TY - JOUR A1 - Booysen, Tracy A1 - Rieger, Michael A1 - Ferrein, Alexander T1 - Towards inexpensive robots for science & technology teaching and education in Africa Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-61284-992-8 N1 - AFRICON, 2011 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Conrad, M. A1 - van Hoek, H. A1 - De Doncker, R. W. T1 - The integrated emitter turn-off thyristor (IETO) : an innovative thyristor-based high power semiconductor device using MOS assisted turn-off JF - IEEE transactions on industry applications Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2011.2161432 SN - 0093-9994 VL - 47 IS - 5 SP - 2175 EP - 2182 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Gottschlich, J. A1 - De Doncker, R. W. T1 - Design and realization of a credit card size driver stage for high power thyristor based devices with integrated MOS structure T2 - 2011 IEEE 8th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE & ECCE 2011) : Jeju, South Korea, 30 May 2011 - 3 June 2011 / [co-sponsored by the Korean Institute of Power Electronics ...] Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-61284-958-4 (Print) SN - 978-1-61284-956-0 (Online) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944661 SP - 1182 EP - 1189 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, NJ ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Ronge, C. A1 - De Doncker, R. W. T1 - Sandwich design of high-power thyristor based devices with integrated MOSFET structure T2 - Proceedings of the 2011 - 14th - European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE 2011) : Aug. 30, 2011 - Sept. 1, 2011, Birmingham, United Kingdom Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-61284-167-0 (Print) SN - 978-90-75815-15-3 (Online) PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, NJ ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Czarnecki, Christian A1 - Winkelmann, Axel A1 - Spiliopoulou, Myra ED - Pokorny, Jaroslav ED - Repa, Vaclav ED - Richta, Karel ED - Wojtkowski, Wita ED - Linger, Henry ED - Barry, Chris ED - Lang, Michael T1 - Making business systems in the telecommunication industry more customer-oriented T2 - Information Systems Development : Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development N2 - Market changes have forced telecommunication companies to transform their business. Increased competition, short innovation cycles, changed usage patterns, increased customer expectations and cost reduction are the main drivers. Our objective is to analyze to what extend transformation projects have improved the orientation towards the end-customers. Therefore, we selected 38 real-life case studies that are dealing with customer orientation. Our analysis is based on a telecommunication-specific framework that aligns strategy, business processes and information systems. The result of our analysis shows the following: transformation projects that aim to improve the customer orientation are combined with clear goals on costs and revenue of the enterprise. These projects are usually directly linked to the customer touch points, but also to the development and provisioning of products. Furthermore, the analysis shows that customer orientation is not the sole trigger for transformation. There is no one-fits-all solution; rather, improved customer orientation needs aligned changes of business processes as well as information systems related to different parts of the company. KW - Business Process KW - Customer Orientation KW - Enterprise Architecture KW - Transformation Project KW - Telecommunication Industry Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-4419-9645-9 (Print) SN - 978-1-4419-9790-6 (Online) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9790-6_14 N1 - 19th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in Prague, Czech Republic, August 25 - 27, 2010. SP - 169 EP - 180 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Damm, Sebastian A1 - Ritz, Thomas A1 - Strauch, Jakob T1 - Adaption of archetype patterns for mobile cloud-based business apps T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications workshops (PerCom workshops 2011) : Seattle, Washington, USA, 21 - 25 March 2011 Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-61284-938-6 (Print) SN - 978-1-61284-936-2 (E-Book) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766849 SP - 100 EP - 105 PB - IEEE Service Center CY - Piscataway, NJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deserno, Thomas M. A1 - Aach, Til A1 - Amunts, Katrin A1 - Hillen, Walter A1 - Kuhlen, Torsten A1 - Scholl, Ingrid T1 - Advances in medical image processing : A special Issue on the Workshop in Aachen, Germany, March 2010 JF - Computer Science - Research and Development. 26 (2011), H. 1-2 Y1 - 2011 SN - 1865-2042 SP - 1 EP - 3 PB - springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - El Quardi, A. A1 - Streckert, J. A1 - Bitz, Andreas A1 - Münkner, S. A1 - Engel, J. A1 - Hansen, V. T1 - New fin-line devices for radiofrequency exposure of small biological samples in vitro allowing whole-cell patch clamp recordings JF - Bioelectromagnetics N2 - The development and analysis of three waveguides for the exposure of small biological in vitro samples to mobile communication signals at 900 MHz (GSM, Global System for Mobile Communications), 1.8 GHz (GSM), and 2 GHz (UMTS, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) is presented. The waveguides were based on a fin-line concept and the chamber containing the samples bathed in extracellular solution was placed onto two fins with a slot in between, where the exposure field concentrates. Measures were taken to allow for patch clamp recordings during radiofrequency (RF) exposure. The necessary power for the achievement of the maximum desired specific absorption rate (SAR) of 20 W/kg (average over the mass of the solution) was approximately Pin = 50 mW, Pin = 19 mW, and Pin = 18 mW for the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, and 2 GHz devices, respectively. At 20 W/kg, a slight RF-induced temperature elevation in the solution of no more than 0.3 °C was detected, while no thermal offsets due to the electromagnetic exposure could be detected at the lower SAR settings (2, 0.2, and 0.02 W/kg). A deviation of 10% from the intended solution volume yielded a calculated SAR deviation of 8% from the desired value. A maximum ±10% variation in the local SAR could occur when the position of the patch clamp electrode was altered within the area where the cells to be investigated were located. Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bem.20621 SN - 1521-186X VL - 32 IS - 2 SP - 102 EP - 112 PB - Wiley CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Engels, Elmar A1 - Krauskopf, S. T1 - Innovation in Motion-Logic programming - a versatile interface JF - Proceedings to the 12th International Workshop on Research and Education in Mechatronics, REM 2011, Kocaeli, Turkey, 15.09.-16.09.2011 Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-975-8047-96-3 PB - - ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Marais, Stephen A1 - Potgieter, Anet A1 - Steinbauer, Gerald T1 - RoboCup Junior: A vehicle for S&T education in Africa? Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-61284-992-8 N1 - AFRICON, 2011 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER -