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Reading Data Together

Network visualizations are the most complex visualizations possible, but sometimes they are not capable of describing system-complexity. Even if they are the most widely employed visualization techniques, they still have limitations. Indeed a) their relati ...

2016

Computational challenges in magnetic-confinement fusion physics

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jonathan Graves, Laurent Villard, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Paolo Ricci, Stephan Brunner

Magnetic-fusion plasmas are complex self-organized systems with an extremely wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from the electron-orbit scales (similar to 10(-11) s, similar to 10(-5) m) to the diffusion time of electrical current through the plasm ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Synergy-level Grasp Synthesis Learning

Aude Billard, Sahar El Khoury, Miao Li

Autonomous grasping is a complex task for robots. It is a high dimensional problem since it involves controlling for the hand position, orientation and joint angles to successfully grasp an object. In order to reduce the control complexity, we adopt a 3-st ...

2013

Interactive Multiview Video System With Low Complexity 2D Look Around at Decoder

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey

Multiview video with interactive and smooth view switching at the receiver is a challenging application with several issues in terms of effective use of storage and bandwidth resources, reactivity of the system, quality of the viewing experience and system ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Towards the Layered City: Redefining the Role of Underground Resources in Future Urbanization

Michael Robert Doyle

For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piecemeal rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. There is a growing awareness by urban planners and engineers that the underground contains not only potential usable space, b ...

2013

Energetic Macroscopic Representation of a Hybrid Elevator – Considerations on Strategies for Energy Management

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade

Accumulators are inserted on the DC bus of a conventional elevator, to increase its efficiency and limit the power demand on the main feeding grid. In the process that enable the identification of the control of such a system, The Energetic Macroscopic Rep ...

2013

Fighting Back: Using Observability Tools to Improve the DBMS (Not Just Diagnose It)

Frederick Ryan Johnson

Observability tools increase the transparency of the system and help practitioners identify a wide variety of bugs and bottlenecks. In this paper we claim that such tools (DTrace, in our case) can play a much more active role: the same features which allow ...

ACM2012

Estimating the time scale and anatomical location of atrial fibrillation spontaneous termination in a biophysical model

Jean-Marc Vesin, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Vincent Jacquemet, Lukas Kappenberger

Due to their transient nature, spontaneous terminations of atrial fibrillation (AF) are difficult to investigate. Apparently, confounding experimental findings about the time scale of this phenomenon have been reported, with values ranging from 1 s to 1 mi ...

Springer-Verlag2012

The fragility of experiential knowledge

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has thus far been forthcoming representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging cons ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2012

Determining Control Strategies for Damage Tolerance of an Active Tensegrity Structure

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Sinan Korkmaz

Tensegrity structures are spatial, reticulate and lightweight systems composed of struts and cables. Stability is provided by a self-stress state between tensioned and compressed elements. Tensegrities have received interest among scientists and engineers ...

Elsevier2011

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