Publications related to Special termination for log canonical pairs

E-Scan: Consuming Contextual Data with Model Plugins

Extracting value and insights from increasingly heterogeneous data sources involves multiple systems combining and consuming the data. With multi-modal and context-rich data such as strings, text, videos, or images, the problem of standardizing the data mo ...

2023

A Research-Practice Partnership to Introduce Computer Science in Secondary School: Lessons from a Pilot Program

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Helena Kovacs

Context: Introducing Computer Science (CS) into formal education can be challenging, notably when considering the numerous stakeholders involved which include the students, teachers, schools, and policy makers. We believe these perspectives should be con ...

2023

Efficient Parsing with Derivatives and Zippers

Romain Edelmann

Parsing is the process that enables a computer system to make sense of raw data. Parsing is common to almost all computer systems: It is involved every time sequential data is read and elaborated into structured data. The theory of parsing usually focuses ...

EPFL2021

Individual differences in the Müller-Lyer and Ponzo illusions are stable across different contexts

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Vision scientists have attempted to classify visual illusions according to certain aspects, such as brightness or spatial features. For example, Piaget proposed that visual illusion magnitudes either decrease or increase with age. Subsequently, it was sugg ...

2020

The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

The participation of societal actors has been advanced as the gold standard of sustainability assessment processes and is thought essential to dealing with the plurality of normative claims surrounding sustainability and the need to take decisions in a con ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Towards housing sustainability: a framework for the decision-making process of tenants

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

The mismatch between the supply and demand of rental apartments in Switzerland represents an obstacle to the transition towards a more sustainable society. The difficulty for the housing providers to accommodate the fast societal change of the demand bring ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

IRGC Guidelines for the Governance of Systemic Risks

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu, Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

IRGC’s guidelines for the governance of systemic risks addresses the question of how to deal with systemic risks in the context of system transitions, i.e., in situations that require adaptation to new context conditions or transformation of an organisatio ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2018

Kazhdan's Property (T) and Property (FH) for measured groupoids

Christophe Michel Gippa

Introduced 50 years ago by David Kazhdan, Kazhdan's Property (T) has quickly become an active research area in mathematics, with a lot of important results. A few years later, this property has been generalized to discrete group actions by Robert J. Zimmer ...

EPFL2018

Simplicitly: Foundations and Applications of Implicit Function Types

Martin Odersky, Sandro Stucki, Olivier Eric Paul Blanvillain, Heather Christine Klug, Fengyun Liu

Understanding a program entails understanding its context; dependencies, configurations and even implementations are all forms of contexts. Modern programming languages and theorem provers offer an array of constructs to define contexts, implicitly. Scala ...

2017

Synthesis and Reactivity of 1-Allenyltriazenes

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Loïc Nicolas Jeanbourquin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

1-Aryl-3,3-dialkyltriazenes have received considerable attention in the context of synthetic and medicinal chemistry. In contrast, the chemistry of other unsaturated triazenes is largely unexplored. The synthesis of 1-allenyltriazenes is described. This ne ...

2017

Proactive Synthesis of Recursive Tree-to-String Functions from Examples

Viktor Kuncak, Mikaël Mayer, Jad Hamza

Synthesis from examples enables non-expert users to generate programs by specifying examples of their behavior. A domain-specific form of such synthesis has been recently deployed in a widely used spreadsheet software product. In this paper we contribute t ...

2017

Design and implementation of an optimizing type-centric compiler for a high-level language

Dmytro Petrashko

Production compilers for programming languages face multiple requirements. They should be correct, as we rely on them to produce code. They should be fast, in order to provide a good developer experience. They should also be easy to maintain and evolve. Th ...

EPFL2017

SLA: to Sign or Not to Sign

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

We present our experience of a three-week fieldwork in the form of a contextual inquiry with a service manager at the EPFL IT department. During these three weeks, we encounter a refusal of a user committee to sign a service-level agreement (SLA). We descr ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2016

Aggregation of Power Capabilities of Heterogeneous Resources for Real-Time Control of Power Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Andrey Bernstein, Wajeb Saab

Aggregation of electric resources is a fundamental function for the operation of power grids at different time scales. In the context of a recently proposed framework for the real-time control of microgrids with explicit power setpoints, we define and form ...

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy2016

Automating Grammar Comparison

Viktor Kuncak, Mikaël Mayer, Ravichandhran Kandhadai Madhavan

We consider from a practical perspective the problem of checking equivalence of context-free grammars. We present techniques for proving equivalence, as well as techniques for finding counter-examples that establish non-equivalence. Among the key building ...

2015

Energy-efficient Continuous Context Sensing on Mobile Phones

Julien Eberle

With the ever increasing adoption of smartphones worldwide, researchers have found the perfect sensor platform to perform context-based research and to prepare for context-based services to be also deployed for the end-users. However, continuous context se ...

EPFL2015

Constructing Context-Aware Sentiment Lexicons with an Asynchronous Game with a Purpose

Boi Faltings, Marina Boia, Claudiu-Cristian Musat

One of the reasons sentiment lexicons do not reach human-level performance is that they lack the contexts that define the polarities of words. While obtaining this knowledge through machine learning would require huge amounts of data, context is commonsens ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014

Pattern-wise trust assessment of sensor data

Karl Aberer, Mehdi Riahi, Robert Gwadera

One of the most important tasks of a sensor network (SN) is to detect occurrences of interesting events in the monitored environment. However, data measured by SN is often affected by errors. We investigate the problem of assessing trustworthiness (trust) ...

2014

Lewis Carroll on Architectural Meaning

Caroline Dionne

In the work of English author/mathematician/logician Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), questions of language and meaning constantly lurk beneath the surface. As a literary genre, Carroll’s nonsense has been shown to address changing theories of language ...

2014

Modeling an America's Cup Regatta as a Sequential Stochastic Game

Jean-Benoît Rossel

The main objective of this thesis is to model a regatta in the America’s Cup, and more precisely the first leg of the race, where the two competing sailboats have to move upwind. During the race, each crew attempts to be the first to reach the end of this ...

EPFL2013