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Object-oriented modelling of advanced computer cooling solutions

Modern computing systems are so energy- intensive to make efficient cooling vital for their operation. This is giving rise to a variety of innovative cooling solutions based on a mix of traditional and new techniques. The design and engineering of these so ...

Elsevier2023

Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring is a useful technique to monitor the health of a structure continuously, helping to prevent potential failure. AE are elastic waves produced and emitted during fracture processes inside a material and are recorded by senso ...

DESTech publications inc.2023

Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-Shelf Hardware and Free Software

Paolo Prandoni, Eric Bezzam, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

In this paper we describe our approach to teaching applied digital signal processing (DSP) using freely-available software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware components. The pedagogical framework is built around simple real-time audio processing algori ...

IEEE2019

Quantifying the spatial pattern of landscapes has become a common task of many studies in landscape ecology. Most of the existing software to compute landscape metrics is not well suited to be used in interactive environments such as Jupyter notebooks nor ...

2019

The main goals of this thesis pertain to the development of a device capable of detecting microorganism viability through monitoring the oscillations of a microscopic cantilever transducer, to improve the presently used device and to attempt to explain in ...

EPFL2019

Trustworthy Biometric Verification under Spoofing Attacks

Ivana Chingovska

The need for automation of the identity recognition process for a vast number of applications resulted in great advancement of biometric systems in the recent years. Yet, many studies indicate that these systems suffer from vulnerabilities to spoofing (pre ...

EPFL2016

CoRD: A Collaborative Framework for Distributed Data Race Detection

George Candea, Cristian Zamfir, Baris Can Cengiz Kasikci

Modern concurrent software is riddled with data races and these races constitute the source of many problems. Data races are hard to detect accurately before software is shipped and, once they cause failures in production, developers find it challenging to ...

Usenix2012

Synchronous versus asynchronous modeling of gene regulatory networks

Giovanni De Micheli, Abhishek Garg, Ioannis Xenarios

In silico modeling of gene regulatory networks has gained some momentum recently due to increased interest in analyzing the dynamics of biological systems. This has been further facilitated by the increasing availability of experimental data on gene–gene, ...

2008

Model refactoring using transformations

Slavisa Markovic

Modern software is reaching levels of complexity encountered in biological systems; sometimes comprising systems of systems each of which may include tens of millions of lines of code. Model Driven Engineering (MDE) advocates raising the level of abstracti ...

EPFL2008

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CAVE systems are nowadays one of the best Virtual Reality (VR) immersive devices available for rendering virtual environments. Unfortunately, such kind of hardware is extremely expensive, complex and cum-bersome, thus limited in its spread. Several cheaper ...

2007

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