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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

R&D Team Diversity and Performance in Hypercompetitive Environment

Marc Gruber, Annamaria Conti

Research summary: This article examines the effects of an R&D team's composition on its performance outcomes in hypercompetition. The fundamental feature of firms in hypercompetitive settings is that they are constantly challenged to improve their competit ...

2017

Information Structure Design in Team Decision Problems

Maryam Kamgarpour, Tyler Summers

We consider a problem of information structure design in team decision problems and team games. We propose simple, scalable greedy algorithms for adding a set of extra information links to optimize team performance and resilience to non-cooperative and adv ...

2017

The symmetry of partner modelling

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova, Séverin Lemaignan, Mirweis Sangin, Gaëlle Molinari

Collaborative learning has often been associated with the construction of a shared understanding of the situation at hand. The psycholinguistics mechanisms at work while establishing common grounds are the object of scientific controversy. We postulate tha ...

Springer2016

Living on the Edge: Re-shaping the Interface of Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnology

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Shang-Jung Wu

A new team of researchers at EPFL is taking an 'anti-disciplinary' approach to creating optical devices. These devices take advantage of the synergy in tuning both nano- and bio-material properties, coupling 'the advantages of two growing, albeit tradition ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2016

Ready to face the world?Lessons learnt from applying a Multi-Professional Shared Learning Test tofirst year Engineering and Science students at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc

This paper presents the results of a project aimed to measure changes in attitudes and perception of science, engineering and architecture first year students about working in a professionally diverse environment. At the beginning of the Global Issues cour ...

2016

Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac

Working in groups and managing projects are important professional skills for engineers, and there is a growing demand to teach and assess such skills. But what should be taught and when? Tuckman’s famous “stages of development of performing groups” provid ...

2015

Detection of Slippery Terrain with a Heterogeneous Team of Legged Robots

Roland Siegwart

Legged robots come in a range of sizes and capabilities. By combining these robots into heterogeneous teams, joint locomotion and perception tasks can be achieved by utilizing the diversified features of each robot. In this work we present a framework for ...

2014

LIPID 2013

Marilyne Andersen

This document is the 2013 (and first) edition of the yearly activity report of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID). It introduces the team and their research and teaching activities, as well as their main publications ...

2013

Evolving team compositions by agent swapping

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Pawel Lichocki

Optimizing collective behavior in multiagent systems requires algorithms to find not only appropriate individual behaviors but also a suitable composition of agents within a team. Over the last two decades, evolutionary methods have been shown to be a prom ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

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