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Looking at Cities in Mexico with Crowds

Mobile and social technologies are providing new opportunities to document, characterize, and gather impressions of urban environments. In this paper, we present a study that examines urban perceptions of three cities in central Mexico (Guanajuato, Leon an ...

ACM2015

Three essays on the role of proximity in science and innovation

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of proximity can affect innovation and science activities through various mechanisms and in different contexts. In the first study (second chapter of this thesi ...

EPFL2015

Expanding Eye-Tracking Methods to Explain the Socio-Cognitive Effects of Shared Annotations

Andrea Mazzei

Social technologies are leading to transformations in education, by empowering the way learners connect to each other, by introducing new means for teaching and learning and by reshaping the way knowledge is delivered. Annotating texts is a learning strate ...

EPFL2013

New Technologies for Nanobiosensing and their Applications to Real-Time Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero

Amperometric biosensors are complex systems and they require a combination of technologies for their development. The aim of the present work is to exploit existing technologies for new purposes in order to develop nanostructured biosensors for the real-ti ...

2011

Production and use of lignocellulosic bioethanol in Europe: Current situation and perspectives

Edgard Gnansounou

Contrary to the case of the United States where a systematic management of the RD&D on lignocellulosic ethanol prevails, in Europe the research works remain fragmented despite the efforts made by the European Union and in few member states. In most of the ...

Elsevier2010

Analysis of Low Power, Low Data Rate Ultra Wideband Impulse Radio Systems

During the last decade, ultra wideband (UWB) systems gained a large interest in the scientific world because of their suitability to realize among others communication systems with tremendous data rates and accurate indoor positioning and location systems. ...

Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Microtechnique2009

The discipline of embedded systems design

Joseph Sifakis

The wall between computer science and electrical engineering has kept the potential of embedded systems at bay. It is time to build a new scientific foundation with embedded systems design as the cornerstone, which will ensure a systematic and even-handed ...

2007

Preference-based search with suggestions

Paolo Viappiani

The internet provides an unprecedented variety of opportunities to people. Whether looking for a place to go on vacation, an apartment to rent, or a PC to buy, the potential customer is faced with countless possibilities. Most people have difficulty findin ...

EPFL2007

Preference-based Search using Example-Critiquing with Suggestions

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings, Paolo Viappiani

We consider interactive tools that help users search for their most preferred item in a large collection of options. In particular, we examine example-critiquing, a technique for enabling users to incrementally construct preference models by critiquing exa ...

2006

Architectural and Technology Influence on the Optimal Total Power Consumption

Pierre-André Farine, Christian Piguet

In this paper, an approximated closed-form total power consumption equation for circuits working at their optimal supply and threshold voltage is presented. Comparisons of this formula to the numerical calculation show an error less than 3% on a set of thi ...

2006

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