Publications related to Understanding

Appropriations and Uses of Travel Time

Time has always been a central factor in understanding the challenges of daily mobility. For a long time, and still today, methods of economic evaluation of transport projects have monetized time savings so that they can be included in the cost–benefit ana ...

ISTE Wiley2023

Computational design and additive manufacturing of electromagnetic coils

Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis

The modern world is heavily reliant on electromagnetic devices to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. These devices are fundamental to powering our society, and the growing need for automated production lines and electrified tr ...

EPFL2023

How We Use Wikipedia: Studying Readers' Behavior with Navigation Traces

Tiziano Piccardi

In the information age, the Web and the growing global connectivity drastically simplified our access to information. Learning and fact-checking from online resources is nowadays part of our daily routine. Studying the dynamic associated with online conten ...

EPFL2022

Attribute Prediction as Multiple Instance Learning

Devis Tuia, Diego Marcos Gonzalez

Attribute-based representations help machine learning models perform tasks based on human understandable concepts, allowing a closer human-machine collaboration. However, learning attributes that accurately reflect the content of an image is not always str ...

2022

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

On design strategies for binary dielectric metasurfaces based on the Fourier modal method

Kévin Müller

Binary dielectric metasurfaces are arrays of sub-wavelength structures that act as a thin layer of artificial material. They are generally lossless and relatively simple to fabricate since only a single structuring step is required. By carefully designing ...

EPFL2020

Unpacking the Green Economy concept: A quantitative analysis of 140 definitions

Romano Tobias Wyss, Albert Merino, Marta Giulia Baldi

Over the past ten years, the Green Economy (GE) concept has gained momentum in both academia and policy-making arenas, leading to international programs in diverse sectors and driving national agendas all over the world. The concept is however highly contr ...

2020

MPGM: Scalable and Accurate Multiple Network Alignment

Matthias Grossglauser, Ehsan Kazemi

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) network alignment is a canonical operation to transfer biological knowledge among species. The alignment of PPI-networks has many applications, such as the prediction of protein function, detection of conserved network mot ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

FUNSD: A Dataset for Form Understanding in Noisy Scanned Documents

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Guillaume Jaume

We present a new dataset for form understanding in noisy scanned documents (FUNSD) that aims at extracting and structuring the textual content of forms. The dataset comprises 199 real, fully annotated, scanned forms. The documents are noisy and vary widely ...

IEEE2019

The Resilience of Sustainability Transitions

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss

Finding ways to understand, analyze, and manage sustainability transitions is a fundamental challenge for sustainability science. In this paper, we show how we can substantially deepen our understanding of factors that determine the success of sustainabili ...

2018

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Giovanni Colavizza

A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an eve ...

EPFL2018

A Review of Non-saturated Resin Flow in Liquid Composite Moulding processes

Véronique Michaud

The fundamentals of flow in the liquid composite moulding (LCM) processes are reviewed with an emphasis on multiphase flow effects considering the dual-scale thin porous media constituted by the textiles, and the dynamic wetting effects observed with visco ...

Springer2016

Stability analysis of boundary layers controlled by miniature vortex generators

Lorenzo Siconolfi

It is currently known that Tollmien–Schlichting (TS) waves can be attenuated by the introduction of spanwise mean velocity gradients in an otherwise two-dimensional boundary layer (BL). The stabilizing effect, associated with an extra turbulence production ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Concept maps as versatile tools to integrate complex ideas: From Kindergarten to higher and professional education

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Knowledge is getting increasingly more complex. Learners, from Kindergarten to higher education, require powerful tools to connect complex ideas. This paper explores the range of studies that investigated concept maps as learning, metacognitive, collaborat ...

2015

Analysis of the CICC Performance Through the Measurement of the Thermal Strain Distribution of the Nb-3 Sn Filaments in the Cable Cross Section

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Ciro Calzolaio

The knowledge of the thermal strain distribution of the Nb3Sn filaments in a cable in conduit conductor (CICC) cross section is a key parameter in understanding the cable performance evolution when it undergoes electromagnetic (EM) cyclic loading. A CICC i ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Research Through Design: What Does it Mean for a Design Artefact to be Developed in the Scientific Context?

Jeffrey Huang, Selena Savic

The use of design artefacts in research is a debatable topic which raises important questions about the different approaches to design research and legitimate ways of knowledge production. Research through design normally involves construction of a design ...

STS Italia Publishing2014

Research Through Design: What Does it Mean for a Design Artefact to be Developed in the Scientific Context?

Jeffrey Huang, Selena Savic

The use of design artefacts in research is a debatable topic which raises important questions about the different approaches to design research and legitimate ways of knowledge production. Research through design normally involves construction of a design ...

STS Italia Publishing2014

The Dynamics of Restraint in Cote d'Ivoire

Research on conflict prevention has mainly focused on the causes of war and post-conflict reconstruction. Our knowledge on how civilians manage to contain violence in unstable and conflict environments is, however, very limited. This article aims to unders ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Revisiting the Edge, Ten Years On

Valérie Chavez, Paul Embrechts

When these lines are written, it is January 21, 2008, a further `Black Monday' on the international markets. Stock indices have fallen between 5 and 10%. Which statistical tools help in describing such events and may help in understanding the consequences? ...

2010