This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and principles of real-time linked dataspaces as a data platform for intelligent systems. The book introduces a set of specialized best-effort techniques and models to enable loose administrative proximity and semantic integration …
This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These methods can be used to improve the safety and reliability of industrial processes. Fault diagnosis, including fault detection and reasoning, has attracted engineers and scien…
Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have received serious scholarly attention. The present volume inaugurates the Buddhist Open Philology Project (BOPP) publication series, which aims to produce state-of-the-art critical editions, translations, and studies of individual works, thereby seeking to advance the comprehens…
This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation. This book is useful for s…
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering held at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, on September 16–17, 2019. Intended to foster the synergies between research and education, the conference is one of the joint activities of the BITS Pilani and TU Braunschweig conducted under the auspices of Indo-Ge…
When conducting the research that lies behind the writing of this book, and during its substantive writing, Paul Weller was part-time Research Fellow in Religion and Society and Associate Director (UK) of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, Regent’s Park College, a Baptist Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, where he is an Associate Member of the Faculty of T…
We would like to thank our project executing agency VDI/VDE-IT and especially Constantin von Dewitz for their constructive collaboration, as well as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for its support, especially Katrin Nostadt and Annette Eickmeyer-Hehn. Cornelius Höller participated in the project as a substitute for parental leave, after previously also contributing as an …
Nigeria, a former British colony, had no name until 1914; the Nigeria of today consisted of diverse ethnic groups scattered across what is the country’s current geographical space. The ethnic groups were not united within a single country or empire in pre-colonial days. In July 1899 the British House of Commons officially approved the name after an article suggesting various names f…
The term GxP indicates a collection of good practices, e.g., quality guidelines, to ensure that a product is safe and meets its intended use. The most important examples of GxP in biomedicine are Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Good Clinical Practice (GCP). The GLP are curated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); they provide “a managerial quality c…
Polizei in einer freiheitlichen Demokratie kann nur in Beziehung und im Dialog mit der Gesellschaft gedacht werden. Nur als Teil dieser Gemeinschaft kann die Staatsgewalt die gesellschaftliche Ordnung akzeptiert und glaubwürdig gewährleisten. Diese Verankerung im sozialen Leben wird nicht nur durch Kontrolle und Einhegung von Macht erreicht, sondern vielmehr durch Humanität und Dialog. …