The Europaische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-techni scher Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH (european academy) is con cerned with the scientific study of the consequences of scientific and technological advance for the individual and social life and for the natural environment. The main focus is to examine foreseeable mid-and long-term processes that are especially influenced by natural-and engineering sciences and the medical disciplines. The academy fulfills this task by organizing interdisciplinary expert discussions. Another important issue of the work of...

Der Einsatz mobiler Computer wie Smartphones für die Abarbeitung mobiler Geschäftsprozesse bringt neben großen Vorteilen auch spezifische Sicherheitsherausforderungen mit sich. Als ein Lösungsansatz hierfür wird "ortsabhängige Zugriffskontrolle" verfolgt. Die Grundidee dabei ist es, den aktuellen Aufenthaltsort des Nutzers für die Zugriffskontrollentscheidung auszuwerten. Zur Modellierung solcher Ortseinschränkungen wird eine auf UML-Aktivitätsdiagrammen aufbauende Notation eingeführt.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 2,3, University of Cologne (Department of Supply Chain Management and Management Science), course: Supply Chain Management, language: English, abstract: Due to the latest catastrophes caused by both man and nature, humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest from academics, practitioners and specialists. These interests are increased as well by an expanding market of disaster relief and by the fact that disaster relief supply chains are complex and dynamic, not to mention...

Due to the latest catastrophes caused by both man and nature, humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest from academics, practitioners and specialists. These interests are increased as well by an expanding market of disaster relief and by the fact that disaster relief supply chains are complex and dynamic, not to mention that they have a lot of uncertainties that make operations very complicated. Especially in disaster relief, the supply chains have to be fast, agile and flexible in order to rapidly provide the appropriate amount, and type of emergency supplies, to minimize human...