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Teaching an Ethnographic Approach to Requirements Elicitation in an Enterprise Architecture Course

Requirements elicitation is an important part of information systems development. It is often performed as a technical task, but from a close look it is mainly a social activity. The main work consists of interacting with stake-holders in order to understa ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2015

Monitoring and prediction in Early Warning Systems (EWS) for rapid mass movements

Alexis Berne, Alessio Ferrari, Dani Or, Marc Schleiss

Rapid mass movements (RMM) pose a substantial risk to people and infrastructure. Reliable and cost-efficient measures have to be taken to reduce this risk. One of these measures includes establishing and advancing the State of Practice in the application o ...

Copernicus Publications2015

Effect on Bridge Load Effects of Vehicle Transverse In-Lane Position: A Case Study

Mark Anthony Treacy

This paper presents an investigation of the influence of vehicle transverse in-lane position on bridge traffic load effects. To analyze the influence, both finite-element analysis and statistical analysis methods are used, and various technical aspects are ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2015

The Birth of the Workshop: Techno-Morals, Peace Experts and the Care of the Self in the Middle East

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

In the article I examine through ethnography and contextual analysis one of the flagship techniques of peace expertise in the Middle East and elsewhere, the so-called conflict resolution workshop. For the transnational and hyper-mobile clan of peacemakers ...

2014

Ensuring Asset Optimization through Ontology-based Modelling of Technical Documentation

Andreas Koukias

The physical or engineering assets within modern industries have consistently been considered as the core elements of significant value that constitute the backbone for success and overall growth. Ensuring the optimal performance of an asset is a crucial a ...

EPFL2014

EYEDIAP Database: Data Description and Gaze Tracking Evaluation Benchmarks

Jean-Marc Odobez, Florent Monay Michaud, Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora

The lack of a common benchmark for the evaluation of the gaze estimation task from RGB and RGB-D data is a serious limitation for distinguishing the advantages and disadvantages of the many proposed algorithms found in the literature. The EYEDIAP database ...

Idiap2014

Beyond KernelBoost

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Roberto Rigamonti

In this Technical Report we propose a set of improvements with respect to the KernelBoost classifier presented in [Becker et al., MICCAI 2013]. We start with a scheme inspired by Auto-Context, but that is suitable in situations where the lack of large trai ...

2014

Scalable Routing Easy as PIE: a Practical Isometric Embedding Protocol (Technical Report)

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen

We present PIE, a scalable routing scheme that achieves 100% packet delivery and low path stretch. It is easy to implement in a distributed fashion and works well when costs are associated to links. Scalability is achieved by using virtual coordinates in a ...

2013

Introduction to the issue on adaptation and learning over complex networks

Ali H. Sayed

The articles in this special issue report on up-to-date advances in the broad area of information processing over graphs. Due to the highly cross-disciplinary nature of complex networks, the technical articles in this April 2013 issue of the IEEE Journal o ...

IEEE2013

NanoSIMS: Technical Aspects and Applications in Cosmochemistry and Biological Geochemistry

Anders Meibom, Shirit Cohen

The NanoSIMS ion probe is a new-generation SIMS instrument, characterised by superior spatial resolution, high sensitivity and multi-collection capability. Isotope studies of certain elements can be conducted with 50-100nm resolution, making the NanoSIMS a ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

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