Publications related to History of the World Wide Web

Machine Learning for Modeling Stock Returns

Throughout history, the pace of knowledge and information sharing has evolved into an unthinkable speed and media. At the end of the XVII century, in Europe, the ideas that would shape the "Age of Enlightenment" were slowly being developed in coffeehouses, ...

EPFL2024

High-Throughput Sizing, Counting, and Elemental Analysis of Anisotropic Multimetallic Nanoparticles with Single-Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Andreas Züttel, Natalia Gasilova, Cedric David Koolen, Wen Luo, Mo Li, Ayush Agarwal

Nanoparticles (NPs) have wide applications in physical and chemical processes, and their individual properties (e.g., shape, size, and composition) and ensemble properties (e.g., distribution and homogeneity) can significantly affect the performance. Howev ...

2022

Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp(3)) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes

Xile Hu, Chao Fan, Srikrishna Bera

In drug discovery, the proportion of aliphatic carbons (C(sp(3))) and the presence of chiral carbons in organic molecules are positively correlated to their chance of clinical success. Although methods exist for the synthesis of chiral C(sp(3))-rich molecu ...

2022

Decentralized Industrial IoT Data Management Based on Blockchain and IPFS

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

The wide application of Internet of Things (IoT) has fostered the development of Industry 4.0. In manufacturing domain, Industrial IoT (IIoT) are key components of the Factories of the Future (FoF). The big IIoT data are the foundation of implementing data ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Single molybdenum center supported on N-doped black phosphorus as an efficient electrocatalyst for nitrogen fixation

Xiao Zhou, Cheng Chen, Pengfei Ou

Ammonia (NH3) is one of the most significant industrial chemical products due to its wide applications in various fields. However, the production of NH3 from the electrochemical nitrogen (N-2) reduction reaction (NRR) under ambient conditions is one of the ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Approximation algorithms for geometric dispersion

Alfonso Bolívar Cevallos Manzano

The most basic form of the max-sum dispersion problem (MSD) is as follows: given n points in R^q and an integer k, select a set of k points such that the sum of the pairwise distances within the set is maximal. This is a prominent diversity problem, with w ...

EPFL2016

TripleWave: Spreading RDF Streams on the Web

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

Processing data streams is increasingly gaining momentum, given the need to process these flows of information in real-time and at Web scale. In this context, RDF Stream Processing (RSP) and Stream Reasoning (SR) have emerged as solutions to combine semant ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

5e{x+y}: Searching over Mathematical Content in Digital Libraries

Karl Aberer

This paper presents 5ex+y, a system that is able to extract, index and query mathematical content expressed as mathematical expressions, complementing the CERN Document Server (CDS). We present the most important aspects of its design, our approach to mode ...

ACM2015

Bottom up fabrication of (9,0) zigzag and (6,6) armchair carbon nanotube end-caps on the Rh(111) surface

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Nasiba Abdurakhmanova

The exploration and wide application of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) require the development of new synthetic approaches enabling facile and fully rational CNT fabrication. In this communication the conversion of two precursors yielding the pote ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Towards Enabling Probabilistic Databases for Participatory Sensing

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Chi Thang Duong, Saket Sathe

Participatory sensing has emerged as a new data collection paradigm, in which humans use their own devices (cell phone accelerometers, cameras, etc.) as sensors. This paradigm enables to collect a huge amount of data from the crowd for world-wide applicati ...

2014

BATC - A Benchmark for Aggregation Techniques in Crowdsourcing

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Son Thanh Do, Ngoc Tran Lam

As the volumes of AI problems involving human knowledge are likely to soar, crowdsourcing has become essential in a wide range of world-wide-web applications. One of the biggest challenges of crowdsourcing is aggregating the answers collected from crowd wo ...

ACM2013

Selection and Aggregation of Ranking Criteria for Retrieval from Scientific Publication Databases

Martin Veselý

Selection and aggregation of ranking criteria became an important topic in information retrieval as search is getting more specialized and as volume of electronically available information grows. In this context, document ranking has undergone a shift from ...

EPFL2012

Process Bifurcation and the Digital Chain in Architecture

Russell Alexander Loveridge

This thesis investigates the impact of digital technology on the methods of design and production in architecture. Through research of history, theory, technology, and methods, the work determines whether the current use of new technologies should be consi ...

EPFL2012

Web-Enabled Remote Scientific Environments

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

A new approach to developing Web-enabled environments for remote diagnostics, maintenance, and experimentation in engineering is based on a middleware layer that uses a Java-Internet-Labview server to provide communication between Java programs and Labview ...

2009

Remote Experimentation Mashup

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

eLogbook is a new Web 2.0 social software framework developed in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) to provide collaborative Web services in an open academic environment for higher education. Several cross platform We ...

2009

Towards Privacy-Friendly Online Advertising

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Modern web sites commonly interact with third-party domains to integrate advertisements and generate revenue from them. To improve the relevance of advertisement, online advertisers track user activities online with third- party cookies. However, excessive ...

2009

A Comparison of Techniques for Sampling Web Pages

Monika Henzinger, Eda Baykan

As the World Wide Web is growing rapidly, it is getting increasingly challenging to gather representative information about it. Instead of crawling the web exhaustively one has to resort to other techniques like sampling to determine the properties of the ...

2009

Understanding the Web

Eda Baykan

The World Wide Web is one of the most widely used information resources. Understanding the web better will enable us to benefit more of it. In this thesis we develop techniques to learn the properties of the web pages like language and topic using only the ...

EPFL2009

A Systematic Two-Layer Approach to Develop Web-based Experimentation Environments for Control Engineering Education

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

This paper introduces the systematic approach currently used by the Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control of the Spanish University of Distance Learning (UNED) to develop Web-based laboratories for distance learning of topics with high techn ...

2008

A high-performance distributed hash table for peer-to-peer information retrieval

Fabius Klemm

This thesis describes our research results in the context of peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2P-IR). One goal in P2P-IR is to build a search engine for the World Wide Web (WWW) that runs on up to hundreds of thousands or even millions computers distri ...

EPFL2008