Publications related to Market analysis

Diffusion of connected and autonomous vehicles concerning mode choice, policy interventions and sustainability impacts: A system dynamics modelling study

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) have seen a rapid development over the past decade. However, wide diffusion of high level CAVs is still decades to come, and will depend on many technological, policy and public acceptance factors. Merging a traditio ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

High-Frequency Jump Analysis of the Bitcoin Market

Christopher Trevisan, Adrien Treccani

We use the database leak of Mt. Gox exchange to analyze the dynamics of the price of bitcoin from June 2011 to November 2013. This gives us a rare opportunity to study an emerging retail-focused, highly speculative and unregulated market with trader identi ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Assessment of Commercial Building Lighting as a Frequency Regulation Resource

Alexandra Cameron Karpilow

This paper evaluates the potential for automated lighting control as a resource for frequency regulation of the electric grid system in the context of current energy policies, economic incentives, and technological trends. The growing prevalence of renewab ...

2020

Model-based interpretation of floor vibrations for indoor occupant tracking

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Slah Drira

Information regarding occupant flows inside buildings is beneficial for applications such as thermal-load control, market research and security enhancement. Existing methodologies for occupant tracking involve data-driven techniques that rely either on rad ...

2019

Dimensionless correlations and performance maps of scroll expanders for micro-scale Organic Rankine Cycles

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Violette Mounier, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo, Luis Eric Olmedo Ocampo

In the endeavor towards distributed power systems, not seasonal-dependent micro-power generation technologies are expected to integrate the energy scenario in the years to come. In this context, the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in the (1e10) KWe scale has c ...

2018

Systemic evaluation of actions toward developing practical broadband applications for elderly and people with disabilities

Patrick Roe

The paper reports results of a structured democratic dialogue Co-Laboratory that aimed to explore actions that could alleviate obstacles preventing the development of practical broadband applications for elderly people and people with disabilities. Thirty- ...

Springer Verlag2017

Integrated Daylighting and Artificial Lighting Control based on High Dynamic Range Vision Sensors

Ali Motamed

One fifth of the electricity consumption of Swiss buildings is due to electric lighting. Integrated control of sun shading and artificial lighting can mitigate this demand while maintaining user comfort. However, the drawback of existing building control a ...

EPFL2017

Essays in Financial Economics

Christopher Trevisan

This thesis is structured in three chapters, each pertaining to a specific problem in financial economics. The first chapter, titled 'High-Frequency Jump Analysis of the Bitcoin Market' and co-authored with Prof. Olivier Scaillet and Adrien Treccani of the ...

EPFL2016

Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions

Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans, Aurélie Glerum, Lidija Stankovikj

In the context of the arrival of electric vehicles on the car market, new mathematical models are needed to understand and predict the impact on the market shares. This research provides a comprehensive methodology to forecast the demand of a technology wh ...

Informs2014

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

From Minds to Markets: How Human Capital Endowments Shape Market Opportunity Identification of Technology Start-Ups

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

The resource-based view suggests that firms' heterogeneous resource endowments are important for explaining interfirm performance differences. To date, however, the literature provides little insight on the factors that shape the identification of markets ...

Sage Publications Inc2012

Towards Cost Effective Multi-Core Processor Platforms Using 3-D Stacking Technology

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Giulia Beanato, Panagiotis Athanasopoulos

A novel modular, cost e ffective 3D multi-processor architecture is presented. Auto-configurable and independently testable identical dies are stacked exploiting Through-Silicon-Vias (TSV) technology, allowing to target different market segments by selecti ...

2012

Managing Electricity Sourcing in Europe's Energy Intensive Industry : A Methodology to Develop an Electricity Sourcing Strategy

Luis Treviño Villarreal

Several regulatory changes in Europe's electricity sector have stimulated competition in the market. National power companies, with monopolistic structures, have evolved into competitive entities, creating increased choices for consumers. Electricity price ...

EPFL2011

Product platform development : a functional approach considering customer preferences

Ali Saffarpour

Companies are valued by their market competitiveness. To be competitive in the market, companies have to respond to their customer requirements as best as possible. To this end, companies introduce new products to the market to better capture customer requ ...

EPFL2009

Cooperative Object Segmentation and Behavior Inference in Image Sequences

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Laura Ioana Gui

In this paper, we propose a general framework for fusing bottom-up segmentation with top-down object behavior inference over an image sequence. This approach is beneficial for both tasks, since it enables them to cooperate so that knowledge relevant to eac ...

2009

Neo-Rawlsian fringes: A new approach to market segmentation and new product development

Christopher Tucci

Prior research into the link between new product development and market segmentation has focused on two main approaches: (1) design, segment, and do limited competitive evaluation; and (2) segment first, design second. This paper proposes a third approach, ...

PDMA2008

Diversification into logistics : strategies for incumbent postal operators in Europe

Patrick Mollet

Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...

EPFL2008

How much room is left for European gas incumbents?

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In the context of the liberalization of the European natural gas market former monopolists face a challenge to react to market opening by realigning their strategies. Three major groups of companies can be identified that are capable to influence the Europ ...

2007