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Equity ownership and identification with the founding team

Founders benefit from identifying with their founding teams because identification facilitates cooperation in the team, aligns founders' actions with the norms and interests of the team, and, ultimately, enhances team performance. High identification with ...

Hoboken2024

How to Support Students to Cultivate Psychological Safety in their Teams

Francesco Mondada, Yousef Jalali

The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...

EPFL2024

FROM GROUP WORK TO TEAM WORK: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN THREE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Stéphane Perrin

Addressing the complex challenges of sustainability demands for good teamwork abilities for future technicians and engineers. In our three institutions we adopted project-based learning to facilitate the development of these skills – but is this enough? Si ...

2023

Teaching Circular Architecture On-site

Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Camille Lucie Elisabeth Fauvel

The Land of a Thousand Dances is an interdisciplinary one-week workshop for architecture, civil engineering, and environmental sciences students at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The course proposes to study design through maintenance, by ...

2023

Logical Team Q-learning: An approach towards factored policies in cooperative MARL

Ali H. Sayed, Lucas Cesar Eduardo Cassano

We address the challenge of learning factored policies in cooperative MARL scenarios. In particular, we consider the situation in which a team of agents collaborates to optimize a common cost. The goal is to obtain factored policies that determine the indi ...

MICROTOME PUBLISHING2021

Developing STEM and Team-working Skills Through Collaborative Space Robotics Missions

Francesco Mondada, Evgeniia Bonnet

Building on the success of the first North-South cross-continental collaborative educational robotics mission held in November 2015 [1], this paper presents a practical model for scaling the event up into a program for developing countries, particularly th ...

IEEE2021

Performance of traditional nomadic yurts for living in extremes

Dolaana Khovalyg, Arnab Chatterjee

A round felt yurt is a traditional dwelling of Central Asian nomads that have survived over 2000 years. The structure and the use of the yurt have not changed over the centuries, making it a nomadic civilization's masterpiece. It has not lost its relevance ...

2021

Competing Adaptive Networks

Ali H. Sayed, Stefan Vlaski

Adaptive networks have the capability to pursue solutions of global stochastic optimization problems by relying only local interactions within neighborhoods. The diffusion of information through repeated interactions allows for globally optimal behavior, w ...

IEEE2021

Team Policy Learning For Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Ali H. Sayed, Sulaiman A S A E Alghunaim, Lucas Cesar Eduardo Cassano

This work presents a fully distributed algorithm for learning the optimal policy in a multi-agent cooperative reinforcement learning scenario. We focus on games that can only be solved through coordinated team work. We consider situations in which K player ...

IEEE2019

At the Origins of Learning: Absorbing Knowledge Flows from within the Team

Fabiana Visentin, Charles Chadi Ayoubi, Michele Pezzoni

Empirical studies document a positive effect of collaboration on team productivity. However, little has been done to assess how knowledge flows among team members. Our study addresses this issue by exploring unique rich data on a Swiss funding program prom ...

Elsevier2017

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