Publications associées à Resource-Aware Asynchronous Multi-Agent Coordination via Self-Triggered MPC

The cis-lunar ecosystem — A systems model and scenarios of the resource industry and its impact

Lunar resources is one of the many new putative business models that may transform space logistics. Yet it competes with Earth-based resources, in a complex trade-off involving both tech development & socioeconomic dynamics. This study models the size vs. ...

2021

Upcycling Space Structures (Preface to special issue)

Olivier Baverel, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

The construction industry’s contribution to the deterioration of Earth’s ecosystem is huge. 11% of all anthropic greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are due to the construction, demolition, and transformation of buildings and infrastructure. Construction an ...

2021

OUR COMMON SOILS: West Lausanne Urbanization as Anthropedogenesis, A Section through the Spaces and Times of Urban Soils

Antoine Vialle

Motivated by ever-increasing soil degradation and artificialization due to past and present urban growth dynamics, the current trend of spatial planning policies at the European and Swiss levels is promoting increased soil protection, by avoiding new devel ...

EPFL2021

Contrasting Leaf Trait Responses of Conifer and Broadleaved Seedlings to Altered Resource Availability Are Linked to Resource Strategies

Yan Li Zhang, Christoph Bachofen

(1) Understanding tree seedling responses to water, nutrient, and light availability is crucial to precisely predict potential shifts in composition and structure of forest communities under future climatic conditions. (2) We exposed seedlings of widesprea ...

2020

New resource assessment characterization factors for rare earth elements: applied in NdFeB permanent magnet case study

Jérôme Payet

Purpose Rare earth elements (REEs) are among the most critical raw materials with a high supply risk. Despite their criticality, REEs are not covered by any resource Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) Methods. The main purpose of the current study is to t ...

2019

Articulating natural resources and sustainable development goals through green economy indicators: A systematic analysis

Bruno Maria Camelo Oberle, Ian Gunderson, Albert Merino, Marta Giulia Baldi

Natural Resources are essential inputs for economic and social development. However, unsustainable resource use has led to environmental degradation and resource depletion, endangering the well-being of humanity and the environment. The 2030 Agenda for Sus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Global Resource Indicator for life cycle impact assessment: Applied in wind turbine case study

Different methodological approaches under Life Cycle Assessment framework are used so far to address the impact of resource depletion. However, they provide partial visions, based on limited available data, and do not reflect resource related aspects. The ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a "Horizontal Metropolis"

Elena Cogato Lanza, Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Chiara Cavalieri, Christian Arnsperger

In light of the rapid population growth forecast for the coming years and the powerful transformations already occurring throughout its whole territory, today's Switzerland stands in urgent need of critical reflection on its urban future. A novel set of co ...

Cogitatio Press2017

Algorithmic Resource Verification

Ravichandhran Kandhadai Madhavan

Static estimation of resource utilisation of programs is a challenging and important problem with numerous applications. In this thesis, I present new algorithms that enable users to specify and verify their desired bounds on resource usage of functional p ...

EPFL2017

Multiple resources and their sustainable development in Urban Underground Space

Aurèle Parriaux, Huanqing Li, Chao Liu

Traffic congestion and ground space scarcity are increasing the need to find more space in the urban underground. The demand-driven "top-down" planning of Urban Underground Space (UUS) is common worldwide. As natural resource, the endowments of UUS are dif ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing

Sean Lewis Hill

A central tenet in support of research reproducibility is the ability to uniquely identify research resources, i.e., reagents, tools, and materials that are used to perform experiments. However, current reporting practices for research resources are insuff ...

2015

Empirical Performance Evaluation of Data Dissemination Mechanisms for Spot Applications

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Adel Aziz, Alaeddine El Fawal

We evaluate, by measurements on a real testbed, the performance of networking services required for spot applications. We call a “spot application” an application for smartphones (such as “Ad-hoc Flash Sales”) that disseminates information in a local neigh ...

2012

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Grégory François, Anastasia Ailamaki, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data, paying the price for the infrastructure they use. Cloud management nece ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Grégory François, Anastasia Ailamaki, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data, paying the price for the infrastructure they use. Cloud management nece ...

2011

Configurations of Resources & Capabilities and their Performance Implications: An Exploratory Study on Technology Ventures

Marc Gruber

As one of the most widely accepted theoretical perspectives in strategy, the resource-based view (RBV) suggests that a firm's resources underlie its ability to achieve competitive advantage. However, much of the extant work in this stream has examined the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Technological innovation strategy in natural resource based industries

Bettina Lynda Bastian

This thesis analyses innovation and technology strategy within a primary industry, notably the upstream oil and gas industry. Industries that exploit and produce finite natural resources are challenged by specific external risks that do not receive much at ...

EPFL2009

Enabling Adaptive Video Streaming in P2P Systems

Pascal Frossard, Jean-Paul Wagner, Dan Jurca

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to deliver large amounts of data at a reduced deployment cost. While P2P systems foster the development of novel media applications, they also represent an interesting altern ...

2007