Publications related to Latency-aware Leader Election

Electromagnetic Radiation of Implantable Antennas

In the development of implantable bioelectronics, the establishment of efficient wireless RF links between implants and external nodes is crucial, providing substantial contributions to the advancement of medical diagnosis, therapies, and basic science. Im ...

EPFL2024

Genomics and conservation: Guidance from training to analyses and applications

Annie Sandrine Guillaume

Environmental change is intensifying the biodiversity crisis and threatening species across the tree of life. Conservation genomics can help inform conservation actions and slow biodiversity loss. However, more training, appropriate use of novel genomic me ...

Wiley2023

Model Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Systems under Limited Communication and Time-Varying Network Topology

Melanie Nicole Zeilinger, Danilo Saccani

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our motivation from ...

IEEE2023

State-of-the-art of data collection, analytics, and future needs of transmission utilities worldwide to account for the continuous growth of sensing data

Mario Paolone, Michael Ingram, Panagiotis Papadopoulos

Nowadays, transmission system operators require higher degree of observability in real-time to gain situational awareness and improve the decision-making process to guarantee a safe and reliable operation. Digitalization of energy systems allows utilities ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

An Exploratory Study of Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Xinyang Lu

The widespread use of bots to support software development makes social coding platforms such as GitHub a particularly rich source of data for the study of human-bot interaction. Software development bots are used to automate repetitive tasks, interacting ...

ACM2022

Uncooperative Rendezvous in Space: Design of an Electronic Architecture for High Performance Avionic with Multi Sensor Input and Intensive Data Rate

Michaël Yannick Juillard

Active Debris Removal missions consist of sending a satellite in space and removing one or more debris from their current orbit. A key challenge is to obtain information about the uncooperative target. By gathering the velocity, position, and rotation of t ...

EPFL2022

An Integrated Approach to Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

Despite the rise in services generating learning analytics, there is a lack of standard models and guidelines for data integration and aggregation to inform the design choices of applications supporting learning analytics. We propose a bottom-up, user-driv ...

2021

An End-to-End Data Pipeline for Managing Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Juan Carlos Farah

Despite the importance of learning analytics in digital education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data while complying with ethical and privacy legislation. We propose a set of related tool ...

2021

Radial Scope: A New Visualization Tool for Structure-Data Relationships

Communication of data associated with chemical structures in a concise fashion can be challenging. Here, we describe an alternative to the classic substrate table that integrates numerical data with struttural changes. These radial-scopeplots facilitate th ...

2020

Understanding Computational Costs of Cellular-Level Brain Tissue Simulations Through Analytical Performance Models

Felix Schürmann, Francesco Cremonesi

Computational modeling and simulation have become essential tools in the quest to better understand the brain's makeup and to decipher the causal interrelations of its components. The breadth of biochemical and biophysical processes and structures in the b ...

HUMANA PRESS INC2020

Data for Urban Scale Building Energy Modelling: Assessing Impacts and Overcoming Availability Challenges

François Maréchal, Solène Goy

Data are essential to urban building energy models and yet, obtaining sufficient and accurate building data at a large-scale is challenging. Previous studies have highlighted that the data impact on urban case studies has not been sufficiently discussed. T ...

2020

Materials Cloud, a platform for open computational science

Sebastiaan Philippe Huber, Nicola Marzari, Fernando Gargiulo, Giovanni Pizzi, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Berend Smit, Martin Uhrin, Snehal Pramod Kumbhar, Spyros Zoupanos, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Elsa Passaro, Casper Welzel Andersen, Daniele Passerone

Materials Cloud is a platform designed to enable open and seamless sharing of resources for computational science, driven by applications in materials modelling. It hosts (1) archival and dissemination services for raw and curated data, together with their ...

2020

Unfolding the prospects of computational (bio)materials modeling

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

In this perspective communication, we briefly sketch the current state of computational (bio)material research and discuss possible solutions for the four challenges that have been increasingly identified within this community: (i) the desire to develop a ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Cooperative Data Exchange and Private Information Retrieval

Su Li

Coding techniques have been well studied and used for improving communication quality by combating noise and mitigating interference. Recently, it has been shown that the same coding techniques can also be exploited to further improve communication perform ...

EPFL2020

Electromagnetic Time Reversal: Theory, Application to Fault Location in Power Networks and Experimental Validation

Zhaoyang Wang

The time-reversal invariance is readily described and universally embodied in most laws of nature, either in a strict or in a soft sense. Based on this underlying physical principle, time-reversal theory has been theoretically and experimentally studied in ...

EPFL2020

Analytics for learning design: A layered framework and tools

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

The field of learning design studies how to support teachers in devising suitable activities for their students to learn. The field of learning analytics explores how data about students' interactions can be used to increase the understanding of learning e ...

2019

Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools

Patrick Jermann, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Although it is frequently claimed that learning analytics can improve self-evaluation and self-regulated learning by students, most learning analytics tools appear to have been developed as a response to existing data rather than with a clear pedagogical m ...

2020

Using Educational Data From Teaching And Learning To Inform Teachers’ Reflective Educational Design In Inquiry-Based STEM Education

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognized as a top priority for school education worldwide and Inquiry-based teaching and learning is identified as one of the most dominant approaches. To effectively engage individual ...

2019

Bits through Time

Elie Najm

In any communication system, there exist two dimensions through which the information at the source becomes distorted before reaching the destination: the noisy channel and time. Messages transmitted through a noisy channel are susceptible to modification ...

EPFL2019

Efficient Query Processing for Spatial and Temporal Data Exploration

Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou

Core to many scientific and analytics applications are spatial data capturing the position or shape of objects in space, and time series recording the values of a process over time. Effective analysis of such data requires a shift from confirmatory pipelin ...

EPFL2019