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Frihet, sikkerhet, forstaden: Brev fra Amerika

Why have countries formerly leading public policies of housing – Norway, the U.K., France, etc. – shifted towards privatizing accommodation from the late 1970s? Have these States merely let go of housing and handed it over to private interests in the name ...

2024

Spatial Layout Optimization. Guideline: Analysis

Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

The main objective of this project is to generate guidance for settlement planning on the optimisation of spatial designs in terms of: zoning, densification/decongestion, morphology of the built environment and strategic planning of public open space. Simi ...

EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022

Assessing motorcycle taxi activity in Cameroon using GPS devices

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós, Rémi Jaligot

The emergence of motorcycle taxis as a mode of urban transport in Africa can be seen as a bottom-up response to the larger problem of a demand that is not sufficiently met by public services. Transcending the debates regarding the relevance of this solutio ...

2019

The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim

This report describes a publicly available dataset of harmonic analyses of all Beethoven string quartets together with a new annotation scheme. ...

2018

Yes, no, maybe: the ambiguous relationship between State-owned Enterprise and the State

Matthias Finger, Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Liberalization and the introduction of sector-specific regulators has caused the position of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) of network industries to change not only within national economies, but also vis-a-vis their respective States. In response, many SO ...

Wiley_Blackwell2015

[DEMO] Tracking Texture-less, Shiny Objects with Descriptor Fields

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Kwang Moo Yi, Alberto Crivellaro, Yannick Verdie

Our demo demonstrates the method we published at CVPR this year for tracking specular and poorly textured objects, and lets the visitors experiment with it and with their own patterns. Our approach only requires a standard monocular camera (no need for a d ...

2014

Transformation of Water Governance and Legitimacy : Comparing Swiss, German and English Water Supply and Sanitation Service Providers

Eva Lieberherr

The public sector in Western Europe has experienced a shift from state-centric public governance to private and public-private governance since the end of the twentieth century. Debates in the political sciences have focused on whether a „higher‟ level of ...

EPFL2012

On the vulnerability Analysis against IEMI

Marcos Rubinstein, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Nicolas Mora Parra, Gaspard Lugrin

Vulnerability is estimated in terms of the effects that IEMI may induce to the services provided by the facility under study. We estimate the vulnerability by considering three variables: the likelihood, the risk, and the hardness. The different parameters ...

2012

En quête d'habitat : choix résidentiels et différenciation des modes de vie familiaux en Suisse

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

High Quality P2P Service Provisioning via Decentralized Trust Management

Hung Le Vu

Trust management is essential to fostering cooperation and high quality service provisioning in several peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. Among those applications are customer-to-customer (C2C) trading sites and markets of services implemented on top of cen ...

EPFL2010

Strategic options of energy service companies in competitive energy markets

Gustave Nguene

In this dissertation, I determine the strategic options of energy service companies active in urban areas. This work is developed considering the wider EU policy framework, namely a liberalised energy market, environmental protection and security of supply ...

EPFL2009

Specifying Services for ITIL Service Management

Gil Regev, François Maréchal, Alain Wegmann

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a collection of best practices for the management of IT services. ITIL helps organizations to become aware of the business value their IT services provide to internal and external stakeholders. Un ...

2008

On Wireless Social Community Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mark Felegyhazi, Julien Freudiger, Peter Marbach

Wireless social community networks are emerging as a new alternative to provide wireless data access in urban areas. By relying on users in the network deployment, a wireless community can rapidly deploy a high-quality data access infrastructure in an inex ...

2008

The eLogBook Framework: Sustaining Interaction, Collaboration, and Learning in Laboratory-Oriented CoPs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

Convinced by the important role of CoPs (communities of practice) and the innovative learning modality they offer, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is currently developing a framework to sustain interaction, collaboration, and learning in labor ...

2007

Co-ordination of local policies for urban development and public transportation in four Swiss cities

Vincent Kaufmann

The present article aims at assessing the possibility for urban areas to coordinate local policies of urban development and public transportation and at explaining the differences in this achievement between urban regions. In order to do so, the study draw ...

2006

Structural and Algorithmic Issues of Dynamic Protocol Update

André Schiper, Olivier Rütti

In this paper, we study dynamic protocol update (DPU). Contrary to local code updates on-the-fly, DPU requires global coordination of local code replacements. We propose a novel solution to DPU. The key idea is to add a level of indirection between the ser ...

2006