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The exploration-exploitation trade-off that arises when one considers simple point estimates of expected returns no longer appears when full distributions are considered. This work develops a simple gradient-based approach for mainting such distributions a ...

IDIAP2005

A Sector-Based, Frequency-Domain Approach to Detection and Localization of Multiple Speakers

Guillaume Lathoud

Detection and localization of speakers with microphone arrays is a difficult task due to the wideband nature of speech signals, the large amount of overlaps between speakers in spontaneous conversations, and the presence of noise sources. Many existing aud ...

2005

Non-profit housing influencing, leading and dominating the unitary rental market

Philippe Thalmann

The distinction between dual rental systems and unitary rental markets is refined and developed. In particular, unitary rental markets are defined as markets in which barriers to nonprofit providers competing on the rental market are removed, reserving the ...

2005

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

A Sector-Based, Frequency-Domain Approach to Detection and Localization of Multiple Speakers

Guillaume Lathoud

IDIAP2004

Formal methods for communication services: meeting the industry expectations

Jean-Pierre Hubaux

We survey formal methods as they are applied to the development of communication services. We report on industrial and academic projects, consider different communication architectures and work related to the feature interaction problem. Based on our surve ...

2002

Stability and performance analysis of an adaptive sigma-delta modulator

Ali H. Sayed

This work develops an adaptive sigma-delta modulator that is based on adapting the quantizer step-size using estimates of the quantizer input rather than the modulator input. The adaptive modulator with a first-order noise shaping filter is shown to be bou ...

IEEE2001

Geometrical Behaviours: An Architectural Mise-en-scène for a Reenactment of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Caroline Dionne

The content of this thesis is two-fold. The first part takes the form of an essay while the second part presents a theoretical project for an architectural installation. Using these two modes as different ways to address similar issues, the present work pr ...

McGill University, Post-Graduate Masters (M.Arch) Theory of Architecture1999

Formal Methods for Communication Services

Jean-Pierre Hubaux

1999

A Global Second Law Approach to the Evaluation of Energy Conversion Systems Taking into Account Economic and Environmental Factors

Daniel Favrat

In the design and/or performance analysis of an energy conversion system, there are two factors other than the thermodynamic operation of the system which play an important role. They are the economis of the capital equipment used in the cycle and the past ...

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