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Hirability in the wild: Analysis of online conversational video resumes

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen

Online social media is changing the personnel recruitment process. Until now, resumes were among the most widely used tools for the screening of job applicants. The advent of inexpensive sensors combined with the success of online video platforms has enabl ...

2016

To Share or Not to Share: Adjustment Dynamics in Sharing Markets

Thomas Alois Weber, Maryam Razeghian Jahromi

To aid in the description and estimation of the tremendous recent growth in the collaborative economy, we provide a model for the dynamic sharing, subject to ﬁxed costs. The sharing economy comprises a set of inﬁnitely lived, heterogeneous suppliers, who t ...

2015

Impact of Insurance on Earthquake Risk Territories in Japan

Rémy Zgraggen

The subject of the present PhD thesis is the qualitative, interdisciplinary analysis of the impact of earthquake insurance on earthquake risk territories in Japan. On the one hand, the Japanese Earthquake Insurance System (JEI) will be analyzed; on the oth ...

EPFL2015

Intermediation in a Sharing Economy: Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Rent Extraction

Thomas Alois Weber

Electronic intermediaries have become pervasive in sales transactions for many durables, such as cars, power tools, and apartments. Yet only recently have they successfully tackled the challenge of enabling parties to share such goods. A key impediment to ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Aesthetisation of the counter-culture

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

By showing two images of wall-covering tiles, both existing at Metelkova Mesto, in Ljubljana, the process of the "aesthetisation of the counter-culture" is shown visually: on one hand, the aesthetics of recycling (grassroots, DiY), on the other hand, the r ...

2014

Presentation and discussion of the main results in chapter 10 of IPCC - Working Group 2 - AR5. ...

2014

Systemic Risk and User-Level Performance in Private P2P Communities

Rameez Rahman

Many peer-to-peer communities, including private BitTorrent communities that serve hundreds of thousands of users, utilize credit-based or sharing ratio enforcement schemes to incentivize their members to contribute. In this paper, we analyze the performan ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Signaling and Reciprocity

Wojciech Galuba

Complex networks exist for a number of purposes. The neural, metabolic and food networks ensure our survival, while the social, economic, transportation and communication networks allow us to prosper. Independently of the purposes and particularities of th ...

EPFL2011

En quête d'habitat

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

A Developing World Perspective on the Design of Wireless Enabled Humanitarian Relief Services

Alain Wegmann, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena

In the absence of adequate state support, societies in the developing world have long relied on community support for humanitarian relief. Such community networks provide a readily available platform for delivery of humanitarian relief services. Wireless t ...

2011