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GraaspBox: Enabling Mobile Knowledge Delivery into Underconnected Environments

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Interacting with knowledge in a timely fashion is critical for the success of humanitarian missions. At the same time, the places where humanitarian action is needed are often those where Internet connection is poor or not available at all, making digital ...

ACM2017

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector

Dominique Foray, Michele Pezzoni, Monica Coffano

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector. Regional Studies. This paper contributes an empirical analysis to the discussion of the impact of inventors' collaboration networks on regional innovation. M ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Padoc: Enabling social networking in proximity

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jonny Quarta, Sven Reber

Apps supporting social networking in proximity are gaining momentum as they enable both augmenting face-to-face interaction with a digital channel (e.g. classroom interaction systems) and augmenting digital interaction by providing a local real life feelin ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

EMPoWER Hybrid Networks: Exploiting Multiple Paths over Wireless and ElectRical Mediums

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou, Sébastien Christophe Henri

Several technologies, such as WiFi, Ethernet and power-line communications (PLC), can be used to build residential and enterprise networks. These technologies often co-exist; most networks use WiFi, and buildings are readily equipped with electrical wires ...

2016

Internet, espace et société. Changer l’espace, changer la société

Boris Beaude

Avec Internet, l’espace a tant changé que la société est animée d’un mouvement dont la dynamique est peu lisible, car peu familière. Nier la réalité et la spatialité d’Internet expose à la déréalisation de nombre d’actions qui contribuent remarquablement à ...

2015

Les fins d'Internet

Boris Beaude

Nous assistons à la concomitance de la mondialisation de la politique et de la nationalisation d’Internet. La politique est en effet une œuvre magistrale, subtile et délicate par laquelle un monde devient commun. Elle organise la coexistence afin de rendre ...

Fyp2014

HyRec: leveraging browsers for scalable recommenders

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Davide Frey, Rhicheek Patra

The ever-growing amount of data available on the Internet calls for personalization. Yet, the most effective personalization schemes, such as those based on collaborative filtering (CF), are notoriously resource greedy. This paper presents HyRec, an online ...

ACM2014

Competition of Wireless Providers for Atomic Users

Bixio Rimoldi

We study a problem where wireless service providers compete for heterogenous wireless users. The users differ in their utility functions as well as in the perceived quality of service of individual providers. We model the interaction of an arbitrary number ...

2014

Competition of Wireless Providers for Atomic Users

Bixio Rimoldi, Vojislav Gajic

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Le local à l'épreuve d'Internet

Boris Beaude

Internet incarne parfaitement la mondialisation. Puissante technique spatiale, Internet oeuvre en effet à rendre la distance non pertinente à l’échelle du Monde. Cette capacité de synchorisation sur de vastes étendues questionne les échelles intermédiaires ...

2013