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This paper explores how robotic teammates can enhance and promote cooperation in collaborative settings. It presents a user study in which participants engaged with two fully autonomous robotic partners to play a game together, named "For The Record", a va ...

IEEE2019

Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

Ivo Philippe Baur

The use of summer pastures in the European Alps provides much evidence against Hardin's prediction of the tragedy of the commons. For centuries, farmers have kept summer pastures in communal tenure and avoided its overuse with self-designed regulations. Du ...

2018

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS AND LIFESTYLE ARCHETYPES: EXPLORING DIMENSIONS OF CONSUMPTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION NEEDED TO ACHIEVE URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

To achieve ecological sustainability, significant and absolute reductions are needed in demand on nature’s services to yield resources and assimilate wastes. Estimates range from a factor of five to ten. This translates to an 80% to 90% reduction in energy ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Three-level inventory deployment for a luxury watch company facing various perturbations

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Jean Respen

A well-known Swiss watch brand, active in the top-end luxury market, is facing a complex inventory deployment problem where watches of different models (more than 100 different models) must be dispatched first to wholesalers to finally reach the shops wher ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2016

Print-based visual security features

Roger Hersch

Security features ensuring the authenticity of banknotes, checks, identity documents, diploma and business documents as well as of valuable goods are of high importance in todayâ€™s society. We briefly describe three security features that rely on color pr ...

2014

Estimation of bid functions for location choice and price modeling with a latent variable approach

Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

A new approach for the estimation of bid-rent functions for location choice is proposed. The method considers that the expected maximum bid in the auction of a good is a latent variable than can be related to observed prices for similar goods. The model ge ...

2012

Application of Artificial Vision to the Quality Inspection of Surfaces of Luxury Products

Giuseppe Zamuner

This thesis defines a general approach for the automated visual inspection of surfaces of luxury products, the aesthetic quality of which represents a corollary to the technical mastery necessary to manufacture valuable products. Within a manufacturing ent ...

EPFL2012

Socio-Economic Assessment of Fusion Energy Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment Programme

Denis Bednyagin

Providing safe, clean and affordable energy supply is essential for meeting the basic needs of human society and for supporting economic growth. From the historical perspective, the constantly growing energy use was one of the main factors, which drove the ...

EPFL2010

Making Globalization Work for Sustainable Human Development The Global Programme Paradigm : A Synthesis Approach Between the Visions of Davos and Porto Alegre

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

This preliminary study contributes to describing the innovative nature of the conceptual framework of the UNCTAD-UNDP Global Programme on Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development (GP). It explains clearly its dimension as a means of ...

UNCTAD-UNDP Global Programme on Sustainable Human Development2005

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