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Foresight (futures studies)

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Ecosystem Scenarios as Environmental Futures - Implications for Participatory Framework Designs Integrating Social Capital Formation and Natural Capital Preservation

In integrated ecosystem assessment projects, scenarios provide alternative images of environmental futures as orientation knowledge for opinion-forming and decision-making. Participatory scenario frameworks provide the methodological basis for ecosystem sc ...

Tamsui2023

Opacité et transparence dans le design d'un dispositif de surveillance urbain : le cas de l'IMSI catcher

Félicien Michel Marie Goguey

This thesis assesses the surveillance operated on the mobile phone network by governmental actors (intelligence agencies, police, army) and the relationship between monitored spaces and their users. Indeed, some new surveillance devices used by intelligenc ...

EPFL2022

Coupling remote sensing and particle tracking to estimate trajectories in large water bodies

Tamar Kohn, Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Chaojie Li

Propelled by the rapid development of equipment, technology and computational power, the monitoring and simulation of the hydrodynamics in lakes have steadily advanced. In contrast, water quality simulations are more difficult to implement, due to the diff ...

Elsevier2022

Online Adaptive Methods, Universality and Acceleration

Volkan Cevher, Alp Yurtsever

We present a novel method for convex unconstrained optimization that, without any modifications, ensures: (i) accelerated convergence rate for smooth objectives, (ii) standard convergence rate in the general (non-smooth) setting, and (iii) standard converg ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

Dealing with Correlations in Discrete Choice Models

Anna Fernández Antolín

The focus of this thesis is to develop methods to address research challenges related to correlation patterns in discrete choice models. In the context of correlations within alternatives, we extend the novel methodology of the multiple indicator solution ...

EPFL2018

Online Adaptive Methods, Universality and Acceleration

Volkan Cevher, Alp Yurtsever

2018

Modelling the global primary extraction, supply, price and depletion of the extractable gogical resources using the cobalt model

The global supply of cobalt was simulated by combining 3 different system dynamics models; BRONZE, PGM and STEEL. The present use of cobalt shows a low degree of recycling and systemic losses are significant. The reserves of cobalt are not very large (20-2 ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

From weak signals to mobility scenarios: A prospective study of France in 2050

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet

Prospective analyses, be they in the field of transport or other areas, are generally developed based on a retrospective of the preceding decades. The trends highlighted are then followed, changed, brought out, accentuated, etc. However, a recent look at m ...

Elsevier2016

From weak signals to mobility scenarios. A prospective study of France in 2050

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet

2016

Start-up scenario studies in gyrotron oscillator using a novel linear and spectral code

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud, Trach-Minh Tran

A linear and spectral model has recently been developed [1], describing the self-consistent wave-particle interaction in a gyrotron oscillator. The spectral approach, compared to commonly used time-evolution approaches, has the possibility to describe all ...

IEEE2016

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