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A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Conversational Agents in Digital Education

The presence of conversational agents (or chatbots) in educational contexts has been steadily increasing over the past few years. Recent surveys have shown widespread interest in the use of chatbots in education, both for research and practice. Although th ...

EPFL2023

Dynamic Linkers Are the Narrow Waist of Operating Systems

Adrien Ghosn, Charly Nicolas Lucien Castes

While software applications, programming languages, and hardware have changed, operating systems have not. Widely-used commodity operating systems are still modeled after the ones designed in the seventies. The accumulated burden of backward compatibility ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Performance Interfaces for Network Functions

George Candea, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Aikaterini Argyraki

Modern programmers routinely use third-party code, and infrastructure operators deploy software they did not write. This would not be possible without semantic interfaces---documentation, header files, specifications---that succinctly describe what that th ...

USENIX Association2022

OPTIMADE, an API for exchanging materials data

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Martin Uhrin, Boris Kozinsky, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Snehal Pramod Kumbhar, Andrius Merkys, Casper Welzel Andersen, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Matthias Scheffler

The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) consortium has designed a universal application programming interface (API) to make materials databases accessible and interoperable. We outline the first stable release of the specification, v ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Online Dating Quantification Practices: A Human-Machine Learning Process

Jessica Carolina Pidoux

The phenomenon of online dating via web and mobile phone applications involves several actors: graphical interfaces, developers, algorithmic systems for user matching, and users. These actors have been studied in parallel by the social sciences and by comp ...

EPFL2021

Reliability analysis of welded stud shear connectors on simply-supported bridge girders

Scott Walbridge, Matthew James Sjaarda

This paper examines the reliability of welded stud shear connectors for steel-concrete composite bridge girders. A finite element model of a simply-supported bridge was created featuring link connector elements representing the shear studs between beam and ...

CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING2021

Virtual reality enabled building-data management through the combination of a fully integrated IFC-BIM model and an IoT-based building management system

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Laurent Deschamps, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Alexandre Denis Stoll, Jean-Philippe Bacher

Professionals involved in building construction and monitoring increasingly implement new practices made available by Building Information Modelling (BIM), Virtual Reality (VR) and the Internet of Things (IoT). In spite of numerous efforts, most methods in ...

2021

All-Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes: A Tutorial for Correct Practice

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo

The research on ion-measuring devices has seen a rapid expansion in the last years as a consequence of the growing interest in wearable sensors for biofluids analysis and in portable devices for remote or in-line water and food quality monitoring. As a res ...

2021

CHIMERA: Combining Ring-LWE-based Fully Homomorphic Encryption Schemes

Dimitar Petkov Jetchev

This paper proposes a practical hybrid solution for combining and switching between three popular Ring-LWE-based FHE schemes: TFHE, B/FV and HEAAN. This is achieved by first mapping the different plaintext spaces to a common algebraic structure and then by ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2020

FuzzGen: Automatic Fuzzer Generation

Mathias Josef Payer

Fuzzing is a testing technique to discover unknown vulnerabilities in software. When applying fuzzing to libraries, the core idea of supplying random input remains unchanged, yet it is non-trivial to achieve good code coverage. Libraries cannot run as stan ...

USENIX ASSOC2020

The SONATA data format for efficient description of large-scale network models

Eilif Benjamin Muller, James Gonzalo King, Adrien Michel Achille Devresse, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Judit Planas Carbonell

Increasing availability of comprehensive experimental datasets and of high-performance computing resources are driving rapid growth in scale, complexity, and biological realism of computational models in neuroscience. To support construction and simulation ...

2020

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Codes: Modified parameter-setting-free harmony search (PSFHS) algorithm for optimizing the design of reinforced concrete beams

Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

This code is part of the research paper: "Modified parameter-setting-free harmony search (PSFHS) algorithm for optimizing the design of reinforced concrete beams". C++14, Python 3.7 and Matlab codes for the modified PSFHS algorithm. Those files are placed ...

2018

Co-Design of Business and IT Services – a Tool-Supported Approach

Alain Wegmann, Natalia Nessler, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

Service modeling is an important step in designing service-oriented systems. There are multiple levels of design because service sci-ence includes both the business rationale and the IT implementation ofthe services. As business and IT perspectives differ, ...

2018

The Cybathlon BCI race: Successful longitudinal mutual learning with two tetraplegic users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Sareh Saeedi, Christoph Schneider

This work aims at corroborating the importance and efficacy of mutual learning in motor imagery (MI) brain–computer interface (BCI) by leveraging the insights obtained through our participation in the BCI race of the Cybathlon event. We hypothesized that, ...

2018

Exogenous Coordination of Concurrent Software Components with JavaBIP

Simon Bliudze, Anastasia Mavridou, Radoslaw Szymanek, Alina Zolotukhina

A strong separation of concerns is necessary in order to make the design of domain-specific functional components independent from cross-cutting concerns, such as concurrent access to the shared resources of the execution platform. Native coordination mech ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

A Framework for Collaborative Curation of Neuroscientific Literature

Sean Lewis Hill, Elisabetta Iavarone, Christian O'Reilly

Large models of complex neuronal circuits require specifying numerous parameters, with values that often need to be extracted from the literature, a tedious and error-prone process. To help establishing shareable curated corpora of annotations, we have dev ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

Rapid Production of Submicron Drug Substance Particles by Supersonic Spray Drying

Esther Amstad

Many newly developed active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are poorly soluble in water and thus have a dissolution-limited bioavailability. The bioavailability of Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS) class II APIs increases if they dissolve fas ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Semantics-Driven Interoperability between Scala.js and JavaScript

Tobias Schlatter, Sébastien Jean R Doeraene, Nicolas Alexander Stucki

Hundreds of programming languages compile to JavaScript. Yet, most of them fail, at one level or another, to provide satisfactory interoperability with JavaScript APIs. This is limiting, as interoperability is at least required to manipulate web pages thro ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

CNC-fabricated dovetails for Joints of Prefabricated CLT Components

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Benjamin Hahn, Paul Mayencourt

The widely available automated prefabrication in timber construction companies, as well as modern CAD software with application programing interfaces, allow for the design and production of increasingly geometrically complex building components. This devel ...

Springer Verlag2014