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Knowledge based scheduling of distributed systems

Joseph Sifakis

Priorities are used to control the execution of systems to meet given requirements for optimal use of resources, e.g., by using scheduling policies. For distributed systems it is hard to find efficient implementations for priorities; because they express c ...

2010

Revisiting the Edge, Ten Years On

Valérie Chavez, Paul Embrechts

When these lines are written, it is January 21, 2008, a further `Black Monday' on the international markets. Stock indices have fallen between 5 and 10%. Which statistical tools help in describing such events and may help in understanding the consequences? ...

2010

A knowledge infrastructure for intelligent query answering in location-based services

Stefano Spaccapietra, Shijun Yu

Intelligent query answering in Location-based Services refers to their capability to provide mobile users with personalized and contextualized answers. Personalization is expected to lead to answers that better match user's interests, as inferable from the ...

2010

Verso un'oggettività della bellezza. L'insegnamento dei Grigioni.

Stefano Zerbi, Luca Conti, Marco Svimbersky

Contemporary society is based on a perpetual evolution of personal opinions and likings. The transmission of knowledge is questioned, but if the education and teaching about a critical vision is considered an essential instrument, so the schools and the ma ...

2010

From bench to bedside

Dominique Pioletti

Although we need to continue our efforts in basic sciences and research for the discovery of fundamental knowledge, we also need to focus on how this knowledge can improve human health. Often, it is not a single view or approach that will lead to discoveri ...

2010

Knowledge-Based Representation Of 3D Media

Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

In recent years, 3D media have become more and more widespread and have been made available in numerous online repositories. A systematic and formal approach for representing and organizing shape-related information is needed to share 3D media, to communic ...

2010

Effective Nonmarket Strategies: A Model of Political Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

This proposal focuses on the firms’ political capabilities as the major determinant to effectiveness of their nonmarket strategy. The term “nonmarket strategy” is relatively young and was primarily coined by Baron (1995) referring to the fact that a firm h ...

2010

Structuring and integrating human knowledge in demand forecasting: a judgemental adjustment approach

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou

Demand forecasting consists of using data of the past demand to obtain an approximation of the future demand. Mathematical approaches can lead to reliable forecasts in deterministic context through extrapolating regular patterns in time-series. However, un ...

Taylor & Francis2010

Universal Source Polarization and Spare Recovery

Emmanuel Abbé

Polar codes allow to perform lossless compression of i.i.d. sources at the lowest rate with low encoding and decoding complexity. In this paper, it is shown that for binary sources, there exist “universal polar codes” which can compress any source of low e ...

2010

Evaluation of a mixed approach combining stationary and wearable systems to monitor gait over long distance

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Xavier Crevoisier

Thanks to decades of research, gait analysis has become an efficient tool. However, mainly due to the price of the motion capture systems, standard gait laboratories have the capability to measure only a few consecutive steps of ground walking. Recently, w ...

Elsevier2010