Olaf-Christian Hein Books

This volume contains the proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Model Driven Engineering: Software & Data Integration, Process Based Approaches and Tools, held on June 6 and June 7, 2011 in Birmingham, UK, in conjunction with the European Conference on Modeling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2010). The papers show, that a lot of work have been done with respect to industrial acceptance of available technologies and research solutions. The papers included in this year's edition of the workshop show, that a lot of work have been done with respect to industrial acceptance of available technologies and research solutions. In addition to that contributions from MBSDI depict several views from practical experiences.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Model Driven Tool and Process Integration held on 16 June 2010 in Paris, France, in conjunction with the European Conference on Modeling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2010). The 1st workshop held in 2008 has shown that the research area of tool and process integration in a model-driven development environment is emerging and draws more and more attention in particular from industry. The 2nd workshop was held in Enschede 2009. The focus of this workshop was on synchronization, the efficient computation of model-differences as well as the usage of model repositories. The interesting talks and discussions of these events have encouraged us to organize a third edition of the workshop. The papers included in this year's edition of the workshop show that there are a variety of relevant topics in this field. The integration of data from different tools with traceability support is still an important problem. Interestingly, papers describe different approaches to handle this problem. Furthermore, the integration of development processes and development teams is covered by papers of this workshop edition. Moreover, results of research projects are presented which have related topics in their objectives.

Human dignity and universal human rights are key concepts in the democratic world of the second half of the twentieth century and have shaped the consciousness of Western individuals to this very day. This book’s main theme, however, is lost human dignity. Lost human dignity is introduced as identity marker defining the motivation of an individual or a (smaller (or larger)) group of individuals to take drastic, retaliatory measures against the force that deprived her/him of her/his dignity and, furthermore, what lost dignity could mean for an individual’s sense of identity. The book thus examines various ways an individual or a group of individuals can lose or can be deprived of her/his dignity and, moreover, how their lost dignity can be instrumentalized or even weaponized for political purposes. This study covers a wide range of examples of the systematic destruction of human dignity and critically discusses the general applicability of guaranteed universal human dignity and human rights.

James Joyce’s sad and dreamy Issy Earwicker has gone almost unnoticed by researchers, although she is one of the most interesting characters of the Finnegans Wake. Her innocent longing for romantic love make her the very personifi cation of Victorian values. But Issy leads a double life, for through her mirror she takes on the alternative identity of an independent woman claiming the same sexual freedom which men are exclusively granted. Through her doubling Issy oscillates between the two extremes of Victorian morality and modern emancipation making her a révenant between obsolete tradition and modernity. Eventually, her secret life makes her the parodic double of the ideal and virtuous bourgeois woman living up to the moral law of the father(s)—in constant danger of losing her identity. This study analyzes episodes of Finnegans Wake such as Tristan and Iseult and Kersse the Sailor and the Norwegian Captain and discusses the public discourse of late Victorian society when more and more women questioned the legitimacy of the status quo. Joyce’s use of grotesque and carnivalesque motifs in his satire of bourgeois morality, furthermore, plays a vital role in the interpretation of Issy’s character and function in the Wake. Eventually, the question of identity and free will and their signifi cance for Joyce’s text (and for the modern individual in general) are investigated.