TY - CONF AU - Graf-Schlattmann, Marcel AU - Meister, Dorothee M. AU - Oevel, Gudrun AU - Wilde, Melanie ID - 17329 T2 - Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (2019). Strategies Beyond Borders – Transforming Higher Education in a Digital Age. Book of Abstracts TI - Success Factors for the Consolidation and Anchoring of Digitalisation Projects ER - TY - CHAP AU - Graf-Schlattmann, Marcel AU - Meister, Dorothee M. AU - Oevel, Gudrun AU - Wilde, Melanie ED - Hafer, J. ID - 17330 T2 - Teilhabe an Bildung und Wissenschaft TI - Digitalisierungsstrategien auf dem Prüfstand – eine empirische Untersuchung auf Basis der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie an deutschen Hochschulen VL - 75 ER - TY - GEN AU - Oevel, Gudrun ID - 17332 TI - Stellungnahme der DFG-Kommission zur Evaluierung des Förderprogramms „Fachinformationsdienste für die Wissenschaft“ ER - TY - CONF AU - Reinhold, Jannik AU - Frank, Maximilian AU - Koldewey, Christian AU - Dumitrescu, Roman AU - Gausemeier, Jürgen ID - 18874 T2 - Proceedings of the ISPIM Connects Ottawa – Innovation for Local and Global Impact TI - Competence-based Planning of Value Networks for Smart Services ER - TY - JOUR AB - We present a multi-channel database of overlapping speech for training, evaluation, and detailed analysis of source separation and extraction algorithms: SMS-WSJ -- Spatialized Multi-Speaker Wall Street Journal. It consists of artificially mixed speech taken from the WSJ database, but unlike earlier databases we consider all WSJ0+1 utterances and take care of strictly separating the speaker sets present in the training, validation and test sets. When spatializing the data we ensure a high degree of randomness w.r.t. room size, array center and rotation, as well as speaker position. Furthermore, this paper offers a critical assessment of recently proposed measures of source separation performance. Alongside the code to generate the database we provide a source separation baseline and a Kaldi recipe with competitive word error rates to provide common ground for evaluation. AU - Drude, Lukas AU - Heitkaemper, Jens AU - Boeddeker, Christoph AU - Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold ID - 19446 JF - ArXiv e-prints TI - SMS-WSJ: Database, performance measures, and baseline recipe for multi-channel source separation and recognition ER - TY - JOUR AB - Wenn akustische Signalverarbeitung mit automatisiertem Lernen verknüpft wird: Nachrichtentechniker arbeiten mit mehreren Mikrofonen und tiefen neuronalen Netzen an besserer Spracherkennung unter widrigsten Bedingungen. Von solchen Sensornetzwerken könnten langfristig auch digitale Sprachassistenten profitieren. AU - Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold ID - 19449 JF - DFG forschung 1/2019 TI - Lektionen für Alexa und Co?! ER - TY - CONF AB - As 5G and network function virtualization (NFV) are maturing, it becomes crucial to demonstrate their feasibility and benefits by means of vertical scenarios. While 5GPPP has identified smart manufacturing as one of the most important vertical industries, there is still a lack of specific, practical use cases. Using the experience from a large-scale manufacturing company, Weidm{\"u}ller Group, we present a detailed use case that reflects the needs of real-world manufacturers. We also propose an architecture with specific network services and virtual network functions (VNFs) that realize the use case in practice. As a proof of concept, we implement the required services and deploy them on an emulation-based prototyping platform. Our experimental results indicate that a fully virtualized smart manufacturing use case is not only feasible but also reduces machine interconnection and configuration time and thus improves productivity by orders of magnitude. AU - Schneider, Stefan Balthasar AU - Peuster, Manuel AU - Behnke, Daniel AU - Marcel, Müller AU - Bök, Patrick-Benjamin AU - Karl, Holger ID - 9270 KW - 5g KW - vertical KW - smart manufacturing KW - nfv T2 - European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) TI - Putting 5G into Production: Realizing a Smart Manufacturing Vertical Scenario ER - TY - CONF AB - In the last years, store-oriented software ecosystems are gaining more and more attention from a business perspective. In these ecosystems, third-party developers upload extensions to a store which can be downloaded by end users. While the functional scope of such ecosystems is relatively similar, the underlying business models differ greatly in and between their different product domains (e.g. Mobile Phone, Smart TV). This variability, in turn, makes it challenging for store providers to find a business model that fits their own needs. To handle this variability, we introduce the Business Variability Model (BVM) for modeling business model decisions. The basis of these decisions is the analysis of 60 store-oriented software ecosystems in eight different product domains. We map their business model decisions to the Business Model Canvas, condense them to a variability model and discuss particular variants and their dependencies. Our work provides store providers a new approach for modeling business model decisions together with insights of existing business models. This, in turn, supports them in creating new and improving existing business models. AU - Gottschalk, Sebastian AU - Rittmeier, Florian AU - Engels, Gregor ED - Shishkov, Boris ID - 9275 KW - Software Ecosystems KW - Business Models KW - Variabilities T2 - Business Modeling and Software Design TI - Business Models of Store-Oriented Software Ecosystems: A Variability Modeling Approach ER - TY - JOUR AB - The ongoing softwarization of networks creates a big need for automated testing solutions to ensure service quality. This becomes even more important if agile environments with short time to market and high demands, in terms of service performance and availability, are considered. In this paper, we introduce a novel testing solution for virtualized, microservice-based network functions and services, which we base on TTCN-3, a well known testing language defined by the European standards institute (ETSI). We use TTCN-3 not only for functional testing but also answer the question whether TTCN-3 can be used for performance profiling tasks as well. Finally, we demonstrate the proposed concepts and solutions in a case study using our open-source prototype to test and profile a chained network service. AU - Peuster, Manuel AU - Dröge, Christian AU - Boos, Clemens AU - Karl, Holger ID - 8113 JF - ICT Express SN - 2405-9595 TI - Joint testing and profiling of microservice-based network services using TTCN-3 ER - TY - GEN AU - Bäumer, Frederik Simon AU - Geierhos, Michaela ID - 8312 KW - OTF Computing KW - Natural Language Processing KW - Requirements Engineering T2 - encyclopedia.pub TI - Requirements Engineering in OTF-Computing ER - TY - JOUR AB - In disaster operations management, a challenging task for rescue organizations occurs when they have to assign and schedule their rescue units to emerging incidents under time pressure in order to reduce the overall resulting harm. Of particular importance in practical scenarios is the need to consider collaboration of rescue units. This task has hardly been addressed in the literature. We contribute to both modeling and solving this problem by (1) conceptualizing the situation as a type of scheduling problem, (2) modeling it as a binary linear minimization problem, (3) suggesting a branch-and-price algorithm, which can serve as both an exact and heuristic solution procedure, and (4) conducting computational experiments - including a sensitivity analysis of the effects of exogenous model parameters on execution times and objective value improvements over a heuristic suggested in the literature - for different practical disaster scenarios. The results of our computational experiments show that most problem instances of practically feasible size can be solved to optimality within ten minutes. Furthermore, even when our algorithm is terminated once the first feasible solution has been found, this solution is in almost all cases competitive to the optimal solution and substantially better than the solution obtained by the best known algorithm from the literature. This performance of our branch-and-price algorithm enables rescue organizations to apply our procedure in practice, even when the time for decision making is limited to a few minutes. By addressing a very general type of scheduling problem, our approach applies to various scheduling situations. AU - Rauchecker, Gerhard AU - Schryen, Guido ID - 5674 IS - 1 JF - European Journal of Operational Research KW - OR in disaster relief KW - disaster operations management KW - scheduling KW - branch-and-price TI - An Exact Branch-and-Price Algorithm for Scheduling Rescue Units during Disaster Response VL - 272 ER - TY - CHAP AU - Rittmeier, Florian AU - Engels, Gregor AU - Teetz, Alexander ED - Daniel, Florian ED - Sheng, Quan Z. ED - Motahari, Hamid ID - 7430 SN - 1865-1348 T2 - Business Process Management Workshops TI - Process Weakness Patterns for the Identification of Digitalization Potentials in Business Processes VL - 342 ER - TY - CONF AU - Heindorf, Stefan AU - Scholten, Yan AU - Engels, Gregor AU - Potthast, Martin ID - 7668 T2 - WWW TI - Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata ER - TY - JOUR AB - The vision of On-the-Fly (OTF) Computing is to compose and provide software services ad hoc, based on requirement descriptions in natural language. Since non-technical users write their software requirements themselves and in unrestricted natural language, deficits occur such as inaccuracy and incompleteness. These deficits are usually met by natural language processing methods, which have to face special challenges in OTF Computing because maximum automation is the goal. In this paper, we present current automatic approaches for solving inaccuracies and incompletenesses in natural language requirement descriptions and elaborate open challenges. In particular, we will discuss the necessity of domain-specific resources and show why, despite far-reaching automation, an intelligent and guided integration of end users into the compensation process is required. In this context, we present our idea of a chat bot that integrates users into the compensation process depending on the given circumstances. AU - Bäumer, Frederik Simon AU - Kersting, Joschka AU - Geierhos, Michaela ID - 8424 IS - 1 JF - Computers KW - Inaccuracy Detection KW - Natural Language Software Requirements KW - Chat Bot SN - 2073-431X TI - Natural Language Processing in OTF Computing: Challenges and the Need for Interactive Approaches VL - 8 ER - TY - GEN AU - Seemann, Nina AU - Merten, Marie-Luis ED - Sahle, Patrick ID - 8529 SN - 978-3-00-062166-6 T2 - DHd 2019 Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal. Konferenzabstracts TI - UPB-Annotate: Ein maßgeschneidertes Toolkit für historische Texte ER - TY - GEN AU - Bäumer, Frederik Simon AU - Buff, Bianca AU - Geierhos, Michaela ED - Sahle, Patrick ID - 8532 SN - 978-3-00-062166-6 T2 - DHd 2019 Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal. Konferenzabstracts TI - Potentielle Privatsphäreverletzungen aufdecken und automatisiert sichtbar machen ER - TY - CONF AB - 5G together with software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) will enable a wide variety of vertical use cases. One of them is the smart man- ufacturing case which utilises 5G networks to interconnect production machines, machine parks, and factory sites to enable new possibilities in terms of flexibility, automation, and novel applications (industry 4.0). However, the availability of realistic and practical proof-of-concepts for those smart manufacturing scenarios is still limited. This demo fills this gap by not only showing a real-world smart manufacturing application entirely implemented using NFV concepts, but also a lightweight prototyping framework that simplifies the realisation of vertical NFV proof-of-concepts. Dur- ing the demo, we show how an NFV-based smart manufacturing scenario can be specified, on-boarded, and instantiated before we demonstrate how the presented NFV services simplify machine data collection, aggregation, and analysis. AU - Peuster, Manuel AU - Schneider, Stefan Balthasar AU - Behnke, Daniel AU - Müller, Marcel AU - Bök, Patrick-Benjamin AU - Karl, Holger ID - 8792 T2 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2019) TI - Prototyping and Demonstrating 5G Verticals: The Smart Manufacturing Case ER - TY - JOUR AB - Softwarized networks are the key enabler for elastic, on-demand service deployments of virtualized network functions. They allow to dynamically steer traffic through the network when new network functions are instantiated, or old ones are terminated. These scenarios become in particular challenging when stateful functions are involved, necessitating state management solutions to migrate state between the functions. The problem with existing solutions is that they typically embrace state migration and flow rerouting jointly, imposing a huge set of requirements on the on-boarded virtualized network functions (VNFs), eg, solution-specific state management interfaces. To change this, we introduce the seamless handover protocol (SHarP). An easy-to-use, loss-less, and order-preserving flow rerouting mechanism that is not fixed to a single state management approach. Using SHarP, VNF vendors are empowered to implement or use the state management solution of their choice. SHarP supports these solutions with additional information when flows are migrated. In this paper, we present SHarP's design, its open source prototype implementation, and show how SHarP significantly reduces the buffer usage at a central (SDN) controller, which is a typical bottleneck in state-of-the-art solutions. Our experiments show that SHarP uses a constant amount of controller buffer, irrespective of the time taken to migrate the VNF state. AU - Peuster, Manuel AU - Küttner, Hannes AU - Karl, Holger ID - 8795 JF - International Journal of Network Management SN - 1055-7148 TI - A flow handover protocol to support state migration in softwarized networks ER - TY - JOUR AB - Free from phase-matching constraints, plasmonic metasurfaces have contributed significantly to the control of optical nonlinearity and enhancement of nonlinear generation efficiency by engineering subwavelength meta-atoms. However, high dissipative losses and inevitable thermal heating limit their applicability in nonlinear nanophotonics. All-dielectric metasurfaces, supporting both electric and magnetic Mie-type resonances in their nanostructures, have appeared as a promising alternative to nonlinear plasmonics. High-index dielectric nanostructures, allowing additional magnetic resonances, can induce magnetic nonlinear effects, which, along with electric nonlinearities, increase the nonlinear conversion efficiency. In addition, low dissipative losses and high damage thresholds provide an extra degree of freedom for operating at high pump intensities, resulting in a considerable enhancement of the nonlinear processes. We discuss the current state of the art in the intensely developing area of all-dielectric nonlinear nanostructures and metasurfaces, including the role of Mie modes, Fano resonances, and anapole moments for harmonic generation, wave mixing, and ultrafast optical switching. Furthermore, we review the recent progress in the nonlinear phase and wavefront control using all-dielectric metasurfaces. We discuss techniques to realize all-dielectric metasurfaces for multifunctional applications and generation of second-order nonlinear processes from complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor-compatible materials. AU - Sain, Basudeb AU - Meier, Cedrik AU - Zentgraf, Thomas ID - 8797 IS - 2 JF - Advanced Photonics SN - 2577-5421 TI - Nonlinear optics in all-dielectric nanoantennas and metasurfaces: a review VL - 1 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Peuster, Manuel AU - Schneider, Stefan Balthasar AU - Zhao, Mengxuan AU - Xilouris, George AU - Trakadas, Panagiotis AU - Vicens, Felipe AU - Tavernier, Wouter AU - Soenen, Thomas AU - Vilalta, Ricard AU - Andreou, George AU - Kyriazis, Dimosthenis AU - Karl, Holger ID - 9824 JF - IEEE Communications Magazine SN - 0163-6804 TI - Introducing Automated Verification and Validation for Virtualized Network Functions and Services ER -