The quantification of diversification benefits due to risk aggregation plays a prominent role in the (regulatory) capital management of large firms within the financial industry. However, the complexity of today's risk landscape makes a quantifiable reduction of risk concentration a challenging...

The quantification of diversification benefit plays a critical role in quantitative risk models, especially within the context of regulatory and economic capital. However, the complexity of today's risk landscape, together with the associated uncertainty surrounding the modeling of dependencies...

Pervasive Computing ist eine zukünftige Anwendungsform von Informations- undKommunikationstechnologien (ICT), die durch Miniaturisierung und Einbettung vonMikroelektronik in andere Objekte sowie ihre Vernetzung und Allgegenwart im Alltaggekennzeichnet ist. Anders als die meisten heutigen...

The new paradigm known as “pervasive computing”or “ubiquitous computing” refers toa new development in the field of informationand communication technology. Duringthis development more and more everydayobjects will be equipped with microelectronics.Such “intelligent” or “smart”...

The present article examines the coverage of the European actors in the Greek national debt crisis in the German daily newspapers 'Die Welt', 'Bild', 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung', 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' and 'Die Tageszeitung', as well as on the online platform 'Spiegel Online'. The aim is to...

The present study examines news reporting during the Greek national debt crisis in the German television news programmes "Tagesschau" and "heute" and in the special broadcasts "Brennpunkt" on ARD and "ZDF spezial" on ZDF. The aim is to capture the extent to which the national German media are...