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Defect of characters of the symmetric group

Following the work of B. Kulshammer, J. B. Olsson and G. R. Robinson on generalized blocks of the symmetric groups, we give a definition for the l-defect of characters of the symmetric group G(n), where l > 1 is an arbitrary integer. We prove that the l-de ...

De Gruyter2009

How to evaluate the robustness of airlines schedules

Niklaus Eggenberg

Airlines schedules are built such as to maximize expected profit. Such schedules turn out to be more sensitive to delays and are hence unstable. The trend has thus evolved towards robust schedules, trading off between sensitivity with respect to disruption ...

2009

Interface free energy or surface tension: definition and basic properties.

Charles Pfister

Interface free energy is the contribution to the free energy of a system due to the presence of an interface separating two coexisting phases at equilibrium. It is also called interfacial free energy or surface tension. The content of the paper is 1) the d ...

arXiv:0911.5232 (2009)2009

A system model for water management

André Mermoud, Colin Schenk, Bastien Roquier

Although generally accepted as a necessary step to improve water management and planning, integrated water resources management (IWRM) methodology does not provide a clear definition of what should be integrated. The various water-related issues that IWRM ...

Springer-Verlag2009

Speckle interferometry: A review of the principal methods in use for experimental mechanics applications

With its nearly 40 years of existence, speckle interferometry (SI) has become a complete technique, widely used in many branches of experimental mechanics. It is thus a challenging task to try to summarise in a couple of pages its principal characteristics ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Novel methods to pattern polymers for microfluidics

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Vahid Fakhfouri, Joo Yeon Kim

We present two novel methods for the preparation of arbitrary microscale patterns of polymers on surfaces with pre-defined topography. While photosensitive polymers are used commonly together with optical lithography, the methods presented can be used for ...

Elsevier2008

Analyzing Flickr Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

There is an explosion of community-generated multimedia content available online. In particular, Flickr constitutes a 200-million photo sharing system where users participate following a variety of social motivations and themes. Flickr groups are increasin ...

ACM2008

Analyzing Flickr Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

IDIAP2008

Equivalence of labeled Markov chains

Laurent Doyen

We consider the equivalence problem for labeled Markov chains (LMCs), where each state is labeled with an observation. Two LMCs are equivalent if every finite sequence of observations has the same probability of occurrence in the two LMCs. We show that equ ...

2008

Secure Neighborhood Discovery: A Fundamental Element for Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Marcin Poturalski, Srdan Capkun

Pervasive computing systems will likely be deployed in the near future, with the proliferation of wireless devices and the emergence of ad hoc networking as key enablers. Coping with mobility and the volatility of wireless communications in such systems is ...

2008