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Spatial Modeling for Building Design Evaluation: from Visual Landscape Quality Assessment to Devaluation Risk Estimation

Zoning reform is a crucial tool for cities to adapt to contemporary challenges. However, its implementation remains challenging. Property owners, with a vested interest in the value of their neighborhoods, are sensitive to local developments and the potent ...

EPFL2024

Rödabergsområdet: a verdant small town idyll within the city

Chiara Monterumisi

On the rocky peaks of the hilly area in north-western outskirts Stockholm, more than forty architects gave their contribution to approximately 2,500 dwelling units comprising the neighbourhood so-called Rödabergsområdet, which corresponds to one of the lon ...

2021

Deep Reinforcement Learning for room temperature control: a black-box pipeline from data to policies

Colin Neil Jones, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Loris Di Natale

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) recently emerged as a possibility to control complex systems without the need to model them. However, since weeks long experiments are needed to assess the performance of a building controller, people still have to rely on ...

2021

Essays on Mortgage Supply in a Low Rate Environment and Gender Effects of Covid-19

After the financial crisis, policy rates in the major advanced economies have moved downwards to near/below zero. Some countries have experienced an increase in house prices and an expansion of mortgages. Also, there have been considerable changes in the m ...

EPFL2021

Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza

The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-base ...

2019

La fragmentation de l’espace urbain postsocialiste en Albanie

Alain Nicolas Jarne

After 30 years of controlled and decentralized urban development, the Albanian urban space has gone through a brutal transition. At the fall of the regime in 1991, the network of small and medium-sized cities set up during communism initially survived, at ...

2019

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

2018

Learning to See through Reflections

Sabine Süsstrunk

"Pictures of objects behind a glass are difficult to interpret" "and understand due to the superposition of two real images: a reflection layer and a background layer. Separation of these two layers is challenging due to the ambiguities in as- signing text ...

IEEE2018

The total benefit of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios

Anna Slavutskaya

Pension funds only quite recently have explored alternative assets, prodded by financial crises that devastated equity returns and led to low bond returns. We assess the addition of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios in terms of the total benefi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Energy Efficiency Valuation and Mortgage's Implicit Insurance

Philippe Bélanger

This thesis has two objectives. The first objective is to better understand the value of energy efficiency in buildings and its relationship to secondary market real estate prices. The second objective is to understand the cost of the implied insurance inc ...

EPFL2015

Growth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing

Jeffrey Huang

The unprecedented speed of urbanization in Asia calls for a fundamental rethinking of urbanism. Conventional master plans typically propose a single static ‘end’ condition derived from top-down visions, often incapable of responding to site-specific microc ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2015

Simulation and HRI -- Recent Perspectives with the MORSE Simulator

Séverin Lemaignan

Simulation in robotics is often a love-hate relationship: while simulators do save us a lot of time and effort compared to regular deployment of complex software architectures on complex hardware, simulators are also known to evade many (if not most) of th ...

2014

Generalized Bombieri-Lagarias' Theorem And Generalized Li'S Criterion With Its Arithmetic Interpretation

Serguei Sekatski

We show that Li's criterion equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis, i.e., the statement that the sums k(n) = Sigma(rho)(1-(1-1/rho)(n)) over zeros of the Riemann xi-function and the derivatives lambda(n) equivalent to 1/(n-1)! d(n)/dz(n)(z(n-1) ln (xi(z)))ve ...

Springer Verlag2014

Innovation as Paradigm : the CAF, 15th Arrondissement, Paris (1953-2008)

Giulia Marino

Raymond Lopez and Michel Holley's superlative scheme for the Caisse Centrale d’Allocations Familiales de la Région Parisienne (CCAFRP, shortened to CAF) was the talk of the town on its inauguration in 1959 . A “pioneering edifice”, hailed as “the first ful ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2012

Discrete choice and microsimulation methods for agent-based land use modeling

Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

This thesis describes methods to model the land use component of an urban system. Specifi- cally, it proposes methods to model and simulate the location choice of agents (households or firms) and the formation of prices for real estate goods in a city. The ...

EPFL2012

A state-action neural network supervising navigation and manipulation behaviors for complex task reproduction

Aude Billard, Florent D'Halluin

In this abstract, we combine work from [Lagarde et al., 2010] and [Calinon et al., 2009] for learning and reproduction of, respectively, navigation tasks on a mobile robot and gestures with a robot arm. Both approaches build a sensory motor map under human ...

2010

Rheophysics of concentrated particle suspensions in a Couette cell using a refractive index matching technique

Sébastien Wiederseiner

The main objective of this work is to gain insight into the rheometry and rheology of concentrated non-colloidal particle suspensions. Among the many questions that have as yet received little answers, we are especially interested in the rheometric problem ...

EPFL2010

Modelling Complex Fenestration Systems using physical and virtual models

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Anothai Thanachareonkit

Physical or virtual models are commonly used to visualize the conceptual ideas of architects, lighting designers and researchers; they are also employed to assess the daylighting performance of buildings, particularly in cases where Complex Fenestration Sy ...

2010

Real estate issues : portfolio diversification, pricing and time-on-market

Matthieu Dulguerov

This thesis discusses the difficulties of pricing real estate by using the existing financial economic theory and investigates an alternative approach in order to take into account the 'unique' nature of real estate risk. It consists of three essays placin ...

EPFL2009

Real estate and portfolio risk: an analysis based on copula functions

Matthieu Dulguerov

This article examines the risk-return trade-off of a mixed-asset portfolio that includes real estate using copula functions. In particular, it analyses the role of direct as opposed to securitised real estate in terms of diversification when the dependence ...

Taylor & Francis2009