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The effects of practice schedule on learning a complex judgment task

The effects of practice schedule on learning a complex judgment task were investigated. In Experiment 1, participants' judgment accuracy on a retention test was higher after a random practice schedule than after a blocked schedule or operational schedule. ...

2011

Algebraic Algorithms for Vector Network Coding

Christina Fragouli, Javad Ebrahimi Boroojeni

We develop new algebraic algorithms for scalar and vector network coding. In vector network coding, the source multicasts information by transmitting vectors of length L, while intermediate nodes process and combine their incoming packets by multiplying th ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Coordinating Logistics Operations with Privacy Guarantees

Boi Faltings, Thomas Léauté

Several logistics service providers serve a certain number of customers, geographically spread over an area of operations. They would like to coordinate their operations so as to minimize overall cost. At the same time, they would like to keep information ...

2011

Decision Support System for the hydropower plants management : the MINERVE project

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández

The MINERVE project was initiated for flood management in the Upper Rhone river basin. Its first goal is the prediction of floods. The second one is the optimum management of the complex system of hydropower plants located in the basin in order to diminish ...

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group2011

Whose Housing Crisis? Transnational Elites' Residential Strategies in Geneva and the Role of Public Policies

Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

The aim of this paper is to analyse the way housing crisis influences the residential mobility of transnational elites in the Geneva metropolitan area. On the one hand, it is based on a quantitative research mandated by local political authorities and on t ...

2011

Feed forward in the LHC

Xavier Buffat, Jorg Wenninger

The LHC operational cycle is comprised of several phases such as the ramp, the squeeze and stable beams. During the ramp and squeeze in particular, it has been ob- served that the behaviour of key LHC beam parameters such as tune, orbit and chromaticity is ...

2011

Robust gain-scheduled blending control of raw-mix quality in cement industries

Alireza Karimi, Michael Amrhein, Vinicius De Oliveira

This paper addresses the control of the blending process in cement industries. This process can be modeled by a nonlinear multivariable system with large parametric uncertainty. Using a specific transformation, a linear parameter varying (LPV) model with s ...

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On the use of graphs in discrete tomography

Dominique de Werra, Bernard Ries

In this tutorial paper, we consider the basic image reconstruction problem which stems from discrete tomography. We derive a graph theoretical model and we explore some variations and extensions of this model. This allows us to establish connections with s ...

2010

Optimization of operations in container terminals: hierarchical vs integrated approaches

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca

Over the last years, international sea freight container transportation has grown dramatically and container terminals play nowadays a key role within the global shipping network. Terminal's operations have received increasing interest in the scientific li ...

2010

Optimization in container terminals: hierarchical vs integrated solution approaches

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca

Over the last years, international sea freight container transportation has grown dramatically and container terminals play nowadays a key role within the global shipping network. Terminals operations have received increasing interest in the scientific lit ...

2010

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