Publications related to Collaborative consumption

Can Who-Edits-What Predict Edit Survival?

Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof, Lucas Maystre

As the number of contributors to online peer-production systems grows, it becomes increasingly important to predict whether the edits that users make will eventually be beneficial to the project. Existing solutions either rely on a user reputation system o ...

ACM2018

Bartering Books to Beers: a Recommender System for Exchange Platforms

Michele Catasta, Jérémie Rappaz, Maria-Luiza Vladarean

Bartering is a timeless practice that is becoming increasingly popular on the Web. Recommending trades for an online bartering platform shares many similarities with traditional approaches to recommendation, in particular the need to model the preferences ...

2017

The Economics of Sharing Markets

Maryam Razeghian Jahromi

Sharing and redistributing assets between individuals has become a noticeable part of the economy. Ownership is no longer the sole mode of consumption and consumers have the option of choosing between ownership and access-based consumption. This change in ...

EPFL2017

Product Pricing in a Peer-to-Peer Economy

Thomas Alois Weber

The emergence of a collaborative economy has been driven by advances in information technology that allow consumers to borrow and rent goods among peers on a secondary sharing market. In a dynamic setting, consumers make intertemporal decisions about purch ...

2016

Achieving the Dispatchability of Distribution Feeders Through Prosumers Data Driven Forecasting and Model Predictive Control of Electrochemical Storage

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Emil Namor

We propose and experimentally validate a process to dispatch the operation of a distribution feeder with heterogeneous prosumers according to a trajectory with 5 min resolution, called dispatch plan, established the day before the operation. The controllab ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Quartiers symbiotiques. Stratégies innovantes pour favoriser l’autonomie énergétique à l’échelle du quartier par l’intégration des enjeux relatifs aux bâtiments, aux infrastructures, à la mobilité et à l’alimentation

Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey, Suren Erkman

Lausanne, EPFL/UNIL, Final Report - Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS), December 2014 ...

2014

Essays on Equilibrium Asset Pricing

Rodolfo Javier Prieto Katunaric

This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter endogenizes technological change by introducing a stylized innovation process driven by a R&D–dependent Poisson process in a Cox, Ingersoll and Ross (1985) production economy. The model reproduces s ...

EPFL2010