TY - THES A1 - Lachat, Paul T1 - Detecting Inference Attacks Involving Sensor Data N2 - The collection of personal information by organizations has become increasingly essential for social interactions. Nevertheless, according to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the organizations have to protect collected data. Access Control (AC) mechanisms are traditionally used to secure information systems against unauthorized access to sensitive data. The increased availability of personal sensor data, thanks to IoT-oriented applications, motivates new services to offer insights about individuals. Consequently, data mining algorithms have been proposed to infer personal insights from collected sensor data. Although they can be used for genuine purposes, attackers can leverage those outcomes, combining them with other type of data, and further breaching individuals’ privacy. Thus, bypassing AC mechanisms thanks to such insights is a concrete problem. We propose an inference detection system based on the analysis of queries issued on a sensor database. The knowledge obtained through these queries, and the inference channels corresponding to the use of data mining algorithms on sensor data to infer individual information, are described using Raw sensor data based Inference ChannEl Model (RICE-M). The detection is carried out by RICE-M based inference detection System (RICE-Sy). RICE-Sy considers at the time of the query, the knowledge that a user obtains via a new query and has obtained via his query history, and determines whether this is sufficient to allow that user to operate a channel. Thus, privacy protection systems can take advantage of the inferences detected by RICE-Sy, taking into account individuals’ information obtained by the attackers via a database of sensors, to further protect these individuals. Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14149 ER - TY - THES A1 - Le, Mirjam T1 - The Peri-urban City: Cargo Cult Urbanism, Porosity and an Emerging Urban Citizenship in Vietnamese Secondary Cities N2 - The impact of urban development on local residents in the urban periphery oscillates between processes of empowerment and processes of marginalization as well as between state-controlled order and decentralized self-organization. Consequently local authorities, including urban planners and local residents need to negotiate their respective roles in the production and usage of urban space defined by transition, transformation and ambiguity. Therefore, this work examines the underlying patterns, interactions and structures which define the negotiation of state-society relations in the framework of a porous peri-urban landscape in Vietnam’s secondary cities. In Chapter 1, peri-urban areas are defined as space of transformation where pattern of rural land use are intertwined with pattern of urban land use to create an urban-rural interface with blurred boundaries. The main characteristic of the spatial pattern in Tam Kỳ and Buôn Ma Thuột is rooted urban porosity leading to the spatial intertwining of rural, peri-urban and urban spaces. The emerging urban landscape can be defined as peri-urban city. Three main themes define this peri-urban city beyond porosity: (1) processes of transformation creating the peri-urban city, (2) networks of power and control as means to adapt to these transformations and (3) mobility as prerequisite for ability to benefit from the changing landscape in peri-urban cities. Chapter 2 describes how state authorities, urban planners and private investors at the local level in Tam Kỳ and Buôn Ma Thuột use porous space to reproduce the city based on their aspirations. This leads to a cargo cult urbanism, where urban planning is rooted in future aspirations for the city. Plans and construction efforts reference the image of a modern urban future and produce the image of a city, which does not exists in the real urban space of Tam Kỳ and Buôn Ma Thuột. In the meantime, practices based in peri-urban space are often contradictory to the official aspirations of local state authorities Chapter 3 explores this emerging divergence between the aspired urban space by the state and the reality of urban space rooted in material and social porosity. Traditional, newly accessible and environmental porosity provide an array of accessible space which transforms the peri-urban city into a social arena of encounters and interaction. Consequently, porosity enables local residents to maintain urban space as commons. This counters the push towards the privatization of urban space by state and private actors and creates multiple aspirations for the urban future. Rooted in urban space as commons, porosity enables the usage of peri-urban space as spaces of resistance as discussed in Chapter 4. Mobility and interaction are means of reproduction in the porous ambiguity of urban materiality but also become means of everyday resistance. The emerging spatialities of emancipation provide opportunities for an emerging urban citizenship. Urban materiality and urban citizenship have a mutually constitutive relationship. KW - peri-urbanization KW - Vietnam KW - urban citizenship KW - urban porosity KW - cargo-cult urbanism Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14097 ER - TY - THES A1 - Bermeitinger, Bernhard T1 - Investigating a Second-Order Optimization Strategy for Neural Networks N2 - In summary, this cumulative dissertation investigates the application of the conjugate gradient method CG for the optimization of artificial neural networks (NNs) and compares this method with common first-order optimization methods, especially the stochastic gradient descent (SGD). The presented research results show that CG can effectively optimize both small and very large networks. However, the default machine precision of 32 bits can lead to problems. The best results are only achieved in 64-bits computations. The research also emphasizes the importance of the initialization of the NNs’ trainable parameters and shows that an initialization using singular value decomposition (SVD) leads to drastically lower error values. Surprisingly, shallow but wide NNs, both in Transformer and CNN architectures, often perform better than their deeper counterparts. Overall, the research results recommend a re-evaluation of the previous preference for extremely deep NNs and emphasize the potential of CG as an optimization method. N2 - Zusammenfassend untersucht die vorliegende kumulative Dissertation die Anwendung des konjugierten Gradienten (CG) zur Optimierung künstlicher neuronaler Netzwerke (NNs) und vergleicht diese Methode mit verbreiteten Optimierungsverfahren erster Ordnung, insbesondere dem Stochastischem Gradientenabstieg (SGD). Die in den Arbeiten präsentierten Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass CG in der Lage ist, sowohl kleinere als auch sehr große Netzwerke effektiv zu optimieren. Allerdings kann die Maschinen- genauigkeit bei 32-Bit-Berechnungen zu Problemen führen, beste Ergebnisse werden erst in 64-Bit-Fließkommazahlen erreicht. Die Forschung betont auch die Bedeutung der Initialisierung der NN-Parameter und zeigt, dass eine Initialisierung mittels Singulärwertzerlegung zu deutlich geringeren Fehlerwerten führt. Überraschenderweise erzielen flachere NNs bessere Ergebnisse als tiefe NNs mit einer vergleichbaren Anzahl an trainierbaren Parametern, unabhängig vom jeweiligen NN, das die künstlichen Daten erzeugt. Es zeigt sich auch, dass flache, breite NNs, sowohl in Transformer-, als auch in CNN-Architekturen oft besser abschneiden als ihre tieferen Gegenstücke. Insgesamt empfehlen die Forschungsergebnisse eine Neubewertung der bisherigen Präferenz für extrem tiefe NNs und betonen das Potential von CG als Optimierungsmethode. Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14087 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Narh, John A1 - Wehner, Stefanie A1 - Ungruhe, Christian A1 - Eberth, Andreas T1 - The role of translocal practices in a natural climate solution in Ghana JF - Climate N2 - People-centred reforestation is one of the ways to achieve natural climate solutions. Ghana has established a people-centred reforestation programme known as the Modified Taunya System (MTS) where local people are assigned degraded forest reserves to practice agroforestry. Given that the MTS is a people-centred initiative, socioeconomic factors are likely to have impact on the reforestation drive. This study aims to understand the role of translocal practices of remittances and visits by migrants on the MTS. Using multi-sited, sequential explanatory mixed methods and the lens of socioecological systems, the study shows that social capital and socioeconomic obligations of cash remittances from, as well as visits by migrants to their communities of origin play positive roles on reforestation under the MTS. Specifically, translocal households have access to, and use remittances to engage relatively better in the MTS than households that do not receive remittances. This shows that translocal practices can have a positive impact on the environment at the area of origin of migrants where there are people-centred environmental policies in place. KW - agroforestry KW - multi-sited research KW - reforestation KW - remittances KW - sequential explanatory mixed methods KW - socioecological systems Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14138 VL - 2023 IS - 11 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Erdogan, Gülsah A1 - Fekih Hassen, Wiem T1 - Charging scheduling of hybrid energy storage systems for EV charging stations JF - Energies N2 - The growing demand for electric vehicles (EV) in the last decade and the most recent European Commission regulation to only allow EV on the road from 2035 involved the necessity to design a cost-effective and sustainable EV charging station (CS). A crucial challenge for charging stations arises from matching fluctuating power supplies and meeting peak load demand. The overall objective of this paper is to optimize the charging scheduling of a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) for EV charging stations while maximizing PV power usage and reducing grid energy costs. This goal is achieved by forecasting the PV power and the load demand using different deep learning (DL) algorithms such as the recurrent neural network (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM). Then, the predicted data are adopted to design a scheduling algorithm that determines the optimal charging time slots for the HESS. The findings demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach, showcasing a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 5.78% for real-time PV power forecasting and 9.70% for real-time load demand forecasting. Moreover, the proposed scheduling algorithm reduces the total grid energy cost by 12.13%. KW - scheduling optimization KW - HESS KW - PV power KW - load demand KW - RNN KW - LSTM KW - GRU KW - cost reduction Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14128 VL - 2023 IS - 16 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR ED - Rowedder, Simon ED - Wilcox, Phill ED - Brandtstädter, Susanne T1 - Negotiating Chinese infrastructures of modern mobilities : insights from Southeast Asia N2 - From transportation to urbanization, energy and digitalization, China-backed projects of infrastructural development are increasingly common throughout Southeast Asia and the global South as both a means and outcome of development. This trend has accelerated since China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. Against this backdrop, the present ASEAS issue invites to rethink the roles infrastructure plays in forms of development that place connectivity at the center. Contents: Simon Rowedder, Phill Wilcox & Susanne Brandtstädter Negotiating Chinese Infrastructures of Modern Mobilities: Insights from Southeast Asia Current Research on Southeast Asia Panitda Saiyarod The Deviated Route: Navigating the Logistical Power Landscape of the Mekong Border Trade Franziska S. Nicolaisen The Politicization of Mobility Infrastructures in Vietnam — The Hanoi Metro Project at the Nexus of Urban Development, Fragmented Mobilities, and National Security Arratee Ayuttacorn Chinese Investor Networks and the Politics of Infrastructure Projects in the Eastern Economic Corridor in Thailand Karin Dean Belt and Road Initiative in Northern Myanmar: The Local World of China’s Global Investments Mira Käkönen Entangled Enclaves: Dams, Volatile Rivers, and Chinese Infrastructural Engagement in Cambodia Research Workshop Tim Oakes Infrastructure Power, Circulation and Suspension Susanne Brandtstädter Infrastructural Fragility, Infra-Politics and Jianghu Book Reviews Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg Book Review: Tappe, O., & Rowedder, S. (Eds.). (2022). Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14049 UR - https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/issue/view/657 IS - 16(2) 2023 SP - 175 EP - 314 PB - SEAS - Society fo South-East Asian Studies CY - Wien ER - TY - THES A1 - Schaich, Marie-Katrin T1 - Zulässigkeit und Grenzen der Projektbefristung Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023122219103461828092 SN - 978-3-428-59003-2 PB - Duncker & Humblot CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Huebenthal, Sandra T1 - Memory theory in New Testament studies : exploring new perspectives N2 - This book collects ten of Sandra Huebenthal’s most important contributions to the application of Social Memory Theory in Biblical studies. The volume consists of four parts, each devoted to a particular field of research. Part one addresses the general impact of Social Memory Theory for the New Testament. The second part analyzes how Social Memory Theory adds to exploring the phenomenon of (biblical) intertextuality as a strategy for negotiating Early Christian identity and the third part investigates how New Testament pseudepigraphy provides a different approach for understanding the negotiation and formation of Christian identities. Finally, part four provides an outlook how the hermeneutical approach can enhance Patristic research. The ten essays originate from discussions about Social Memory Theory and the New Testament at international conferences, three of them are translations of German contributions, while two are published for the first time in this volume. (Verlagsbeschreibung) KW - social memory KW - intertextuality KW - pseudepigraphy Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14102 SN - 978-3-657-79081-4 PB - Brill Schöningh CY - Paderborn ER - TY - BOOK ED - Benkel, Thorsten T1 - Jahrbuch für Tod und Gesellschaft 2024 N2 - Auseinandersetzungen mit Sterben, Tod und Trauer sind gesellschaftlich von permanenter Relevanz. Theoretische Zugänge und empirische Analysen zu diesem Themenfeld finden im Jahrbuch für Tod und Gesellschaft ein interdisziplinäres Forum. Neben der Vertiefung aktueller Debatten und der Besprechung von Neuerscheinungen dient das Periodikum der Weiterentwicklung der thanato(-sozio-)logischen Erkenntnis sowie der (inter-)nationalen Vernetzung. Der thematische Horizont der zweiten Ausgabe umfasst u.a. Verwitwung, Foto-Sharing am Lebensende, Death Education und visuelle Tabus in der qualitativen Forschung. T2 - Annual review of death and society 2024 Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14051 SN - 978-3-7799-8139-8 VL - 2024 IS - Volume 3 PB - Beltz Juventa CY - Weilheim ER - TY - BOOK ED - Bartosch, Ulrich T1 - Die Idee der Universität - heute BT - Passauer Perspektiven N2 - Welcher „Idee“ folgt die Universität und welchem Auftrag ist sie verpflichtet? Diese Fragen von Karl Jaspers 1923, 1946 und 1961 ausdrücklich aufgeworfen, bleiben stets aktuell. Sie müssen im Horizont eines permanenten Wandels immer wieder neu reflektiert werden. Die Antworten nehmen die Universität insgesamt und die jeweils konkrete Hochschule in den Blick. Universität realisiert sich in konkreten Bedingungen in Auseinandersetzung mit den Fragen der Zeit. Das Buch verbindet generelle Perspektive und spezielle Umsetzung durch Beiträge von außen und innen (hier aus der Universität Passau). Wissenschaft, Politik, Bildung, Wirtschaft treten somit in der Bestimmung der Idee der Universität in einen vielschichtigen Dialog. Inhalt: Ulrich Bartosch Vorwort: Eine Idee der Universität – heute? Rudolf Speth Einleitung: Den Kern behalten und sich wandeln: Die Universität vor neuen Herausforderungen I. Die historische Tiefendimension Herfried Münkler Ein virtueller Brückenschlag aus der europäischen Universitätsgeschichte in die Zukunft der Universität Passau II. Die Universität und die Wissenschaft Anna Henkel Disziplinarität zwischen Wissenschaft und Universität Horst Bischof Universitäre Forschung quo vadis Sabine Doering-Manteuffel Die Universität als Ort des bewussten Widerspruchs Brigitte Forster-Heinlein Die Universität als Ort des bewussten Widerspruchs – auch aus Sicht der jungen Forscherinnen und Forscher? Barbara Zehnpfennig Universität und Wahrheit Gesine Schwan Was ist die Aufgabe von Universitäten? Carolin Häussler Wissenschaft: Normen, Spannungsfelder und die Dissemination von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen in die Wirtschaft III. Reformansätze und Ökonomisierung Richard Münch Alle Macht dem Präsidium! Von der Herrschaft der Ordinarien zur unternehmerischen und total administrierten Universität? Wolfgang A. Herrmann Die unternehmerische Universität Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker Virtueller Brückenschlag in die Zukunft der Universität Passau IV. Das Bayerische Hochschulinnovationsgesetz Bernd Sibler Erfolgreiche Hochschulen brauchen exzellente Rahmenbedingungen Heinrich Oberreuter Wissenschaft als Dienst am Wissen Karsten Fitz Die Universität und die Grenzen des Wettbewerbs V. Die Universität der Studierenden Simon Pagany Die Anfänge der studentischen Vizepräsidentschaft an der Zeppelin Universität Lorena Puqja und Sophia Rockenmaier Mitgestaltung auf Augenhöhe: Eine studentische Vizepräsidentschaft für die Universität Passau Thomas Girst Umweg statt Abkürzung: Über das Prinzip funktionaler Serendipität für die Lehranstalten der Zukunft Birgit Beumers Serendipität und Funktionalität? VI. Die Universität als Organisation Ulrike Beisiegel Herausforderungen der Universitäten der Zukunft Andreas König „Universität als Heimat“ als Teil einer Universitätsstrategie VII. Der Bezug zur Gesellschaft Uwe Schneidewind Die Stadt als Campus Martina Padmanabhan Was will internationale transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in Niederbayern? Das Versprechen der Kleinstadt Micha Teuscher Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen als Impuls für die Entwicklung der Universität Hannah Schmid-Petri Öffentlichkeitsdynamiken im digitalen Zeitalter Manfred Brocker Eine politische Idee der Universität heute? Alexander von Gernler Ambivalenzen von Informatik und Digitalisierung Florian Töpfl Wie wissenschaftsskeptische Gegenöffentlichkeiten neue Medien nutzen VIII. Der besondere Platz der Universität Passau Christian Thies Abschied von Humboldt Hans-Georg Dederer Die Idee der Universität heute Michael Grimm Die neue Approbationsordnung: Ein Plädoyer zur Schließung von Schnittstellen zwischen Medizin und Sozialwissenschaften Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-289574 SN - 978-3-7815-6071-0 PB - Julius Klinkhardt CY - Bad Heilbrunn ER -