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Christoph Hohenwarter
Simulation des zeitlichen Störungsverhaltens vollvermaschter Netzwerke am
Beispiel kritischer Infrastrukturen
Studium: Masterstudium Software Engineering & Internet Computing
BetreuerIn: Privatdoz. Dr. Karl Michael Göschka
The assignment of this diploma thesis was the observation of the characteristics
of infrastructure due a disruption by using a computer model. This
leaded to the designing of a simulation model, the calculation and presentation
of simulation results regarding a graph representing an infrastructure
network. Therefore the time-dependent behavior after the occurrence of a
disruption is observed. The examined infrastructure network can be an electric
supply network, a water supply network or any other kind of infrastructure
network. This diploma thesis observes the simulated behavior of the infrastructure
of an Austrian military base after a theoretical incident. The used data
in this thesis was delivered by the Austrian Armed Forces. The relationships
between the infrastructure elements are modeled using one-dimensional input
and output values as there is not made any distinction between the different
performance aspects of each infrastructure element. For the model development
a directed graph is used. The links are defined by functions. Also the
used data for this thesis are analyzed and the way of collecting this data is
discussed in a critical manner. The major results of this scientific work are the
performance charts of the simulated infrastructure of the observed military
base during a dysfunction at which assumptions are made of a general nature
and those results are interpreted.
Eduard Rudolf Margulies
Location Detection in Smart Home Environments with the Oracle Sun SPOT
Technology
Studium: Masterstudium Medieninformatik
BetreuerIn: Univ.Prof. Dr. Schahram Dustdar
The term smart-home has become very popular over the last years, gaining a
great deal of importance in technological fields of research, especially in the
field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). AAL represents an important branch of
the Human Computer Interaction (HCI). For disabled persons the smart-home
can offer increased support and an overall better experience in everyday life.
Further, non-disabled persons could also benefit from the smart-home
experience with many supportive functions for day to day living. Location plays
an integral role in smart-home environments, thus many functions and actions
depend on the users current location in the home. For outdoor environments
robust solutions like the American GPS for navigation systems, aGPS, or the
European Galileo already exist. For indoor-environments such as smart-homes,
only a few useable technologies are available. With this master thesis, we are
interested in research on an easy-to-setup and fairly inexpensive approach for
location determination systems. For that reason we use an embedded device
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