Concept

Conflict of interest

Related publications (32)

Contextualizing the co-creation of artefacts within the nested social structure of a collaborative MOOC

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma, Stian Haklev

MOOCs have traditionally been seen as providing an individual learning experience, however there is an increasing trend towards enabling social learning in MOOCs. To make online learning at scale more social and collaborative, some MOOCs have introduced co ...

2017

New lakes in deglaciating high-mountain regions – opportunities and risks

Anton Schleiss

In connection with the ongoing disappearance of glaciers in cold mountains, a great number of new lakes come into existence. The sites and approximate formation time of such potential new lakes can be realistically modelled. This provides an important know ...

Springer Verlag2016

Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management

Florian Christopher Matthias Lücker

It is well established that firms are exposed to the risk of supply chain disruptions. Many firms build risk mitigation strategies in order to increase the resilience of their supply chains. In this dissertation we present three essays that study operation ...

EPFL2016

Supply Chain Management in Process Industries: Empirical Investigations for Commodity Markets

Philipp Urs Moser

Process industries (PI) have thrived in recent decades, but structural changes in the markets are currently putting both growth and profitability at risk. In a period of tumbling prices, supply chain management (SCM) is increasingly viewed as an essential ...

EPFL2016

When Others Impinge upon Your Privacy

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Privacy is defined as the right to control, edit, manage, and delete information about oneself and decide when, how, and to what extent this information is communicated to others. Therefore, every person should ideally be empowered to manage and protect hi ...

EPFL2015

Trade Credit: Literature Review and Research Directions

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa, Daniel Seifert

Trade credit arises when a buyer delays payment for purchased goods or services. Its nature has predominantly been an area of inquiry for researchers from the disciplines of finance, marketing, and economics but it has received relatively little attention ...

Elsevier2013

The Political Economy of Climate Policy

Alexandra Quandt

The topic of the here presented work is the influence of firms on climate policy. This thesis analyses the impact of firms’ influence on the acceptance of climate policy, its effectiveness, and implementation. Hereby, the mediation of private interest is u ...

EPFL2012

The gist of everything new: personalized top-k processing over web 2.0 streams

Karl Aberer, Sebastian Michel, Parisa Haghani

Web 2.0 portals have made content generation easier than ever with millions of users contributing news stories in form of posts in weblogs or short textual snippets as in Twitter. Efficient and effective filtering solutions are key to allow users stay tune ...

ACM2010

On the Input Acceptance of Transactional Memory

Vincent Gramoli, Pascal Felber

We present the Input Acceptance of Transactional Memory (TM). Despite the large interest for performance of TMs, no existing research work has investigated the impact of solving a conflict that does not need to be solved. Traditional solutions for a TM to ...

World Scientific Publishing2010

The political economy of climate policy

Alexandra Quandt

Implementation of policies and measures is an important feature of effective climate policy design. In the political decision process, implementation depends to some extent on interest group influence. This project deals with business interest groups influ ...

2010

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.