Thomas Hildebrandt – författare

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019. The 23 full and 4 tutorial short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: foundations; engineering; and management.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held during the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, which took place in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference.The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 115 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: specification; execution; analytics; and management.

This volume contains the refereed joint proceedings of two initiatives that have been devoted to the formal foundations of complex systems: the workshops WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 and WS-FM/BEAT 2015. The 11th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods: Formal Aspects of Services-Oriented and Cloud Computing, WS-FM 2014, took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in September 2014. The 12th International Workshop on Web Services, Formal Methods, and Behavioral Types, WS-FM 2015, took place in Madrid, Spain, in September 2015. The total of 8 papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: expressiveness of behavioral models; service-oriented systems, and behavioral types.

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Physics - Optics, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover (Hannoversches Zentrum fur optische Technologien), language: English, abstract: In this thesis, an existing non-contact dermatoscope will be further developed on the basis of knowledge and experience, and established as a new prototype for dermatoscopy at the Hannover Institute of Optical Technologies (HOT).In this system, the light generated by a white LED is collimated and polarized by a lens system, and generates a homogeneous light spot at a distance of 60cm. By cross polarization, the light reflected directly onto the skin surface can be suppressed, so that only light reflected in deeper skin layers can pass through the analyzer, and contributes to the image information. Due to the difficult handling of the original device, the further developed (advanced) system was compactified and automated, taking into account the basic principle of non-contact dermatoscopy. The illumination unit used in the original non-contact dermatoscope was replaced with a newly constructed reflector in order to improve the brightness, and the homogeneity of the light spot in the target area. These two reflectors were measured with a near field goniophotometer to characterize the illuminance distribution. The conducted tests included the definition of an ideal setup of the lens system, both in practice, and in optical systems simulations by using Zemax. It could be shown that the reflectors improve the illuminance, and generates a homogeneous light spot in the target area, which homogeneously illuminates the image area of the camera. Furthermore, this system has been completely automated by providing automatic focus as well as adjustment of one of the polarizers (analyzer) used. For this purpose, a automatic focus lens was integrated on the existing objective and a mid range infrared distance sensor was installed into the system. By various tests, such as the determination of the resolution with the modulation transfer function, the new camera system was characterized. Based on this tests, the highest possible resolution was determined and the work area could be defined. In this work area structures of 30 ?m can be resolved sharply. In addition to the automation of the focus, a stepper motor has been installed to control the analyzer. A program was written in LabVIEW, which controls all components, automates the image acquisition, and provides the possibility of image processing (blood contrast enhancement). Subsequently, the entire system has been mounted on a variably adjustable swivel arm, in order to improve the handling for the dermatologist.

This book examines the modern Arab rediscovery of the Muʿtazila through a critical assessment of the concept of "Neo-Muʿtazilism" and by concentrating on the various intentions and contexts of the use of Muʿtazilite ideas.The main part of the book analyzes five ways of understanding Mu'tazilite ideas — liberal, historic-materialist, political-Islamic, literary-exegetical and through comparison with the philosophie des valeurs — as well as one way of dealing with the school historically: the treatment of the miḥna.The book discusses a wide range of authors of whom many, such as Aḥmad Amīn, Ḥusain Murūwa, Ḥasan Ḥanafī, Muḥammad ʿAmāra, Naṣr Abū Zaid und Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Ğābirī, have had an important impact on modern Arab-Islamic thought. By also presenting authors such as Zuhdī Ğārallāh, Chikh Bouamrane, Rašīd al-Ḫayyūn, Amīn Nāyif Ḏiyāb, Samīḥ Duġaim, ʿĀdil al-ʿAwwā und Fahmī Ğadʿān, additional light is shed on a number of lesser known figures.