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Information theoretic combination of pattern classifiers

Combining several classifiers has proved to be an effective machine learning technique. Two concepts clearly influence the performances of an ensemble of classifiers: the diversity between classifiers and the individual accuracies of the classifiers. In th ...

Elsevier2010

Emerging Risks: Sources, Drivers and Governance Issues (2nd ed.)

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

With this concept note, IRGC intends to help improve the understanding and governance of emerging risks that have impacts on human health and safety, the environment, the economy and society at large. It draws from a roundtable discussion in 2009 about why ...

International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2010

Systemic risk in the network industries: is there a governance gap?

Marc Laperrouza, Ian Robert Bartle

Systemic risks and hazards have become increasingly significant features of modern industrial society of which the network industries form a vital element. The idea of systemic risk, however, is much less prominent in the network industries compared to ban ...

2009

Research activities in the European COST action ASSIST on antennas

Juan Ramon Mosig

This paper introduces the European COST Action IC0603 "ASSIST" "Antennas and Sensors for Information Society Technologies". It starts with the historical background which motivated the Action and continues with a description of its internal organization an ...

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Comprendre la société-Monde par ses enjeux et ses acteurs

Olivier Vilaça

The aim of this thesis is to understand the World as a full-fledged object, namely as the space of a society. This objective is at the same time necessary and problematic. It is necessary because the sudden end of the Cold War entailed the need of new conc ...

EPFL2009

On the capacity of multisource non-coherent network coding

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

We consider multisource non-coherent network coding, where multiple sources send information to one or multiple receivers. We prove that this is equivalent to a ldquosubspacerdquo channel, that takes subspaces as inputs and outputs. We then show that the r ...

2009

Signal Processing for Communications

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni

With a novel, less classical approach to the subject, the authors have written a book with the conviction that signal processing should be taught to be fun. The threatment is therefore less focused on the mathematics and more on the conceptual aspects, the ...

EPFL Press, CRC2008

Beurteilung bestehender Stahltragwerke : Empfehlungen zur Abschätzung der restnutzungsdauer

Alain Nussbaumer

Assessment of existing steel structures: recommendations for estimation of remaining fatigue life. The growing importance of sustainability affects new markets for the construction industry; the rehabilitation and refurbishment of existing buildings and ci ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Motion tracking for human-robot interaction

Björn Jensen

This thesis aims at improving the perceptional side of interaction to enable the handling of more complex situations. For the Swiss National Exposition Expo.02 the robot RoboX and an event-driven interaction system have been designed by members of our lab. ...

EPFL2004

Is Dual task testing more sensitive to detect gait improvement after a balance training program?

Kamiar Aminian, Bijan Najafi

There is a growing interest in the role played by attention and cognitive processing in the control of posture and gait, investigated by means of dual task methodology. The rationale for dual task testing is to assess whether the simultaneous performance o ...

2003

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