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Wireless Sensor Networking for Rain-fed Farming Decision Support

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Jacques Panchard, Sanjeev Kumar

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be a valuable decision- support tool for farmers. This motivated our deployment of a WSN system to support rain-fed agriculture in India. We defined promising use cases and resolved technical challenges throughout a two- ...

2008

Towards an information system on the water system

André Mermoud, Colin Schenk, Bastien Roquier

Integrated water resources management is generally considered a relevant methodology given the pressing necessity to use water in a sustainable manner. However, its application framework still needs refinements. As a first step towards the creation of such ...

2007

From Business to IT with SEAM: J2EE Pet Store Example

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Lam Son Lê, Irina Rychkova

Business and IT alignment demands clear traceability between the applications to be developed and the business requirements. SEAM is a systemic visual approach for modeling systems, including information systems and organizations. This paper illustrates ho ...

2007

Rencontre de la science de l'information géographique et de l'anthropologie culturelle

Abram Pointet

Geographical Information Science and Cultural Anthropology are aimed to collaborate on development projects dedicated to indigenous communities. This fact is first based on a growing intention to integrate the reality and the perception of the development ...

EPFL2007

Emergent semantics

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

In the past, the problem of semantic interoperability in information systems was mostly solved by means of centralization, both at a system and at a logical level. This approach has been successful to a certain extent, but offers limited scalability and fl ...

EPFL2007

Towards Fair Event Dissemination

Rachid Guerraoui, Maxime Monod

Event dissemination in large scale dynamic systems is typically claimed to be best achieved using decentralized peer-to-peer architectures. The rationale is to have every participant in the system act both as a client (information consumer) and as a server ...

2007

Contextual Bookmarks

Daniel Thalmann, Xavier Righetti

The role of digital information in everyday life divides out activities in interacting with the physical and the digital world. There is no connection between these worlds that is easily accessible, even though physical objects, persons, and real world eve ...

2007

Voluntary technological disclosure as an efficient knowledge management device: an empirical study

Stéphane Lhuillery

This paper investigates three questions related to endogenous information and knowledge disclosure by firms: Which industry sectors are more apt to disclose information and knowledge? Why is such knowledge released? Is knowledge disclosure an efficient str ...

2006

Predictive Approach for Database Schema Evolution

Hassina Bounif

Information systems, including their core databases need to meet changing user requirements and adhere to evolving business strategies. Traditional database evolution techniques focus on reacting to change to smoothly perform schema evolution operations an ...

Idea Group2006

A Simulation Methodology for Reliability Analysis in Multi-Core SoCs

Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Ayse Kivilcim Coskun

Reliability has become a significant challenge for system design in new process technologies. Higher integration levels dramatically increase power densities, which leads to higher temperature and adverse effects on reliability. In this paper, we introduce ...

ACM Press2006