Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO010.
This thesis is composed of three different chapters focusing on labour market policies, unemployment and the construction industry. The analyses aim to contribute to the microeconomic theory, proving three different concepts of externally caused variations, affecting both, the labour market equilibrium and the production function. In detail, the first part analyses the employment effects of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO016.
High Level Synthesis (HLS) is a process which, starting from a high-level description of an application (C/C++), generates the corresponding RTL code describing the hardware implementation of the desired functionality. The HLS process is usually controlled by user-given directives (e.g., directives to set whether or not to unroll a loop) which influence the resulting implementation area and...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM005.
Both in the field of argumentation and in studies on conflict mediation, sufficient common ground between parties in conflict is considered a prerequisite for reasonable and sustainable resolutions. Using a two-part structure, this doctoral dissertation focuses on how workplace mediators can broaden and strengthen the common ground between the parties through their communicative interventions....
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO012.
With the end of Moore's law and Dennard scaling, applications no longer enjoy performance improvements by simply waiting for the next generation of CPUs. This has led to the rise of domain-specific computing. As developers try to squeeze more performance out of applications, they have offloaded application functionality to specialized hardware, such as GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs. Programming these...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO015.
Haptic and visual feedback are important for assessing objects' quality and affordance. One of the benefits of additive manufacturing is that it enables the creation of objects with personalized tactile and visual properties. This personalization is realized by the ability to deposit functionally graded materials at microscopic resolution. However, faithfully reproducing real-world objects on a...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM004.
Sustainability Indicators (SIs) are rising. They reach importance in all communications and decisions towards sustainability (Baue, 2019; Hák et al., 2016; Lyytimäki, 2019; UN DESA, 2019; UNRISD, 2019), especially in corporate communications and corporate reporting (GRI, 2019; Knebel & Seele, 2015). With the revised General Procurement Agreement (GPA) from the World Trade Organization (WTO)...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM003.
Pervasive digital technologies are transforming economies and societies worldwide. This dissertation focuses on Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) as the dominant model of business ethics over the last decades, in an attempt to better understand the digital transformation. Digitalization represents a fundamental and challenging transformation and promises to touch on almost all areas of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO011.
Recent advancements in the networking field have made the data plane fully programmable, thanks to the introduction of both programmable network architectures and network programming languages. P4, the most prominent network programming language, provides software abstractions to the components of PISA, a programmable network architecture that is able to process huge amounts of network ...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO014.
Despite the undeniable practical benefits of documentation during software development and evolution activities, its creation and maintenance is often neglected, leading to inadequate and even inexistent documentation. Thus, it is not unusual for developers to deal with unfamiliar code they have difficulties in comprehending. Browsing the official documentation, or accessing online resources,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO013.
Computational Geometry is a subfield of Algorithm Design and Analysis with a focus on the design and analysis of algorithms related to discrete geometric objects. The Voronoi diagram is one of the most important structures in Computational Geometry providing proximity information, which is applicable to many different fields of science. For a given set of points in the plane – called sites...
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