Publications related to Collective action problem

Iterative Unbiasing of Quasi-Equilibrium Sampling

Michele Ceriotti, Bingqing Cheng, Gareth Aneurin Tribello, Federico Giberti

Atomistic modeling of phase transitions, chemical reactions, or other rare events that involve overcoming high free energy barriers usually entails prohibitively long simulation times. Introducing a bias potential as a function of an appropriately chosen s ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Quels horizons pour des communs agro-urbains ?

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

L’association des biens communs à la ville est le propre de ce début de siècle. Elle constitue un virage théorique marquant, particulièrement lisible dans le débat interdisciplinaire de ces dix dernières années. Ni son amplitude, ni ses retombées ne peuven ...

2019

Quels horizons pour des communs agro-urbains ?

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

L’association des biens communs à la ville est le propre de ce début de siècle. Elle constitue un virage théorique marquant, particulièrement lisible dans le débat interdisciplinaire de ces dix dernières années. Ni son amplitude, ni ses retombées ne peuven ...

2019

It Takes A Village To Sustain A Village: A Social Identity Perspective On Successful Community-Based Enterprise Creation

Christina Julia Hertel

This article examines the powerful yet overlooked role of community-based enterprises (CBEs)-enterprises that are collectively established, owned, and controlled by the members of a local community, for which they aim to generate economic, social, and/or e ...

2019

Entropy as a tool for crystal discovery

Pablo Miguel Piaggi

The computational prediction of crystal structures has emerged as an useful alternative to expensive and often cumbersome experiments. We propose an approach to the prediction of crystal structures and polymorphism based on reproducing the crystallization ...

EPFL2019

The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

Boris Thurm

Empirical evidence suggests that there exists substantial heterogeneity in individuals' social preferences. However, there is little theoretical basis supporting this observation and economic models often assume that all individuals are identical. Hence, t ...

EPFL2019

Adsorption Free Energy of Single Amino Acids at the Rutile (110)/ Water Interface Studied by Well-Tempered Metadynamics

Paul Bowen, Ulrich Aschauer, Azade Yazdan Yar

Single amino acids are present in blood plasma and are the building blocks of larger organic residues. Their interaction with surfaces is therefore crucial for biomedical applications in contact with blood. In this work, we use well-tempered metadynamics t ...

2018

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Participatory Modeling to Elicit Behavioral Drivers in Environmental Dilemmas: the Case of Air Pollution in Talca, Chile

Franziska Meinherz

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the exploration of environmental modeling methods based on the elicitation of stakeholders’ mental models. This aim is motivated by the necessity to understand the dilemmas and behavioral rationales of individuals ...

2018

Predicting polymorphism in molecular crystals using orientational entropy

Pablo Miguel Piaggi, Michele Parrinello

We introduce a computational method to discover polymorphs in molecular crystals at finite temperature. The method is based on reproducing the crystallization process starting from the liquid and letting the system discover the relevant polymorphs. This id ...

National Academy of Sciences2018

Free energies for rare events: Temperature accelerated MD and MC

Simone Meloni

In this article we review a set of methods for exploring the space of a set of collective variables, and to reconstruct the associated Landau free energy in presence of metastabilities: Temperature Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (TAMD), its extension, Temp ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

A diagnostic procedure for applying the social-ecological systems framework in diverse cases

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

The framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) framework of Elinor Ostrom is a multitier collection of concepts and variables that have proven to be relevant for understanding outcomes in diverse SES. The first tier of this f ...

Resilience Alliance2015

Bridging Static and Dynamical Descriptions of Chemical Reactions: An ab Initio Study of CO2 Interacting with Water Molecules

Wanda Andreoni, Fabio Pietrucci

Extracting reliable thermochemical parameters from molecular dynamics simulations of chemical reactions, although based on ab initio methods, is generally hampered by difficulties in reproducing the results and controlling the statistical errors. This is a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Reputation-based Estimation of Individual Performance in Collaborative and Competitive Grids

Hidden information is a critical issue for the successful delivery of services in grid systems. It arises when the agents (hardware and software resources) employed to serve a task belong to multiple administrative domains, thus rendering monitoring of rem ...

Elsevier2010