Intelligent technical systems, which combine mechanical, electrical and software engineering with methods from control engineering and advanced mathematics, go far beyond the state of the art in mechatronics and open up fascinating perspectives. Among these systems are so-called self-optimizing systems, which are able to adapt their behavior autonomously and flexibly to changing operating conditions. The Collaborative Research Center 614 "Self-optimizing concepts and structures in mechanical engineering" pursued the long-term aim to enable others to develop dependable self-optimizing systems. Assuring their dependability poses new challenges. However, self-optimization also offers the possibility to adapt the system's behavior to improve dependability during operation.

The aim of this book is to provide methods and techniques to master the challenges and to exploit the possibilities given by self-optimization. The reader will be able to develop self-optimizing systems that fulfill and surpass today s dependability requirements easily.

This book is directed to researchers and practitioners alike. It gives a brief introduction to the holistic development approach for self-optimizing mechatronic systems and the steps required to assure a dependable product design starting with the very early conceptual design phase. A guideline to select suitable methods for each step and the methods themselves are included. Each method is individually introduced, many examples and full references are given.

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Intelligent technical systems, which combine mechanical, electrical and software engineering with control engineering and advanced mathematics, go far beyond the state of the art in mechatronics and open up fascinating perspectives. Among these systems are so-called self-optimizing systems, which are able to adapt their behavior autonomously and flexibly to changing operating conditions. Self-optimizing systems create high value for example in terms of energy and resource efficiency as well as reliability.

The Collaborative Research Center 614 "Self-optimizing Concepts and Structures in Mechanical Engineering" pursued the long-term aim to open up the active paradigm of self-optimization for mechanical engineering and to enable others to develop self-optimizing systems.

This book is directed to researchers and practitioners alike. It provides a design methodology for the development of self-optimizing systems consisting of a reference process, methods, and tools. The reference process is divided into two phases the domain-spanning conceptual design and the domain-specific design and development. For the conceptual design a holistic approach is provided. Domain-specific methods and tools developed especially for the design and development of self-optimizing systems are described and illustrated by application examples. This book will enable the reader to identify the potential for self-optimization and to develop self-optimizing systems independently."

This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However, the concept of habitus and Bourdieu's approach to language are somewhat disputed while his relationist epistemology is seldom paid tribute to. The present volume therefore in its first part deals with Bourdieu's roots in relationist Neo-Kantian philosophy, the basic traits of his relationist sociology. The second part examines Bourdieu's theoretical and empirical work on language before elaborating its own praxeological concept of language use that opens the road to a methodically and theoretically sound reconstruction of the habitus of social actors. In the second volume of HabitusAnalysis we will carefully re-read Bourdieu's theory in order to develop a disposition-based theory of the habitus that emphasizes the creative potential of the linkage between mental orientations and socio-structural processes, classification and classes, as well as dispositions and positions. The method presented in the third volume will facilitate a detailed empirical analysis of the creative transformations operated by the habitus in relation with the social structures of domination and the dynamics of social differentiation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th European Software Engineering Conference, ESEC '95, held in Sitges near Barcelona, Spain, in September 1995.
The ESEC conferences are the premier European platform for the discussion of academic research and industrial use of software engineering technology. The 29 revised full papers were carefully selected from more than 150 submissions and address all current aspects of relevance. Among the topics covered are business process (re-)engineering, real-time, software metrics, concurrency, version and configuration management, formal methods, design process, program analysis, software quality, and object-oriented software development.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on Software Process Technology, EWSPT '95, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands in April 1995.
The book contains 28 revised full research papers selected from a total of 50 submissions; in addition, the session chairpersons contributed 7 short surveys on the topics treated. Among the issues addressed are analysis and metrics, application experiments, language experiments, models for distributions, mechanisms for cooperation, and change and meta-processes. This book documents that software process technology has become a key technology to cope with the challenges of team-oriented production of large and high-quality software systems.

Starting from the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, Schafer composes a methodical approach to habitus of social actors and the logic of their praxis: Building upon the generative terms of praxeology, he focuses on identity and strategy in processes of internalization, their transformation by means of dispositional schemes, and their externalization in action. The emphasis lies on a theory of dispositions that allows a flexible understanding of identity and strategy formation in the context of social experience and the interplay with social structures. This theory is developed over the course of a three-step analysis on habitus as a network of dispositions, on the dynamics that unfold between the logic of socio-structural processes and practical logic, and on the praxeological assessment of social structures via models of fields and the social space.This book is the second of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis. While the first volume deals with the epistemological underpinnings of praxeology, this book advances Bourdieu's theory with a special focus on creativity of action in the context of social structures, thereby preparing the methodological design of empirical models in the third volume.

Identitat kann nach Heinrich Wilhelm Schafer als Netzwerk von Dispositionen des Wahrnehmens, Urteilens und Handelns begriffen werden. So lassen sich kollektive Akteure wie religioese, ethnische oder politische Bewegungen in ihren sozialen Entstehungs- und Operationskontexten neuartig beschreiben. Bourdieus Soziologie weiterfuhrend, kann das Zusammenspiel von kognitiven, affektiven und leiblichen Dispositionen mit den Dynamiken gesellschaftlicher Differenz und Konfliktivitat als menschliche Praxis erfasst werden. Akteure kommen somit uber subjektive Einstellungen und gesellschaftliche Positionierung, Reproduktivitat und Kreativitat des Handelns, UEbereinstimmungen und Differenzen in den Blick. Kollektive Mobilisierung individueller Identitaten wird ebenso plausibel wie der Zusammenhang zwischen dispositionaler Orientierung und strategischem Kalkul. Schafer entwickelt aus der empirischen Untersuchung religioeser Bewegungen in einem Counter-Insurgency-Krieg eine methodisch operationalisierte Theorie der Identitat, die unmittelbar anschlussfahig ist an die bei Springer erschienene praxeologische Epistemologie und Methodologie der HabitusAnalysis.

Technologische Entwicklungen in der Informatik haben heute weitreichende Auswirkungen nicht nur auf den privaten Alltag, sondern vor allem auch auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung. Dieser umfassenden Bedeutung will die 29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fiir Informatik unter dem Motto, Informatik iiberwindet Grenzen" gerecht werden. In eingeladenen Vortragen und Podiumsdiskussionen, in rezensierten technischen Beitragen und in Prasentationen ausgewahlter aktueller Promotionsvorhaben werden deshalb sowohl technische Neuerungen als auch die sich verandernden gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen vorgestellt. Hauptthema der Tagung sind der elektronische Handel und das damit eng verbundene Thema der Sicherheit, z. B. im elektronischen Zahlungsverkehr. Wir freuen uns, zu diesen Themen herausragende eingeladene Sprecher aus Industrie und Wissenschaft gewonnen zu haben. Einen Hauptvortrag halten: Dr. K. Eierhoff (Bertelsmann AG, Giitersloh), Prof. Dr. H. Maurer (TU Graz, bsterreich), E. Koller (IBM Deutschland, Stuttgart), J. Frischmuth (Siemens Business Services, Miinchen), Prof. Dr. U. Maurer (ETH Zurich, Schweiz). Die Zusammenfassungen ihrer Vortrage finden sich in diesem Band. Die relativ junge Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Informatik und die damit verbundene Frage der mangelnden Qualitat der (Software-)Produkte in der IT -Branche sind das Thema des ersten Nachmittags. Die eingeladenen Sprecher sind Prof. Dr. W. . Aspray (CRA, Washington D.C., USA) und Prof. Dr. R. Vollmar (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH)). Ander anschlieBenden Podiumsdiskussion nehmen teil: Prof. Dr. W. Aspray, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. F.L. Bauer (TU Miinchen), Dr. K. Beiersdorfer (Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn), Prof. Dr. R. Keil-Slawik (Universitat Paderborn), Prof. Dr. P. Lockemann (Universitat Karlsruhe (TH)), Prof. Dr. R."

Dieses Buch wendet sich sowohl an InfOImatiker in der Praxis als auch an Dozenten und Studenten der Informatik an Universitaten, die an einem umfassenden und detaillierten Einblick in das Themengebiet der Programmentwicklungsumgebungen bzw. Softwareentwicklungsumgebungen interessiert sind. Dieses Forschungsthema hat gerade in den letzten 10 Jahren eine theoretische Fundierung und auch praktische Relevanz erlangt. Auf immer mehr Messen und in immer grosseren Anzeigen wird fur Softwarewerkzeuge, die die Produktivitat der Entwickler um das n-fache steigern sollen, geworben. Im Forschungssektor ist eine Vielzahl von Veroffentlichungen uber "Umgebungen" auf einschlagigen, insbesondere Software-Engineering Konferenzen zu beobachten, was letztlich sogar zur Grundung einer eigenen internationalen Konferenzreihe fuhrte, dem Symposium uber "Practical Software Development Environments," das bisher in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Palo Alto (Kalifornien) und Boston (Mas sachusetts) stattfand. Das Buch ist entstanden auf der Grundlage der Dissertationen der beiden Autoren sowie mehrerer Spezialvorlesungen, die beide Autoren an den Universitaten Braunschweig, Dortmund und McGill (Mont real) in den letzten Jahren gehalten haben. Beide Autoren beschaftigen sich seit Anfang der 80er Jahre insbesondere im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes IPSEN (Integrated Programming Support Environ ment) intensiv mit diesem Themengebiet. Programmentwicklungsumgebungen stellen einen integrierten Satz von Software-Werkzeugen bereit, die einen Programmierer bei der Entwicklung eines Programms unterstutzen. Hierzu gehoren z.B."

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