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Biological oscillators are pervasive in biology, covering all aspects of life from enzyme kinetics reactions to population dynamics. Although their behaviour has been intensively studied in the last decades, the recent advances of high-throughput experimen ...
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The article links two seemingly different fundamental theoretical concepts of autopoiesis and homeostasis and tries to apply them to the realm of socio-technical systems with the use of the Fractal Enterprise Model (FEM). Autopoiesis is the property of a s ...
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With the exponential growth of robotics and the fast development of their advanced cognitive and motor capabilities, one can start to envision humans and robots jointly working together in unstructured environments. Yet, for that to be possible, robots nee ...
EPFL2018Viability Principles for Constrained Optimization Using a (1+1)-CMA-ES
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Viability Evolution is an abstraction of artificial evolution which operates by eliminating candidate solutions that do not satisfy viability criteria. Viability criteria are defined as boundaries on the values of objectives and constraints of the problem ...
Springer International Publishing2014Artificial Evolution by Viability Rather Than Competition
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Evolutionary algorithms are widespread heuristic methods inspired by natural evolution to solve difficult problems for which analytical approaches are not suitable. In many domains experimenters are not only interested in discovering optimal solutions, but ...
Public Library of Science2014Assessing ICT-enabled Innovation for Governance and Policy Making
The objective of the thesis is to deepen the understanding of the interplay between ICT-enabled innovation and governance by providing evidence of the changes they are producing on governance processes and policy making mechanisms. Moreover, the thesis aim ...
EPFL2012BM: An Iterative Method to Learn Stable Non-Linear Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Mixture Models
Aude Billard, Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh
We model the dynamics of non-linear discrete (i.e. point-to- point) robot motions as a time-independent system described by an autonomous dynamical system (DS). We propose an iterative algorithm to estimate the form of the DS through a mixture of Gaussian ...
2010Simulating Learning Dynamics in Project Networks
Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez
In this paper we develop a multiagent simulation model to explore the impact of learning dynamics on the productive implementation of innovations in project networks comprised of designers and contractors. Though researchers generally agree that when firms ...
2009Using Hierarchical Clustering for Learning the Ontologies used in Recommendation Systems
Boi Faltings, Vincent Jean Fabrice Schickel
Ontologies are being successfully used to overcome semantic heterogeneity, and are becoming fundamental elements of the Semantic Web. Recently, it has also been shown that ontologies can be used to build more accurate and more personalized recommendation s ...
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Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez
In this paper we develop a multi-agent simulation model to explore the issue of learning in interorganizational networks. Though interorganizational network researchers generally agree that when firms form into networks they will gain access to new knowled ...
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