Publications related to Actor–network theory

Assessing Technology Adoption in the European Air Traffic Management: The Cases of Virtual Centre and Flight-Centric Operations

This research focuses on emerging technologies in the European air traffic management (ATM), specifically investigating technology adoption by the main stakeholders. The European ATM consists of a highly fragmented aviation infrastructure, built and manage ...

EPFL2020

Computational pipeline to probe NaV1.7 gain-of-function variants in neuropathic painful syndromes

Stefano Zamuner, Margherita Marchi

Applications of machine learning and graph theory techniques to neuroscience have witnessed an increased interest in the last decade due to the large data availability and unprecedented technology developments. Their employment to investigate the effect of ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

A Measure of Dynamical Efficiency for Multimodal Interconnected Urban Systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Leonardo Bellocchi

Complex network theory describes network performance mostly based on topological characteristics, like betweenness centrality. This work integrates concepts from complex networks and traffic engineering. We propose a new measure for spatial networks and, i ...

2020

The politics of participation in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an analysis of knowledge, values and power at the science-society interface

Livia Bianca Fritz

Problem. In the field of sustainability, scholars and policy-makers herald the transformative power of participation in transdisciplinary (TD) research. The increasing use of TD in science policy is rooted in the expectation that involving practitioners in ...

EPFL2020

Whose knowledge, whose values? An empirical analysis of power in transdisciplinary sustainability research

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz

The participation of practitioners in transdisciplinary sustainability research has been heralded as a promising tool for producing ‘robust’ knowledge and engendering societal transformations. Although transdisciplinary approaches have been advanced as an ...

2020

The key player problem in complex oscillator networks and electric power grids: Resistance centralities identify local vulnerabilities

Philippe René Joseph Jacquod, Melvyn Sandy Tyloo

Identifying key players in coupled individual systems is a fundamental problem in network theory. We investigate synchronizable network-coupled dynamical systems such as high-voltage electric power grids and coupled oscillators on complex networks. We defi ...

2019

Medialab stories: how to align actor network theory and digital methods

Dominique Georges Léon Boullier

The history of laboratories may become controversial in social sciences. In this paper, the story of Sciences Po Médialab told by Venturini et al. is discussed and completed by demonstrating the incoherence in the choice of digital methods at the Médialab ...

2018

(De‑)Constructing Participation at the Science‑Policy Interface: A Critical Inquiry

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz

This contribution puts the spotlight on participation of heterogeneous actors and diverse forms of expertise in knowledge production and its implications for governance of complex problems. With regard to tackling complex ‘global’ problems, multifaceted de ...

2017

Decoding urban development dynamics through actor-network methodological approach

Jean-Claude Bolay, Marija Cvetinovic

Due to growing social and physical transformations, contemporary cities reveal the profound necessity of proper scientific approaches that are adjusted to conditions of global complexity and dynamic patterns of development. Predominance of an overall marke ...

2017

“It’s an Endurance Race” An Indicator-Based Resilience Analysis of the Energy Transition in the Allgäu Region, Bavaria

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

The energy transition currently taking place in Germany is recognised as being one of the most ambitious socio-technical transitions at the present time. Scholars have so far mostly studied the resilience of the current or future state of the energy system ...

Oekom Verlag2017

From recommender systems to spatio-temporal dynamics with network science

Kirell Maël Benzi

Networks are data structures that are fundamental for capturing and analyzing complex interactions between objects. While they have been used for decades to solve problems in virtually all scientific fields, their usage for data analysis in real-world prac ...

EPFL2017

Three Essays on Methodologies for Dynamic Modeling of Emerging Socio-technical Systems : The Case of Smart Grid Development

Mohammad Amin Dehdarian

Socio-technical energy transitions are long-term and major transformations in incumbent energy infrastructures. They include fundamental changes in technologies as well as institutions and social patterns. Transition studies are primarily focused on framew ...

EPFL2017

Geomorphic controls on elevational gradients of species richness

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt

Elevational gradients of biodiversity have been widely investigated, and yet a clear interpretation of the biotic and abiotic factors that determine how species richness varies with elevation is still elusive. In mountainous landscapes, habitats at differe ...

Natl Acad Sciences2016

Second-order asymptotics for the Gaussian MAC with degraded message sets

Jonathan Mark Scarlett

This paper studies the second-order asymptotics of the Gaussian multiple-access channel with degraded message sets. For a fixed average error probability epsilon is an element of (0, 1) and an arbitrary point on the boundary of the capacity region, we char ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Analyse des réseaux de personnages dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Frédéric Kaplan, Yannick Rochat

Cet article étudie le concept de centralité dans les réseaux de personnages apparaissant dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Notre objectif est ainsi de caractériser certains aspects des rôles des personnages du récit sur la base de leurs cooccu ...

2014

Structural connectomics in brain diseases

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandra Griffa, Patric Hagmann, Philipp Baumann

Imaging the connectome in vivo has become feasible through the integration of several rapidly developing fields of science and engineering, namely magnetic resonance imaging and in particular diffusion MRI on one side, image processing and network theory o ...

Elsevier2013

Approximation for Problems in Multi-User Information Theory

Soheil Mohajerzefreh

The main goal in network information theory is to identify fundamental limits of communication over networks, and design solutions which perform close to such limits. After several decades of effort, many important problems still do not have a characteriza ...

EPFL2010

Complex networks : from biological applications to exact theoretical solutions

Cécile Caretta Cartozo

The last decade has witnessed a fundamental change in the role of network theory. Side by side with the increasing relevance of interdisciplinarity, this ensemble of mathematical tools and methods has known such a success and such a wide range of different ...

EPFL2009