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Breaking Blockchain Rationality with Out-of-Band Collusion

Bryan Alexander Ford, Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes, Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino, Haoqian Zhang, Mahsa Bastankhah

Blockchain systems often rely on rationality assumptions for their security, expecting that nodes are motivated to maximize their profits. These systems thus design their protocols to incentivize nodes to execute the honest protocol but fail to consider ou ...

Cham2024

Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights'

Marcello Ienca

The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty - often framed as ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2023

El paisaje como imagen afectiva

Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun

On his way to a political philosophy founded not on how we would like things to be, but on how they are, the philosopher Spinoza had to take a step back and develop an ethics that presented affects as properties of bodies. From there, and in order to deter ...

Abada2023

A Theory of Value for Service Ecosystems

Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In this thesis, we present a theory of value for the design and analysis of service ecosystems. The theory is based on general systems thinking. The concept of a system is used for relating knowledge from different disciplines (such as software engineering ...

EPFL2022

SPAHM: the spectrum of approximated Hamiltonian matrices representations

Ksenia Briling, Alberto Fabrizio

Physics-inspired molecular representations are the cornerstone of similarity-based learning applied to solve chemical problems. Despite their conceptual and mathematical diversity, this class of descriptors shares a common underlying philosophy: they all r ...

2022

The Many Lives of Apartment-Studio Le Corbusier

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Le Corbusier’s apartment-studio is an iconic object of the twentieth century, combining the indisputable material values of the building with the intangible “sense of place” of an architect’s home. Le Corbusier, who lived there from 1934 until his death in ...

EPFL Press2022

Il demone dell'analogia: Ovvero affinità e divergenze fra il compagno aristotele e noi

Nicola Braghieri

This laconic discourse uses the Aristotelian authority to define the role of the analogical procedure in the government of the architectural composition. Respecting its ambiguous balance between mathematical method and attitude of the imagination, analogy ...

2021

Reconstruction Methods for Cryo-Electron Microscopy: From Model-based to Data-driven

Laurène Donati

The topic of this thesis is the development of new reconstruction methods for cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Cryo-EM has revolutionized the field of structural biology over the last decade and now permits the regular discovery of biostructures. Yet, t ...

EPFL2020

Plea for an Ecology of Savant Practices: A Brief Theoretical Venture

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Recent developments in media studies have led philosophers to emphasise the role played by mediation in a broad sense, conceiving of a medium as what lies in between two alterities and that at once enables and constrains, materialises and shapes our percep ...

2019

(Architecture's) power and the (Arnhem) panopticon: from Foucault's description to Koolhaas' appropriation and reply

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

There is an abundance of cases – architectural and philosophical, and especially post-modern; by academics, practitioners, and critics – in which a relation between architecture and philosophy is at work, with one engaging the other directly, or simply in ...

2018

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