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Since the dawn of humanity, human beings seeked to light their surroundings for their well-being, security and development. The efficiency of ancient lighting devices, e.g. oil lamps or candles, was in the order of 0.03-0.04% and jumped to 0.4-0.6% with th ...

EPFL2024

A Tutorial-Cum-Survey on Percolation Theory With Applications in Large-Scale Wireless Networks

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Connectivity is an important key performance indicator and a focal point of research in large-scale wireless networks. Due to path-loss attenuation of electromagnetic waves, direct wireless connectivity is limited to proximate devices. Nevertheless, connec ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Game changers in science and technology- now and beyond

The recent devastating pandemic has drastically reminded humanity of the importance of constant scientific and technological progress. A strong interdisciplinary dialogue between academic and industrial scientists of various specialties, entrepreneurs, man ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

Detecting Latent Training Needs Using Large Datasets

Ramtin Yazdanian

In today's world, there is no shortage of disruptors acting on various professional domains. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, with its AI-driven and automation-focused technologies, has fundamentally changed many domains -- particularly the Information an ...

EPFL2022

A generic methodology and a digital twin for zero defect manufacturing (ZDM) performance mapping towards design for ZDM

Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Over recent years, the manufacturing industry has seen constant growth and change. From one side, it has been affected by the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). From the other side, it has had to enhance its ability to meet higher customer expect ...

2021

On the radar: Predicting near-future surges in skills’ hiring demand to provide early warning to educators

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Ramtin Yazdanian

The AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic have one important thing in common: they both have caused significant and rapid changes to the skill set landscape of various industries. These disruptive forces mean that the early ident ...

2021

Terminal Characteristics Measurements and Analysis of the Three-Phase Active Front End Converter Building Block

Drazen Dujic, Marko Petkovic

The safe and reliable operation of modern power system imposes the need to describe and estimate the system stability through impedance-admittance measurement and identification. The integration and operation of medium voltage equipment in existing infrast ...

2021

OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers

This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed "Digital Engineer" skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as "Digital Innovato ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021

Decentralized Industrial IoT Data Management Based on Blockchain and IPFS

Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

The wide application of Internet of Things (IoT) has fostered the development of Industry 4.0. In manufacturing domain, Industrial IoT (IIoT) are key components of the Factories of the Future (FoF). The big IIoT data are the foundation of implementing data ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Broadening artificial intelligence education in K-12: Where to Start?

Pierre Dillenbourg

Moving from steam and waterpower, electricity and assembly lines, and computerization, to the adoption of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Systems executed as intelligent machines, the world now dives into a new era called ...

2020

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