Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC001.
Cette thèse est consacrée à la seconde partie de la carrière de l’architecte Adolf Loos (1870-1933) à partir de la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu’en 1933, et surtout après son départ de Vienne en 1923. Notre hypothèse de travail est que loin d’être une période « en creux » comme l’historiographie l’a souvent présentée, celle-ci est marquée par une plus large...
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A general result of information theory is that asymmetric information generates agent rents and distortions in production. In this paper, we analyse the impact of asymmetric information on adoption and use of information technology (IT). Depending on the conctracting scheme, different results may occur. We explore the differences between the case of contractible investment and the case of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO020.
Stochastic Optimization Problems take uncertainty into account. For this reason they are in general more realistic than deterministic ones, meanwhile, more difficult to solve. The challenge is both on modelling and computation aspects: exact methods usually work only for small instances, besides, there are several problems with no closed-form expression or hard- to-compute objective functions....
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019INFO007.
Linear barycentric rational interpolants are a particular kind of rational interpolants, defined by weights that are independent of the function f. Such interpolants have recently proved to be a viable alternative to more classical interpolation methods, such as global polynomial interpolants and splines, especially in the equispaced setting. Other kinds of interpolants might indeed suffer...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014INFO001.
Learning features for object detection and recognition with deep learning has received increasing attention in the past several years and recently attained widespread popularity. In this PhD thesis we investigate its applications to the automatic surface inspection system of our industrial partner ArcelorMittal, for classification and segmentation problems. Currently employed algorithms, in...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016INFO004.
One day there will be humanoid robots among us doing our boring, time-consuming, or dangerous tasks. They might cook a delicious meal for us or do the groceries. For this to become reality, many advances need to be made to the artificial intelligence of humanoid robots. The ever-increasing available computational processing power opens new doors for such advances. In this thesis we develop...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM010.
This study has examined how the ‘Ageing Society’ -a society with a rapidly ageing population, a growing share of older persons and a decreasing share of younger persons- and its implications for the Belgian population are represented in the Belgian quality newspaper De Standaard (2011-2013). As such, the study delivered first-time Belgian empirical findings about the coverage of the...
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In: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2007, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 121-142
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In: Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, 2007, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 121-142
In this paper we propose an application-independent model for the definition of artificial institutions that can be used to define open multi-agent systems. Such a model of institutional reality makes us able also to define an objective and external semantics of a commitment-based Agent Communication Language (ACL). In particular we propose to regard an ACL as a set of conventions to act on a...
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In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of an artificial institution. Within such an approach, we first reformulate a previously proposed commitment-based semantics for ACLs. In particular we show that all commonly used types of communicative acts can be defined in terms...
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