The goal of this work is to classify the focus of attention of a subject who is switching his or her attention between a number of surrounding objects. The speci c application is to classify the focus of attention of a car driver as straight-ahead, towards the rear-view mirror, towards the dashboard etc. An explicit quantitative approach to this problem requires (a) a priori information about t...

Cobus ist ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen der Debeka Versicherungs-gruppe und der Universität Koblenz-Landau. Ziel des Projekts ist die Sicherstellung der Wartbarkeit und der Zukunftsfähigkeit des COBOL-Kernsystems der Debeka. In drei Arbeitsbereichen werden die interne Qualität von COBOL-Modulen erhoben, die Architektur redokumentiert, sowie daraus abgeleitete Sanierungsmaßnahmen ermit-telt. ...

Business Intelligence (BI) is a set of techniques that help improve business decision making. From a technical point of view, BI relies on a set of tools which includes performance dashboards: layered services that combine monitoring, analysis, and reporting. However, most dashboard solutions today are based on data warehouses which face a problem of data staleness—a circumstance caused by the ...

With the advancement in information technologies, complex and multidimensional data are generated at an unprecedented rate. The public health sector is challenged with complex and dynamic health data that are produced and housed in health information systems. These data impose a challenge on data analysts and decision makers to understand and make informed decisions about ‘wicked’ health proble...

BACKGROUND Decision analysis in hospital-based settings is becoming more common place. The application of modeling and simulation approaches has likewise become more prevalent in order to support decision analytics. With respect to clinical decision making at the level of the patient, modeling and simulation approaches have been used to study and forecast treatment options, examine and rate car...

Internet hosting is pivotal for reliable access to internet resources. Yet, little research has been done on what threatens a hosting service’s reliability. Our analysis of reliability threatening incidents results in four causes of unreliability: the service’s technical architecture, service employees’ motivations, their knowledge, and their behavioral repertoires when responding to incidents....

With the increasing interconnection of computer networks and sophistication of cyber attacks, it is important to understand the dynamics of such situations, especially in regards to cyber international relations. The Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR) Data Dashboard Project is an initiative to gather worldwide cybersecurity data publicly provided by nation-level Computer Emerg...

Material selection is an important process in the product development. To avoid inappropriate decision of materials, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) can be one of the useful tools for determining the most suitable material for automotive dashboard panel. In this project, database of material properties of natural fiber composites has been organized systematically. The material properties of na...

Sports news are a special case in the field of news recommendations as readers often come with a strong emotional attachment to selected sports, teams or players. Furthermore, the interest in a topic can suddenly change if, for example, an important sports event is taking place. In this work, we present a hybrid sports news recommender system that combines content-based recommendations with col...

This paper presents UIDLC Manager, a software that provides user interface designers and developers with methodological guidance throughout user interface development life cycle. A methodologist firstly creates a dashboard model of the life cycle according to a corresponding meta-model in order to define a development path, decomposed into development tasks which structure the path into actions...