Publications related to Alternative terms for free software

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-order accurate entropy stable adaptive moving mesh finite difference schemes for special relativistic (magneto)hydrodynamics

Junming Duan

This paper develops high-order accurate entropy stable (ES) adaptive moving mesh finite difference schemes for the two- and three-dimensional special relativistic hydrodynamic (RHD) and magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) equations, which is the high-order accurate ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Molecular simulations of interfacial systems: challenges, applications and future perspectives

Athanasios Nenes, Satoshi Takahama, Mária Lbadaoui-Darvas

We present a comprehensive review of methods and applications of molecular simulations of interfacial systems. We give a detailed overview of the main techniques and major challenges in the following aspects of solid and fluid surfaces: adsorption at solid ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023

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

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

Bringing robotics into formal education using the Thymio open source hardware robot

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Léa Marie Pereyre, Fanny Riedo, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Manon Aline Briod

Mobile robots are valuable tools for education because of both the enthusiasm they raise and the multidisciplinary nature of robotics technology. Mobile robots give access to a wide range of fields, such as complex mechanics, sensors, wireless transmission ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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

Information-Theoretic Caching: Sequential Coding for Computing

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Chien-Yi Wang

Under the paradigm of caching, partial data are delivered before the actual requests of users are known. In this paper, this problem is modeled as a canonical distributed source coding problem with side information, where the side information represents th ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

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

Licences libres et Open Access

Nicolas Borboën

How Open Access and Creative Commons licenses can apply to academic and research fields and what are the benefits. Comment le Libre Accès et les licences Creative Commons peuvent s’appliquer aux domaines académiques et de recherche et quels en sont les int ...

2012

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

Biodegradation and environmental behavior of biodiesel mixtures in the sea: An initial study

Jeremy Samuel Arey

Biodiesel, a mixture of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) derived from animal fats or vegetable oils, is rapidly moving towards the mainstream as an alternative source of energy. However, the behavior of biodiesel, or blends of biodiesel with fossil diesel, ...

Elsevier2007

A hybrid genetic algorithm for constrained hardware- software partitioning

Pierre-André Mudry, Guillaume Zufferey

In this article, we propose a novel partitioning method for hardware-software codesign based on a genetic algorithm that has been enhanced for this specific task. Given a high- level program and an area constraint, our software considers different granular ...

2006

SwisTrack: A Tracking Tool for Multi-Unit Robotic and Biological Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll, Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Tracking of miniature robotic platforms involves major challenges in image recognition and data association. We present our 3-year effort into developing the platform-independent, easy-to-use, and robust tracking software SwisTrack, which is tailored to re ...

2006

Behaviour design in microrobots : hierarchical reinforcement learning under resource constraints

Masoud Asadpour

In order to verify models of collective behaviors of animals, robots could be manipulated to implement the model and interact with real animals in a mixed-society. This thesis describes design of the behavioral hierarchy of a miniature robot, that is able ...

EPFL2006