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Information Structure Design in Team Decision Problems

We consider a problem of information structure design in team decision problems and team games. We propose simple, scalable greedy algorithms for adding a set of extra information links to optimize team performance and resilience to non-cooperative and adv ...

2017

Quantifying Interdependent Privacy Risks with Location Data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Reza Shokri, Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu

Co-location information about users is increasingly available online. For instance, mobile users more and more frequently report their co-locations with other users in the messages and in the pictures they post on social networking websites by tagging the ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

ReCache: Reactive Caching for Fast Analytics over Heterogeneous Data

Anastasia Ailamaki, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Tahir Azim

As data continues to be generated at exponentially growing rates in heterogeneous formats, fast analytics to extract meaningful information is becoming increasingly important. Systems widely use in-memory caching as one of their primary techniques to speed ...

2017

Multicloud Resource Allocation

Hao Zhuang

Nowadays our daily life is not only powered by water, electricity, gas and telephony but by "cloud" as well. Big cloud vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google have built large-scale centralized data centers to achieve economies of scale, on-demand res ...

EPFL2017

Data-Driven, Personalized Usable Privacy

Hamza Harkous

We live in the "inverse-privacy" world, where service providers derive insights from users' data that the users do not even know about. This has been fueled by the advancements in machine learning technologies, which allowed providers to go beyond the supe ...

EPFL2017

Learning adaptive dressing assistance from human demonstration

Sylvain Calinon, Emmanuel Pignat

For tasks such as dressing assistance, robots should be able to adapt to different user morphologies, preferences and requirements. We propose a programming by demonstration method to efficiently learn and adapt such skills. Our method encodes sensory info ...

2017

Lighting control system

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Laurent Deschamps, Ali Motamed

In a control unit (8) for a lighting control system, wherein the control unit (8) is configured to calculate output values based on input values and the output values include control commands for a lighting installation (4, 6, 7.1, 7.2), the input values i ...

2017

Reproductive and trans-generational effect of ocean acidification and warming on the coral Stylophora pistillata in the Gulf of Aqaba

Malika Menoud

Global warming is threatening 75 % of the world’s coral reefs. The reproduction of corals is a driver for the development of the whole reef ecosystem. Then, it is essential to better understand the transgenerational mechanisms in the response of parents an ...

2017

VENTING OF TURBIDITY CURRENTS: WHEN TO ACT?

Sabine Chamoun

During floods, sediments are transported from watersheds into reservoirs, slowly decreasing water volumes and this leading to economic losses. Thus, in the long term, sedimentation endangers reservoirs’ sustainability. Sediments can also block low-level hy ...

2017

Phase Transitions in the Pooled Data Problem

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett

In this paper, we study the {\em pooled data} problem of identifying the labels associated with a large collection of items, based on a sequence of pooled tests revealing the counts of each label within the pool. In the noiseless setting, we identify an ex ...

2017

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