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Last-mile delivery in the logistics chain contributes to congestion in urban networks due to frequent stops. Crowd-shipping is a sustainable and low-cost alternative to traditional delivery but relies heavily on the availability of occasional couriers. In ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Scalable Multi-agent Coordination and Resource Sharing

Panayiotis Danassis

A plethora of real world problems consist of a number of agents that interact, learn, cooperate, coordinate, and compete with others in ever more complex environments. Examples include autonomous vehicles, robotic agents, intelligent infrastructure, IoT de ...

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OASE 108. Ups & Downs. Reception Histories in Architecture

Christophe van Gerrewey

What is good, less good, or bad architecture? This issue of OASE examines how shifting appreciations, for very diverse reasons, can function as a productive misunderstanding, and as a lever to advance architectural criticism and pry thinking about architec ...

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The formation of Coasean institutions to provide university knowledge for innovation: a case study and econometric evidence for Switzerland

Dominique Foray

"Coasean" institutions are an alternative institutional form that provides a solution to some market and coordination failures. As such they can weaken considerably the case for public subsidies in a vast range of context. They are "market-based" and an in ...

SPRINGER2021

Resting-State Brain Activity for Early Prediction Outcome in Postanoxic Patients in a Coma with Indeterminate Clinical Prognosis

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Discrete choice and machine learning: Thomson and Thompson?

Michel Bierlaire

Classification methods from machine learning are receiving a lot of attention in the transportation modelling community. This is motivated by the access to large databases, and to various success stories reported in this research community. Discrete choice ...

2019

Adversarially Robust Optimization with Gaussian Processes

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett, Ilija Bogunovic

In this paper, we consider the problem of Gaussian process (GP) optimization with an added robustness requirement: The returned point may be perturbed by an adversary, and we require the function value to remain as high as possible even after this perturba ...

2018

Adversarially Robust Optimization with Gaussian Processes

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett, Ilija Bogunovic

In this paper, we consider the problem of Gaussian process (GP) optimization with an added robustness requirement: The returned point may be perturbed by an adversary, and we require the function value to remain as high as possible even after this perturba ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

L'urbanisme de l'entre-deux : des pratiques de mobilité aux prises urbanistiques

Jade Rudler

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EPFL2018

Social Capital And Mutual Versus Public Benefit: The Case Of Renewable Energy Cooperatives

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

One potential major role of social economy organizations in sustainability transitions is the creation and mobilization of social capital. Yet, the social economy gathers very distinct organizational models which may be associated with different types and ...

Wiley2017

GeoAware: A Hybrid Indoor and Outdoor Localization Agent for Smart Buildings

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

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Ieee2016

Automatic Color Palette Creation from Words

Sabine Süsstrunk, Albrecht Johannes Lindner

We present an automatic framework to extract color palettes from words. This is a novel approach in comparison to existing solutions, e.g. manual creation or extraction from images. The associations between words and colors are deduced from a large databas ...

2013

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

Towards a global participatory platform Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence

Karl Aberer

The FuturICT project seeks to use the power of big data, analytic models grounded in complexity science, and the collective intelligence they yield for societal benefit. Accordingly, this paper argues that these new tools should not remain the preserve of ...

Springer Verlag2012

Corporate investment and financing under asymmetric information

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff

We develop a dynamic model of corporate investment and financing decisions in which corporate insiders have superior information about the firm's growth prospects. We show that firms with positive private information can credibly signal their type to outsi ...

2011

Optimal Channel Choice for Collaborative Ad-Hoc Dissemination

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Milan Vojnovic

Collaborative ad-hoc dissemination of information has been proposed as an efficient means to disseminate information among devices in a wireless ad-hoc network. Devices help in forwarding the information channels to the entire network, by disseminating the ...

2010

Information Percolation with Equilibrium Search Dynamics

Semyon Malamud, Darrell Duffie

We solve for the equilibrium dynamics of Information sharing in a large population Each agent is endowed with signals regarding the likely outcome of a random variable of common concern Individuals choose the effort with which they search for others from w ...

2009

Compiling generics through user-directed type specialization

Martin Odersky, Iulian Dragos

Compilation of polymorphic code through type erasure gives compact code but performance on primitive types is significantly hurt. Full specialization gives good performance, but at the cost of increased code size and compilation time. Instead we propose a ...

ACM2009

Voting on the Environment: Price or Ideology? Evidence from Swiss Referendums

Nicholas Bornstein

Studies on preferences for environmental quality usually posit that price and income explain most of the observed choices. However, we argue that conceptions of social norms and the common good are equally important when analyzing environmental voting outc ...

2008

Three essays on the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland

Nicholas Bornstein

The present thesis studies the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland. The first part of the thesis concentrates on citizens' demand for environmental quality at ballots. The analysis is guided by the public choice framework, which is rooted ...

EPFL2007