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Specification Mining describes the process of creating a specification from a (probably unknown) program using sample executions. Most of the current specification miners are deterministic. This thesis aims to create a probabilistic specification miner. Therefor, a specification miner with three different probabililistic approaches has been implemented and added to the LearnLib-Framework. The i...

Dealing with classification problems in practice often has to cope with uncertain information, either in the training or in the operation phase or both. Modeling these uncertainties allows to enhance the robustness or performance of the classifier. In this paper we focus on the operation phase and present a general, but simple extension to rule based fuzzy classifier to do so. Therefor uncertai...

ONE of the most difficult therapeutic problems for the ophthalmologist at the present time is that of headaches associated with eye strain. The majority of these are associated with heterophoria and standard therapy has been disappointing. The initial response to drugs, e.g. atropine, and cholinesterase inhibition, has not been impressive and relapse after a while has been the rule. Costenbader...

The MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) framework provides a common set of data to evaluate and compare a vast variety of MIR systems. This paper describes our submission to the audio melody extraction evaluation addressing the task of identifying the melody pitch contour from polyphonic musical audio. It shall give an overview about the used methods and a discussion of the ...

Printed circuit board layout inspection methods are mostly based on local geometric information, therefor they are well suited to the CNN paradigm. Here the detection of two layout errors is considered namely, the breaks in the wires and some kind of short circuits. The designed analogic algorithms to solve the problems above were tested on real life examples using an experimental system based ...

The rising number of mobile devices increase the interest in longer battery durations. To increase battery duration, researchers try to improve e.g. different hardware components, such as processors and GPS for lower energy consumption. Frequently, software optimization possibilities to save energy are forgotten. Hence, an approach is shown to reduce energy consumption of applications by reengi...

Web Services-based business processes spread over the boundaries of companies, requiring the integration of customers, suppliers and partners to achieve inter-organizational business goals. According to organizational rules temporal constraints, like deadlines, must be defined for processes. Violation of these constraints usually results in increased cost and reduced quality of service. Advance...

We consider the problem of fitting B-spline curves and surfaces to point clouds on taking real world obstacles into account at the same time. Therefor, we describe the fitting problem as optimization problem and employ an iterative procedure to solve it. The presence of obstacles poses constraints on this minimization process. We examine two families of obstacles: first, the point cloud itself ...

The complexity of image processing tasks has risen during the last years. To counteract this trend, we introduce the novel Domain Specific Language GU-DSL allowing to shorten the time-to-market and improving the development process. Therefor we use some base concepts of Java and C#, adopting the idea of encapsulating classes and flowmodels using diagrams as e.g. done by UML, but in a textual fo...