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Combine and Conquer

In this thesis, we explore the application of data mining and machine learning techniques to several practical problems. These problems have roots in various fields such as social science, economics, and political science. We show that computer science tec ...

EPFL2015

Mining Democracy

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Vincent Etter

Switzerland has a long tradition of direct democracy, which makes it an ideal laboratory for research on real-world politics. Similar to recent open government initiatives launched worldwide, the Swiss government regularly releases datasets related to stat ...

2014

Direct democracy and metropolitan fragmentation in Switzerland and in California

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

In the beginning of the 20th century, many states in the USA, and especially California among them, implemented semi-direct democracy instruments that were directly inspired by the 1848 Swiss constitution—referendum, popular initiative, recall–to fight ext ...

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Spatial Democracy, a Capability Approach towards Commensurability

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

Metropolitanization, through the upscaling of urban systems and lifestyles, changes the political patterns of urban areas. Many models of governance have been proposed both to improve the quality and optimize efficiency of urban policies. However surveys s ...

2013

Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca

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Based on the 'universal' values of economic development, democratic governance and cultural diversity promoted by UNESCO, the official policy of the Federation of Malaysia, known as Wawasan 2020 (Vision 2020), promotes modernization with an emphasis on dem ...

Taylor & Francis2012

L’espace-Obama : une victoire des réseaux sur les territoires

Jacques Lévy, Luc Guillemot

Spatial characteristics are more relevant than socio-economic features to distinguish Romney and Obama’s electoral bodies. A cartographic representation at county level that uses a population cartogram as a base map makes the opposition between both geogra ...

2012

Fusion of Multi-Atlas Segmentations with Spatial Distribution Modeling

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Subrahmanyam Venkata Ravi Mohana Sai Gorthi

In recent years, multi-atlas fusion methods have gained significant attention in medical image segmentation. In this paper, we propose a general Markov Random Field (MRF) based framework that can perform edge-preserving smoothing of the labels at the time ...

2011

The Distributed Multiple Voting Problem

Martin Vetterli, Patrick Thiran, Florence Bénézit

A networked set of agents holding binary opinions does not seem to be able to compute its majority opinion by means of local binary interactions only. However, the majority problem can be solved using two or more bits, instead of one [1]. Pairs of agents a ...

2011

Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Logarithm Based Range Protocols

Rafik Chaabouni, Helger Lipmaa

We show how to express an arbitrary integer interval

I = [0, H]

as a sumset

I = \sum_{i=1}^\ell G_i * [0, u - 1] + [0, H']

of smaller integer intervals for some small values

\ell

,

u

, and

H' < u - 1

, where

b * A = \{b a : a \in A\}

and $A + B = ...

Springer2010

"1m2/second", Territories of Debates in a Direct Democracy, "Space: the Achilles' heel of Sustainable Development?"

This publication compiles the results of the SpaceWatch event 2008. The first edition has taken place in Lausanne on May 15th, 2008. The present book is composed of two parts. Part I presents the scientific comments on the press review highlighting the con ...

EPFL-ENAC2009

A Liquid Perspective on Democratic Choice

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Combine and Conquer

Mining Democracy

Direct democracy and metropolitan fragmentation in Switzerland and in California

Spatial Democracy, a Capability Approach towards Commensurability

Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca

L’espace-Obama : une victoire des réseaux sur les territoires

Fusion of Multi-Atlas Segmentations with Spatial Distribution Modeling

The Distributed Multiple Voting Problem

Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Logarithm Based Range Protocols

"1m2/second", Territories of Debates in a Direct Democracy, "Space: the Achilles' heel of Sustainable Development?"

Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca

Direct democracy and metropolitan fragmentation in Switzerland and in California

Spatial Democracy, a Capability Approach towards Commensurability

Mining Democracy

Combine and Conquer

The Distributed Multiple Voting Problem

Fusion of Multi-Atlas Segmentations with Spatial Distribution Modeling

"1m2/second", Territories of Debates in a Direct Democracy, "Space: the Achilles' heel of Sustainable Development?"

L’espace-Obama : une victoire des réseaux sur les territoires

Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Logarithm Based Range Protocols