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An unethical optimization principle

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If an artificial intelligence aims to maximize risk-adjusted return, then under mild conditions it is disproportionately likely to pick an unethical strategy unless the objective function allows sufficiently for this risk. Even if the proportion eta of ava ...

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Six additional replies - one more chorus of the S3 ballad

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This paper has been written as a response to 'Six additional questions about smart specialization: implications for regional innovation policy 4.0' by M. Benner. The paper starts with the argument that recent academic work has enabled considerable progress ...

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Stochastic approximation methods for PDE constrained optimal control problems with uncertain parameters

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This thesis work focuses on optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain parameters, treated as a random variables. In particular, we assume that the random parameters are not observable and look for a deterministic control which ...

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Adaptive Risk-Based Replanning For Human-Aware Multi-Robot Task Allocation With Local Perception

Alcherio Martinoli, Zeynab Talebpour

In this letter, we propose an adaptive risk-based replanning strategy in the context of multirobot task allocation for dealing with limitations of local perception and unpredicted human behavior. Our replanning method is based on the variations of social r ...

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The Daily Design of the Quantified Self

Alexandre André Robert Rigal, Dario Rodighiero

This article argues how the digital traces that are collected day by day can be used to reshape and improve our personal self. If in the past, we were used to collecting data through diaries, today the task of producing inscriptions is delegated to technol ...

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IT Investment and its impacts

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This thesis empirically explored the impacts of IT investment on three different scenarios under the common denominator / threads of IT investments. It comprises three different essays on the impacts of IT investments. IT investments and its impact on many ...

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IRGC Resource Guide on Resilience (Volume 2)

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Volume 2 of the IRGC Resource Guide on Resilience provides an in-depth and pragmatic evaluation of concepts and methods for resilience-based approaches in contrast to risk-based approaches, as proposed and practised in different domains of science and prac ...

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The role of uncertainty in dam failure frequency estimates: a conceptual case study

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos

The return period of combinations of events that are relevant to dam risk analysis is very high. It falls in a range of hundreds to millions of years, but remains hard to quantify with precision. Deterministic approaches to dam safety assessment typically ...

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La prudence reste de mise en montagne, en forêt et sur les berges

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2018

Quantification and Classification of Handprint-based Net Positive Resource Efficiency Measures in the Swiss Industry Sector

Florian Elias Landerer

The task of the master project is to analyse a data set with information of several hundred companies from Switzerland. The goal is to find in the Swiss industry sector a classification/typology for the nature of resource efficiency of innovating companies ...

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