We introduce and study an extension of the well-known and well-studied branching-time logics CTL, CTL+, FCTL+, CTL* and the modal μ-calculus with the so called "hybrid framework". This framework borrows ideas from first-order logic to enable more precise "structural" reasoning which is known to be impossible in the original logics. In particular, the extension with this framework enables these logics to uniquely name, reference and test for certain states, similarly to the concepts of variables and constants in ...

This document provides an overview of modeling concepts for service-based software architectures (SBSAs). The concepts were extracted during a survey of conceptual frameworks for architecture modeling of SBSAs.

The capabilities of autonomous robots are increasing which is a reason for research progress in the last years. An increasing number of robotic scenarios are becoming more viable in various domains for example, mowing, harvesting, warehouse robots. But autonomous mobile robots need more than the ability to navigate through their world, and manipulate objects. Even in teams of robots, a structured plan for each team member is necessary. Planning becomes a more important task. Furthermore, the environment can ...

Die Anzahl an Rechenknoten in Hochleistungsrechnern wächst stetig. In solchen Systemen nimmt die Bedeutung von Fehlertoleranz zu, da die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines permanenten Knotenausfalls ebenfalls stetig wächst. Fehlertoleranz gegenüber permanenten Knotenausfällen wird typischerweise durch Checkpointing auf Systemebene realisiert. Findet das Checkpointing jedoch auf Anwendungsebene statt, können Laufzeitvorteile erzielt werden. Diese Implementierungen sind allerdings zeitintensiv und fehleranfällig. Anwendungen, ...

There is a current trend that more and more computer programs analyze written or spoken natural language. For example, DVAs, IE systems, machine translation systems, and many other types of programs process natural language in order to solve specific use cases when interacting with humans via natural language. Amazon, Google, and Mycroft AI are just some of the companies that have produced DVAs capable of interacting with humans via voice. Such NLP applications use techniques from computer science and artificial ...

In this dissertation, we investigate the interplay between extremal fixpoints and higher-order constructs. The main Focus here is Higher-Order Modal Fixpoint Logic (HFL), an extension of the modal mu-calculus by a simply typed lambda calculus. The resulting logic is very expressive, yet the interplay of its components has not been systematically investigated so far. Goal of this thesis is to characterize the interplay of the components of HFL. A first characterization is given by converting the denotational semantics ...

Computer science has evolved so much that it influences almost every part of human live. A particularly personal part of human live is the selection of a given name for a newborn baby. The name discovery service Nameling is our way to help expectant parents with this decision. It is a web service that helps parents to find a given name for their newborn baby. We want to further improve the user experience of Nameling by personalizing its name results for the current user. We deem this important, because the selection ...

Location information plays a vital role in today’s society. People usually carry their mobile devices everywhere they go to benefit from real-time location services; the location of the device is the location of users. The focus of positioning services is shifting from outdoors to indoors. Technological services which depend on indoor locations are increasing in popularity. Wi-Fi fingerprinting is a promising technique that can be used for indoor localization. In this regard, this dissertation targets at improving ...

The primary objective of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the support of resource-constrained mobile devices by means of Cloud or nearby computing resources. In general, this is achieved by outsourcing or offloading computational intensive tasks of mobile applications. This allows, for instance, to virtually extend the processing power of mobile devices and, indirectly, to save battery life. In case remote resources are not available or the communication link is broken, still a local execution is possible. The ...

Wir stellen eine neue Familie von Simulationsrelationen zwischen zwei nicht deterministischen Büchi Automaten (NBA), genannt gepufferte Simulation vor. Wir erweitern das Spiel-Framework der üblichen fairen Simulation, so dass Duplicator ihren Spielzug überspringen und die Buchstaben, die Spoiler gelesenen hat, vorübergehend in einem Puffer speichern kann. Duplicator kann diese Buchstaben in ihrer Struktur dann später ausführen. Duplicator hat damit eine Vorschau in die Bewegungen von Spoiler und somit mehr Chancen, ...