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Variety (cybernetics)

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A general framework for the integration of complex choice models into mixed integer optimization

The objective of this thesis is to develop a general methodology to incorporate a disaggregate demand representation in supply-oriented optimization problems that allows to capture the interplay between the behavior of individuals and the decisions to be o ...

EPFL2020

Fighting Back: Using Observability Tools to Improve the DBMS (Not Just Diagnose It)

Frederick Ryan Johnson

Observability tools increase the transparency of the system and help practitioners identify a wide variety of bugs and bottlenecks. In this paper we claim that such tools (DTrace, in our case) can play a much more active role: the same features which allow ...

ACM2012

Biomimetic strategies for solar energy conversion: a technical perspective

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian

A review. Plants have evolved highly sophisticated light-harvesting mechanisms that allow for increased environmental tolerances and robustness, enhanced photo-efficiencies and prolonged lifetimes. These mechanisms incorporate the dynamic, cyclic self-asse ...

2011

Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Soft Matter Interfaces

Sylvie Roke

Soft matter consists of complex molecules that can undergo drastic structural transformations under mild changes of chemical and physical conditions. Since a wide variety of chemical, physical and biological processes occur at soft matter interfaces, they ...

2009

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