12 research outputs found

    On exact categories and applications to triangulated adjoints and model structures

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    We show that Quillen's small object argument works for exact categories under very mild conditions. This has immediate applications to cotorsion pairs and their relation to the existence of certain triangulated adjoint functors and model structures. In particular, the interplay of different exact structures on the category of complexes of quasi-coherent sheaves leads to a streamlined and generalized version of recent results obtained by Estrada, Gillespie, Guil Asensio, Hovey, J{\o}rgensen, Neeman, Murfet, Prest, Trlifaj and possibly others.Comment: 38 pages; version 2: major revision, more explanation added at several places, reference list updated and extended, misprints correcte

    Effiziente Echtzeitkommunikationsdienste durch Einbeziehung von Kontexten

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    Kommunikation beschĂ€ftigt seit jeher den Menschen. So können Menschen mittlerweile von (fast) jedem Punkt der Erde in Echtzeit miteinander kommunizieren. Kommunikation ist zu einem essentiellen aber auch sehr komplexen Dienst geworden. In den letzten Jahren ist eine Tendenz zur Technikzentrierung insbesondere bei den EndgerĂ€ten zu beobachten, die teilweise zu GerĂ€ten mit einer FunktionsĂŒberladung fĂŒhrt. In dieser Arbeit wird das Paradigma der nutzerzentrierten Kommunikationsdienste fĂŒr eine nahtlose Echtzeitkommunikation verfolgt. Bei diesem stehen der Nutzen und die BedĂŒrfnisse des Nutzers im Vordergrund. Aus der Beobachtung und Analyse menschlicher Kommunikation wurden geeignete Konzepte fĂŒr einen Transfer in eine technische Entsprechung abgeleitet. Die Einbeziehung des Kontexts in die Kommunikation wurde als SchlĂŒsselkonzept fĂŒr eine effiziente Kommunikation identifiziert. Es wurden drei prinzipielle Verfahren entwickelt, die zu einer Verbesserung der Kommunikationshandhabung und so aus Sicht des Nutzers zu einer Steigerung der Effizienz fĂŒhrt. Eine zentrale Annahme der Dissertation ist, dass eine UnterstĂŒtzung in Form einer einfach zu erlernenden Methodik bei der Diensterstellung und -bereitstellung zu individuellen und effektiven nutzerzentrierten Diensten fĂŒhrt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein umfassendes Framework fĂŒr die UnterstĂŒtzung bei der Erstellung und Bereitstellung von Kontext-bewussten Kommunikationsdiensten entworfen. Ein effizientes Design sowie eine adĂ€quate Implementierung von Erweiterungen fĂŒr komplexe Echtzeitkommunikationssysteme sowie ein Kontexterfassungsnetzwerk sind Ă€ußerst anspruchsvolle Aufgaben, die ohne Einbeziehung von Software Engineering-Techniken sowie ohne BerĂŒcksichtigung der Echtzeitanforderungen der avisierten Dienste nicht zu einer tragfĂ€higen Lösung fĂŒhren wĂŒrden. Ein wesentliches Merkmal dieser Architektur ist die Entkopplung der Kontextgewinnung und der Kontextnutzung. Die aufgezeigten Methodiken und Erfahrungen bei der Umsetzung liefern Referenzmodelle, die sowohl die Methodik als auch Umsetzungserfahrungen fĂŒr die Konzeptionen und Realisierungen von weiteren Ă€hnlichen Kontext-bewussten Diensten und Anwendungen bereitstellen. Die graphische Möglichkeit zur Erzeugung von Kontext-bewussten Kommunikationdiensten ist ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal, das zusammen mit der entworfenen Infrastruktur die nutzerzentrierte Diensterstellung erlaubt und auf die allgemeine Klasse der Kontext-bewussten Dienste ĂŒbertragen werden kann

    Using a Multi-Layer Approach to tackle the Service Interaction Problem in Telephony Scenarios

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    The inauguration of IP telephony as a new and promising technology has opened the door to a variety of enhanced communication services and applications, which differ from those of the PSTN. The shift from circuit switched to packetbased networks, from a central to a more decentral organization, from professional and vendor driven development to an open development environment enables a multitude of opportunities

    A context-model for supporting work-integrated learning

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    This contribution introduces the so-called Workplace Learning Context as essential conceptualisation supporting self-directed learning experiences directly at the workplace. The Workplace Learning Context is to be analysed and exploited for retrieving ‘learning’ material that best-possibly matches with a knowledge worker’s current learning needs. In doing so, several different ‘flavours’ of work-integrated learning can be realised including task learning, competency-gap based support and domain-related support. The Workplace Learning Context Model, which is also outlined in this contribution, forms the technical representation of the Workplace Learning Context

    Web based evaluation of proactive user interfaces

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    Usability evaluation of new interface concepts often requires a user study to yield valid results. User studies are however a cost intensive method compared to guideline based usability evaluation. In the AUGUR project we conducted a user study to validate a new interface concept, proactive user interfaces. The method for evaluation we used consists of four steps and relies on leveraging existing tools for realizing each step. These tools can highly automate the data gathering step in the usability study and thereby lower the cost for conducting such a study. In particular they allow for remote participation via a web browser. The obtained data can be analyzed to gain insight into the relation of factors to the three subnotions of usability: efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction as defined in ISO 9241. We applied the developed method to evaluate the proactive user interfaces we develop in the AUGUR project. In the AUGUR project we aim at augmenting existing user interfaces with proactiv

    A Survey of Technologies for the Internet of Things

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    The number of smart things is growing exponentially. By 2020, tens of billions of things will be deployed worldwide, collecting a wealth of diverse data. Traditional computing models collect in-field data and then transmit it to a central data center where analytics are applied to it, but this is no longer a sustainable model. New approaches and new technologies are required to transform enormous amounts of collected data into meaningful information. Technology also will enable the interconnection around things in the IoT ecosystem but further research is required in the development, convergence and interoperability of the different IoT elements. In this paper, we provide a picture of the main technological components needed to enable the interconnection among things in order to realize IoT concepts and applications

    Prediction of significant prostate cancer in biopsy-naĂŻve men: Validation of a novel risk model combining MRI and clinical parameters and comparison to an ERSPC risk calculator and PI-RADS.

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    BackgroundRisk models (RM) need external validation to assess their value beyond the setting in which they were developed. We validated a RM combining mpMRI and clinical parameters for the probability of harboring significant prostate cancer (sPC, Gleason Score ≄ 3+4) for biopsy-naĂŻve men.Material and methodsThe original RM was based on data of 670 biopsy-naĂŻve men from Heidelberg University Hospital who underwent mpMRI with PI-RADS scoring prior to MRI/TRUS-fusion biopsy 2012-2015. Validity was tested by a consecutive cohort of biopsy-naĂŻve men from Heidelberg (n = 160) and externally by a cohort of 133 men from University College London Hospital (UCLH). Assessment of validity was performed at fusion-biopsy by calibration plots, receiver operating characteristics curve and decision curve analyses. The RM`s performance was compared to ERSPC-RC3, ERSPC-RC3+PI-RADSv1.0 and PI-RADSv1.0 alone.ResultsSPC was detected in 76 men (48%) at Heidelberg and 38 men (29%) at UCLH. The areas under the curve (AUC) were 0.86 for the RM in both cohorts. For ERSPC-RC3+PI-RADSv1.0 the AUC was 0.84 in Heidelberg and 0.82 at UCLH, for ERSPC-RC3 0.76 at Heidelberg and 0.77 at UCLH and for PI-RADSv1.0 0.79 in Heidelberg and 0.82 at UCLH. Calibration curves suggest that prevalence of sPC needs to be adjusted to local circumstances, as the RM overestimated the risk of harboring sPC in the UCLH cohort. After prevalence-adjustment with respect to the prevalence underlying ERSPC-RC3 to ensure a generalizable comparison, not only between the Heidelberg and die UCLH subgroup, the RM`s Net benefit was superior over the ERSPC`s and the mpMRI`s for threshold probabilities above 0.1 in both cohorts.ConclusionsThe RM discriminated well between men with and without sPC at initial MRI-targeted biopsy but overestimated the sPC-risk at UCLH. Taking prevalence into account, the model demonstrated benefit compared with clinical risk calculators and PI-RADSv1.0 in making the decision to biopsy men at suspicion of PC. However, prevalence differences must be taken into account when using or validating the presented risk model
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