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Role of thesauri in a scientific organisation

We aim to describe the mediation language between users and indexers in a document retrieval system for a big scientific community intimately related to European Union policies. We assume that this mediation is played by thesauri: sets of indexes apparentl ...

BrownWalker Press2009

Utilisation des outils du système modulaire gradué (SMG) pour estimer les impacts des rejets pluviaux urbains: Avantages et limitations

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Kathrin Schneider

Today water bodies are suffering from numerous anthropogenic impacts. One of the key players is urban drainage. The directive STORM published by the VSA in 2007 proposes a procedure for an immission oriented strategy for remediation of urban drainage. At t ...

2009

Synergies of different reputation systems: challenges and opportunities

Karl Aberer

Reputation is a well established means to determine trustworthiness in online systems in various contexts, e.g. online transactions, product recommendation, e-mail spam fighting, etc. However, typically these reputation systems are "closed" outside of the ...

IEEE Computer Society2009

Optimal Pricing Strategy for Wireless Social Community Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mark Felegyhazi, Seyyed Amin Mazloumian

Wireless social community operators rely on subscribers who constitute a community of users. The pricing strategy of the provided wireless access is an open problem for this new generation of wireless access providers. In this paper, using both analytical ...

ACM2008

Wireless Social Community Networks: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mark Felegyhazi, Julien Freudiger, Peter Marbach

Wireless social community networks formed by users with a WiFi access point have been created as an alternative to traditional wireless networks that operate in the licensed spectrum. By relying on access points owned by users for access, wireless communit ...

2008

Simplifying complex networks

David Gfeller

The framework of complex networks has been shown to describe adequately a wide class of complex systems made up of a large number of interacting units. In this framework, a node is associated to each unit and two nodes are connected by an edge if the two u ...

EPFL2007

Community-Aware Event Dissemination

Rachid Guerraoui, Oana Anca Jurca, Patrick Eugster

This paper presents a distributed algorithm to disseminate events in a publish/subscribe system, where processes publish events of certain topics, organized in a hierarchy, and expect events of topics they subscribed to. Every topic defines a dynamic notio ...

2006

The TopModL Initiative.

Frédéric Fondement

We believe that there is a very strong need for an environment to support research and experiments on model-driven engineering. Therefore we have started the TopModL project, an open-source initiative, with the goal of building a development community to p ...

2005

Le management des communautés virtuelles

Olivier Glassey

In the last three decades the management of information technologies has become a major issue in most organizations. In this context, virtual communities (VC), as a means to technologically foster collective social exchanges, are often proposed as viable s ...

EPFL2005

On the Convergence of Structured Search, Information Retrieval and Trust Management in Distributed Systems

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Zoran Despotovic

The database and information retrieval communities have long been recognized as being irreconcilable. Today, however, we witness a surprising convergence of the techniques used by both communities in decentralized, large-scale environments. The newly emerg ...

2005

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