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Social Inclusion: A Multidisciplinary Design Approach

This article shows the design of an assistive product and a proposal of a business plan for persons with motor disability in lower-limbs, in accordance with the guidelines for social inclusion of the World Health Organization (2001). The design project wit ...

2012

Comparison-Based Learning with Rank Nets

Amin Karbasi

We consider the problem of search through comparisons, where a user is presented with two candidate objects and reveals which is closer to her intended target. We study adaptive strategies for finding the target, that require knowledge of rank relationship ...

2012

Tell Me Your Ads and I'll Tell You Who You Are

Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu

Google AdSense, one of the most popular Online Advertise Networks, uses a mix of two techniques to deliver ads: contextual ads and behavioral ads, but it is not clear when or how much of the both they actually use. In this work, we raise several concerns r ...

2012

Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions

Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans, Aurélie Glerum, Lidija Stankovikj

In the context of the arrival of electric vehicles on the car market, new mathematical models are needed to understand and predict the impact on the market shares. This research provides a comprehensive methodology to forecast the demand of a technology wh ...

2012

The S2E Platform: Design, Implementation, and Applications

George Candea, Vitaly Chipounov, Volodymyr Kuznetsov

This article presents S2E, a platform for analyzing the properties and behavior of software systems, along with its use in developing tools for comprehensive performance profiling, reverse engineering of proprietary software, and automated testing of kerne ...

2012

Grouping, pooling, and when bigger is better in visual crowding

Michael Herzog, Bilge Sayim, Mauro Manassi

In crowding, perception of a target is strongly deteriorated by nearby elements. Crowding is often explained by pooling models predicting that adding flankers increases crowding. In contrast, the centroid hypothesis proposes that adding flankers decreases ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2012

Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation

Jana Thiel

Starting a new venture is arguably an exciting journey into previously unknown territories. Since entrepreneurs, through their economic activities, are central to social prosperity, academic research has a strong interest to understand who those entreprene ...

EPFL2012

Assessing ICT-enabled Innovation for Governance and Policy Making

The objective of the thesis is to deepen the understanding of the interplay between ICT-enabled innovation and governance by providing evidence of the changes they are producing on governance processes and policy making mechanisms. Moreover, the thesis aim ...

EPFL2012

Cutting Down the Energy Consumed by Domestic Robots: Insights from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard

The market of domestic service robots, and especially vacuum cleaners, has kept growing during the past decade. According to the International Federation of Robotics, more than 1 million units were sold worldwide in 2010. Currently, there is no in-depth an ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

Spam Fighting in Social Tagging Systems

Touradj Ebrahimi, Sasan Yazdani, Ivan Ivanov

Tagging in online social networks is very popular these days, as it facilitates search and retrieval of diverse resources available online. However, noisy and spam annotations often make it difficult to perform an efficient search. Users may make mistakes ...

Springer-Verlag2012