Publications related to Axiom of countable choice

Representing location choice within activity-based models

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala, Nicolas Jean Salvadé

Since the 70s, there has been a growing interest in activity-based modelling. This approach models the need to travel as a result of performing daily activities (Bowman and Ben-Akiva, 2001). Nevertheless, the activities need to be scheduled which involves ...

2022

Property FW, differentiable structures and smoothability of singular actions

Yash Lodha, Nicolas Matte Bon

We provide a smoothening criterion for group actions on manifolds by singular diffeomorphisms. We prove that if a countable group Gamma has the fixed point property FW for walls (for example, if it has property(T)), every aperiodic action of Gamma by diffe ...

WILEY2020

Atomistic modeling of the solid-liquid interface of metals and alloys

Edoardo Baldi

Solidification is a phase transformation of utmost importance in material science, for it largely controls materials' microstructure on which a wide range of mechanical properties depends. Almost every human artifact undergoes a transformation that leads t ...

EPFL2020

A pathwise approach to the extinction of branching processes with countably many types

Sophie Myriam Hautphenne

We consider the extinction events of Galton-Watson processes with countably infinitely many types. In particular, we construct truncated and augmented Galton-Watson processes with finite but increasing sets of types. A pathwise approach is then used to sho ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

A lower bound on opaque sets

János Pach

It is proved that the total length of any set of countably many rectifiable curves whose union meets all straight lines that intersect the unit square U is at least 2.00002. This is the first improvement on the lower bound of 2 known since 1964. A similar ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Sparse Lens Inversion Technique (SLIT): lens and source separability from linear inversion of the source reconstruction problem

Frédéric Courbin, Rémy Elie Joseph

Strong gravitational lensing offers a wealth of astrophysical information on the background source it affects, provided the lensed source can be reconstructed as if it was seen in the absence of lensing. In the present work, we illustrate how sparse optimi ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2019

Dynamics of functional connectivity at high spatial resolution reveal long-range interactions and fine-scale organization

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) derived from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging sheds light onto moment-to-moment reconfigurations of large-scale functional brain networks. Due to computational limits, connectivity is typically compu ...

Nature Research2017

Fast and Accurate Inference of Plackett-Luce Models

Matthias Grossglauser, Lucas Maystre

We show that the maximum-likelihood (ML) estimate of models derived from Luce’s choice axiom (e.g., the Plackett–Luce model) can be expressed as the stationary distribution of a Markov chain. This conveys insight into several recently proposed spectral inf ...

2015

Activity choice modeling for pedestrian facilities

Antonin Danalet

This thesis develops models of activity and destination choices in pedestrian facilities from WiFi traces. We adapt the activity-based travel demand analysis of urban mobility to pedestrians and to digital footprints. We are interested in understanding the ...

EPFL2015

An empirical comparison of travel choice models that capture preferences for compromise alternatives

Michel Bierlaire

Compromise alternatives have an intermediate performance on each or most attributes rather than having a poor performance on some attributes and a strong performance on others. The relative popularity of compromise alternatives among decision-makers has be ...

Springer2013

Leptogenesis with heavy neutrino flavours: from density matrix to Boltzmann equations

Steve Blanchet

Leptogenesis with heavy neutrino flavours is discussed within a density matrix formalism. We write the density matrix equation, describing the generation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, for an arbitrary choice of the right-handed (RH) neutrino masses. ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Design optimization of an ironless inductive position sensor for the LHC collimators

Yves Perriard, Alessandro Danisi, Alessandro Masi

The Ironless Inductive Position Sensor (I2PS) is an air-cored displacement sensor which has been conceived to be totally immune to external DC/slowly-varying magnetic fields. It can thus be used as a valid alternative to Linear Variable Differential Transf ...

2013

Escaping the Prior Knowledge Corridor: What shapes the Number and Variety of Market Opportunities identified before Market Entry of Technology Start-ups?

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

The choice of the firm's market environment is one of the fundamental decisions of firm founders. We study the pre-entry generation of founders' market choice sets by investigating their search for market opportunities in which the firm's technological res ...

INFORMS2013

Application of a New Sensing Principle for Photoacoustic Imaging of Point Absorbers

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Zafer Dogan, Ivana Jovanovic

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a hybrid imaging method, which combines ultrasonic and optical imaging modalities, in order to overcome their respective weaknesses and to combine their strengths. It is based on the reconstruction of optical absorption pr ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

An analysis of destination choice for opaque airline products using multidimensional binary logit models

Michel Bierlaire, Alexandre Khelifa

We investigate how customers respond to an opaque airline product offered by a European carrier. In this opaque product design, customers are randomly assigned to travel to one of approximately ten destinations; however, for a fee they may exclude one or m ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2012

Discrete choice and microsimulation methods for agent-based land use modeling

Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

This thesis describes methods to model the land use component of an urban system. Specifi- cally, it proposes methods to model and simulate the location choice of agents (households or firms) and the formation of prices for real estate goods in a city. The ...

EPFL2012

On Sphere-Filling Ropes

Henryk Gerlach

What is the longest rope on the unit sphere? Intuition tells us that the answer to this packing problem depends on the rope's thickness. For a countably infinite number of prescribed thickness values we construct and classify all solution curves. The simpl ...

2011

A Behavioral and Neural Evaluation of Prospective Decision-Making under Risk

Making the best choice when faced with a chain of decisions requires a person to judge both anticipated outcomes and future actions. Although economic decision-making models account for both risk and reward in single-choice contexts, there is a dearth of s ...

2010