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Using spatial and spatial-extreme statistics to characterize snow avalanche cycles

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

In December 2008, an intense avalanche cycle occurred in the eastern part of the southern French Alps. Using this case study, this paper illustrates how spatial statistics can be used to analyse such abnormal temporal clusters of snow avalanches. Spatial r ...

2011

Revisiting the Edge, Ten Years On

Valérie Chavez, Paul Embrechts

When these lines are written, it is January 21, 2008, a further `Black Monday' on the international markets. Stock indices have fallen between 5 and 10%. Which statistical tools help in describing such events and may help in understanding the consequences? ...

2010

Spatial analysis and complex systems for the optimization of retail trade localization

Stéphane Joost

This paper shows how the implementation of a networkbased approach to predict the location of commercial activities was used in the urban areas of Geneva (Switzerland) and Lyon (France) to support political decision making. Retail stores are qualitatively ...

2010

GEOME: Towards an integrated web-based landscape genomics platform

Stéphane Joost, Michaël Kalbermatten

The aim of the GEOME project is to develop a WebGIS-based platform for the integrated analysis of environmental, ecological and molecular data through the implementation of an original set of combined databases, spatial analysis and population genetics too ...

Instituto Politécnico de Bragança2010

La donnée géographique aux frontières des organisations

Matthieu Noucher

Geographic Information Technologies are now widespread. Geomatics tools are no longer restricted to a small number of technicians but impact on all of the actors within the land management sector (planners, geologists, foresters…). Many partnerships have e ...

EPFL2009

Priority scheduling of distributed systems based on model checking

Joseph Sifakis

Priorities are used to control the execution of systems to meet given requirements for optimal use of resources, e.g., by using scheduling policies. For distributed systems, it is hard to find efficient implementations for priorities; because they express ...

2009

Networks, knowledge, and knowledge networks: A literature review

Anu Wadhwa

A large and growing body of empirical research shows that social relationships and the networks these relationships constitute are influential in explaining the processes of knowledge creation, diffusion, absorption and use. We refer to such networks as “k ...

2009

The Emancipation of Destruction – Transforming Gällivare (Suède)

Linus Godet

Gällivare is a remote city in the middle of the northern Swedish wilderness. The city was established as iron ore was found in the ground just over a century ago. Until the 60's the mining industry and the city grew together in what seemed to be a perfect ...

2009

Open source corporate strategy (OSCS)

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

This doctoral dissertation defines and sheds light on a nascent phenomenon in management, informally referred to as "crowdsourcing". I term this concept Open Source Corporate Strategy, or OSCS, which borrows insights from the open source innovation literat ...

EPFL2008

Spatio-Temporal and Multi-Representation Modeling: A Contribution to Active Conceptual Modeling

Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent

Worldwide globalization increases the complexity of problem solving and decision-making, whatever the endeavor is. This calls for a more accurate and complete understanding of underlying data, processes and events. Data representations have to be as accura ...

Springer2007