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Chiese provvisorie. Identità sospesa

Chiara Monterumisi

This book is the result of a choral participation (School of Doctorate Studies in Architecture, University of Bologna and Laboratorio “Ricerca Emilia”) in the exhibition entitled “Architetture padane”. It is also the second step of wider investigation focu ...

CLUEB2013

The Visible Perimeter of an Arrangement of Disks

János Pach, Gábor Tardos, Gabriel Nivasch

Given a collection of n opaque unit disks in the plane, we want to find a stacking order for them that maximizes their visible perimeter, the total length of all pieces of their boundaries visible from above. We prove that if the centers of the disks form ...

Springer2013

Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Vincent Etter

Crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter are becoming increasingly popular, allowing project creators to raise hundreds of millions of dollars every year. However, only one out of two Kickstarter campaigns reaches its funding goal and is successful. It is ...

ACM2013

On the evaluation of 3D codecs on multiview autostereoscopic display

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart

Evaluating the performance of different 3D codecs on multiview autostereoscopic monitor is a tedious process, as it requires the synthesis of a dense set of views. Therefore, it is legitimate to ask if evaluations could be performed on stereoscopic monitor ...

2013

Small distances in convex polygons

Filip Moric

Let d(1) < d(2) < ... denote the set of all distances between two vertices of a convex n-gon. We show that the number of pairs of vertices at distance d(2) from one another is at most n + O(1). (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

How books will become machines

Frédéric Kaplan

This article is an attempt to reframe the evolution of books into a larger evolutionary theory. A central concept of this theory is the notion of regulated representation. A regulated representation is governed by a set of production and usage rules.ur cor ...

PPUR2012

From LMS to PLE: a Step Forward through OpenSocial Apps in Moodle

Denis Gillet, Evgeny Bogdanov

Bringing flexibility and extensibility into Learning Management Systems) is crucial because it gives teachers and students a free choice of technologies and educational materials they want to use for their courses. The paper presents a solution via enablin ...

2012

Scaling analysis of the variability of the rain drop size distribution at small scale

Alexis Berne, Marc Schleiss, Joël Jaffrain

Like precipitation, the raindrop size distribution (DSD) is strongly variable in space and time. Understanding this variability is important for quantifying and minimizing some of the uncertainties in radar measurements and their interpretation in terms of ...

Elsevier2012

Location System and Corresponding Calibration Method

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Phillip Tomé

The present invention relates to a location system, for locating at least one object within a predefined cell, comprising at least first and second receivers (A, B, C, D), first and second transmitters respectively, including first and second internal cloc ...

2012

Geotag Propagation in Social Networks Based on User Trust Model

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

In the past few years sharing photos within social networks has become very popular. In order to make these huge collections easier to explore, images are usually tagged with representative keywords such as persons, events, objects, and locations. In order ...

2012