Publications related to Social structure

Resistances to change in urban travel behaviors

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

The social discourse surrounding the climate emergency progressively infuses the society, transforming into both micro- and macro-social injunctions to change. Yet, society - grounded in a territorial, social, and cultural contingency - appears to resist t ...

EPFL2023

La mécanique sociale des mobilités. Enquête sur les inégalités de déplacements quotidiens dans trois espaces frontaliers européens

Alexis Gumy

At the crossroads of transportation engineering and urban sociology, the dissertation deciphers the interactions between daily mobility and social inequalities, what I call the "social mechanics of mobility". To do so, I draw on a twofold survey, both quan ...

EPFL2023

Optimal Matching of Random Parts

Thomas Alois Weber

This paper examines the minimization of the cost for an expected random production output, given an assembly of finished goods from two random inputs, matched in two categories. We describe the optimal input portfolio, first using the standard normal appro ...

2022

Resilience and agency in mature sustainability transitions. Theoretical conceptualisation and empirical analysis of actor- & system-level dynamics in sociotechnical energy systems

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

In Switzerland, Germany and Austria, as in many European countries, the transition of the energy sector towards more sustainability is a long-term transition process, unfolding since decades. It however only reached the regime level in recent years and the ...

EPFL2019

Socioeconomic characterization of regions through the lens of individual financial transactions

Emanuele Massaro

People are increasingly leaving digital traces of their daily activities through interacting with their digital environment. Among these traces, financial transactions are of paramount interest since they provide a panoramic view of human life through the ...

2017

Mapping and classifying molecules from a high-throughput structural database

Michele Ceriotti, Félix Benedito Clément Musil, Sandip De, Teresa Ingram, Carsten Baldauf

High-throughput computational materials design promises to greatly accelerate the process of discovering new materials and compounds, and of optimizing their properties. The large databases of structures and properties that result from computational search ...

Biomed Central Ltd2017

Hydration of multi-component cements containing cement clinker, slag, calcareous fly ash and limestone

Pawel Tadeusz Durdzinski

Calcareous fly ashes are high-potential reactive supplementary cementitious materials, which present an interesting alternative to slowly reacting siliceous fly ashes and to slags, which availability is more and more limited. Themain factor against an accu ...

EPFL2016

SAFE: Structure-aware Facade Editing

Mark Pauly, Duygu Ceylan, Boris Neubert, Ngoc Minh Dang

Many man-made objects, in particular building facades, exhibit dominant structural relations such as symmetry and regularity. When editing these shapes, a common objective is to preserve these relations. However, often there are numerous plausible editing ...

Blackwell Publishing2014

Inferring Social Ties in Academic Networks Using Short-Range Wireless Communications

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Murtuza Jadliwala, Valtteri Niemi, Florent Lopez

WiFi base stations are increasingly deployed in both public spaces and private companies, and the increase in their density poses a significant threat to the privacy of connected users. Prior studies have provided evidence that it is possible to infer the ...

2013

The dynamics of multifaceted gentrification. A comparative analysis of the trajectories of six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France region

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marie-Paule Thomas

In this article, we propose to examine the diversity of gentrification trajectories taken by six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France Region. To apprehend the dynamics of the different gentrification processes, we investigate the manner in which changes in ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Interaction maximization and the observed distribution of urban populations: An agent-based model of humanity's metric condition

Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet, André Ourednik, Antonio Da Cunha, Jean-Bernard Racine

The very existence of urban formations on all inhabited continents and throughout the history of mankind since the 3rd millennium B.C. leads to suppose a tendency of some structured societies to maximize interaction by minimizing physical distance. Were th ...

2007

Web-based interaction and collaboration in felxible engineering education : an artifact-based approach

Anh Vu Nguyen Ngoc

This research work falls on a multidisciplinary domain, where there is a cross feeding between Computer, Information Sciences and Cognitive Sciences. This PhD dissertation has focused on the interaction and collaboration issues in Web-based experimentation ...

EPFL2006