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Development of dissipative embedded columns base connections for mitigating column axial shortening

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Hiroyuki Inamasu

This paper proposes an innovative design concept for embedded column base (ECB) connections featuring wide flange steel columns. The developed ECB connection achieves a non-degrading hysteretic response up to lateral drift demands associated with low proba ...

Springer Nature2022

The Future of Civic Technologies for the Involvement of Citizens in Urban Planning: 3D Urban Participatory e-Planning in the Spotlight

Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The development of sustainable urban projects is crucial to address the challenges of the growing population living in cities. Facing complex decision-making and increasing expectations from inhabitants, local institutions are gradually becoming open to co ...

EPFL2022

Promoting Critical and Design Thinking Activities to Tackle Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Since 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into force, and for the first time they include higher education. Therefore, higher institutions are finding ways to incorporate them into their teachings and research activities. This paper cont ...

IEEE2021

The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Diversity-aware platform design is a paradigm that responds to the ethical challenges of existing social media platforms. Available platforms have been criticized for minimizing users' autonomy, marginalizing minorities, and exploiting users' data for prof ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

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

A Flexible In-Memory Computing Architecture for Heterogeneously Quantized CNNs

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Flavio Ponzina

Inferences using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are resource and energy intensive. Therefore, their execution on highly constrained edge devices demands the careful co-optimization of algorithms and hardware. Addressing this challenge, in this paper ...

2021

ON THE DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF WIDE ANGLE DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS

Dong Cheon Kim

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) which consist of microstructure surface relief permit the generation of the spatial distribution of light beams by using a single element. Due to their compact size, design flexibility, and mass productivity, they are us ...

EPFL2021

FPGA Architecture: Principles and Progression

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Lana Josipovic

Since their inception more than thirty years ago, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been widely used to implement a myriad of applications from different domains. As a result of their low-level hardware reconfigurability, FPGAs have much faster d ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Belief Control Strategies for Interactions Over Weakly-Connected Graphs

Ali H. Sayed, Bicheng Ying

In diffusion social learning over weakly-connected graphs, it has been shown recently that influential agents shape the beliefs of non-influential agents. This paper analyzes this mechanism more closely and addresses two main questions. First, the article ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A method for faster application of process integration techniques in retrofit situations

Numerous process integration techniques were proved to be highly effective for identifying and estimating potential energy savings in the industry. However, they require high time and effort to collect and analyse process data. As a result, they do not con ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

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