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10042 Abstracts Collection – Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks
No full textFrom 24.01. to 29.01.2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10042 ``Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks '' was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
10042 Executive Summary – Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks
No full textThere has been significant progress in the number and capabilities of mobile devices, wireless sensors, and sensor networks. These developments, combined with the improved ability to bridge between the physical and cyber world in a more seamless way, have fostered the broad availability of sensor data capturing the state of the physical world. Promising and already successful examples are applications in environmental monitoring, agriculture, surveillance and intrusion detection, public security, and supply chain management. Furthermore, ideas towards a Web of sensors have been proposed, which is to be understood as a (large scale) network of spatially distributed sensors. In particular, terms like "Internet of Things", "Collaborating Objects" and "Ambient Intelligence" emphasize the trend towards a tighter
connection between the cyber space and the physical world
Love in the First Degree: Manfred, Byron, and Incest
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is freely available from the University of Colorado via the link in this recordNote that the text of the manuscript varies considerably from the final published versionThis essay suggests that Byron’s Manfred contains not an expression of Byron’s guilt about his incest with his half-sister Augusta Leigh, as previous critics have suggested, but rather considerable evidence of his lack of guilt. It argues that the play displays incest and torment, but in fact does not link the two, instead displaying Manfred’s love for Astarte as deeply felt without regrets. The essay then argues that one finds the same combination of deep love and lack of regret in Byron’s remarks about his relationship with his half-sister, as well as in the representations of incest in his other works. It suggests that this acceptance of incest links to Byron’s commitment to rational thinking and personal freedom, and it invites future criticism to explore this connection in more detail
Manfred Macmillan
No full textDecadence meets gothic in Manfred Macmillan (1907), a carefully constructed tale of doppelgangers, magical intrigue, and the rootless scion of a noble house. This annotated, first-ever English translation presents an early queer novel long unavailable except in the original Czech. Author Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (1871–1951) was a major cultural figure in his native Bohemia and cultivated ties with fellow artists from across Central Europe. In their extensive scholarly introduction, translator Carleton Bulkin and translation scholar Brian James Baer situate the novel within longer histories of gay literature, fascinations with the occult, and the cultural and linguistic politics of so-called peripheral European nations. They persuasively frame Karásek as a queer author and cultural disruptor in the fin de siècle Habsburg space.
Karasék rejected Czech translations of ancient Greek writers that bowdlerized gay themes, and he personally and vigorously defended Oscar Wilde in print, both on the grounds of artistic freedom and of private morality. He also published a cycle of homoerotic poems under the title Sodom, confiscated by the Austrian authorities but republished in 1905 and repeatedly afterward. A colonized subject, a literary decadent, and a sexual outlaw, Karasék’s complex responses to his own marginalization can be traced through his fantastically strange novel trilogy Three Magicians. As the first volume in that series, Manfred Macmillan is a gorgeous, compelling, and important addition to expanding canons of LGBTQI+ literature
Manfred Macmillan
No full textDecadence meets gothic in Manfred Macmillan (1907), a carefully constructed tale of doppelgangers, magical intrigue, and the rootless scion of a noble house. This annotated, first-ever English translation presents an early queer novel long unavailable except in the original Czech. Author Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (1871–1951) was a major cultural figure in his native Bohemia and cultivated ties with fellow artists from across Central Europe. In their extensive scholarly introduction, translator Carleton Bulkin and translation scholar Brian James Baer situate the novel within longer histories of gay literature, fascinations with the occult, and the cultural and linguistic politics of so-called peripheral European nations. They persuasively frame Karásek as a queer author and cultural disruptor in the fin de siècle Habsburg space.
Karasék rejected Czech translations of ancient Greek writers that bowdlerized gay themes, and he personally and vigorously defended Oscar Wilde in print, both on the grounds of artistic freedom and of private morality. He also published a cycle of homoerotic poems under the title Sodom, confiscated by the Austrian authorities but republished in 1905 and repeatedly afterward. A colonized subject, a literary decadent, and a sexual outlaw, Karasék’s complex responses to his own marginalization can be traced through his fantastically strange novel trilogy Three Magicians. As the first volume in that series, Manfred Macmillan is a gorgeous, compelling, and important addition to expanding canons of LGBTQI+ literature
Introducing the Recent development in input-output analysis
No full textThis is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Recent Development in Input-Output Analysis, edited by Erik Dietzenbacher, Michael L. Lahr, and Manfred Lenzen, published in 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786430816.
The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only
Czech topics in work of Manfred Böckl
No full textDiese Abschlussarbeit beschäftigt sich mit tschechischen Themen in Werken des bayerischen Schriftstellers Manfred Böckl. Am Anfang werden das Leben und die Schöpfung dieses Autors vorgestellt, danach folgt die Analyse von tschechischen Themen bei ausgewählten Titeln. Die Arbeit ergänzt das Interview mit Manfred Böckl.Tato práce se zabývá českými tématy v dílech bavorského spisovatele Manfreda Böckla. Na začátku je představen život a tvorba tohoto autora, poté následuje analýza českých témat u vybraných literárních titulů. Práci doplňuje rozhovor s Manfredem Böcklem.This thesis is about czech topics in writings of bavarian author Manfred Böckl. In the first part there is described his life and literary output. After thet there is analysis of czech topics in selected literary works. Thesis is filled in with interview with Böckl himself.Katedra cizích jazykůDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
A Native and Adaptive Approach for Linked Stream Data Processing
No full textSensors, mobile devices and social platforms generate an immense amount of stream data in various formats and schemata. For these areas, the idea of Linked Stream Data is to extend RDF data model to cope with the heterogeneity of data sources and to enable the data integration¿not only among themselves, but also with other existing sources. This would enable a vast range of new, near real-time applications. Such applications drive the demand for processing engines that support continuous queries over Linked Stream Data and Linked Data. These engines must not only support the necessary functionalities but also meet the typical low-latency response requirement of stream processing applications. Since unmodified data stream management systems (DSMSs) and triple storages do not provide full functionalities required by Linked Stream Data processing, the rewriting approach could be used to delegate the processing to those systems. However, this suffers from the overhead of data transformation and does not enable full control over the query execution process. The overhead might be prohibitively expensive for the low-latency response requirement and the lack of full control of the execution process restricts optimisations partially and locally in each underlying sub-system. Moreover, the graph-based model of RDF data poses many challenges to designing a physical storage and optimising the processing when mapped to a relation-based data model. Nevertheless, most techniques and algorithms of DSMSs assume stream data being represented in that way. Therefore, algorithms and techniques for DSMSs and triple stores need to be carefully re-engineered to build an efficient and scalable processing engine for Linked Stream Data and Linked Data. In this work, we present an adaptive and native execution framework for Linked Stream Data and Linked Data, called CQELS (Continuous Query Evaluation over Linked Streams). The framework introduces one of the first continuous query languages over Linked Stream Data and Linked Data which is compatible with SPARQL 1.1. The flexibility of our execution framework enables performance gains of several orders of magnitudes over other related systems. For dealing with large RDF datasets and high update throughput RDF streams, we propose an efficient hybrid physical data organisation using novel data structures that support algorithms for efficient incremental evaluation of continuous query operators over Linked Stream Data. The framework also provides several adaptive optimisation algorithms. To demonstrate the advantages of the framework and of the CQELS processing engine in terms of performance, the thesis provides extensive experimental evaluations. The evaluations cover a comprehensive set of parameters that dictate the performance of a continuous queries over Linked Stream Data and Linked Data
Demo: Visual Programming for the Semantic Desktop with Konduit
No full textIn this demo description, we present Konduit, a desktop-based platform for visual programming with RDF data. Based on the idea of the semantic desktop, non-technical users can create, manipulate and mash-up RDF data with Konduit, and thus generate simple applications or workflows, which are aimed to simplify their everyday work by automating repetitive tasks. The platform allows to combine data from both Web and desktop and integrate it with existing desktop functionality, thus bringing us closer to a convergence of Web and desktop.peer-reviewe
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