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Théorie du consommateur (microéconomie)

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Academic Press2009

Parametric Sensitivity of Path-Constrained Optimal Control: Towards Selective Input Adaptation

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In the context of dynamic optimization, plant variations necessitate adaptation of the input profiles in order to guarantee both feasible and optimal operation. For those problems having path constraints, two sets of directions can be distinguished in the ...

2009

Structures with adaptive stiffness and damping integrating shear thickening fluids

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The invention relates in particular to a method to process composite structures with tailored stiffness and damping performance incorporating a smart material, namely a shear thickening fluid (STF), preferably at the interface between two elements belongin ...

2009

Properties, advantages, and drawbacks of the block logit model

Michel Bierlaire, Jeffrey Newman

This paper proposes a block logit (BL) model, which is an alternative approach to incorporating covariance between the random utilities of alternatives into a GEV random utility maximization model. The BL is similar to the nested logit (NL), in that it is ...

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Neo-Rawlsian fringes: A new approach to market segmentation and new product development

Christopher Tucci

Prior research into the link between new product development and market segmentation has focused on two main approaches: (1) design, segment, and do limited competitive evaluation; and (2) segment first, design second. This paper proposes a third approach, ...

PDMA2008

Venture Capitalists' evaluation of start-up Teams: Trade-offs, Knock-out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience

Marc Gruber

The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists' evaluations of venture proposals. Our findings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs' team evaluation criteria, and second by investigating the moderator var ...

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Cellular gradient polymer composites

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Vincent Stadelmann, Manuel Bühler

The invention relates to a foamed polymer composite product incorporating several fillers and/or fibres and several pores characterized by the fact that it shows two distinct gradients, namely a filler and/or fibre density gradient and a pore density gradi ...

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Ontology filtering

Vincent Jean Fabrice Schickel

With the ever growing importance of internet, people are becoming overwhelmed by information. More concretely, consider a situation where you find yourself with an evening alone and would like to rent a DVD to watch. For several reasons, this is a difficul ...

EPFL2007

A comparative study of compound critique generation in conversational recommender systems

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Critiquing techniques provide an easy way for users to feedback their preferences over one or several attributes of the products in a conversational recommender system. While unit critiques only allow users to critique one attribute of the products each ti ...

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, D-69121, Germany2006

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