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Cities, from Information to Interaction

From physics to the social sciences, information is now seen as a fundamental component of reality. However, a form of information seems still underestimated, perhaps precisely because it is so pervasive that we take it for granted: the information encoded ...

2018

Information Gathering with Peers: Submodular Optimization with Peer-Prediction Constraints

Boi Faltings, Andreas Krause, Goran Radanovic

We study a problem of optimal information gathering from multiple data providers that need to be incentivized to provide accurate information. This problem arises in many real world applications that rely on crowdsourced data sets, but where the process of ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2018

Mapping Affinities in Academic Organizations

Frédéric Kaplan, Boris Beaude, Dario Rodighiero

Scholarly affinities are one of the most fundamental hidden dynamics that drive scientific development. Some affinities are actual, and consequently can be measured through classical academic metrics such as co-authoring. Other affinities are potential, an ...

2018

Dimension-free Information Concentration via Exp-Concavity

Volkan Cevher, Ya-Ping Hsieh

Information concentration of probability measures have important implications in learning theory. Recently, it is discovered that the information content of a log-concave distribution concentrates around their differential entropy, albeit with an unpleasan ...

2018

Extracting And Aligning Artist Names in Digitized Art Historical Archives

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Benoît Laurent Auguste Seguin

The largest collections of art historical images are not found online but are safeguarded by museums and other cultural institutions in photographic libraries. These collections can encompass millions of reproductions of paintings, drawings, engravings and ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018

Assessing microlens quality based on 3D irradiance measurement at the focal spot area

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin, Michail Symeonidis

During the fabrication process of microlenses, characterization is essential for two purposes: evaluate the optical quality of the element and provide surface information feedback for process optimization. However, no technique can fulfill these two object ...

2018

Robust Distributed Control Beyond Quadratic Invariance

Maryam Kamgarpour, Luca Furieri

The problem of robust distributed control arises in several large-scale systems, such as transportation networks and power grid systems. In many practical scenarios controllers might not have enough information to make globally optimal decisions in a tract ...

IEEE2018

A General Framework for Sensor Placement in Source Localization

Patrick Thiran, Laura Elisa Celis, Brunella Marta Spinelli

When an epidemic spreads in a given network of individuals or communities, can we detect its source using only the information provided by a small set of nodes? We propose a general framework that incorporates two dimensions. First, we can either rely excl ...

2017

SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES BY COMMUNICATING BENCHMARKS FOR RESOURCE CONSUMPTION WITH HELP OF A NOVEL ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

According to UNEP, household consumption is responsible for 60 % of the total life cycle impacts of final consumption in most countries. Therefore, the transition to a more sustainable society can only be achieved by changing current consumption and produc ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

The references of references: a method to enrich humanities library catalogs with citation data

Frédéric Kaplan, Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

The advent of large-scale citation indexes has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information in several domains of research. The humanities have largely remained outside of this shift, despite their increasing reliance on digital means for infor ...

Springer Verlag2017

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