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The squeezing ground encountered in Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) tunneling presents great challenges and may trigger the potential hazards without warning. A detailed understanding of such unfavorable condition is therefore critical to a successful bored tu ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Designing Value-Oriented Service Systems by Value Map

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Vijay Viswanathan

In this paper, we introduce a problem structuring method (PSM) called “Value Map”. Value Map is an extension to the Supplier Adopter Relationship Diagram in the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Method (SEAM). Value Map assists in understanding, analysis an ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Value Map: A Diagnostic Framework to Improve Value Creation and Capture in Service Systems

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications2013

Ambient Awareness for the Orchestration of Collaborative Problem Solving

Hamed Seiied Alavi

Classroom orchestration refers to the teacher's (or tutor's) responsibility to identify and manage the evolving learning opportunities and constraints, in real-time. We study the use of computer technology to support this orchestration task in a multi-cons ...

EPFL2012

Macro-action discovery based on change point detection and boosting

François Fleuret, Leonidas Lefakis

We present a novel approach to automatic macroaction discovery and its application to a complex goal-planning task. The problem of macro-action discovery is framed as one of multiple change point detection and is addressed with the help of the Dynamic Prog ...

2012

Complex risks from old urban waste landfills – a sustainability perspective from Iasi, Romania

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro

Landfills continue to represent the most frequent managerial practice for municipal solid wastes and an increasing and complex problem globally. In certain countries, a transition to an open society and free market is superimposed on the transition to sust ...

2012

Group Dynamics Findings from Coordination in Problem Solving and Decision Making Meetings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Himanshu Verma, Flaviu Roman

We present the results of group dynamics and their effect on success in problem solving / decision making meetings. We use a novel multiple input environment for collaboration and data collection, and a hidden profile task given to groups, whose goals are ...

2012

Steep flume experiments with large immobile boulders and wide grain size distribution as encountered in alpine torrents

Anton Schleiss, Tamara Ghilardi

Flow conditions and sediment transport capacity in steep mountain rivers are poorly known. One of the main problems is that the presence of macro-roughness elements, such as large relatively immobile boulders, have a strong influence. Experiments carried o ...

Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press2012

Adaptive Content Search Through Comparisons

Amin Karbasi

We study the problem of navigating through a database of similar objects using comparisons. This problem is known to be strongly related to the small-world network design problem. However, contrary to prior work, which focuses on cases where objects in the ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2011

Content Search Through Comparisons

Amin Karbasi

We study the problem of navigating through a database of similar objects using comparisons under heterogeneous demand, a prob- lem strongly related to small-world network design. We show that, under heterogeneous demand, the small-world network design prob ...

2011

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