Publications related to Free software movement

Object-oriented modelling of advanced computer cooling solutions

Modern computing systems are so energy- intensive to make efficient cooling vital for their operation. This is giving rise to a variety of innovative cooling solutions based on a mix of traditional and new techniques. The design and engineering of these so ...

Elsevier2023

High-precision optical magnetometry using Nitrogen Vacancies in CVD diamond

Hossein Babashah

Sensing weak magnetic fields is a topic of great importance in basic science and technology due to its wide range of applications. In this context, solid-state and nanoscale quantum sensors are poised to revolutionize the sensing platforms due to their ult ...

EPFL2023

Immigration, Innovation, and Knowledge Diffusion

Gabriele Cristelli

This dissertation studies the relationship between immigration and innovation. It adopts an empirical perspective and focuses on Switzerland, combining the use of patent data and immigration administrative records. The first essay is based on a novel dat ...

EPFL2021

Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-Shelf Hardware and Free Software

Paolo Prandoni, Eric Bezzam, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

In this paper we describe our approach to teaching applied digital signal processing (DSP) using freely-available software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware components. The pedagogical framework is built around simple real-time audio processing algori ...

IEEE2019

FOSS EKV2.6 Verilog-A Compact MOSFET Model

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Eric Vittoz, François Krummenacher, Matthias Bucher, Christophe Lallement

The EKV2.6 MOSFET compact model has had a considerable impact on the academic and industrial community of analog integrated circuit design, since its inception in 1996. The model is available as a free open-source software (FOSS) tool coded in Verilog-A. T ...

IEEE2019

PyLandStats: An open-source Pythonic library to compute landscape metrics

Martí Bosch Padrós

Quantifying the spatial pattern of landscapes has become a common task of many studies in landscape ecology. Most of the existing software to compute landscape metrics is not well suited to be used in interactive environments such as Jupyter notebooks nor ...

2019

Open Source Is A-Changin': How Qualitative Research Can Help Us Adapt

Heather Christine Klug

In the past five years, industry has overwhelmingly turned to open source as a primary means to build products and services atop of, with around 80% of surveyed companies acknowledging that they run on open source. 66% of companies say they would first c ...

2018

A reproducible study on remote heart rate measurement

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Guillaume Heusch

This paper studies the problem of reproducible research in remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). Most of the work published in this domain is assessed on privately-owned databases, making it difficult to evaluate proposed algorithms in a standard and princip ...

2017

Elastic Program Transformations : Automatically Optimizing the Reliability/Performance Trade-off in Systems Software

Jonas Benedict Wagner

Performance and reliability are important yet conflicting properties of systems software. Software today often crashes, has security vulnerabilities and data loss, while many techniques that could address such issues remain unused due to performance concer ...

EPFL2017

T-RECS: A Software Testbed for Multi-Agent Real-Time Control of Electric Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Wajeb Saab, Roman Rudnik, Jagdish Prasad Achara, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

Multiple software agents can be used to perform the real-time control of electrical grids. The control performance of such solutions is influenced by software non-idealities such as crashes and delays of the software agents, and message losses and delays d ...

2017

How to Measure the Killer Microsecond

Edouard Bugnion, Aikaterini Argyraki, Mia Primorac

Datacenter-networking research requires tools to both generate traffic and accurately measure latency and throughput. While hardware-based tools have long existed commercially, they are primarily used to validate ASICs and lack flexibility, e.g. to study n ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

Trustworthy Biometric Verification under Spoofing Attacks : Application to the Face Mode

Ivana Chingovska

The need for automation of the identity recognition process for a vast number of applications resulted in great advancement of biometric systems in the recent years. Yet, many studies indicate that these systems suffer from vulnerabilities to spoofing (pre ...

EPFL2016

Round robin on local stress evaluation for fatigue by various FEM software

Alain Nussbaumer, Vasileios Grigoriou

The objective of this Round Robin is to assess the software influence on the structural/local stress values as determined by means of various methods. In particular the influence of (a) FEM software solver, (b) potentially software-depending element charac ...

2016

FOSS EKV 2.6 parameter extractor

Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Antonios Bazigos, Anurag Mangla, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki

The design of advanced integrated circuits (IC) in particular for low power analog and radio-frequency (RF) application becomes more complex as the device level modeling confronting challenges in micro- and nano-meter CMOS processes. As present CMOS techno ...

Ieee2015

PALMsiever: a tool to turn raw data into results for single-molecule localization microscopy

Suliana Manley, Seamus John Holden, Thomas Pengo

During the past decade, localization microscopy (LM) has transformed into an accessible, commercially available technique for life sciences. However, data processing can be challenging to the non-specialist and care is still needed to produce meaningful re ...

Oxford University Press2015

Tokamak coordinate conventions: COCOS

Olivier Sauter

Dealing with electromagnetic fields, in particular current and related magnetic fields, yields "natural" physical vector relations in 3-D. However, when it comes to choosing local coordinate systems, the "usual" right-handed systems are not necessarily the ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems in Hemodynamics : Parallel Solvers, Preconditioners, and Applications

Paolo Crosetto

In this work we aim at the description, study and numerical investigation of the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problem applied to hemodynamics. The FSI model considered consists of the Navier-Stokes equations on moving domains modeling blood as a visco ...

EPFL2011

SwisTrack - A Flexible Open Source Tracking Software for Multi-Agent Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, Jacques Jacot, Thomas Lochmatter, Nicolaus Correll, Pierre Roduit, Christopher Cianci

Vision-based tracking is used in nearly all robotic laboratories for monitoring and extracting of agent positions, orientations, and trajectories. However, there is currently no accepted standard software solution available, so many research groups resort ...

IEEE2008

Synchronous versus asynchronous modeling of gene regulatory networks

Giovanni De Micheli, Abhishek Garg, Ioannis Xenarios

In silico modeling of gene regulatory networks has gained some momentum recently due to increased interest in analyzing the dynamics of biological systems. This has been further facilitated by the increasing availability of experimental data on gene–gene, ...

2008

Practical Design and Implementation of a CAVE Environment

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Sylvain Cardin, Achille Peternier

CAVE systems are nowadays one of the best Virtual Reality (VR) immersive devices available for rendering virtual environments. Unfortunately, such kind of hardware is extremely expensive, complex and cum-bersome, thus limited in its spread. Several cheaper ...

2007