategisches Innovationsmanagement von Buchverlagen im Kontext konvergierender Medienmärkte

Die Dissertation „Strategisches Innovationsmanagement von Buchverlagen im Kontext konvergierender Medienmärkte“ nimmt sich des Themengebiets der Innovation in Buchverlagen in Zeiten der Digitalisierung an. Grob gliedert die Arbeit sich in einen Theorieteil und einen Empirieteil. Den Einstieg in den Theorieteil bildet eine Einführung in die Themenstellung, in der das Erkenntnisinteresse anhand von vier forschungsleitenden Fragen eingegrenzt wird: rn1) „Welche Anforderungen an die Innovationsfähigkeit von Verlagen ergeben sich aus aktuellen und antizipierten zukünftigen Entwicklungen, insbesondere der Medienkonvergenz?“rn2) „Welchen Beitrag kann strategisches Innovationsmanagement leisten, um diesen Anforderungen mit erfolgreichen Innovationen gerecht zu werden?“ rn3) „Welches sind die kritischen Faktoren für erfolgreiches Innovieren im Buchverlag?“ rn4) „Wie kann erfolgsförderndes Innovationsmanagement in Buchverlage implementiert werden?“rnrnDer Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Darstellung aktueller Entwicklungen im Buchmarkt, die in ihrer Relevanz für das Thema bewertet werden. Dabei stehen solche Veränderungen im Mediennutzungsverhalten und dem veränderten Marktumfeld im Fokus, aus denen resultiert, dass Verlage sich nicht mehr nur auf ihre tradierten Kernkompetenzen verlassen können. Der Medienkonvergenz wird in dem Kontext als Suprakategorie eine herausgehobene Bedeutung zuerkannt. Am Ende des dritten Kapitels wird resümierend erörtert, woraus für Verlage heute die Notwendigkeit innovativen Handelns erwächst. Damit findet auch eine Überleitung in das folgende Kapitel über Innovation im Buchverlag statt, das inhaltlich den Kern des Theorieteils der Arbeit bildet.rnrnIm Kapitel Innovation im Buchverlag wird zuerst eine definitorische Eingrenzung des Innovationsbegriffs vorgenommen. Dabei wird eine Entscheidung für den mehrdimensionalen Ansatz nach Hauschildt und Salomo als definitorisches Grundraster getroffen. Darauf folgt eine Einführung in theoretische Grundbegriffe und Konzepte des Innovationsmanagements. Im Folgenden finden Erkenntnisse aus der Innovationsforschung Anwendung auf Spezifika in Buchverlagen, wobei zunächst Handlungsfelder identifiziert werden. Eine wesentliche Rolle im Argumentationsgang der Arbeit spielen dann die Erfolgsfaktoren des Innovationsmanagements in Buchverlagen. Eine herausragende Stellung wird dabei dem Wissensmanagement zuerkannt. Es folgt darauf ein Unterkapitel über Innovationskooperation. Darin wird zunächst die strategische Relevanz von Kooperationen beleuchtet, wobei auch eine teils kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem modernen Begriff der Open Innovation stattfindet. Dann wird dargestellt, wer sich als Kooperationspartner für Buchverlage eignet und welche Modi des kooperativen Innovierens existieren. Es folgen darauf Ausführungen zur Implementierung einer Innovationsstrategie, wobei sowohl aufbau- als auch ablauforganisatorische Aspekte zum Tragen kommen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Darstellung des Stage-Gate-Modells als Ansatz für die Ablaufplanung von Innovationsprozessen in Buchverlagen. Wegen seiner guten Skalierbarkeit wird diesem Ansatz eine Eignung sowohl für kleine als auch mittelgroße und große Verlage zuerkannt. Den Abschluss des Kapitels über Innovation im Buchverlag bilden Betrachtungen über die rechtliche und technische Absicherung von Innovationen. rnrnDer empirische Teil der Arbeit wird eingeläutet mit einer Herleitung empirischer Fragestellungen. Dies geschieht zum einen auf der Grundlage einer Betrachtung, welche Erkenntnislücken die rein theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema offengelassen hat. Die empirischen Fragestellungen bilden das Grundgerüst, auf dem im Folgenden die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Maßnahme in Form von Interviews und einer quantitativen Maßnahme in Form einer Befragung per Fragebogen dargestellt werden. In der Auswertung der Ergebnisse werden dabei zunächst Hypothesen aus den Fallstudien gebildet, die auf Grundlage der Interviews entstanden sind. Diese Hypothesen werden anhand der Daten, die bei der Erhebung per Fragebogen gewonnen wurden, mit statistischen Methoden überprüft.rnrnDen Abschluss der Arbeit bildet eine Schlussbetrachtung, in der die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse verdichtet und vor dem Hintergrund der eingangs gestellten forschungsleitenden Fragen als Quintessens der Arbeit präsentiert werden. Zu jeder forschungsleitenden Frage findet dabei ein kurzes Resümee statt. Als größte Anforderung an die Innovationsfähigkeit von Verlagen wird darin erkannt, den Modus der eigenen Wertschöpfung kontinuierlich zu aktualisieren und an die dynamischen Veränderungen im Umfeld anzupassen. Dem strategischen Innovationsmanagement kommt dabei vor allem die Bedeutung zu, dass es ein konsistentes Handeln ermöglicht, das als Voraussetzung für die Planbarkeit von Innovationserfolgen gesehen wird. Auch erscheint es zunehmend wichtig, den Paradigmenwechsel weg vom Denken in Produktkategorien hin zu einem Denken in Problemlösungskategorien zu vollziehen, wobei ein strategisches Innovationsmanagement Buchverlagen hilfreich sein kann.rn