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Telemedicine uses telecommunication and information technology to provide health care services over spatial distances. In the upcoming demographic changes towards an older average population age, especially rural areas suffer from a decreasing doctor to patient ratio as well as a limited amount of available medical specialists in acceptable distance. These areas could benefit the most from telemedicine applications as they are known to improve access to medical services, medical expertise and can also help to mitigate critical or emergency situations. Although the possibilities of telemedicine applications exist in the entire range of healthcare, current systems focus on one specific disease while using dedicated hardware to connect the patient with the supervising telemedicine center.
This thesis describes the development of a telemedical system which follows a new generic design approach. This bridges the gap of existing approaches that only tackle one specific application. The proposed system on the contrary aims at supporting as many diseases and use cases as possible by taking all the stakeholders into account at the same time. To address the usability and acceptance of the system it is designed to use standardized hardware like commercial medical sensors and smartphones for collecting medical data of the patients and transmitting them to the telemedical center. The smartphone can also act as interface to the patient for health questionnaires or feedback.
The system can handle the collection and transport of medical data, analysis and visualization of the data as well as providing a real time communication with video and audio between the users.
On top of the generic telemedical framework the issue of scalability is addressed by integrating a rule-based analysis tool for the medical data. Rules can be easily created by medical personnel via a visual editor and can be personalized for each patient. The rule-based analysis tool is extended by multiple options for visualization of the data, mechanisms to handle complex rules and options for performing actions like raising alarms or sending automated messages.
It is sometimes hard for the medical experts to formulate their knowledge into rules and there may be information in the medical data that is not yet known. This is why a machine learning module was integrated into the system. It uses the incoming medical data of the patients to learn new rules that are then presented to the medical personnel for inspection. This is in line with European legislation where the human still needs to be in charge of such decisions.
Overall, we were able to show the benefit of the generic approach by evaluating it in three completely different medical use cases derived from specific application needs: monitoring of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients, support of patients performing dialysis at home and councils of intensive-care experts. In addition the system was used for a non-medical use case: monitoring and optimization of industrial machines and robots. In all of the mentioned cases, we were able to prove the robustness of the generic approach with real users of the corresponding domain. This is why we can propose this approach for future development of telemedical systems.
Utilizing multiple access technologies such as 5G, 4G, and Wi-Fi within a coherent framework is currently standardized by 3GPP within 5G ATSSS. Indeed, distributing packets over multiple networks can lead to increased robustness, resiliency and capacity. A key part of such a framework is the multi-access proxy, which transparently distributes packets over multiple paths. As the proxy needs to serve thousands of customers, scalability and performance are crucial for operator deployments. In this paper, we leverage recent advancements in data plane programming, implement a multi-access proxy based on the MP-DCCP tunneling approach in P4 and hardware accelerate it by deploying the pipeline on a smartNIC. This is challenging due to the complex scheduling and congestion control operations involved. We present our pipeline and data structures design for congestion control and packet scheduling state management. Initial measurements in our testbed show that packet latency is in the range of 25 μs demonstrating the feasibility of our approach.
An innovative framework has been developed for teamwork of two quadcopter formations, each having its specified formation geometry, assigned task, and matching control scheme. Position control for quadcopters in one of the formations has been implemented through a Linear Quadratic Regulator Proportional Integral (LQR PI) control scheme based on explicit model following scheme. Quadcopters in the other formation are controlled through LQR PI servomechanism control scheme. These two control schemes are compared in terms of their performance and control effort. Both formations are commanded by respective ground stations through virtual leaders. Quadcopters in formations are able to track desired trajectories as well as hovering at desired points for selected time duration. In case of communication loss between ground station and any of the quadcopters, the neighboring quadcopter provides the command data, received from the ground station, to the affected unit. Proposed control schemes have been validated through extensive simulations using MATLAB®/Simulink® that provided favorable results.
A centralized heterogeneous formation flight position control scheme has been formulated using an explicit model following design, based on a Linear Quadratic Regulator Proportional Integral (LQR PI) controller. The leader quadcopter is a stable reference model with desired dynamics whose output is perfectly tracked by the two wingmen quadcopters. The leader itself is controlled through the pole placement control method with desired stability characteristics, while the two followers are controlled through a robust and adaptive LQR PI control method. Selected 3-D formation geometry and static stability are maintained under a number of possible perturbations. With this control scheme, formation geometry may also be switched to any arbitrary shape during flight, provided a suitable collision avoidance mechanism is incorporated. In case of communication loss between the leader and any of the followers, the other follower provides the data, received from the leader, to the affected follower. The stability of the closed-loop system has been analyzed using singular values. The proposed approach for the tightly coupled formation flight of mini unmanned aerial vehicles has been validated with the help of extensive simulations using MATLAB/Simulink, which provided promising results.
A simple test setup has been developed at Institute of Aerospace Information Technology, University of Würzburg, Germany to realize basic functionalities for formation flight of quadrocopters. The test environment is planned to be utilized for developing and validating the algorithms for formation flying capability in real environment as well as for education purpose. An already existing test bed for single quadrocopter was extended with necessary inter-communication and distributed control mechanism to test the algorithms for formation flights in 2 degrees of freedom (roll / pitch). This study encompasses the domain of communication, control engineering and embedded systems programming. Bluetooth protocol has been used for inter-communication between two quadrocopters. A simple approach of PID control in combination with Kalman filter has been exploited. MATLAB Instrument Control Toolbox has been used for data display, plotting and analysis. Plots can be drawn in real-time and received information can also be stored in the form of files for later use and analysis. The test setup has been developed indigenously and at considerably low cost. Emphasis has been placed on simplicity to facilitate students learning process. Several lessons have been learnt during the course of development of this setup. Proposed setup is quite flexible that can be modified as per changing requirements.
A number of public codes exist for GPS positioning and baseline determination in off-line mode. However, no software code exists for DGPS exploiting correction factors at base stations, without relying on double difference information. In order to accomplish it, a methodology is introduced in MATLAB environment for DGPS using C/A pseudoranges on single frequency L1 only to make it feasible for low-cost GPS receivers. Our base station is at accurately surveyed reference point. Pseudoranges and geometric ranges are compared at base station to compute the correction factors. These correction factors are then handed over to rover for all valid satellites observed during an epoch. The rover takes it into account for its own true position determination for corresponding epoch. In order to validate the proposed algorithm, our rover is also placed at a pre-determined location. The proposed code is an appropriate and simple to use tool for post-processing of GPS raw data for accurate position determination of a rover e.g. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle during post-mission analysis.
Background:
The availability of fully sequenced genomes and the implementation of transcriptome technologies have increased the studies investigating the expression profiles for a variety of tissues, conditions, and species. In this study, using RNA-seq data for three distinct tissues (brain, liver, and muscle), we investigate how base composition affects mammalian gene expression, an issue of prime practical and evolutionary interest.
Results:
We present the transcriptome map of the mouse isochores (DNA segments with a fairly homogeneous base composition) for the three different tissues and the effects of isochores' base composition on their expression activity. Our analyses also cover the relations between the genes' expression activity and their localization in the isochore families.
Conclusions:
This study is the first where next-generation sequencing data are used to associate the effects of both genomic and genic compositional properties to their corresponding expression activity. Our findings confirm previous results, and further support the existence of a relationship between isochores and gene expression. This relationship corroborates that isochores are primarily a product of evolutionary adaptation rather than a simple by-product of neutral evolutionary processes.
While teleoperation of technical highly sophisticated systems has already been a wide field of research, especially for space and robotics applications, the automation industry has not yet benefited from its results. Besides the established fields of application, also production lines with industrial robots and the surrounding plant components are in need of being remotely accessible. This is especially critical for maintenance or if an unexpected problem cannot be solved by the local specialists.
Special machine manufacturers, especially robotics companies, sell their technology worldwide. Some factories, for example in emerging economies, lack qualified personnel for repair and maintenance tasks. When a severe failure occurs, an expert of the manufacturer needs to fly there, which leads to long down times of the machine or even the whole production line. With the development of data networks, a huge part of those travels can be omitted, if appropriate teleoperation equipment is provided.
This thesis describes the development of a telemaintenance system, which was established in an active production line for research purposes. The customer production site of Braun in Marktheidenfeld, a factory which belongs to Procter & Gamble, consists of a six-axis cartesian industrial robot by KUKA Industries, a two-component injection molding system and an assembly unit. The plant produces plastic parts for electric toothbrushes.
In the research projects "MainTelRob" and "Bayern.digital", during which this plant was utilised, the Zentrum für Telematik e.V. (ZfT) and its project partners develop novel technical approaches and procedures for modern telemaintenance. The term "telemaintenance" hereby refers to the integration of computer science and communication technologies into the maintenance strategy. It is particularly interesting for high-grade capital-intensive goods like industrial robots. Typical telemaintenance tasks are for example the analysis of a robot failure or difficult repair operations. The service department of KUKA Industries is responsible for the worldwide distributed customers who own more than one robot. Currently such tasks are offered via phone support and service staff which travels abroad. They want to expand their service activities on telemaintenance and struggle with the high demands of teleoperation especially regarding security infrastructure. In addition, the facility in Marktheidenfeld has to keep up with the high international standards of Procter & Gamble and wants to minimize machine downtimes. Like 71.6 % of all German companies, P&G sees a huge potential for early information on their production system, but complains about the insufficient quality and the lack of currentness of data.
The main research focus of this work lies on the human machine interface for all human tasks in a telemaintenance setup. This thesis provides own work in the use of a mobile device in context of maintenance, describes new tools on asynchronous remote analysis and puts all parts together in an integrated telemaintenance infrastructure. With the help of Augmented Reality, the user performance and satisfaction could be raised. A special regard is put upon the situation awareness of the remote expert realized by different camera viewpoints. In detail the work consists of:
- Support of maintenance tasks with a mobile device
- Development and evaluation of a context-aware inspection tool
- Comparison of a new touch-based mobile robot programming device to the former teach pendant
- Study on Augmented Reality support for repair tasks with a mobile device
- Condition monitoring for a specific plant with industrial robot
- Human computer interaction for remote analysis of a single plant cycle
- A big data analysis tool for a multitude of cycles and similar plants
- 3D process visualization for a specific plant cycle with additional virtual information
- Network architecture in hardware, software and network infrastructure
- Mobile device computer supported collaborative work for telemaintenance
- Motor exchange telemaintenance example in running production environment
- Augmented reality supported remote plant visualization for better situation awareness
Data mining has proved its significance in various domains and applications. As an important subfield of the general data mining task, subgroup mining can be used, e.g., for marketing purposes in business domains, or for quality profiling and analysis in medical domains. The goal is to efficiently discover novel, potentially useful and ultimately interesting knowledge. However, in real-world situations these requirements often cannot be fulfilled, e.g., if the applied methods do not scale for large data sets, if too many results are presented to the user, or if many of the discovered patterns are already known to the user. This thesis proposes a combination of several techniques in order to cope with the sketched problems: We discuss automatic methods, including heuristic and exhaustive approaches, and especially present the novel SD-Map algorithm for exhaustive subgroup discovery that is fast and effective. For an interactive approach we describe techniques for subgroup introspection and analysis, and we present advanced visualization methods, e.g., the zoomtable that directly shows the most important parameters of a subgroup and that can be used for optimization and exploration. We also describe various visualizations for subgroup comparison and evaluation in order to support the user during these essential steps. Furthermore, we propose to include possibly available background knowledge that is easy to formalize into the mining process. We can utilize the knowledge in many ways: To focus the search process, to restrict the search space, and ultimately to increase the efficiency of the discovery method. We especially present background knowledge to be applied for filtering the elements of the problem domain, for constructing abstractions, for aggregating values of attributes, and for the post-processing of the discovered set of patterns. Finally, the techniques are combined into a knowledge-intensive process supporting both automatic and interactive methods for subgroup mining. The practical significance of the proposed approach strongly depends on the available tools. We introduce the VIKAMINE system as a highly-integrated environment for knowledge-intensive active subgroup mining. Also, we present an evaluation consisting of two parts: With respect to objective evaluation criteria, i.e., comparing the efficiency and the effectiveness of the subgroup discovery methods, we provide an experimental evaluation using generated data. For that task we present a novel data generator that allows a simple and intuitive specification of the data characteristics. The results of the experimental evaluation indicate that the novel SD-Map method outperforms the other described algorithms using data sets similar to the intended application concerning the efficiency, and also with respect to precision and recall for the heuristic methods. Subjective evaluation criteria include the user acceptance, the benefit of the approach, and the interestingness of the results. We present five case studies utilizing the presented techniques: The approach has been successfully implemented in medical and technical applications using real-world data sets. The method was very well accepted by the users that were able to discover novel, useful, and interesting knowledge.
Operators of Higher Order
(1998)
Motivated by results on interactive proof systems we investigate the computational power of quantifiers applied to well-known complexity classes.
In special, we are interested in existential, universal and probabilistic bounded error quantifiers ranging over words and sets of words, i.e. oracles if we think in a Turing machine model.
In addition to the standard oracle access mechanism, we also consider quantifiers ranging over oracles to which access is restricted in a certain way.
A complete simulation system is proposed that can be used as an educational tool by physicians in training basic skills of Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventions. In the first part, a surface model is developed to assemble arteries having a planar segmentation. It is based on Sweep Surfaces and can be extended to T- and Y-like bifurcations. A continuous force vector field is described, representing the interaction between the catheter and the surface. The computation time of the force field is almost unaffected when the resolution of the artery is increased.
The mechanical properties of arteries play an essential role in the study of the circulatory system dynamics, which has been becoming increasingly important in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. In Virtual Reality Simulators, it is crucial to have a tissue model that responds in real time. In this work, the arteries are discretized by a two dimensional mesh and the nodes are connected by three kinds of linear springs. Three tissue layers (Intima, Media, Adventitia) are considered and, starting from the stretch-energy density, some of the elasticity tensor components are calculated. The physical model linearizes and homogenizes the material response, but it still contemplates the geometric nonlinearity. In general, if the arterial stretch varies by 1% or less, then the agreement between the linear and nonlinear models is trustworthy.
In the last part, the physical model of the wire proposed by Konings is improved. As a result, a simpler and more stable method is obtained to calculate the equilibrium configuration of the wire. In addition, a geometrical method is developed to perform relaxations. It is particularly useful when the wire is hindered in the physical method because of the boundary conditions. The physical and the geometrical methods are merged, resulting in efficient relaxations. Tests show that the shape of the virtual wire agrees with the experiment. The proposed algorithm allows real-time executions and the hardware to assemble the simulator has a low cost.
In the present work, a simulation system is proposed that can be used as an educational tool by physicians in training basic skills of minimally invasive vascular interventions. In order to accomplish this objective, initially the physical model of the wire proposed by Konings has been improved. As a result, a simpler and more stable method was obtained to calculate the equilibrium configuration of the wire. In addition, a geometrical method is developed to perform relaxations. It is particularly useful when the wire is hindered in the physical method because of the boundary conditions. Then a recipe is given to merge the physical and the geometrical methods, resulting in efficient relaxations. Moreover, tests have shown that the shape of the virtual wire agrees with the experiment. The proposed algorithm allows real-time executions, and furthermore, the hardware to assemble the simulator has a low cost.
The attitude and orbit control system of pico- and nano-satellites to date is one of the bottle necks for future scientific and commercial applications. A performance increase while keeping with the satellites’ restrictions will enable new space missions especially for the smallest of the CubeSat classes. This work addresses methods to measure and improve the satellite’s attitude pointing and orbit control performance based on advanced sensor data analysis and optimized on-board software concepts. These methods are applied to spaceborne satellites and future CubeSat missions to demonstrate their validity. An in-orbit calibration procedure for a typical CubeSat attitude sensor suite is developed and applied to the UWE-3 satellite in space. Subsequently, a method to estimate the attitude determination accuracy without the help of an external reference sensor is developed. Using this method, it is shown that the UWE-3 satellite achieves an in-orbit attitude determination accuracy of about 2°.
An advanced data analysis of the attitude motion of a miniature satellite is used in order to estimate the main attitude disturbance torque in orbit. It is shown, that the magnetic disturbance is by far the most significant contribution for miniature satellites and a method to estimate the residual magnetic dipole moment of a satellite is developed. Its application to three CubeSats currently in orbit reveals that magnetic disturbances are a common issue for this class of satellites. The dipole moments measured are between 23.1mAm² and 137.2mAm². In order to autonomously estimate and counteract this disturbance in future missions an on-board magnetic dipole estimation algorithm is developed.
The autonomous neutralization of such disturbance torques together with the simplification of attitude control for the satellite operator is the focus of a novel on-board attitude control software architecture. It incorporates disturbance torques acting on the satellite and automatically optimizes the control output. Its application is demonstrated in space on board of the UWE-3 satellite through various attitude control experiments of which the results are presented here.
The integration of a miniaturized electric propulsion system will enable CubeSats to perform orbit control and, thus, open up new application scenarios. The in-orbit characterization, however, poses the problem of precisely measuring very low thrust levels in the order of µN. A method to measure this thrust based on the attitude dynamics of the satellite is developed and evaluated in simulation. It is shown, that the demonstrator mission UWE-4 will be able to measure these thrust levels with a high accuracy of 1% for thrust levels higher than 1µN.
The orbit control capabilities of UWE-4 using its electric propulsion system are evaluated and a hybrid attitude control system making use of the satellite’s magnetorquers and the electric propulsion system is developed. It is based on the flexible attitude control architecture mentioned before and thrust vector pointing accuracies of better than 2° can be achieved. This results in a thrust delivery of more than 99% of the desired acceleration in the target direction.
Realistic and lifelike 3D-reconstruction of virtual humans has various exciting and important use cases. Our and others’ appearances have notable effects on ourselves and our interaction partners in virtual environments, e.g., on acceptance, preference, trust, believability, behavior (the Proteus effect), and more. Today, multiple approaches for the 3D-reconstruction of virtual humans exist. They significantly vary in terms of the degree of achievable realism, the technical complexities, and finally, the overall reconstruction costs involved. This article compares two 3D-reconstruction approaches with very different hardware requirements. The high-cost solution uses a typical complex and elaborated camera rig consisting of 94 digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. The recently developed low-cost solution uses a smartphone camera to create videos that capture multiple views of a person. Both methods use photogrammetric reconstruction and template fitting with the same template model and differ in their adaptation to the method-specific input material. Each method generates high-quality virtual humans ready to be processed, animated, and rendered by standard XR simulation and game engines such as Unreal or Unity. We compare the results of the two 3D-reconstruction methods in an immersive virtual environment against each other in a user study. Our results indicate that the virtual humans from the low-cost approach are perceived similarly to those from the high-cost approach regarding the perceived similarity to the original, human-likeness, beauty, and uncanniness, despite significant differences in the objectively measured quality. The perceived feeling of change of the own body was higher for the low-cost virtual humans. Quality differences were perceived more strongly for one’s own body than for other virtual humans.
These days, we are living in a digitalized world. Both our professional and private lives are pervaded by various IT services, which are typically operated using distributed computing systems (e.g., cloud environments). Due to the high level of digitalization, the operators of such systems are confronted with fast-paced and changing requirements. In particular, cloud environments have to cope with load fluctuations and respective rapid and unexpected changes in the computing resource demands. To face this challenge, so-called auto-scalers, such as the threshold-based mechanism in Amazon Web Services EC2, can be employed to enable elastic scaling of the computing resources. However, despite this opportunity, business-critical applications are still run with highly overprovisioned resources to guarantee a stable and reliable service operation. This strategy is pursued due to the lack of trust in auto-scalers and the concern that inaccurate or delayed adaptations may result in financial losses.
To adapt the resource capacity in time, the future resource demands must be "foreseen", as reacting to changes once they are observed introduces an inherent delay. In other words, accurate forecasting methods are required to adapt systems proactively. A powerful approach in this context is time series forecasting, which is also applied in many other domains. The core idea is to examine past values and predict how these values will evolve as time progresses. According to the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem", there is no algorithm that performs best for all scenarios. Therefore, selecting a suitable forecasting method for a given use case is a crucial task. Simply put, each method has its benefits and drawbacks, depending on the specific use case. The choice of the forecasting method is usually based on expert knowledge, which cannot be fully automated, or on trial-and-error. In both cases, this is expensive and prone to error.
Although auto-scaling and time series forecasting are established research fields, existing approaches cannot fully address the mentioned challenges: (i) In our survey on time series forecasting, we found that publications on time series forecasting typically consider only a small set of (mostly related) methods and evaluate their performance on a small number of time series with only a few error measures while providing no information on the execution time of the studied methods. Therefore, such articles cannot be used to guide the choice of an appropriate method for a particular use case; (ii) Existing open-source hybrid forecasting methods that take advantage of at least two methods to tackle the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem" are computationally intensive, poorly automated, designed for a particular data set, or they lack a predictable time-to-result. Methods exhibiting a high variance in the time-to-result cannot be applied for time-critical scenarios (e.g., auto-scaling), while methods tailored to a specific data set introduce restrictions on the possible use cases (e.g., forecasting only annual time series); (iii) Auto-scalers typically scale an application either proactively or reactively. Even though some hybrid auto-scalers exist, they lack sophisticated solutions to combine reactive and proactive scaling. For instance, resources are only released proactively while resource allocation is entirely done in a reactive manner (inherently delayed); (iv) The majority of existing mechanisms do not take the provider's pricing scheme into account while scaling an application in a public cloud environment, which often results in excessive charged costs. Even though some cost-aware auto-scalers have been proposed, they only consider the current resource demands, neglecting their development over time. For example, resources are often shut down prematurely, even though they might be required again soon.
To address the mentioned challenges and the shortcomings of existing work, this thesis presents three contributions: (i) The first contribution-a forecasting benchmark-addresses the problem of limited comparability between existing forecasting methods; (ii) The second contribution-Telescope-provides an automated hybrid time series forecasting method addressing the challenge posed by the "No-Free-Lunch Theorem"; (iii) The third contribution-Chamulteon-provides a novel hybrid auto-scaler for coordinated scaling of applications comprising multiple services, leveraging Telescope to forecast the workload intensity as a basis for proactive resource provisioning. In the following, the three contributions of the thesis are summarized:
Contribution I - Forecasting Benchmark
To establish a level playing field for evaluating the performance of forecasting methods in a broad setting, we propose a novel benchmark that automatically evaluates and ranks forecasting methods based on their performance in a diverse set of evaluation scenarios. The benchmark comprises four different use cases, each covering 100 heterogeneous time series taken from different domains. The data set was assembled from publicly available time series and was designed to exhibit much higher diversity than existing forecasting competitions. Besides proposing a new data set, we introduce two new measures that describe different aspects of a forecast. We applied the developed benchmark to evaluate Telescope.
Contribution II - Telescope
To provide a generic forecasting method, we introduce a novel machine learning-based forecasting approach that automatically retrieves relevant information from a given time series. More precisely, Telescope automatically extracts intrinsic time series features and then decomposes the time series into components, building a forecasting model for each of them. Each component is forecast by applying a different method and then the final forecast is assembled from the forecast components by employing a regression-based machine learning algorithm. In more than 1300 hours of experiments benchmarking 15 competing methods (including approaches from Uber and Facebook) on 400 time series, Telescope outperformed all methods, exhibiting the best forecast accuracy coupled with a low and reliable time-to-result. Compared to the competing methods that exhibited, on average, a forecast error (more precisely, the symmetric mean absolute forecast error) of 29%, Telescope exhibited an error of 20% while being 2556 times faster. In particular, the methods from Uber and Facebook exhibited an error of 48% and 36%, and were 7334 and 19 times slower than Telescope, respectively.
Contribution III - Chamulteon
To enable reliable auto-scaling, we present a hybrid auto-scaler that combines proactive and reactive techniques to scale distributed cloud applications comprising multiple services in a coordinated and cost-effective manner. More precisely, proactive adaptations are planned based on forecasts of Telescope, while reactive adaptations are triggered based on actual observations of the monitored load intensity. To solve occurring conflicts between reactive and proactive adaptations, a complex conflict resolution algorithm is implemented. Moreover, when deployed in public cloud environments, Chamulteon reviews adaptations with respect to the cloud provider's pricing scheme in order to minimize the charged costs. In more than 400 hours of experiments evaluating five competing auto-scaling mechanisms in scenarios covering five different workloads, four different applications, and three different cloud environments, Chamulteon exhibited the best auto-scaling performance and reliability while at the same time reducing the charged costs. The competing methods provided insufficient resources for (on average) 31% of the experimental time; in contrast, Chamulteon cut this time to 8% and the SLO (service level objective) violations from 18% to 6% while using up to 15% less resources and reducing the charged costs by up to 45%.
The contributions of this thesis can be seen as major milestones in the domain of time series forecasting and cloud resource management. (i) This thesis is the first to present a forecasting benchmark that covers a variety of different domains with a high diversity between the analyzed time series. Based on the provided data set and the automatic evaluation procedure, the proposed benchmark contributes to enhance the comparability of forecasting methods. The benchmarking results for different forecasting methods enable the selection of the most appropriate forecasting method for a given use case. (ii) Telescope provides the first generic and fully automated time series forecasting approach that delivers both accurate and reliable forecasts while making no assumptions about the analyzed time series. Hence, it eliminates the need for expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone procedures, such as trial-and-error searches or consulting an expert. This opens up new possibilities especially in time-critical scenarios, where Telescope can provide accurate forecasts with a short and reliable time-to-result.
Although Telescope was applied for this thesis in the field of cloud computing, there is absolutely no limitation regarding the applicability of Telescope in other domains, as demonstrated in the evaluation. Moreover, Telescope, which was made available on GitHub, is already used in a number of interdisciplinary data science projects, for instance, predictive maintenance in an Industry 4.0 context, heart failure prediction in medicine, or as a component of predictive models of beehive development. (iii) In the context of cloud resource management, Chamulteon is a major milestone for increasing the trust in cloud auto-scalers. The complex resolution algorithm enables reliable and accurate scaling behavior that reduces losses caused by excessive resource allocation or SLO violations. In other words, Chamulteon provides reliable online adaptations minimizing charged costs while at the same time maximizing user experience.
The success of diagnostic knowledge systems has been proved over the last decades. Nowadays, intelligent systems are embedded in machines within various domains or are used in interaction with a user for solving problems. However, although such systems have been applied very successfully the development of a knowledge system is still a critical issue. Similarly to projects dealing with customized software at a highly innovative level a precise specification often cannot be given in advance. Moreover, necessary requirements of the knowledge system can be defined not until the project has been started or are changing during the development phase. Many success factors depend on the feedback given by users, which can be provided if preliminary demonstrations of the system can be delivered as soon as possible, e.g., for interactive systems validation the duration of the system dialog. This thesis motivates that classical, document-centered approaches cannot be applied in such a setting. We cope with this problem by introducing an agile process model for developing diagnostic knowledge systems, mainly inspired by the ideas of the eXtreme Programming methodology known in software engineering. The main aim of the presented work is to simplify the engineering process for domain specialists formalizing the knowledge themselves. The engineering process is supported at a primary level by the introduction of knowledge containers, that define an organized view of knowledge contained in the system. Consequently, we provide structured procedures as a recommendation for filling these containers. The actual knowledge is acquired and formalized right from start, and the integration to runnable knowledge systems is done continuously in order to allow for an early and concrete feedback. In contrast to related prototyping approaches the validity and maintainability of the collected knowledge is ensured by appropriate test methods and restructuring techniques, respectively. Additionally, we propose learning methods to support the knowledge acquisition process sufficiently. The practical significance of the process model strongly depends on the available tools supporting the application of the process model. We present the system family d3web and especially the system d3web.KnowME as a highly integrated development environment for diagnostic knowledge systems. The process model and its activities, respectively, are evaluated in two real life applications: in a medical and in an environmental project the benefits of the agile development are clearly demonstrated.
To protect the health of human and environment, the European Union implemented the REACH regulation for chemical substances. REACH is an acronym for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals. Under REACH, the authorities have the task of assessing chemical substances, especially those that might pose a risk to human health or environment. The work under REACH is scientifically, technically and procedurally a complex and knowledge-intensive task that is jointly performed by the European Chemicals Agency and member state authorities in Europe. The assessment of substances under REACH conducted in the German Environment Agency is supported by the knowledge-based system KnowSEC, which is used for the screening, documentation, and decision support when working on chemical substances. The software KnowSEC integrates advanced semantic technologies and strong problem solving methods. It allows for the collaborative work on substances in the context of the European REACH regulation. We discuss the applied methods and process models and we report on experiences with the implementation and use of the system.
This work takes a close look at several quite different research areas related to the design of networked embedded sensor/actuator systems. The variety of the topics illustrates the potential complexity of current sensor network applications; especially when enriched with actuators for proactivity and environmental interaction. Besides their conception, development, installation and long-term operation, we'll mainly focus on more "low-level" aspects: Compositional hardware and software design, task cooperation and collaboration, memory management, and real-time operation will be addressed from a local node perspective. In contrast, inter-node synchronization, communication, as well as sensor data acquisition, aggregation, and fusion will be discussed from a rather global network view. The diversity in the concepts was intentionally accepted to finally facilitate the reliable implementation of truly complex systems. In particular, these should go beyond the usual "sense and transmit of sensor data", but show how powerful today's networked sensor/actuator systems can be despite of their low computational performance and constrained hardware: If their resources are only coordinated efficiently!
Understanding human navigation behavior has implications for a wide range of application scenarios. For example, insights into geo-spatial navigation in urban areas can impact city planning or public transport. Similarly, knowledge about navigation on the web can help to improve web site structures or service experience.
In this work, we focus on a hypothesis-driven approach to address the task of understanding human navigation: We aim to formulate and compare ideas — for example stemming from existing theory, literature, intuition, or previous experiments — based on a given set of navigational observations. For example, we may compare whether tourists exploring a city walk “short distances” before taking their next photo vs. they tend to "travel long distances between points of interest", or whether users browsing Wikipedia "navigate semantically" vs. "click randomly".
For this, the Bayesian method HypTrails has recently been proposed. However, while HypTrails is a straightforward and flexible approach, several major challenges remain:
i) HypTrails does not account for heterogeneity (e.g., incorporating differently behaving user groups such as tourists and locals is not possible), ii) HypTrails does not support the user in conceiving novel hypotheses when confronted with a large set of possibly relevant background information or influence factors, e.g., points of interest, popularity of locations, time of the day, or user properties, and finally iii) formulating hypotheses can be technically challenging depending on the application scenario (e.g., due to continuous observations or temporal constraints). In this thesis, we address these limitations by introducing various novel methods and tools and explore a wide range of case studies.
In particular, our main contributions are the methods MixedTrails and SubTrails which specifically address the first two limitations: MixedTrails is an approach for hypothesis comparison that extends the previously proposed HypTrails method to allow formulating and comparing heterogeneous hypotheses (e.g., incorporating differently behaving user groups). SubTrails is a method that supports hypothesis conception by automatically discovering interpretable subgroups with exceptional navigation behavior. In addition, our methodological contributions also include several tools consisting of a distributed implementation of HypTrails, a web application for visualizing geo-spatial human navigation in the context of background information, as well as a system for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing mobile participatory sensing data.
Furthermore, we conduct case studies in many application domains, which encompass — among others — geo-spatial navigation based on photos from the photo-sharing platform Flickr, browsing behavior on the social tagging system BibSonomy, and task choosing behavior on a commercial crowdsourcing platform. In the process, we develop approaches to cope with application specific subtleties (like continuous observations and temporal constraints). The corresponding studies illustrate the variety of domains and facets in which navigation behavior can be studied and, thus, showcase the expressiveness, applicability, and flexibility of our methods. Using these methods, we present new aspects of navigational phenomena which ultimately help to better understand the multi-faceted characteristics of human navigation behavior.
The development of ICT infrastructures has facilitated the emergence of new paradigms for looking at society and the environment over the last few years. Participatory environmental sensing, i.e. directly involving citizens in environmental monitoring, is one example, which is hoped to encourage learning and enhance awareness of environmental issues. In this paper, an analysis of the behaviour of individuals involved in noise sensing is presented. Citizens have been involved in noise measuring activities through the WideNoise smartphone application. This application has been designed to record both objective (noise samples) and subjective (opinions, feelings) data. The application has been open to be used freely by anyone and has been widely employed worldwide. In addition, several test cases have been organised in European countries. Based on the information submitted by users, an analysis of emerging awareness and learning is performed. The data show that changes in the way the environment is perceived after repeated usage of the application do appear. Specifically, users learn how to recognise different noise levels they are exposed to. Additionally, the subjective data collected indicate an increased user involvement in time and a categorisation effect between pleasant and less pleasant environments.
The rapid development of green and sustainable materials opens up new possibilities in the field of applied research. Such materials include nanocellulose composites that can integrate many components into composites and provide a good chassis for smart devices. In our study, we evaluate four approaches for turning a nanocellulose composite into an information storage or processing device: 1) nanocellulose can be a suitable carrier material and protect information stored in DNA. 2) Nucleotide-processing enzymes (polymerase and exonuclease) can be controlled by light after fusing them with light-gating domains; nucleotide substrate specificity can be changed by mutation or pH change (read-in and read-out of the information). 3) Semiconductors and electronic capabilities can be achieved: we show that nanocellulose is rendered electronic by iodine treatment replacing silicon including microstructures. Nanocellulose semiconductor properties are measured, and the resulting potential including single-electron transistors (SET) and their properties are modeled. Electric current can also be transported by DNA through G-quadruplex DNA molecules; these as well as classical silicon semiconductors can easily be integrated into the nanocellulose composite. 4) To elaborate upon miniaturization and integration for a smart nanocellulose chip device, we demonstrate pH-sensitive dyes in nanocellulose, nanopore creation, and kinase micropatterning on bacterial membranes as well as digital PCR micro-wells. Future application potential includes nano-3D printing and fast molecular processors (e.g., SETs) integrated with DNA storage and conventional electronics. This would also lead to environment-friendly nanocellulose chips for information processing as well as smart nanocellulose composites for biomedical applications and nano-factories.
Diagnostic Case Based Training Systems (D-CBT) provide learners with a means to learn and exercise knowledge in a realistic context. In medical education, D-CBT Systems present virtual patients to the learners who are asked to examine, diagnose and state therapies for these patients. Due a number of conflicting and changing requirements, e.g. time for learning, authoring effort, several systems were developed so far. These systems range from simple, easy-to-use presentation systems to highly complex knowledge based systems supporting explorative learning. This thesis presents an approach and tools to create D-CBT systems from existing sources (documents, e.g. dismissal records) using existing tools (word processors): Authors annotate and extend the documents to model the knowledge. A scalable knowledge representation is able to capture the content on multiple levels, from simple to highly structured knowledge. Thus, authoring of D-CBT systems requires less prerequisites and pre-knowledge and is faster than approaches using specialized authoring environments. Also, authors can iteratively add and structure more knowledge to adapt training cases to their learners needs. The theses also discusses the application of the same approach to other domains, especially to knowledge acquisition for the Semantic Web.
Overlay networks establish logical connections between users on top of the physical network. While randomly connected overlay networks provide only a best effort service, a new generation of structured overlay systems based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) was proposed by the research community. However, there is still a lack of understanding the performance of such DHTs. Additionally, those architectures are highly distributed and therefore appear as a black box to the operator. Yet an operator does not want to lose control over his system and needs to be able to continuously observe and examine its current state at runtime. This work addresses both problems and shows how the solutions can be combined into a more self-organizing overlay concept. At first, we evaluate the performance of structured overlay networks under different aspects and thereby illuminate in how far such architectures are able to support carrier-grade applications. Secondly, to enable operators to monitor and understand their deployed system in more detail, we introduce both active as well as passive methods to gather information about the current state of the overlay network.
There is great interest in affordable, precise and reliable metrology underwater:
Archaeologists want to document artifacts in situ with high detail.
In marine research, biologists require the tools to monitor coral growth and geologists need recordings to model sediment transport.
Furthermore, for offshore construction projects, maintenance and inspection millimeter-accurate measurements of defects and offshore structures are essential.
While the process of digitizing individual objects and complete sites on land is well understood and standard methods, such as Structure from Motion or terrestrial laser scanning, are regularly applied, precise underwater surveying with high resolution is still a complex and difficult task.
Applying optical scanning techniques in water is challenging due to reduced visibility caused by turbidity and light absorption.
However, optical underwater scanners provide significant advantages in terms of achievable resolution and accuracy compared to acoustic systems.
This thesis proposes an underwater laser scanning system and the algorithms for creating dense and accurate 3D scans in water.
It is based on laser triangulation and the main optical components are an underwater camera and a cross-line laser projector.
The prototype is configured with a motorized yaw axis for capturing scans from a tripod.
Alternatively, it is mounted to a moving platform for mobile mapping.
The main focus lies on the refractive calibration of the underwater camera and laser projector, the image processing and 3D reconstruction.
For highest accuracy, the refraction at the individual media interfaces must be taken into account.
This is addressed by an optimization-based calibration framework using a physical-geometric camera model derived from an analytical formulation of a ray-tracing projection model.
In addition to scanning underwater structures, this work presents the 3D acquisition of semi-submerged structures and the correction of refraction effects.
As in-situ calibration in water is complex and time-consuming, the challenge of transferring an in-air scanner calibration to water without re-calibration is investigated, as well as self-calibration techniques for structured light.
The system was successfully deployed in various configurations for both static scanning and mobile mapping.
An evaluation of the calibration and 3D reconstruction using reference objects and a comparison of free-form surfaces in clear water demonstrate the high accuracy potential in the range of one millimeter to less than one centimeter, depending on the measurement distance.
Mobile underwater mapping and motion compensation based on visual-inertial odometry is demonstrated using a new optical underwater scanner based on fringe projection.
Continuous registration of individual scans allows the acquisition of 3D models from an underwater vehicle.
RGB images captured in parallel are used to create 3D point clouds of underwater scenes in full color.
3D maps are useful to the operator during the remote control of underwater vehicles and provide the building blocks to enable offshore inspection and surveying tasks.
The advancing automation of the measurement technology will allow non-experts to use it, significantly reduce acquisition time and increase accuracy, making underwater metrology more cost-effective.
The DFG project “SDN-enabled Application-aware Network Control Architectures and their Performance Assessment” (DFG SDN-App) focused in phase 1 (Jan 2017 – Dec 2019) on software defined networking (SDN). Being a fundamental paradigm shift, SDN enables a remote control of networking devices made by different vendors from a logically centralized controller. In principle, this enables a more dynamic and flexible management of network resources compared to the traditional legacy networks. Phase 1 focused on multimedia applications and their users’ Quality of Experience (QoE).
This documents reports the achievements of the first phase (Jan 2017 – Dec 2019), which is jointly carried out by the Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin, and University of Würzburg. The project started at the institutions in Munich and Würzburg in January 2017 and lasted until December 2019.
In Phase 1, the project targeted the development of fundamental control mechanisms for network-aware application control and application-aware network control in Software Defined Networks (SDN) so to enhance the user perceived quality (QoE). The idea is to leverage the QoE from multiple applications as control input parameter for application-and network control mechanisms. These mechanisms are implemented by an Application Control Plane (ACP) and a Network Control Plane (NCP). In order to obtain a global view of the current system state, applications and network parameters are monitored and communicated to the respective control plane interface. Network and application information and their demands are exchanged between the control planes so to derive appropriate control actions. To this end, a methodology is developed to assess the application performance and in particular the QoE. This requires an appropriate QoE modeling of the applications considered in the project as well as metrics like QoE fairness to be utilized within QoE management.
In summary, the application-network interaction can improve the QoE for multi-application scenarios. This is ensured by utilizing information from the application layer, which are mapped by appropriate QoS-QoE models to QoE within a network control plane. On the other hand, network information is monitored and communicated to the application control plane. Network and application information and their demands are exchanged between the control planes so to derive appropriate control actions.
Time-triggered communication is widely used throughout several industry do-
mains, primarily for reliable and real-time capable data transfers. However,
existing time-triggered technologies are designed for terrestrial usage and not
directly applicable to space applications due to the harsh environment. In-
stead, specific hardware must be developed to deal with thermal, mechanical,
and especially radiation effects.
SpaceWire, as an event-triggered communication technology, has been used
for years in a large number of space missions. Its moderate complexity, her-
itage, and transmission rates up to 400 MBits/s are one of the main ad-
vantages and often without alternatives for on-board computing systems of
spacecraft. At present, real-time data transfers are either achieved by prior-
itization inside SpaceWire routers or by applying a simplified time-triggered
approach. These solutions either imply problems if they are used inside dis-
tributed on-board computing systems or in case of networks with more than
a single router are required.
This work provides a solution for the real-time problem by developing
a novel clock synchronization approach. This approach is focused on being
compatible with distributed system structures and allows time-triggered data
transfers. A significant difference to existing technologies is the remote clock
estimation by the use of pulses. They are transferred over the network and
remove the need for latency accumulation, which allows the incorporation of
standardized SpaceWire equipment. Additionally, local clocks are controlled
decentralized and provide different correction capabilities in order to handle
oscillator induced uncertainties. All these functionalities are provided by a developed Network Controller (NC), able to isolate the attached network and
to control accesses.
Nowadays, employees have to work with applications, technical services, and systems every day for hours. Hence, performance degradation of such systems might be perceived negatively by the employees, increase frustration, and might also have a negative effect on their productivity. The assessment of the application's performance in order to provide a smooth operation of the application is part of the application management. Within this process it is not sufficient to assess the system performance solely on technical performance parameters, e.g., response or loading times. These values have to be set into relation to the perceived performance quality on the user's side - the quality of experience (QoE).
This dissertation focuses on the monitoring and estimation of the QoE of enterprise applications. As building models to estimate the QoE requires quality ratings from the users as ground truth, one part of this work addresses methods to collect such ratings. Besides the evaluation of approaches to improve the quality of results of tasks and studies completed on crowdsourcing platforms, a general concept for monitoring and estimating QoE in enterprise environments is presented. Here, relevant design dimension of subjective studies are identified and their impact of the QoE is evaluated and discussed. By considering the findings, a methodology for collecting quality ratings from employees during their regular work is developed. The method is realized by implementing a tool to conduct short surveys and deployed in a cooperating company.
As a foundation for learning QoE estimation models, this work investigates the relationship between user-provided ratings and technical performance parameters. This analysis is based on a data set collected in a user study in a cooperating company during a time span of 1.5 years. Finally, two QoE estimation models are introduced and their performance is evaluated.
Evaluating the Quality of Experience (QoE) of video streaming and its influence factors has become paramount for streaming providers, as they want to maintain high satisfaction for their customers. In this context, crowdsourced user studies became a valuable tool to evaluate different factors which can affect the perceived user experience on a large scale. In general, most of these crowdsourcing studies either use, what we refer to, as an in vivo or an in vitro interface design. In vivo design means that the study participant has to rate the QoE of a video that is embedded in an application similar to a real streaming service, e.g., YouTube or Netflix. In vitro design refers to a setting, in which the video stream is separated from a specific service and thus, the video plays on a plain background. Although these interface designs vary widely, the results are often compared and generalized. In this work, we use a crowdsourcing study to investigate the influence of three interface design alternatives, an in vitro and two in vivo designs with different levels of interactiveness, on the perceived video QoE. Contrary to our expectations, the results indicate that there is no significant influence of the study’s interface design in general on the video experience. Furthermore, we found that the in vivo design does not reduce the test takers’ attentiveness. However, we observed that participants who interacted with the test interface reported a higher video QoE than other groups.
Imagine a technology that automatically creates a full 3D thermal model of an environment and detects temperature peaks in it. For better orientation in the model it is enhanced with color information. The current state of the art for analyzing temperature related issues is thermal imaging. It is relevant for energy efficiency but also for securing important infrastructure such as power supplies and temperature regulation systems. Monitoring and analysis of the data for a large building is tedious as stable conditions need to be guaranteed for several hours and detailed notes about the pose and the environment conditions for each image must be taken. For some applications repeated measurements are necessary to monitor changes over time. The analysis of the scene is only possible through expertise and experience.
This thesis proposes a robotic system that creates a full 3D model of the environment with color and thermal information by combining thermal imaging with the technology of terrestrial laser scanning. The addition of a color camera facilitates the interpretation of the data and allows for other application areas. The data from all sensors collected at different positions is joined in one common reference frame using calibration and scan matching. The first part of the thesis deals with 3D point cloud processing with the emphasis on accessing point cloud data efficiently, detecting planar structures in the data and registering multiple point clouds into one common coordinate system. The second part covers the autonomous exploration and data acquisition with a mobile robot with the objective to minimize the unseen area in 3D space. Furthermore, the combination of different modalities, color images, thermal images and point cloud data through calibration is elaborated. The last part presents applications for the the collected data. Among these are methods to detect the structure of building interiors for reconstruction purposes and subsequent detection and classification of windows. A system to project the gathered thermal information back into the scene is presented as well as methods to improve the color information and to join separately acquired point clouds and photo series.
A full multi-modal 3D model contains all the relevant geometric information about the recorded scene and enables an expert to fully analyze it off-site. The technology clears the path for automatically detecting points of interest thereby helping the expert to analyze the heat flow as well as localize and identify heat leaks. The concept is modular and neither limited to achieving energy efficiency nor restricted to the use in combination with a mobile platform. It also finds its application in fields such as archaeology and geology and can be extended by further sensors.
Background
The efficiency of artificial intelligence as computer-aided detection (CADe) systems for colorectal polyps has been demonstrated in several randomized trials. However, CADe systems generate many distracting detections, especially during interventions such as polypectomies. Those distracting CADe detections are often induced by the introduction of snares or biopsy forceps as the systems have not been trained for such situations. In addition, there are a significant number of non-false but not relevant detections, since the polyp has already been previously detected. All these detections have the potential to disturb the examiner's work.
Objectives
Development and evaluation of a convolutional neuronal network that recognizes instruments in the endoscopic image, suppresses distracting CADe detections, and reliably detects endoscopic interventions.
Methods
A total of 580 different examination videos from 9 different centers using 4 different processor types were screened for instruments and represented the training dataset (519,856 images in total, 144,217 contained a visible instrument). The test dataset included 10 full-colonoscopy videos that were analyzed for the recognition of visible instruments and detections by a commercially available CADe system (GI Genius, Medtronic).
Results
The test dataset contained 153,623 images, 8.84% of those presented visible instruments (12 interventions, 19 instruments used). The convolutional neuronal network reached an overall accuracy in the detection of visible instruments of 98.59%. Sensitivity and specificity were 98.55% and 98.92%, respectively. A mean of 462.8 frames containing distracting CADe detections per colonoscopy were avoided using the convolutional neuronal network. This accounted for 95.6% of all distracting CADe detections.
Conclusions
Detection of endoscopic instruments in colonoscopy using artificial intelligence technology is reliable and achieves high sensitivity and specificity. Accordingly, the new convolutional neuronal network could be used to reduce distracting CADe detections during endoscopic procedures. Thus, our study demonstrates the great potential of artificial intelligence technology beyond mucosal assessment.
Utilizing multiple access networks such as 5G, 4G, and Wi-Fi simultaneously can lead to increased robustness, resiliency, and capacity for mobile users. However, transparently implementing packet distribution over multiple paths within the core of the network faces multiple challenges including scalability to a large number of customers, low latency, and high-capacity packet processing requirements. In this paper, we offload congestion-aware multipath packet scheduling to a smartNIC. However, such hardware acceleration faces multiple challenges due to programming language and platform limitations. We implement different multipath schedulers in P4 with different complexity in order to cope with dynamically changing path capacities. Using testbed measurements, we show that our CMon scheduler, which monitors path congestion in the data plane and dynamically adjusts scheduling weights for the different paths based on path state information, can process more than 3.5 Mpps packets 25 μs latency.
A new underwater 3D scanning device based on structured illumination and designed for continuous capture of object data in motion for deep sea inspection applications is introduced. The sensor permanently captures 3D data of the inspected surface and generates a 3D surface model in real time. Sensor velocities up to 0.7 m/s are directly compensated while capturing camera images for the 3D reconstruction pipeline. The accuracy results of static measurements of special specimens in a water basin with clear water show the high accuracy potential of the scanner in the sub-millimeter range. Measurement examples with a moving sensor show the significance of the proposed motion compensation and the ability to generate a 3D model by merging individual scans. Future application tests in offshore environments will show the practical potential of the sensor for the desired inspection tasks.
Three-dimensional capturing of underwater archeological sites or sunken shipwrecks can support important documentation purposes. In this study, a novel 3D scanning system based on structured illumination is introduced, which supports cultural heritage documentation and measurement tasks in underwater environments. The newly developed system consists of two monochrome measurement cameras, a projection unit that produces aperiodic sinusoidal fringe patterns, two flashlights, a color camera, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and an electronic control box. The opportunities and limitations of the measurement principles of the 3D scanning system are discussed and compared to other 3D recording methods such as laser scanning, ultrasound, and photogrammetry, in the context of underwater applications. Some possible operational scenarios concerning cultural heritage documentation are introduced and discussed. A report on application activities in water basins and offshore environments including measurement examples and results of the accuracy measurements is given. The study shows that the new 3D scanning system can be used for both the topographic documentation of underwater sites and to generate detailed true-scale 3D models including the texture and color information of objects that must remain under water.
A binary tanglegram is a drawing of a pair of rooted binary trees whose leaf sets are in one-to-one correspondence; matching leaves are connected by inter-tree edges. For applications, for example, in phylogenetics, it is essential that both trees are drawn without edge crossings and that the inter-tree edges have as few crossings as possible. It is known that finding a tanglegram with the minimum number of crossings is NP-hard and that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to that number.
We prove that under the Unique Games Conjecture there is no constant-factor approximation for binary trees. We show that the problem is NP-hard even if both trees are complete binary trees. For this case we give an O(n 3)-time 2-approximation and a new, simple fixed-parameter algorithm. We show that the maximization version of the dual problem for binary trees can be reduced to a version of MaxCut for which the algorithm of Goemans and Williamson yields a 0.878-approximation.
Historical maps are fascinating documents and a valuable source of information for scientists of various disciplines. Many of these maps are available as scanned bitmap images, but in order to make them searchable in useful ways, a structured representation of the contained information is desirable.
This book deals with the extraction of spatial information from historical maps. This cannot be expected to be solved fully automatically (since it involves difficult semantics), but is also too tedious to be done manually at scale.
The methodology used in this book combines the strengths of both computers and humans: it describes efficient algorithms to largely automate information extraction tasks and pairs these algorithms with smart user interactions to handle what is not understood by the algorithm. The effectiveness of this approach is shown for various kinds of spatial documents from the 16th to the early 20th century.
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are networks that distribute content in the Internet. CDNs are increasingly responsible for the largest share of traffic in the Internet. CDNs distribute popular content to caches in many geographical areas to save bandwidth by avoiding unnecessary multihop retransmission. By bringing the content geographically closer to the user, CDNs also reduce the latency of the services.
Besides end users and content providers, which require high availability of high quality content, CDN providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are interested in an efficient operation of CDNs. In order to ensure an efficient replication of the content, CDN providers have a network of (globally) distributed interconnected datacenters at different points of presence (PoPs). ISPs aim to provide reliable and high speed Internet access. They try to keep the load on the network low and to reduce cost for connectivity with other ISPs.
The increasing number of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets, high definition video content and high resolution displays result in a continuous growth in mobile traffic. This growth in mobile traffic is further accelerated by newly emerging services, such as mobile live streaming and broadcasting services. The steep increase in mobile traffic is expected to reach by 2018 roughly 60% of total network traffic, the majority of which will be video. To handle the growth in mobile networks, the next generation of 5G mobile networks is designed to have higher access rates and an increased densification of the network infrastructure. With the explosion of access rates and number of base stations the backhaul of wireless networks will become congested.
To reduce the load on the backhaul, the research community suggests installing local caches in gateway routers between the wireless network and the Internet, in base stations of different sizes, and in end-user devices. The local deployment of caches allows keeping the traffic within the ISPs network. The caches are organized in a hierarchy, where caches in the lowest tier are requested first. The request is forwarded to the next tier, if the requested object is not found. Appropriate evaluation methods are required to optimally dimension the caches dependent on the traffic characteristics and the available resources. Additionally methods are necessary that allow performance evaluation of backhaul bandwidth aggregation systems, which further reduce the load on the backhaul.
This thesis analyses CDNs utilizing locally available resources and develops the following evaluations and optimization approaches: Characterization of CDNs and distribution of resources in the Internet, analysis and optimization of hierarchical caching systems with bandwidth constraints and performance evaluation of bandwidth aggregation systems.
This thesis deals with the first part of a larger project that follows the ultimate goal of implementing a software tool that creates a Mission Control Room in Virtual Reality. The software is to be used for the operation of spacecrafts and is specially developed for the unique real-time requirements of unmanned satellite missions. Beginning from launch, throughout the whole mission up to the recovery or disposal of the satellite, all systems need to be monitored and controlled in continuous intervals, to ensure the mission’s success. Mission Operation is an essential part of every space mission and has been undertaken for decades. Recent technological advancements in the realm of immersive technologies pave the way for innovative methods to operate spacecrafts. Virtual Reality has the capability to resolve the physical constraints set by traditional Mission Control Rooms and thereby delivers novel opportunities. The paper highlights underlying theoretical aspects of Virtual Reality, Mission Control and IP Communication. However, the focus lies upon the practical part of this thesis which revolves around the first steps of the implementation of the virtual Mission Control Room in the Unity Game Engine. Overall, this paper serves as a demonstration of Virtual Reality technology and shows its possibilities with respect to the operation of spacecrafts.
Small satellites contribute significantly in the rapidly evolving innovation in space engineering, in particular in distributed space systems for global Earth observation and communication services. Significant mass reduction by miniaturization, increased utilization of commercial high-tech components, and in particular standardization are the key drivers for modern miniature space technology.
This thesis addresses key fields in research and development on miniature satellite technology regarding efficiency, flexibility, and robustness. Here, these challenges are addressed by the University of Wuerzburg’s advanced pico-satellite bus, realizing a generic modular satellite architecture and standardized interfaces for all subsystems. The modular platform ensures reusability, scalability, and increased testability due to its flexible subsystem interface which allows efficient and compact integration of the entire satellite in a plug-and-play manner.
Beside systematic design for testability, a high degree of operational robustness is achieved by the consequent implementation of redundancy of crucial subsystems. This is combined with efficient fault detection, isolation and recovery mechanisms. Thus, the UWE-3 platform, and in particular the on-board data handling system and the electrical power system, offers one of the most efficient pico-satellite architectures launched in recent years and provides a solid basis for future extensions.
The in-orbit performance results of the pico-satellite UWE-3 are presented and summarize successful operations since its launch in 2013. Several software extensions and adaptations have been uploaded to UWE-3 increasing its capabilities. Thus, a very flexible platform for in-orbit software experiments and for evaluations of innovative concepts was provided and tested.
We use algebraic closures and structures which are derived from these in complexity theory. We classify problems with Boolean circuits and Boolean constraints according to their complexity. We transfer algebraic structures to structural complexity. We use the generation problem to classify important complexity classes.
Venus Research Station
(2023)
Because of the extreme conditions in the atmosphere, Venus has been less explored than for example Mars. Only a few probes have been able to survive on the surface for very short periods in the past and have sent data. The atmosphere is also far from being fully explored. It could even be that building blocks of life can be found in more moderate layers of the planet’s atmosphere. It can therefore be assumed that the planet Venus will increasingly become a focus of exploration. One way to collect significantly more data in situ is to build and operate an atmospheric research station over an extended period of time. This could carry out measurements at different positions and at different times and thus significantly expand our knowledge of the planet. In this work, the design of a Venus Research Station floating within the Venusian atmosphere is presented, which is complemented by the design of deployable atmospheric Scouts. The design of these components is done on a conceptual basis.
This paper concerns the an intelligent mobile application for spatial design support and security domain. Mobility has two aspects in our research: The first one is the usage of mobile robots for 3D mapping of urban areas and for performing some specific tasks. The second mobility aspect is related with a novel Software as a Service system that allows access to robotic functionalities and data over the Ethernet, thus we demonstrate the use of the novel NVIDIA GRID technology allowing to virtualize the graphic processing unit. We introduce Complex Shape Histogram, a core component of our artificial intelligence engine, used for classifying 3D point clouds with a Support Vector Machine. We use Complex Shape Histograms also for loop closing detection in the simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm. Our intelligent mobile system is built on top of the Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning framework. This framework defines an ontology and a semantic model, which are used for building the intelligent mobile user interfaces. We show experiments demonstrating advantages of our approach. In addition, we test our prototypes in the field after the end-user case studies demonstrating a relevant contribution for future intelligent mobile systems that merge mobile robots with novel data centers.
Purpose: A study of real-time adaptive radiotherapy systems was performed to test the hypothesis that, across delivery systems and institutions, the dosimetric accuracy is improved with adaptive treatments over non-adaptive radiotherapy in the presence of patient-measured tumor motion. Methods and materials: Ten institutions with robotic(2), gimbaled(2), MLC(4) or couch tracking(2) used common materials including CT and structure sets, motion traces and planning protocols to create a lung and a prostate plan. For each motion trace, the plan was delivered twice to a moving dosimeter; with and without real-time adaptation. Each measurement was compared to a static measurement and the percentage of failed points for gamma-tests recorded. Results: For all lung traces all measurement sets show improved dose accuracy with a mean 2%/2 mm gamma-fail rate of 1.6% with adaptation and 15.2% without adaptation (p < 0.001). For all prostate the mean 2%/2 mm gamma-fail rate was 1.4% with adaptation and 17.3% without adaptation (p < 0.001). The difference between the four systems was small with an average 2%/2 mm gamma-fail rate of <3% for all systems with adaptation for lung and prostate. Conclusions: The investigated systems all accounted for realistic tumor motion accurately and performed to a similar high standard, with real-time adaptation significantly outperforming non-adaptive delivery methods.
Purpose
To determine whether 24-h IOP monitoring can be a predictor for glaucoma progression and to analyze the inter-eye relationship of IOP, perfusion, and progression parameters.
Methods
We extracted data from manually drawn IOP curves with HIOP-Reader, a software suite we developed. The relationship between measured IOPs and mean ocular perfusion pressures (MOPP) to retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness was analyzed. We determined the ROC curves for peak IOP (T\(_{max}\)), average IOP(T\(_{avg}\)), IOP variation (IOP\(_{var}\)), and historical IOP cut-off levels to detect glaucoma progression (rate of RNFL loss). Bivariate analysis was also conducted to check for various inter-eye relationships.
Results
Two hundred seventeen eyes were included. The average IOP was 14.8 ± 3.5 mmHg, with a 24-h variation of 5.2 ± 2.9 mmHg. A total of 52% of eyes with RNFL progression data showed disease progression. There was no significant difference in T\(_{max}\), T\(_{avg}\), and IOP\(_{var}\) between progressors and non-progressors (all p > 0.05). Except for T\(_{avg}\) and the temporal RNFL, there was no correlation between disease progression in any quadrant and T\(_{max}\), T\(_{avg}\), and IOP\(_{var}\). Twenty-four-hour and outpatient IOP variables had poor sensitivities and specificities in detecting disease progression. The correlation of inter-eye parameters was moderate; correlation with disease progression was weak.
Conclusion
In line with our previous study, IOP data obtained during a single visit (outpatient or inpatient monitoring) make for a poor diagnostic tool, no matter the method deployed. Glaucoma progression and perfusion pressure in left and right eyes correlated weakly to moderately with each other.
Key messages
What is known:
● Our prior study showed that manually obtained 24-hour inpatient IOP measurements in right eyes are poor predictors for glaucoma progression. The inter-eye relationship of 24-hour IOP parameters and disease progression on optical coherence tomography (OCT) has not been examined.
What we found:
● 24-hour IOP profiles of left eyes from the same study were a poor diagnostic tool to detect worsening glaucoma.
● Significant inter-eye correlations of various strengths were found for all tested parameters
Within this thesis a new philosophy in monitoring spacecrafts is presented: the
unification of the various kinds of monitoring techniques used during the
different lifecylce phases of a spacecraft.
The challenging requirements being set for this monitoring framework are:
- "separation of concerns" as a design principle (dividing the steps of logging
from registered sources, sending to connected sinks and displaying of
information),
- usage during all mission phases,
- usage by all actors (EGSE engineers, groundstation operators, etc.),
- configurable at runtime, especially regarding the level of detail of logging
information, and
- very low resource consumption.
First a prototype of the monitoring framework was developed as a support library
for the real-time operating system
RODOS. This prototype was tested on dedicated hardware platforms relevant for
space, and also on a satellite demonstrator used for educational purposes.
As a second step, the results and lessons learned from the development and usage
of this prototype were transfered to a real space mission: the first satellite
of the DLR compact satellite series - a space based platform for DLR's own
research activities. Within this project, the software of the avionic subsystem
was supplemented by a powerful logging component, which enhances the traditional
housekeeping capabilities and offers extensive filtering and debugging
techniques for monitoring and FDIR needs. This logging component is the major
part of the flight version of the monitoring framework. It is completed by
counterparts running on the development computers and as well as the EGSE
hardware in the integration room, making it most valuable already in the
earliest stages of traditional spacecraft development.
Future plans in terms of adding support from the groundstation as well will lead
to a seamless integration of the monitoring framework not only into to the
spacecraft itself, but into the whole space system.
The rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is a subjective load marker and may assist in individualizing training prescription, particularly by adjusting running intensity. Unfortunately, RPE has shortcomings (e.g., underreporting) and cannot be monitored continuously and automatically throughout a training sessions. In this pilot study, we aimed to predict two classes of RPE (≤15 “Somewhat hard to hard” on Borg’s 6–20 scale vs. RPE >15 in runners by analyzing data recorded by a commercially-available smartwatch with machine learning algorithms. Twelve trained and untrained runners performed long-continuous runs at a constant self-selected pace to volitional exhaustion. Untrained runners reported their RPE each kilometer, whereas trained runners reported every five kilometers. The kinetics of heart rate, step cadence, and running velocity were recorded continuously ( 1 Hz ) with a commercially-available smartwatch (Polar V800). We trained different machine learning algorithms to estimate the two classes of RPE based on the time series sensor data derived from the smartwatch. Predictions were analyzed in different settings: accuracy overall and per runner type; i.e., accuracy for trained and untrained runners independently. We achieved top accuracies of 84.8 % for the whole dataset, 81.8 % for the trained runners, and 86.1 % for the untrained runners. We predict two classes of RPE with high accuracy using machine learning and smartwatch data. This approach might aid in individualizing training prescriptions.
Immersive virtual environments provide users with the opportunity to escape from the real world, but scripted dialogues can disrupt the presence within the world the user is trying to escape within. Both Non-Playable Character (NPC) to Player and NPC to NPC dialogue can be non-natural and the reliance on responding with pre-defined dialogue does not always meet the players emotional expectations or provide responses appropriate to the given context or world states. This paper investigates the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing to generate dynamic human-like responses within a themed virtual world. Each thematic has been analysed against humangenerated responses for the same seed and demonstrates invariance of rating across a range of model sizes, but shows an effect of theme and the size of the corpus used for fine-tuning the context for the game world.
This paper gives an overview of our recent activities in the field of satellite communication networks, including an introduction to geostationary satellite systems and Low Earth Orbit megaconstellations. To mitigate the high latencies of geostationary satellite networks, TCP-splitting Performance Enhancing Proxies are deployed. However, these cannot be applied in the case of encrypted transport headers as it is the case for VPNs or QUIC. We summarize performance evaluation results from multiple measurement campaigns. In a recently concluded project, multipath communication was used to combine the advantages of very heterogeneous communication paths: low data rate, low latency (e.g., DSL light) and high data rate, high latency (e.g., geostationary satellite).
The importance of Clinical Data Warehouses (CDW) has increased significantly in recent years as they support or enable many applications such as clinical trials, data mining, and decision making.
CDWs integrate Electronic Health Records which still contain a large amount of text data, such as discharge letters or reports on diagnostic findings in addition to structured and coded data like ICD-codes of diagnoses.
Existing CDWs hardly support features to gain information covered in texts.
Information extraction methods offer a solution for this problem but they have a high and long development effort, which can only be carried out by computer scientists.
Moreover, such systems only exist for a few medical domains.
This paper presents a method empowering clinicians to extract information from texts on their own. Medical concepts can be extracted ad hoc from e.g. discharge letters, thus physicians can work promptly and autonomously. The proposed system achieves these improvements by efficient data storage, preprocessing, and with powerful query features. Negations in texts are recognized and automatically excluded, as well as the context of information is determined and undesired facts are filtered, such as historical events or references to other persons (family history).
Context-sensitive queries ensure the semantic integrity of the concepts to be extracted.
A new feature not available in other CDWs is to query numerical concepts in texts and even filter them (e.g. BMI > 25).
The retrieved values can be extracted and exported for further analysis.
This technique is implemented within the efficient architecture of the PaDaWaN CDW and evaluated with comprehensive and complex tests.
The results outperform similar approaches reported in the literature.
Ad hoc IE determines the results in a few (milli-) seconds and a user friendly GUI enables interactive working, allowing flexible adaptation of the extraction.
In addition, the applicability of this system is demonstrated in three real-world applications at the Würzburg University Hospital (UKW).
Several drug trend studies are replicated: Findings of five studies on high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and chronic renal failure can be partially or completely confirmed in the UKW. Another case study evaluates the prevalence of heart failure in inpatient hospitals using an algorithm that extracts information with ad hoc IE from discharge letters and echocardiogram report (e.g. LVEF < 45 ) and other sources of the hospital information system.
This study reveals that the use of ICD codes leads to a significant underestimation (31%) of the true prevalence of heart failure.
The third case study evaluates the consistency of diagnoses by comparing structured ICD-10-coded diagnoses with the diagnoses described in the diagnostic section of the discharge letter.
These diagnoses are extracted from texts with ad hoc IE, using synonyms generated with a novel method.
The developed approach can extract diagnoses from the discharge letter with a high accuracy and furthermore it can prove the degree of consistency between the coded and reported diagnoses.
Background
Medication trend studies show the changes of medication over the years and may be replicated using a clinical Data Warehouse (CDW). Even nowadays, a lot of the patient information, like medication data, in the EHR is stored in the format of free text. As the conventional approach of information extraction (IE) demands a high developmental effort, we used ad hoc IE instead. This technique queries information and extracts it on the fly from texts contained in the CDW.
Methods
We present a generalizable approach of ad hoc IE for pharmacotherapy (medications and their daily dosage) presented in hospital discharge letters. We added import and query features to the CDW system, like error tolerant queries to deal with misspellings and proximity search for the extraction of the daily dosage. During the data integration process in the CDW, negated, historical and non-patient context data are filtered. For the replication studies, we used a drug list grouped by ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System) codes as input for queries to the CDW.
Results
We achieve an F1 score of 0.983 (precision 0.997, recall 0.970) for extracting medication from discharge letters and an F1 score of 0.974 (precision 0.977, recall 0.972) for extracting the dosage. We replicated three published medical trend studies for hypertension, atrial fibrillation and chronic kidney disease. Overall, 93% of the main findings could be replicated, 68% of sub-findings, and 75% of all findings. One study could be completely replicated with all main and sub-findings.
Conclusion
A novel approach for ad hoc IE is presented. It is very suitable for basic medical texts like discharge letters and finding reports. Ad hoc IE is by definition more limited than conventional IE and does not claim to replace it, but it substantially exceeds the search capabilities of many CDWs and it is convenient to conduct replication studies fast and with high quality.