Die mit der Entwicklung neuer Technologien einher gehende neue Qualität von Risiken erfordert ein Überdenken der Strategien, die den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit diesen Risiken betreffen. Die besondere systemische Qualität dieser Risiken führt zur Notwendigkeit einer veränderten...

An interactive method for service design has been proposed for services that heavily depend on human expertise and performance. In this method a simulation model of the service processes is to be constructed based on ethnographic field observation, and then the model is to be validated by...

This contribution discusses the problemof providing measures of significance ofprediction results when the predictionswere generated from spatial databases forlandslide hazard mapping. The spatialdatabases usually contain map informationon lithologic units, land-cover units,topographic elevation...

Nonparametric unit-root tests are a useful addendum to the tool-box of time-series analysis. They tend to trade off power for enhanced robustness features. We consider combinations of the RURS (seasonal range unit roots) test statistic and a variant of the level-crossings count. This combination...