Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet starts out as a classic love story: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl get married. Of course, it turns into a tragedy when they realize that their relationship is destined to fail. Surprisingly, many offices in corporate America follow a similar-though less morbid--trend. A 2005 survey revealed that 58% of employees had dated someone at wor...

Abstract. In this article we study (possibly degenerate) stochastic differential equations (SDE) with irregular (or discontiuous) drifts, and prove that under certain conditions on the coefficients, there exists a unique almost everywhere stochastic invertible flow associated with the SDE in the sense of Lebesgue measure. In the case of constant diffusions and BV drifts, we obtain such a result...

Abstract Modified Partial Capacity Design (M-PCD) is an alternative design method for seismic-resistant structures. M-PCD adopts the partial side sway mechanism its failure where beams and some columns are allowed to develop plastic hinges. This uses two models design. The first model simulates a small earthquake occurrence used columns. second larger damages on structure. elastic designed base...

In this paper, we present new approaches to handle drift and shift in on-line data streams using evolving fuzzy systems (EFS), which are characterized by the fact that their structure is not fixed and not pre-determined. When dealing with drifts and shifts in data streams one needs to take into account two major issues: a) automatic detection of, and b) automatic reaction to this. To address th...

Structural damage can be controlled in performance based seismic design (PBSD) according to the requirement under a certain hazard level. During strong ground motion (GM) such buildings suffer minor to major damages depending on the shaking level of GM. The available damage assessment methods are complex, tedious and time-consuming procedure. In the present study, a simplified empirical model h...

Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Verwendung von User Stories für die Beschreibung von Anforderungen aus Sicht des e-Learning im Kontext der Einführung eines integrierten Campusmanagementsystems. Die User Stories bilden die Grundlage für die Kommunikation zwischen den Akteuren des e-Learning und den technischen Entwicklern des Campusmanagementsystems.