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Rational approach for the management of a medium size bridge stock

Eugen Brühwiler

Infrastructure managers of medium size bridge stocks are being faced with the task of approximating short, mid to long term financial needs for their infrastructure. This task is particularly demanding due to the lack of relevant information, in particular ...

Taylor & Francis Group2008

Aggregation and discretization in multistage stochastic programming

Daniel Kuhn

Multistage stochastic programs have applications in many areas and support policy makers in finding rational decisions that hedge against unforeseen negative events. In order to ensure computational tractability, continuous-state stochastic programs are us ...

2008

Form Defining Strategies

Yves Weinand, Markus Hudert, Johan Bettum

This book examines experimental design methodologies in the field of architecture and their implementation in academic settings. Theoretical considerations by guest essayists and numerous examples of conceptual designs complement our holistic approach to t ...

Ernst Wasmuth Verlag2008

Credence estimation and error prediction in biometric identity verification

Andrzej Drygajlo, Krzysztof Kryszczuk

This paper focuses on the estimation of credence in the correctness of classification decisions produced by a biometric identity verification system. We adopt the concept of decision credence defined in terms of subjective Bayesian degree of belief. We dem ...

2008

Three essays on the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland

Nicholas Bornstein

The present thesis studies the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland. The first part of the thesis concentrates on citizens' demand for environmental quality at ballots. The analysis is guided by the public choice framework, which is rooted ...

EPFL2007

Vulnerabilities in Epidemic Forwarding

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Alaeddine El Fawal

We identify vulnerabilities in epidemic forwarding. We address broadcast applications over wireless ad-hoc networks. Epidemic forwarding employs several mechanisms such as inhibition and spread control, and each of them can be implemented using alternative ...

2007

Truthful reputation mechanisms for online systems

Radu Jurca

The internet is moving rapidly towards an interactive milieu where online communities and economies gain importance over their traditional counterparts. While this shift creates opportunities and benefits that have already improved our day-to-day life, it ...

EPFL2007

Toward a Multi-Agent Architecture for Market Oriented Planning in Electricity Supply Industry

Edgard Gnansounou, Jun Dong, Abdelaziz Lahlou

The liberalization of the electricity supply industry has shifted the analyses and modelling activities from planning to operation. However, project studies and investment appraisal still require medium and long-term anticipation of the electricity market ...

2007

The Complex Facets of Reputation and Trust

Karl Aberer, Wojciech Galuba, Zoran Despotovic

Trust and reputation systems have proven to be essential to enforcing cooperative behavior in peer-to-peer networks. We briefly describe the current approaches to building reputation systems: social networks formation, probabilistic estimation and game the ...

Springer2006

Evaluating critiquing-based recommencler agents

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

We describe a user study evaluating two critiquing-based recommender agents based on three criteria: decision accuracy, decision effort, and user confidence. Results show that user-motivated critiques were more frequently applied and the example critiquing ...

American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496, United States2006