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Equity ownership and identification with the founding team

Founders benefit from identifying with their founding teams because identification facilitates cooperation in the team, aligns founders' actions with the norms and interests of the team, and, ultimately, enhances team performance. High identification with ...

Hoboken2024

Représenter l'invention : Étude de l'évolution du dessin d'objet technique en Angleterre (ca. 1750-1850)

Yohann Michel Franck Guffroy

This thesis focuses on English invention drawings between 1750 and 1850. These visual documents offer a perspective on a technical aesthetic linked to the rise of English machinery at the turn of the 19th century. In this work, I focus on two specific corp ...

EPFL2023

Performance Contracts for Software Network Functions

George Candea, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa

Software network functions (NFs), or middleboxes, promise flexibility and easy deployment of network services but face the serious challenge of unexpected performance behaviour. We propose the notion of a performance contract, a construct formulated in ter ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Financing rail infrastructure by multi-annual performance contracts

Dagny Anne Greinus

After decades of public or private vertically integrated monopolies, the organisation of the European railway sector was re-structured. The European Commission has been seeking to improve the efficiency of the railways to strengthen the position of railway ...

EPFL2016

1’000’000 resolved points along a Brillouin distributed fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

The challenge to resolve a record of one million points along a single optical fibre is demonstrated using a Brillouin distributed fibre sensor. The proposed system is based on a phase-correlation technique combined with a temporal pump gating, making poss ...

SPIE2014

On Lock-Free Work-stealing Iterators for Parallel Data Structures

Martin Odersky, Aleksandar Prokopec, Dmytro Petrashko

With the rise of multicores, there is a trend of supporting data-parallel collection operations in general purpose programming languages. These operations are highly parametric, incurring abstraction performance penalties. Furthermore, data-parallel operat ...

2014

The database state machine and group communication issues

Fernando Pedone

Distributed computing is reshaping the way people think about and do daily life activities. On-line ticket reservation, electronic commerce, and telebanking are examples of services that would be hardly imaginable without distributed computing. Nevertheles ...

EPFL1999

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