Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin - Publikationen

Inklusive Digitalisierung

Schmid, Christine;Heibges, Maren;Feufel, Markus A. — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The interdisciplinary textbook Inclusive Digitalization explores how digital technologies create new forms of participation and exclusion. Researchers, activists, and practitioners examine the social, technical, and ethical dimensions of digital transformation—from education and work to health and media. The book invites readers to understand inclusion as a guiding principle of digital transformation and to engage critically and creatively in shaping it.

The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice

Froschauer, Eva Maria;Lausch, Frederike;Platzgummer, Klaus;Meireis, Sandra — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Volumes 2–6 of the series have been published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin:
https://verlag.tu-berlin.de/en/reihe/forum-architekturwissenschaft/

Sources play a central role in the production, organisation, storage, accessibility, and dissemination of knowledge. They are active agents in epistemic processes. In architecture, sources take many forms: architecture itself can be a source; it shelters sources; it references and generates them; and as a discipline, architecture is shaped by its sources. This book explores the plurality of sources in architectural research and their entanglement with systems of power. The first section, Agency and Politics, examines cases where sources are absent or inaccessible and presents innovative responses. Data and Biases considers how digital information is managed through metadata, databases, and interfaces and reflects on the risks and potentials involved in its evaluation. Media and Materiality investigates how complex image and photo collections are handled, focusing on the individual structures of archives. Finally, Canon and Episteme takes a critical look at architectural-historical canons, offering new perspectives on historiography.

The Discipline of Organizing

Glushko, Robert J.;Petras, Vivien — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“The Discipline of Organizing” is a transdisciplinary textbook that explores how resources—whether physical, digital, or conceptual—are systematically organized to support meaningful interactions. It introduces the concept of an “organizing system” as an intentionally arranged collection of resources and the interactions they enable. The exploration of organizing systems demonstrates the shared principles and design challenges faced by libraries, information systems, digital platforms, and human organizations. Drawing from fields such as library and information science, computer science, business, cognitive science, and design, the book provides a framework grounded in design thinking and architectural abstraction for analyzing and designing how things are organized. Framing the description and analysis of organizing systems is a set of eight design dimensions, which guide how organizing systems can be compared, evaluated, and created. The core of the book describes the principal organizing activities and how they are applied in different organizing systems: resource identification and naming, resource description, linking and referencing, categorization, and classification. This book is organized into three sections: foundations, resource organization, and interactions & interoperability. As a foundation, the first four chapters establish the fundamental concepts of organizing systems. The chapters on resource organization activities focus on the activities required to organize resources effectively. The final chapters address how organizing systems facilitate interactions and interoperability.

Automatisierte medizinische Therapiesysteme

Werner, Jürgen;Hexamer, Martin;Schauer, Thomas — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Automated therapy systems support or replace functional systems or organs of the human body. This usually involves cooperation between technical and physiological (sub)systems, for that reason the design and development of such systems requires interdisciplinary knowledge of automation technology, physiology and pathophysiology. The most important theoretical foundation of automation technology is system and control theory. Its methods are indispensable tools for the design and development of automated therapy systems, which are described in the book: Electrotherapy of the heart using pacemakers and defibrillators, circulatory support and artificial heart, mechanical ventilation and anaesthesia technology, heart-lung machines and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, dialysis technology, temporary liver support, artificial pancreas/AID systems, functional electrostimulation after paraplegia and stroke, and procedures in neurological movement therapy.

AfterWords

Derksen, Jan;Memmeler, Lisa — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What does it mean for poetry to come after something – be it a certain period, a literary tradition or another author? While connecting with earlier voices, forms and traditions was once deemed inadequate or derivative, contemporary German poetry highlights the historical interconnections within literary production. Complex poetic processes replace the notion of original creations, bringing previously unheard voices to the fore alongside those that have been widely heard and quoted. In this way, contemporary poetry can shed new light on questions of ›afterness‹ and the many ways in which poetic texts are transmitted and received over long periods of time.

Handbuch IT in Bibliotheken

Christensen, Anne;Seeliger, Frank;Voß, Jakob;Heller, Lambert;Golas, Ulrike — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This handbook provides a concise, comprehensive overview of the main IT-related topics in libraries. It describes general basics such as technical infrastructure, metadata and IT management on the one hand and library-specific services from library management systems and discovery systems to repositories and tools for communication and knowledge management on the other.

Workflow Systems for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis

Hilbrich, Marcus;Ferreira da Silva, Rafael;Wilkinson, Sean R.;Leser, Ulf — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The past two decades have seen a steep increase in computational requirements for analyzing scientific data sets. The reasons are manifold: Typical data sets increased enormously in size, the growing complexity of scientific questions required more complex analysis methods, and the growth of methods based on machine learning and artificial intelligence called for additional measures to handle model training and quality control. Furthermore, expectations in terms of reproducibility and reusability are much higher today than in the past, and issues like energy consumption and trustworthiness of results require additional attention. These trends brought along the need to run analysis on large compute clusters and to apply advanced software infrastructures to support such diverse needs as much as possible. Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWMS) are a class of systems created to cope with these requirements. An SWMS typically consist of multiple components, such as a workflow language and user interface to express complex analysis procedures as multi step pipelines, virtualization and container technologies for task binaries to facilitate portability, and a workflow engine to execute analysis pipelines on distributed infrastructures in a robust and reproducible manner. They rely on further components of cluster infrastructures, such as a distributed file systems for robust data exchange and a resource manager for administering compute cores, memory, GPUs, and storage. When orchestrated in a proper manner, the interplay of these components leads to a reproducible, portable, and easily adaptable data analysis process.
SWMSs emerged at the end of the last century when scientists started to require scalability beyond single workstations. With the steep increase in data sets sizes, the growing complexity of the research questions being studied, and the democratization of data science in general, their popularity increased continuously since then. However, SWMS today work in a different environment than in the past. While first generation SMMS often were designed as stand-alone applications, they today must interact with other infrastructures applied in data centers to manage resources effectively and securely. Thus, systems architectures have grown considerably in complexity, and requirements to SWMS components changed. However, a comprehensive and up-to-date description of these consequences of these developments, i.e., of the inner working of current SWMS, still is lacking.
This book sets out to fill this gap. It is structured in four areas, devoted to introductory texts, concrete SWMS systems, important application areas of SWMS, and descriptions of advanced technological aspects, respectively. It features 25 chapters authored by 127 experts from 17 different countries. The book is intended to address both users of SWMS that want to get insights into the functionality and premises of these systems – as well as their limitations – and developers of SWMS that want to learn about recent technological advancements.

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Contents

1 – The anatomy of scientific workflow management systems

Ulf Leser

2 – An Extended, Consolidated View on Specification Languages for Data Analysis Workflows

Sebastian Müller, Ninon De Mecquenem, Christopher Lazik, Svetlana Kulagina, Jan Arne Sparka, Fabian Lehmann, Ben Sherman, Marcus Hilbrich, Lars Grunske

3 – Towards Next Generation Data Engineering Pipelines

Kevin M. Kramer, Valerie Restat, Sebastian Strasser, Uta Störl, Meike Klettke

4 – An Ecosystem of Services for FAIR Computational Workflows

Sean R. Wilkinson, Johan Gustafsson, Finn Bacall, Khalid Belhajjame, Salvador Capella, Jose Maria Fernandez Gonzalez, Jacob Fosso Tande, Luiz Gadelha, Daniel Garijo, Patricia Grubel, Björn Grüning, Farah Zaib Khan, Sehrish Kanwal, Simone Leo, Stuart Owen, Luca Pireddu, Line Pouchard, Laura Rodríguez-Navas, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Baiba Vilne, Alan Williams, Merridee Ann Wouters, Frederik Coppens, Carole Goble

5 – Tackling Analytical Variability with Workflomics

Vedran Kasalica, Peter Kok, Rob Marissen, Mario Frank, Magnus Palmblad, Anna-Lena Lamprecht

6 – Designing Benchmarks for Data AnalysisWorkflow Systems

Rafael Moczalla, Ilin Tolovski, Tilmann Rabl

7 – Reproducible Multi-Cloud Data Analysis with Nextflow

Paolo Di Tommaso, Ben Sherman

8 – Managing Distributed Scientific Workflows with Globus

Kyle Chard, J. Gregory Pauloski, Ryan Chard, Ian Foster

9 – Programming Task-Based Workflows with COMPSs

Rosa M. Badia, Javier Conejero, Jorge Ejarque, Daniele Lezzi, Francesc Lordan, Raül Sirvent

10 – Serverless Workflow Execution Models and Engines

Maciej Malawski, Bartosz Balis, Tomasz Szydło, Aleksander Slominski

11 – Benchmarking and Simulating Scientific Workflow Systems: A Review

Tainã Coleman, Henri Casanova, Frédéric Suter, Sean R. Wilkinson, Ketan Maheshwari, Rafael Ferreira da Silva

12 – Differences in Workflow Systems: A Use-Case Driven Comparison

Vasilis Bountris, Fabian Lehmann, Felix Kummer, Luis Neuhaus, Ulf Leser

13 – Portable and Scalable Workflows for Earth Observation Data Analysis with Nextflow

Fabian Lehmann, Katarzyna Ewa Lewińska, David Frantz, Dirk Pflugmacher, Florian Katerndahl, Felix Kummer, Patrick Hostert, Ulf Leser

14 – Reuse and Reproduce Bioinformatic Pipelines Using Scientific Workflow Systems

Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Frédéric Lemoine, George Marchment, Marine Djaffardjy, Alban Gaignard, Clémence Sebe, Khalid Belhajjame

15 – Workflows in Materials Science

Daniel T. Speckhard, Martin Kuban, Christoph T. Koch, Joseph F. Rudzinski, Claudia Draxl

16 – pyiron – Developing and Managing Materials Science Workflows

Tilmann Hickel, Jan Janssen, Sarath Menon, Osamu Waseda, Liam Huber, Jörg Neugebauer

17 – Predicting the Performance of Scientific Workflow Tasks for Cluster Resource Management: An Overview of the State of the Art

Jonathan Bader, Kathleen West, Soeren Becker, Svetlana Kulagina, Fabian Lehmann, Lauritz Thamsen, Henning Meyerhenke, Odej Kao

18 – Optimizing Workflow Execution by Cost-effective I/O Monitoring, Bottleneck Analysis, and Proactive Resource Assignment

Joel Witzke, Ansgar Lößer, Jonathan Bader, Fabian Lehmann, Björn Scheuermann, Florian Schintke

19 – From Suspicious Results to Insights: A Study on Debugging Practices in Scientific Data Analysis Workflows

Anh Duc Vu, Christos Tsigkanos, Caroline Jay, Timo Kehrer

20 – Resource Allocation of DAWs using Mathematical Programming

Somayeh Mohammadi, Latif Pourkarimi, Somayeh Abdi, Ninon De Mecquenem, Ulf Leser, Knut Reinert

21 – Reprohackathons: Training Efforts to Increase Bioinformatics Reproducibility Using Scientific Workflow Systems

Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, George Marchment, Thomas Cokelaer, Frédéric Lemoine

22 – Interactivity in Scientific Workflows: A Survey

Nourhan Elfaramawy, Kedi Cao, Matthias Weidlich

23 – Provenance in Support of Workflows for Science

Paolo Missier, Débora Pina, Adriane Chapman, Bertram Ludäscher

24 – Energy-Aware Workflow Execution: An Overview of Techniques for Saving Energy and Emissions in Scientific Compute Clusters

Lauritz Thamsen, Yehia Elkhatib, Paul Harvey, Syed Waqar Nabi, Jeremy Singer, Wim Vanderbauwhede

25 – Privacy Concerns in Workflows and their Provenance: Where are We?

Ahmad Qadeib Alban, Khalid Belhajjame, Daniela Grigori

Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Bildungsforschung 2026

Isensee, Fanny;Kapp, Felix;Meyer-Jenßen, Lars;Zunker, Nicky;Mayer, Tanja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Originating from the former Interdisciplinary Centre for Educational Research (IZBF), the working group 'Entwicklungsperspektiven für Bildungsforschende' is situated at the Professional School of Education (PSE) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The group offers various formats designed primarily, but not uniquely, for early-career researchers. Key activities include an annual conference, peer-to-peer advising between doctoral students and postdocs, a writing week, and various networking opportunities that have gained a following beyond the HU Berlin itself. Participants also have the chance to contribute to this volume. In selecting contributions, we prioritize a wide range of sub-disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches to showcase the full diversity and cross-disciplinary nature of educational research.

Empowering Ghana’s Engineering Future: A Model for Professional Education in Renewable Energy—and beyond

Longmuss, Joerg;Akowuah, Joseph;Gyamfi, Samuel;Wolf, Stefan;Oduro, William — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Across the globe, the transition to renewable energy is redefining how we live, work, and think about development. Yet, one urgent question persists: how do we prepare the next generation of engineers not just to participate in, but to lead this transformation? The answers lie not only in laboratories or power grids, but in the classrooms, workshops, and collaborative spaces where young minds are shaped In Ghana, the ProREG project (Professional Education for Renewable Energy in Ghana) emerged as an ambitious response to this challenge. Anchored in a strategic partnership between the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi) and the University of Energy and Natural Resources (Sunyani)—working closely with the Technische Universität Berlin and leading companies from both Ghana and Germany—ProREG set out to bridge the persistent gap between academic training and professional practice in the renewable energy sector. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and implemented between late 2022 and 2025, the project embraced a bold vision: to co-create and institutionalise a practice-oriented, industry-relevant, and scalable model for engineering education that could help future-proof Ghana’s energy workforce—while offering a model for the wider world. This book is a record of that journey. It tells the story of an innovative collaboration across borders, sectors, and disciplines. It captures the hopes and questions we started with, the methods we tested, the obstacles we encountered, and the impact we achieved. More than a project report, this publication offers insights, frameworks, and inspiration for anyone seeking to modernise engineering education in service of sustainable development.

Global Food Stories. Eating Cultures in Times of Transformation

Brombach, Christine;Müller, Heike;Bartsch, Silke — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Food cultures have rarely been considered for a sustainable transformation of current food systems. How can we start this conversation in an action-oriented way in our diverse contexts? Answers were compiled with alumni from 30 countries in the DAAD-funded SUSTAINABLE FOOD CULTURES project and are presented in this book.
This book is an extension to the SUSTAINABLE FOOD CULTURES project, which explores meanings of sustainable food cultures. The book provides a research basis on sustainable food cultures, a collection of recipes and food stories from the project participants, and reflections on the complexities of food culture and sustainability.

Die bodenlose Stadt

Million, Angela;Molter, Christian;Bentlin, Felix;Calbet Elias, Laura — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Volumes 1–6 of the series have been published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin:

https://verlag.tu-berlin.de/en/reihe/schriftenreihe-staedtebau-und-kommunikation-von-planung/

Soil is a key motif for the socio-ecological transformation in order to harmonise climate and environmental concerns with the need for affordable housing and other building blocks of urban development oriented towards the common good. The new remodelling culture that is currently being called for sends out important signals in this direction. Nevertheless, many aspects of current urban development are bottomless. Local authorities can hardly implement a land policy orientated towards the common good, as they sell the land to pay for their meagre financial budgets; valuable existing buildings are left to decay and demolition because new construction promises higher profits; land consumption is far above the target that was declared sustainable more than 20 years ago; living space per capita is increasing because moving to more suitable housing is usually associated with higher housing costs. The scarcity of land is a recurring motif in numerous urban policy discourses.

Architektur Design Kunst. Berliner Utopien der 1950er Jahre

Gleiter, Jörg H.;Győrffy, R. Gyöngyvér — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The anthology explores the modern architecture of the immediate post-war period in Berlin's City West, whose cityscape was significantly influenced by the collaboration between the architects Hans Schoszberger and Paul Schwebes. The architectural and cultural concepts of modernism, which marked a cultural turning point in direct connection with the future euphoria of the post-war period, form hereby the framework for the analyses. The 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in May 2025 provides the topicality of the publication.

Paratexte der Theorie

Gamper, Michael;Hottner, Wolfgang — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Theory-historical reflection seems to begin in prefaces and epilogues. The aim is often to introduce one's own or another work into new contexts, to prevent misunderstandings or 'misinterpretations' and to undertake self-historicization. The same applies to other paratexts such as titles, blurbs, dedications and mottos, as well as accompanying and supplementary texts such as interviews, reviews and the like. They, too, are intended to guide reception and develop different effects in new contexts. The peculiarities of such pre- and post-imposed texts have not yet been systematically examined by researchers, but they play a decisive role in understanding the transfer, circulation, global effectiveness and 'connectivity' of theory. This volume examines these paratexts of theory, their general affordances and concrete effects on the circulation of theory on the basis of exemplary questions, constellations, authors, genres and texts, and always asks about the various ways in which theory is transferred and unfolds significance for literature and the humanities.

Standortbestimmungen

Bausch, Barbara;Weber, Julia — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In what ways can literary texts express a stance in response to current socio-political developments? This volume focuses on contemporary works that explore possibilities for engagement and participation through personal, political, and aesthetic acts of self-positioning. Particular attention is given to formal strategies that, in the face of destabilised or marginalised positions, generate new modes of writing and aesthetic forms.

Blickwinkel KOSMOS – Perspektiven auf Alexander von Humboldts Werk und das Anthropozän

Schneider, Christoph — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Paperback. The hardcover version is available in the HumboldtStore.

In his KOSMOS lectures at the Berlin University in 1828, Alexander von Humboldt described the world holistically and introduced new scientific perspectives. The here presented collection includes selected topics from the KOSMOS lectures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2019 in the editorial, five academic contributions and a lecture manuscript. The contributions follow the thesis that Humboldt's way of thinking represents a template for science in the Anthropocene.

Messunsicherheiten im Physikunterricht

Priemer, Burkhard;Kok, Karel — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This anthology brings together 27 contributions that address the topic of measurement uncertainties in physics lessons and propose concepts and recommendations for teaching practice, based on physics education research. A wide range of physics topics in secondary education are addressed and digital applications are presented. The book thus aims to provide comprehensive support in teaching how to deal with uncertainties in physics lessons. The contributions are aimed at physics teachers, trainers in all three phases of physics teacher training (university, traineeship and teacher training) as well as physics education researchers.

The Digitalization of Healthcare for Older Adults

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Demographic change poses substantial challenges for our healthcare system and its ability to sustain good healthcare for older adults. Digitalization is one answer to this challenge. In this collection, we present different projects and approaches tackling the digitalization of healthcare for older adults based on a workshop conducted in Berlin in July 2023.

Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Bildungsforschung 2025

Töpper, Daniel;Isensee, Fanny;Pohle, Lara;Mayer, Tanja — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As documentation of the Early Career Researchers' Day 2023 of the newly founded working group Development Perspectives for Education Researchers, which is now based at the Professional School of Education (PSE), this anthology makes innovative, tentative and interdisciplinary contributions to educational research by young researchers from Berlin universities accessible to a broader public. In addition, the volume provides contributions on issues and formats that affect early and mid-career researchers as well as interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary topics.

The Role of Theory

Morris, Dave;Mieg, Harald A. — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

According to Aristotle, theory is the highest, rational form of knowledge. But do we need theories at all, given the new capabilities of AI to machine integrate massive amounts of data? The book is based on a two-day symposium co-hosted by the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies and the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsforschung Berlin. The symposium had three thematic strands:

1) Theorizing and its new media, with a discussion of the question: What kind of theorizing do science podcasts enable?

2) Epistemology and the metaphysics of theory, with some comments on the philosophy of science, including the role of theory in university teaching

3) AI and theory, with the final question of theory and the transparency of knowledge organization.

The book begins with a reflection by Andrew Abbott on the role of theory in the social sciences.

The Jahrbücher Wissenschaftsforschung have been published since 1995, all volumes up to and including 2022 can be accessed free of charge via the HU Berlin repository: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/90

Matters of Urgency – Herausforderungen der Gegenwart in Theater und Wissenschaft

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The multitude of virulent and urgent conflicts of a present experienced as crisis-ridden not only shakes the theatre and the entire art and cultural life, but also affects the future of the discipline of theatre studies. Against this background, an awareness has grown that urgent social challenges must be placed in relation to theatre, dance and performance and examined analytically, theoretically and historically. This volume documents contributions from the 15th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft and offers an overview of the topics currently perceived and discussed as urgent by theatre scholars from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The title of the volume is to be understood in a double sense: 'Matters' as topics and fields of research that are brought to the attention of theatre studies due to their social relevance, but also as an indication of the materiality and mediality of the confrontation with these topics.