Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder, was named in 1951 by Richard Asher after Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron Münchhausen (1720-1797), whose name had become proverbial as the narrator of false and ridiculously exaggerated exploits. The first edition of Münchhausen's tales appeared anonymously in 1785 (Baron Münchausen's narrative of his marvelous travels and campaigns in Russia), and was wr...

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of Stochastic Spin Dynamicsand Monte Carlo Methods L. Teich, C. Schröder, C. Müller, A. Patel, J. Meyer and A. Hütten Bielefeld Institute for Applied Materials Research, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Wilhelm-Bertelsmann-Str. 10, 33602 Bielefeld, Germany Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Wilhelm-Bertelsmann-Str. 10, 33602 Bi...

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger was a physiologist known for his research on respiration and the respiratory quotient, experiments on the effects of electricity on muscles and nerves, and his study of the ovaries and eggs development. His experiments on how the gravitational orientation of frog [5] eggs affects their cleavage plane inspired embryologists such as Wilhelm Roux [6] and Gustav Bor...

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger was a physiologist known for his research on respiration and the respiratory quotient, experiments on the effects of electricity on muscles and nerves, and his study of the ovaries and eggs development. His experiments on how the gravitational orientation of frog [5] eggs affects their cleavage plane inspired embryologists such as Wilhelm Roux [6] and Gustav Bor...

or information systems, it is increasingly difficult to draw a line around an application system and say that you own and control it. For example, as value chains extend beyond enterprises, supplier and customer systems become part of each other's information architectures. Furthermore , in many application areas, data is distributed over a multitude of heterogeneous, often autonomous informati...