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Bryan Alexander Ford, Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes, Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino, Haoqian Zhang, Mahsa Bastankhah

Blockchain systems often rely on rationality assumptions for their security, expecting that nodes are motivated to maximize their profits. These systems thus design their protocols to incentivize nodes to execute the honest protocol but fail to consider ou ...

Cham2024

Origin of the Activity Trend in the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethanol over VOx/CeO2

Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid, Anna Zabilska, Olga Safonova

Supported vanadia (VOx) is a versatile catalyst for various redox processes where ceria-supported VOx have shown to be particularly active in the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of alcohols. In this work, we clarify the origin of the volcano-shaped ethanol ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Plug-and-play adaptive surrogate modeling of parametric nonlinear dynamics in frequency domain

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Phillip Huwiler, Davide Pradovera

We present an algorithm for constructing efficient surrogate frequency-domain models of (nonlinear) parametric dynamical systems in a non-intrusive way. To capture the dependence of the underlying system on frequency and parameters, our proposed approach c ...

2023

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Learning

Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh

Many decision problems in science, engineering, and economics are affected by uncertainty, which is typically modeled by a random variable governed by an unknown probability distribution. For many practical applications, the probability distribution is onl ...

EPFL2020

Courtesy As a Means to Coordinate

Boi Faltings, Panayiotis Danassis

We investigate the problem of multi-agent coordination under rationality constraints. Specifically, role allocation, task assignment, resource allocation, etc. Inspired by human behavior, we propose a framework (CA^3NONY) that enables fast convergence to e ...

International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems2019

A method for improving ideas selection in crowdsourcing

Gianluigi Viscusi

This paper presents an early-stage application of the design science research (DSR) method to obtain a new idea selection approach, which uses clustering to filter ideas while taking into account the seeker’s goals and the learning dynamics. Most of previo ...

2019

Nonlinear piezoelectric vibration energy harvester with frequency-tuned impacting resonators for improving broadband performance at low frequencies

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Robert Andrew Lockhart

The paper reports on a nonlinear frequency up-converting vibration energy harvester with enhanced broadband performance below 50 Hz, which is attained by leveraging vibro-impact interaction between two high-frequency piezoelectric generators and two low-fr ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Data-Driven Inverse Optimization with Incomplete Information

Daniel Kuhn, Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Grani Adiwena Hanasusanto

In data-driven inverse optimization an observer aims to learn the preferences of an agent who solves a parametric optimization problem depending on an exogenous signal. Thus, the observer seeks the agent's objective function that best explains a historical ...

2018

Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory

Marc Gruber

Research summaryEntrepreneurial behavior is core to our understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, research progress is hindered because most studies adopt a traditional perspective of the construct that is embedded in economic rationality and focused on for- ...

Wiley2017

Tailor-Making Low-Cost Spiro[fluorene-9,9 '-xanthene]-Based 3D Oligomers for Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jiahuan Zhang, Liang Wang, Peng Liu

The power-conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have increased rapidly from about 4% to 22% during the past few years. One of the major challenges for further improvement of the efficiency of PSCs is the lack of sufficiently good ...

Cell Press2017

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