@inproceedings{KernDikta2009, author = {Kern, Alexander and Dikta, Gerhard}, title = {Probability of damage of electrical and electronic systems due to indirect lightning flashes - investigation of data from German insurance companies}, year = {2009}, abstract = {In the presented paper data collected from the field related to damage statistics of electrical and electronic apparatus in household are reported and investigated. These damages (total number approx. 74000 cases), registered by five German insurance companies in 2005 and 2006, were adviced by customers as caused by lightning overvoltages. With the use of stochastical methods it is possible, to reasses the collected data and to distinguish between cases, which are with high probability caused by lightning overvoltages, and those, which are not. If there was an indication for a direct strike, this case was excluded, so the focus was only on indirect lightning flashes, i.e. only flashes to ground near the structure and flashes to or nearby an incoming service line were investigated. The data from the field contain the location of damaged apparatus (residence of the policy holder) and the distances of the nearest cloud-to-ground stroke to the location of the damage registered by the German lightning location network BLIDS at the date of damage. The statistical data along with some complementary numerical simulations allow to verify the correspondence of the Standards rules used for IEC 62305-2 with the field data and to define some correction needs. The results could lead to a better understanding whether a damage reported to an insurance company is really caused by indirect lightning, or not.}, subject = {Blitzschutz}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{SchoeningAbdelghani2009, author = {Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef and Abdelghani, Adnane}, title = {Advancements in Nanotechnology and Microelectronics (ANM '09) <2009, Tunisia>: Proceedings book ; Tunisia, November, 13 \& 14, 2009 / Humboldt Kolleg. Ed. by Michael J. Sch{\"o}ning ; Adnane Abdelghani}, organization = {Humboldt-Kolleg Advancements in Nanotechnology and Microelectronics (ANM '09) <2009, Tunisia>}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-3113}, year = {2009}, abstract = {The ANM'09 multi-disciplinary scientific program includes topics in the fields of "Nanotechnology and Microelectronics" ranging from "Bio/Micro/Nano Materials and Interfacing" aspects, "Chemical and Bio-Sensors", "Magnetic and Superconducting Devices", "MEMS and Microfluidics" over "Theoretical Aspects, Methods and Modelling" up to the important bridging "Academics meet Industry".}, subject = {Nanopartikel}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KirchhofKraft2004, author = {Kirchhof, M. and Kraft, Bodo}, title = {UML-based modeling of architectural knowledge and design}, year = {2004}, abstract = {IASSE-2004 - 13th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering eds. W. Dosch, N. Debnath, pp. 245-250, ISCA, Cary, NC, 1-3 July 2004, Nice, France We introduce a UML-based model for conceptual design support in civil engineering. Therefore, we identify required extensions to standard UML. Class diagrams are used for elaborating building typespecific knowledge: Object diagrams, implicitly contained in the architect's sketch, are validated against the defined knowledge. To enable the use of industrial, domain-specific tools, we provide an integrated conceptual design extension. The developed tool support is based on graph rewriting. With our approach architects are enabled to deal with semantic objects during early design phase, assisted by incremental consistency checks.}, subject = {UML}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KraftSchneider2005, author = {Kraft, Bodo and Schneider, Gerd}, title = {Semantic Roomobjects for Conceptual Design Support : A Knowledge-based Approach}, isbn = {978-1-4020-3460-2}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In: Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005 2005, Part 4, 207-216, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3698-1_19 The conceptual design at the beginning of the building construction process is essential for the success of a building project. Even if some CAD tools allow elaborating conceptual sketches, they rather focus on the shape of the building elements and not on their functionality. We introduce semantic roomobjects and roomlinks, by way of example to the CAD tool ArchiCAD. These extensions provide a basis for specifying the organisation and functionality of a building and free architects being forced to directly produce detailed constructive sketches. Furthermore, we introduce consistency analyses of the conceptual sketch, based on an ontology containing conceptual relevant knowledge, specific to one class of buildings.}, subject = {CAD}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KraftWilhelms2005, author = {Kraft, Bodo and Wilhelms, Nils}, title = {Visual Knowledge Specification for Conceptual Design}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Proc. of the 2005 ASCE Intl. Conf. on Computing in Civil Engineering (ICCC 2005) eds. L. Soibelman und F. Pena-Mora, Seite 1-14, ASCE (CD-ROM), Cancun, Mexico, 2005 Current CAD tools are not able to support the fundamental conceptual design phase, and none of them provides consistency analyses of sketches produced by architects. To give architects a greater support at the conceptual design phase, we develop a CAD tool for conceptual design and a knowledge specification tool allowing the definition of conceptually relevant knowledge. The knowledge is specific to one class of buildings and can be reused. Based on a dynamic knowledge model, different types of design rules formalize the knowledge in a graph-based realization. An expressive visual language provides a user-friendly, human readable representation. Finally, consistency analyses enable conceptual designs to be checked against this defined knowledge. In this paper we concentrate on the knowledge specification part of our project.}, subject = {CAD}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KraftRetkowitz2005, author = {Kraft, Bodo and Retkowitz, Daniel}, title = {Operationale Semantikdefinition f{\"u}r konzeptuelles Regelwissen}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In: Forum Bauinformatik 2005 : junge Wissenschaftler forschen / [Lehrstuhl Bauinformatik, Brandenburgische Technische Universit{\"a}t Cottbus. Frank Schley ... (Hrsg.)]. - Cottbus : Techn. Universit{\"a}t 2005. S. 1-10 ISBN 3-934934-11-0 Mittels eines operationalen Ansatzes zur Semantikdefinition wird am Bei-spiel des konzeptuellen Geb{\"a}udeentwurfs ein Regelsystem formalisiert. Dazu werdenzwei Teile, zum einen das Regelwissen, zum anderen ein konzeptueller Entwurfsplan zun{\"a}chst informell eingef{\"u}hrt und dann formal beschrieben. Darauf aufbauend wird die Grundlage f{\"u}r eine Konsistenzpr{\"u}fung des konzeptuellen Entwurfs gegen das Regel-wissen formal angeben}, subject = {CAD}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{KraftRetkowitz2006, author = {Kraft, Bodo and Retkowitz, Daniel}, title = {Graph Transformations for Dynamic Knowledge Processing}, year = {2006}, abstract = {In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2006. HICSS '06 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.200 The conceptual design phase at the beginning of the building construction process is not adequately supported by any CAD-tool. Conceptual design support needs regarding two aspects: first, the architect must be able to develop conceptual sketches that provide abstraction from constructive details. Second, conceptually relevant knowledge should be available to check these conceptual sketches. The paper deals with knowledge to formalize for conceptual design. To enable domain experts formalizing knowledge, a graph-based specification is presented that allows the development of a domain ontology and design rules specific for one class of buildings at runtime. The provided tool support illustrates the introduced concepts and demonstrates the consistency analysis between knowledge and conceptual design.}, subject = {CAD}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{KraftRetkowitz2006, author = {Kraft, Bodo and Retkowitz, Daniel}, title = {Rule-Dependencies for Visual Knowledge Specification in Conceptual Design}, year = {2006}, abstract = {In: Proc. of the 11th Intl. Conf. on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-XI) ed. Hugues Rivard, Montreal, Canada, Seite 1-12, ACSE (CD-ROM), 2006 Currently, the conceptual design phase is not adequately supported by any CAD tool. Neither the support while elaborating conceptual sketches, nor the automatic proof of correctness with respect to effective restrictions is currently provided by any commercial tool. To enable domain experts to store the common as well as their personal domain knowledge, we develop a visual language for knowledge formalization. In this paper, a major extension to the already existing concepts is introduced. The possibility to define rule dependencies extends the expressiveness of the knowledge definition language and contributes to the usability of our approach.}, subject = {CAD}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{HeerRedkowitzKraft2008, author = {Heer, Thomas and Redkowitz, Daniel and Kraft, Bodo}, title = {Tool Support for the Integration of Light-Weight Ontologies}, isbn = {978-3-642-00670-8}, year = {2008}, abstract = {Abstract of the authors: In many areas of computer science ontologies become more and more important. The use of ontologies for domain modeling often brings up the issue of ontology integration. The task of merging several ontologies, covering specific subdomains, into one united ontology has to be solved. Many approaches for ontology integration aim at automating the process of ontology alignment. However, a complete automation is not feasible, and user interaction is always required. Nevertheless, most ontology integration tools offer only very limited support for the interactive part of the integration process. In this paper, we present a novel approach for the interactive integration of ontologies. The result of the ontology integration is incrementally updated after each definition of a correspondence between ontology elements. The user is guided through the ontologies to be integrated. By restricting the possible user actions, the integrity of all defined correspondences is ensured by the tool we developed. We evaluated our tool by integrating different regulations concerning building design.}, subject = {Ontologie }, language = {de} } @inproceedings{KraftMeyerNagl2002, author = {Kraft, Bodo and Meyer, Oliver and Nagl, Manfred}, title = {Graph technology support for conceptual design in civil engineering}, isbn = {3-18-318004-9}, year = {2002}, abstract = {In: Advances in intelligent computing in engineering : proceedings of the 9.International EG-ICE Workshop ; Darmstadt, (01 - 03 August) 2002 / Martina Schnellenbach-Held ... (eds.) . - D{\"u}sseldorf: VDI-Verl., 2002 .- Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, Reihe 4, Bauingenieurwesen ; 180 ; S. 1-35 The paper describes a novel way to support conceptual design in civil engineering. The designer uses semantical tools guaranteeing certain internal structures of the design result but also the fulfillment of various constraints. Two different approaches and corresponding tools are discussed: (a) Visually specified tools with automatic code generation to determine a design structure as well as fixing various constraints a design has to obey. These tools are also valuable for design knowledge specialist. (b) Extensions of existing CAD tools to provide semantical knowledge to be used by an architect. It is sketched how these different tools can be combined in the future. The main part of the paper discusses the concepts and realization of two prototypes following the two above approaches. The paper especially discusses that specific graphs and the specification of their structure are useful for both tool realization projects.}, subject = {CAD}, language = {en} }