Publications related to Rice distribution

Tree root distribution modelling in different environmental conditions

David Andrew Barry, Paolo Perona, Massimiliano Schwarz

The ability to predict the spatial distribution of tree root system variables (e.g., the Root system Area (RA), the maximum root diameter, the number of roots in diameter classes, the density of fine roots, etc.) under different environmental conditions is ...

2022

Distributed Momentum for Byzantine-resilient Stochastic Gradient Descent

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault

Byzantine-resilient Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) aims at shielding model training from Byzantine faults, be they ill-labeled training datapoints, exploited software/hardware vulnerabilities, or malicious worker nodes in a distributed setting. Two rece ...

2021

Copper battery for heat to power conversion and energy storage

Sunny Isaïe Maye

An important part of the electricity production relies on heat conversion. Indeed power plants burn fuels like natural gas, coal or use nuclear fission to produce heat that can be transformed into electricity through a thermodynamic cycle and the mechanica ...

EPFL2020

A Compressed Sensing Approach for Distribution Matching

Vahid Aref, Mohamad Baker Dia

In this work, we formulate the fixed-length distribution matching as a Bayesian inference problem. Our proposed solution is inspired from the compressed sensing paradigm and the sparse superposition (SS) codes. First, we introduce sparsity in the binary so ...

IEEE2018

Comparing methodologies for structural identification and fatigue life prediction of a highway bridge

Ian Smith, Alain Nussbaumer, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Accurate measurement-data interpretation leads to increased understanding of structural behavior and enhanced asset-management decision making. In this paper, four data-interpretation methodologies, residual minimization, traditional Bayesian model updatin ...

2018

Distributed Programming via Safe Closure Passing

Heather Christine Klug, Philipp Haller

Programming systems incorporating aspects of functional programming, e.g., higher-order func- tions, are becoming increasingly popular for large-scale distributed programming. New frameworks such as Apache Spark leverage functional techniques to provide hi ...

2015

Protecting Circuits From Computationally Bounded And Noisy Leakage

Sebastian Faust

Physical computational devices leak side-channel information that may, and often does, reveal secret internal states. We present a general transformation that compiles any circuit into a circuit with the same functionality but resilience against well-defin ...

Siam Publications2014

Distributor of neurons in a neocortical column

Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Georges Khazen, Martin Telefont

Computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for determining a distribution of neuronal cells across a portion of a brain are described. One computer-implemented method for determining a target distribution of one or more neuronal cells across a por ...

2014

Metastable densities for the contact process on power law random graphs

Thomas Mountford, Daniel Rodrigues Valesin

We consider the contact process on a random graph with a fixed degree distribution given by a power law. We follow the work of Chatterjee and Durrett [2], who showed that for arbitrarily small infection parameter lambda, the survival time of the process is ...

Univ Washington, Dept Mathematics2013

Performance analysis of dual-hop fixed-gain AF relaying systems with OSTBC over Nakagami-m fading channels

Serife Seda Kucur

In this paper, we present outage probability and symbol error rate (SER) performance analyses of a dual-hop transmission using fixed-gain amplify-and-forward relaying in flat Nakagami-m fading channels. The system under consideration is equipped with multi ...

Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer Verlag2012

Scalable Video Dissemination with Prioritized Network Coding

Pascal Frossard, Nikolaos Thomos, Eymen Kurdoglu

In this paper, we present a pull-based dissemination protocol for efficient distribution of scalable video content in overlay peer-to-peer networks with mesh structures. The proposed protocol employs prioritized network coding, where the network coded pack ...

2011

Design of high data rate, passive, far-field RFID tags in CMOS technology

Nicolas Pillin

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an exciting, rapidly growing, multi-disciplinary field with emerging technologies and applications. Today RFID is a generic term for technologies that use radio frequencies to automatically identify people or object ...

EPFL2010

Sequential Anisotropic Multichannel Wiener Filtering with Rician Bias Correction Applied to 3D Regularization of DWI Data

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Leila Cammoun

It has been shown that the tensor calculation is very sensitive to the presence of noise in the acquired images, yielding to very low-quality Diffusion Tensor Images (DTI) data. Recent investigations have shown that the noise present in the Diffusion Weigh ...

2009

The Banff challenge: Statistical detection of a noisy signal

Anthony Christopher Davison

Particle physics experiments such as those run in the Large Hadron Collider result in huge quantities of data, which are boiled down to a few numbers from which it is hoped that a signal will be detected. We discuss a simple probability model for this and ...

2008

Moments of the hadronic invariant mass spectrum in B→Xclν decays at Belle

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Stewart Cole, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Lei Zhang

We present a measurement of the hadronic invariant mass squared (MX2) spectrum in charmed semileptonic B meson decays B→Xc ν based on 140fb-1 of Belle data collected near the Υ(4S) resonance. We determine the first, the second central, and the second nonce ...

American Physical Society2007

Understanding the simulation of mobility models with Palm calculus

Jean-Yves Le Boudec

The simulation of mobility models such as the random waypoint often cause subtle problems, for example the decay of average speed as the simulation progresses, a difference between the long term distribution of nodes and the initial one, and sometimes the ...

2007

A Branch-and-Price Approach to the Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Distribution and Collection

Matteo Salani

The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous distribution and collection (VRPSDC) is the variation of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that arises when the distribution of goods from a depot to a set of customers and the collection of waste from th ...

2006

From car traffic to production flows : a guided tour through solvable stochastic transport processes

Roger Filliger

The purpose of this thesis is to show on explicit examples how various theoretical concepts, ranging from statistical mechanics to stochastic control and from traffic theory to queuing systems, can be transferred to transport processes, encountered in part ...

EPFL2005