This paper aims to find the origin of the Afrikaans pronunciation with the use of dialectometry. First, Afrikaans was compared to Standard Dutch, Standard Frisian and Standard German. Pronunciation distances were measured by means of Levenshtein distances. Afrikaans was found to be closest to Standard Dutch. Second, the Afrikaans pronunciation was compared to 361 Dutch dialect varieties in the ...

This paper provides an analysis of individual and social decision criteria for alternatives that are composed of several attributes. We derive additive and multiplicative criteria for individual decision-making with new axioms and apply these criteria to obtain new justifications of known social choice rules with a bargaining interpretation, namely, the generalized utilitarian and Nash social c...

Motivation der behandelten Fragestellung Digitalisierung und sich daraus bildende Innovationen beeinflussen unser aller Leben im privaten wie auch im beruflichen Umfeld. Eine zentrale Herausforderung ist die Gestaltung digitaler Innovationen gemeinsam mit einer breiten Zielgruppe, die die entwickelten Lösungen in ihren Alltag integrieren soll. Wie mit dieser Herausforderung umgegangen werden ka...