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The concept of the circular economy has attracted the attention of policy makers and businesses in recent years. However, changing current patterns of resource use is a complex task. This paper aims to shed some light on the understanding of why resources ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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In this chapter, we study the socioeconomic issues that can arise in distributed computing environments such as distributed and open, participatory sensing systems. Due to the decentralized nature of such systems, they present many challenges, some of whic ...

Springer2017

A General Framework for Architecture Composability

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Eduard Baranov

Architectures depict design principles: paradigms that can be understood by all, allow thinking on a higher plane and avoiding low-level mistakes. They provide means for ensuring correctness by construction by enforcing global properties characterizing the ...

Springer Verlag2016

A General Framework for Architecture Composability

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Eduard Baranov

Springer International Publishing2014

A General Framework for Architecture Composability

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Eduard Baranov

Architectures depict design principles, paradigms that can be understood by all, allow thinking on a higher plane and avoiding low-level mistakes. They provide means for ensuring correctness by construction by enforcing global properties characterizing the ...

2014

Multilingual Lexicography with a Focus on Less-Resourced Languages: Data Mining, Expert Input, Crowdsourcing, and Gamification

Martin Benjamin

This paper looks at the challenges that the Kamusi Project faces for acquiring open lexical data for less-resourced languages (LRLs), of a range, depth, and quality that can be useful within Human Language Technology (HLT). These challenges include accessi ...

2014

MPTCP Is Not Pareto-Optimal: Performance Issues and a Possible Solution

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Nicolas Gabriel Gast, Ramin Khalili, Miroslav Popovic

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) has been proposed recently as a mechanism for transparently supporting multiple connections to the application layer. It is under discussion at the IETF. We nevertheless demonstrate that the current MPTCP suffers from two problems: P1 ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Integrated supply-demand models for the optimization of flexible transportation systems

Bilge Atasoy

This thesis investigates methodologies for improving the demand responsiveness of transportation systems through flexibility. The methodologies propose advances both in demand and supply models having a focus on supply-demand interactions. The demand side ...

EPFL2013

Method for multi-objective quality-driven service selection

Boi Faltings, Immanuel Trummer

This invention relates to the field of multi-objective workflow optimization. Certain exemplary embodiments of the invention are applicable in cases where workflow descriptions contain choice variables relating for instance to the selection of a specific s ...

2013

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