TY - CHAP A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Gellert, Christoph A1 - Reindl, Lukas T1 - Capacity design of masonry buildings under cyclic loading T2 - Seismic Risk : Earthquakes in North-Western Europe ; international colloquium ; Liège on 11 and 12 September 2008 / Belgian Seismic Group (BeSeiG). Ed.: T. Camlebeeck ... Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-2-87456-063-7 SP - 201 EP - 208 PB - Editions de l'Université de Liège CY - Liège ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Christen, Marc A1 - Bartelt, Perry A1 - Kowalski, Julia A1 - Stoffel, Lukus T1 - Calculation of dense snow avalanches in three-dimensional terrain with the numerical simulation programm RAMMS T2 - Proceedings ISSW 2008 ; International Snow Science Workshop. Whistler 2008 N2 - Numerical models have become an essential part of snow avalanche engineering. Recent advances in understanding the rheology of flowing snow and the mechanics of entrainment and deposition have made numerical models more reliable. Coupled with field observations and historical records, they are especially helpful in understanding avalanche flow in complex terrain. However, the application of numerical models poses several new challenges to avalanche engineers. A detailed understanding of the avalanche phenomena is required to specify initial conditions (release zone dimensions and snowcover entrainment rates) as well as the friction parameters, which are no longer based on empirical back-calculations, rather terrain roughness, vegetation and snow properties. In this paper we discuss these problems by presenting the computer model RAMMS, which was specially designed by the SLF as a practical tool for avalanche engineers. RAMMS solves the depth-averaged equations governing avalanche flow with first and second-order numerical solution schemes. A tremendous effort has been invested in the implementation of advanced input and output features. Simulation results are therefore clearly and easily visualized to simplify their interpretation. More importantly, RAMMS has been applied to a series of well-documented avalanches to gauge model performance. In this paper we present the governing differential equations, highlight some of the input and output features of RAMMS and then discuss the simulation of the Gatschiefer avalanche that occurred in April 2008, near Klosters/Monbiel, Switzerland. KW - snow KW - avalanche Y1 - 2008 SP - 709 EP - 716 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Döring, Bernd A1 - Feldmann, Markus A1 - Kuhnhenne, Markus A1 - Hellberg, Jan T1 - Implementing a thermal activation system into a light-weight steel deck element T2 - Eurosteel 2008 : 5th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures ; research, practice, new materials ; 3rd to 5th September 2008, Graz, Austria / ed. by Robert Ofner ... Y1 - 2008 SN - 92-0147-000-90 SP - 941 EP - 946 PB - ECCS, European Convention for Construction Steelwork CY - Brussels ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ellerweg, Roland A1 - Ritz, Thomas ED - Roth, Jörg T1 - Tool supported requirements analysis for the user centered development of mobile enterprise software T2 - Proceeding of Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 and Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 : MCCSIS '08 ; IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems ; 22 - 24 July 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands N2 - A user centered development method has proved satisfactory for the development of mobile enterprise software. To make use of this method, detailed information about the user and the place where the user interacts with his mobile device is required. This article describes how both can be modeled by a stereotypical and conceptual extended UML extension. Finally, a software tool is presented that supports the developed UML extension. Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-972-8924-62-1 SP - 160 EP - 162 PB - IADIS Press CY - [Lisboa] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fleisch, Elgar A1 - Fuchs, Sascha A1 - Gottschalk, Sebastian Friedrich A1 - Güthenke, Gunnar A1 - Höhne, Tim A1 - Jacobs, Georg A1 - Junker, F. A1 - Millarg, K. A1 - Narr, Claus A1 - Nyhuis, Peter A1 - Schuh, Günther ED - Brecher, Christian T1 - High resolution production management : Auftragsplanung und Steuerung in der individualisierten Produktion T2 - Wettbewerbsfaktor Produktionstechnik : Aachener Perspektiven ; [Tagungsband ; AWK, Aachener Werkzeugmaschinen-Kolloquium '08, 5. bis 6. Juni] Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-940565-04-4 N1 - DVS-Berichte ; 252 SP - 451 EP - 471 PB - Apprimus Verl. CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus T1 - Die Liberalisierung des deutschen Telekommunikationsmarktes: Vorbild für andere Sektoren? : Vortrag am Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik der Universität zu Köln, 3. November 2008, Köln N2 - Regulierung des deutschen Telekommunikationsmarktes Wettbewerb auf dem deutschen Telekommunikationsmarkt KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus T1 - Time for revision: The regulation of Germany's next generation networks in the light of new economic and technological challenges on telecom markets : Presentation for the 18th Biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society, June 24–27, 2008 Montreal, Canada N2 - On 1st January 1998, the German telecom market was fully liberalised. Since then genuine competition between market participants has developed, based on a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework that provides for safeguards against unfair competition and market power by Deutsche Telekom. Today, about 10 years after the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector a revision of this regulatory approach has become necessary because at least on three dimensions the situation is quite different from the one 10 years ago: First, with numerous established alternative operators in the market monopolies have been successfully challenged and competition introduced. Second, not only is Cable TV becoming in large parts of Germany a viable alternative for the provision of broadband services but also mobile services are becoming increasingly a substitute for fixed services. Last but not least there are important technological changes under way, requiring huge investments in infrastructure upgrades for next generation networks. In the light of these new developments the question is to which extent the current regulatory approach of severe ex-ante regulatory intervention is still appropriate. Is any part of the network of the former incumbent still a bottleneck? A more light handed regulatory approach might be the right response to this new situation. The paper is organised as follows: The first section will briefly examine the economic rationale for regulating network access. Based on the assumption that regulation is always necessary when bottlenecks exist regulatory principles for an efficient network access regime will be derived. The second section compares the situation of the German market in early 1998 with the one of today. Thereby three dimensions will be considered: the degree of competition, the potential for substitution and technological developments. The third section will define some requirements for the future regulation of telecom markets. Proposals will be elaborated how to ensure competitive telecom markets in the light of new economic and technological challenges. KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus T1 - Die globale Finanzkrise: Ursachen und Bewältigung : Vortrag an der Georg-Simon-Ohm-Schule Köln, 2. Dezember 2008, Köln N2 - - Wie kam es zu der globalen Finanzkrise? - Wodurch zeichnet sich die Finanzkrise aus? - Wer hat die Finanzkrise verschuldet? - Welche Rolle spielten Spekulanten? - Inwiefern ist die Finanzkrise selbstverschuldet? - Ist die Globalisierung Schuld an den Finanzkrisen in zahlreichen Regionen dieser Welt? - Wie wirkt sich die Finanzkrise auf die Realwirtschaft aus? - Welche Wege bieten sich, aus der Krise herauszukommen? KW - Finanzkrise KW - Finanzkrise Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus A1 - Haunert, Martina T1 - Assessing the effectiveness of price cap regimes for the regulation of fixed telephony markets: has it been successful in achieving competition? : preliminary draft / by Markus Fredebeul-Krein and Martina Haunert. 19th European Regional ITS Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, September 17–19, 2008 Rome, Italy N2 - 1. Introduction 2. Tariff regulation, rebalancing and price caps 3. Price cap regimes in selected European countries 4. Has price cap regulation been successful? 5. Regulatory implications for other countries KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gellert, Christoph A1 - Norda, Hannah A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Nonlinear behaviour of masonry under cyclic loading T2 - 7th European Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2008 : 7-9 July 2008, Southampton Y1 - 2008 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER -