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Social barriers to implementing climate legislation - Private actors' influence on the Swiss CO2 law

The influence of firms on the elaboration of climate policy in a democratic system is quite controversial. Firms do not form a solid bloc of opponents to environmental regulation. Some firms even expect to gain from such regulation, either because they off ...

2010

Diversification into logistics

Patrick Mollet

Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...

EPFL2008

Multi-agent modelling of electricity markets

Abdelaziz Lahlou

This thesis describes the development of three conceptual models built to serve as decision support tools in liberalised electricity markets. The introduction of competition, higher uncertainty and decentralised planning requires new planning and analysis ...

EPFL2007

The SURE-LET Approach to Image Denoising

Thierry Blu, Florian Luisier

We propose a new approach to image denoising, based on the image-domain minimization of an estimate of the mean squared error—Stein's unbiased risk estimate (SURE). Unlike most existing denoising algorithms, using the SURE makes it needless to hypothesize ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2007

Worst-Case Bounds for Gaussian Process Models

Matthias Seeger

We present a competitive analysis of some non-parametric Bayesian algorithms in a worst-case online learning setting, where no probabilistic assumptions about the generation of the data are made. We consider models which use a Gaussian process prior (over ...

2006

A Testbed for Comparing Trust Computation Algorithms

Georgios Theodorakopoulos

Trust is the expectation of a person about another person’s behavior. Trust is important for many security related decisions about, e.g., granting or revoking privileges, controlling access to sensitive resources and information, or evaluating intelligence ...

2006

Characterization of Fibra-Cel® packed-bed bioreactors for the culture of CHO cells

Frédéric Meuwly

Today, more than 30 products using a manufacturing process based on mammalian cell culture have been approved for human therapy. Most of these products are currently supplied with stirred tank bioreactors operated in batch or fed-batch mode. However, the b ...

EPFL2006

Competitive Analysis of Incumbent Postal Operators in Europe

Matthias Finger, Patrick Mollet

Due to regulatory and institutional developments, changes in consumer behaviour and the emergence of new technologies during the last two decades, incumbent postal operators in Europe had to face new challenges, threats but also opportunities. The incumben ...

2005

Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do 'arm races' arise in artificial evolution?

Dario Floreano

Co-evolution (i.e. the evolution of two or more competing populations with coupled fitness) has several features that may potentially enhance the power of adaptation of artificial evolution. In particular, as discussed by Dawkins and Krebs [3], competing p ...

1998

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