infonet-economy

Stratégie ou ajustements? La Journée 2011 de droit bancaire et financier est tout entière placée sous cette interrogation. Michael Ambühl présente les axes principaux de la stratégie fiscale internationale du Conseil fédéral. Yvar Mentha et Alexandre Col examinent le défi que posent à la Suisse le protectionnisme et l’interventionnisme accrus de l’Union européenne dans le domaine des…

La Suisse occupe une place importante dans le commerce de l’art et des biens culturels. Il est de ce fait courant que les autorités ou les particuliers doivent faire face à des demandes étrangères de restitutions de biens culturels. Aussi, s’avérait-il nécessaire d’examiner les possibilités de restitutions qu’offre la loi sur le transfert international de biens culturels, entrée en…

Cloud Computing has become mainstream technology offering a commoditized approach to software, platform and infrastructure as a service over the Internet on a global scale. This raises important new security issues beyond traditional perimeter based approaches. This paper attempts to identify these issues and their corresponding challenges, proposing to use risk and Service Level…

When scientists or engineers are looking for information in document collections, or on the web, they generally have a precise ob jec- tive in mind. Instead of looking for documents ”about a topic T ”, they rather try to answer specific needs such as finding the definition of a con- cept, finding results for a particular problem, checking whether an idea has already been tested, or…

Models, which represent in 3 dimensions the geometric elements of a city, are called 3D city models. Those models are used for an intended wide range of applications beyond mere visualization. Such uses are made possible by enriching the geometrical aspects with urban or environmental data that cannot be perceptible to a user without a visual abstraction. Using such models implies…