Publications associées à Policy studies

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

Evaluation and digitalization: what are the key challenges for evaluation processes and evaluators?

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Public policy evaluation has traditionally been conducted in a context constrained by legal, institutional and political red tape. The arrival of digitalisation adds a new layer to public policy evaluation processes. Assessing the quality of technologies, ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2023

The Economics of Incomplete Plan - on Conditions, Procedures and Design of Future Mission - Oriented Innovation Policies

Dominique Foray

The buzzword in industrial policy and innovation policy circles is mission-oriented innovation policy (MOIP) -which means a policy to encourage innovation intended to accomplish a certain missionwhether it be a societal challenge (climate change, global he ...

INST ESTUDIOS FISCALES2022

Environmental policies: designing acceptable road pricing and voluntary waste sorting schemes

Linda Melina Tesauro

Growing urban population implies many challenges for the municipalities in terms of mobility, housing, waste management or infrastructures. Public policies are thus needed to ensure a sustainable development. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze ...

EPFL2022

From Marshall Plan to “Hilton in the wild”: The Transnational History of a Cooperative Housing Block in Esat, Ankara

Sila Karatas

This paper concerns the planning, design, and construction history of a postwar multifamily housing block in Ankara, Turkey, viewed from the perspective of the transnational and local networks behind its realization. Built by the Mintrak Building Cooperati ...

2022

Proximal Point Imitation Learning

Volkan Cevher, Luca Viano, Igor Krawczuk, Angeliki Kamoutsi

This work develops new algorithms with rigorous efficiency guarantees for infinite horizon imitation learning (IL) with linear function approximation without restrictive coherence assumptions. We begin with the minimax formulation of the problem and then o ...

2022

Multiagent Fully Decentralized Value Function Learning With Linear Convergence Rates

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan, Lucas Cesar Eduardo Cassano

This article develops a fully decentralized multiagent algorithm for policy evaluation. The proposed scheme can be applied to two distinct scenarios. In the first scenario, a collection of agents have distinct datasets gathered by following different behav ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Exploring policy change through agent-based simulation

Raphaël Klein

Policymaking is a complex process that has been studied using policy process theories almost exclusively. These theories have been built using a large number of qualitative cases. Such methods are useful for theory building but remain limited for theory ex ...

EPFL2021

What determines the attitude-behavior link when voting on renewable energy policies? The roles of problem perception and policy design

Philippe Thalmann

This chapter sheds light on the paradox between the general perception of climate change related problems and resistance to measures addressing it, namely the support of renewable energy policies at the ballot box. Using conjoint analyses, we investigate t ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2021

Optimal Adversarial Policies in the Multiplicative Learning System With a Malicious Expert

Negar Kiyavash, Seyed Jalal Etesami

We consider a learning system based on the conventional multiplicative weight ( MW) rule that combines experts' advice to predict a sequence of true outcomes. It is assumed that one of the experts is malicious and aims to impose the maximum loss on the sys ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control

Marcel Salathé

Digital contact tracing is a relevant tool to control infectious disease outbreaks, including the COVID-19 epidemic. Early work evaluating digital contact tracing omitted important features and heterogeneities of real-world contact patterns influencing con ...

Nature Research2021

Prepare Scientists to Engage in Science‐Policy

Julia Schmale

There is a dire need for deeper science‐policy engagement to face recent developments such as entering into the Anthropocene and our dependence as a species on technological and scientific advancements. However, there is a lack of preparedness and training ...

2020

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

Dynamic prediction-based relocation policies in one-way station-based carsharing systems with complete journey reservations

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Burak Boyaci, Martin Jean Marie Joseph Repoux, Mor Kaspi

In this paper, we study the operations of a one-way station-based carsharing system implementing a complete journey reservation policy. We consider the percentage of served demand as a primary performance measure and analyze the effect of several dynamic s ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Distributed Value-Function Learning with Linear Convergence Rates

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan, Lucas Cesar Eduardo Cassano

In this paper we develop a fully decentralized algorithm for policy evaluation with off-policy learning and linear function approximation. The proposed algorithm is of the variance reduced kind and achieves linear convergence with O(1) memory requirements. ...

IEEE2019

Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector

Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Global energy systems are changing rapidly. This energy transition complicates the use of traditional policy analysis methods. However, proper policy analysis and design is essential in managing the transition. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approa ...

EPFL2019

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

Franziska Meinherz, Rafael Laurenti

The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practi ...

2019

Smart specialization strategies as a case of mission-oriented policy – a case study on the emergence of new policy practices

Dominique Foray

This article involves a conceptual evaluation of a large-scale innovation policy experiment—so-called smart specialization strategies (S3s)—that took place within the framework of the European regional cohesion programs between 2011 and the present. The go ...

2018

A New Look at Civic Design: Park Systems in America

Matthew Skjonsberg

A New Look at Civic Design reflects on the nature of the various crises facing the very idea of democracy today, explicitly in relation to climate change - namely mass extinctions, water scarcity and overabundance, and in general widespread and increasing ...

EPFL2018

Indicators for measuring the contributions of individual knowledge brokers

An increasing number of knowledge brokers work at the interface between research, policy and practice. Their function is to facilitate processes to foster mutual learning among research, policy and practice. For some knowledge brokers, practical methodolog ...

2018