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During the last years, many companies established fast IT or digital IT units dedicated to build and operate digital customer-facing services. These units adopted agile methods, new tool chains as well as new organizational settings like BizDevOps teams. BizDevOps teams are responsible for continuously (re-)defining business functionality of certain (micro-)services, (re-)developing and running them...
We introduce an information theoretic model predictive control (MPC) algorithm capable of handling complex cost criteria and general nonlinear dynamics. The generality of the approach makes it possible to use multi-layer neural networks as dynamics models, which we incorporate into our MPC algorithm in order to solve model-based reinforcement learning tasks. We test the algorithm in simulation on...
In this paper we present a model predictive control algorithm designed for optimizing non-linear systems subject to complex cost criteria. The algorithm is based on a stochastic optimal control framework using a fundamental relationship between the information theoretic notions of free energy and relative entropy. The optimal controls in this setting take the form of a path integral, which we approximate...
In vielen Unternehmen ist das Innovationsmanagement inzwischen als eine betriebliche Funktion mit strategischer Bedeutung etabliert. Die Generierung, Auswahl, Bewertung und Realisierung von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen soll systematisch durchgeführt und gefördert werden, um die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Unternehmens zu erhalten und zu fördern. Eine Herausforderung des Innovationsmanagements besteht...
Today, Enterprises act in an increasingly interconnected world and in different kinds of collaborative networks. They are part of business ecosystems in which they interact with their customers, partners and competitors. The processes of analyzing and planning the intertwinement of business and IT architecture within enterprises has been successfully supported by enterprise architecture management...
Companies today interact in an increasingly competitive environment and seek to leverage the potentials of IT for generating new business models and for changing existing ones. For these business models, companies have to align the respective business and IT architectures. This task can be supported by using enterprise architecture management. In this paper, we first analyze the potentials for integrating...
In computing and engineering courses, the students' personal experience in using technology can be embraced in order to encourage students and to enrich course contents. The own experience can be contrasted with theories, models and concepts from the course literature. In this paper, we describe the teaching concept of reflective dialogues. Reflective dialogues aim at fostering the students' involvement...
This paper outlines the theoretical backgrounds, the requirements for and the technical realization of DialogueMaps, a web-based tool for supporting interactive dialogues in education, research, and consulting. A first evaluation has already been conducted. An outlook is given on future directions of development.
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