Publications des institutions partenaires
When can exlusive licensees initiate patent infringement proceedings? Lessons for global IP licensing transactions from two recent UK cases
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
A closer look at specialized intellectual property courts
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Swiss Commercial Contracts: Review of Recent Case Law
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Using Arbitration and ADR for Disputes about Personal and Non-Personal Data: What Lessons from Recent Developments in Europe?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Training moral sensitivity through video games: a review of suitable game mechanisms
The goal of this study is to support game designers in the selection and implementation of game mechanisms to promote players’ moral sensitivity. A lack of moral sensitivity may lead people to behave unethically, without awareness for their actions’ moral implications. In this study, we conduct a theory-based evaluation of 20 distinct game mechanisms in view of their potential to...
Institution partenaire
English / 20/07/2018
Are ratings the worst form of credit assessment apart from all the others?
We present a prediction model to forecast corporate defaults. In a theoretical model, under incomplete information in a market with publicly traded equity, we show that our approach must outperform ratings, Altman’s Z-score, and Merton’s distance to default. We reconcile the statistical and structural approaches under a common framework, i.e., our approach nests Altman’s and Merton’s...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Rethinking large-scale economic modeling for efficiency: optimizations for GPU and Xeon Phi clusters
We propose a massively parallelized and optimized framework to solve high-dimensional dynamic stochastic economic models on modern GPU- and MIC-based clusters. First, we introduce a novel approach for adaptive sparse grid index compression alongside a surplus matrix reordering, which significantly reduces the global memory throughput of the compute kernels and maps randomly accessed...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Shareholder Risk Measures
The aim of this paper is to put forward a new family of risk measures that as the coherent/convex risk measures impose a preference order on random cash flows and can be interpreted as prices. But at the difference of the axiomatic approach of Artzner, Delbaen, Eber and Heath (1999) and the subsequent extensions of this model, our risk measures are associated with the optimal...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
The Effect of FRAND Commitments on Patent Remedies
This chapter addresses a special category of cases in which an asserted patent is, or has been declared to be, essential to the implementation of a collaboratively-developed voluntary consensus standard, and the holder of that patent has agreed to license it to implementers of the standard on terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND). In this chapter, we explore...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Indoor occupancy sensing with ultrasounds
As human beings, we rely on audible sounds as one way to communicate between each other and to infer information about our surrounding environment. Similarly, ultrasounds are used by some species in the animal kingdom to sense objects around them and get relevant information about their environment. In this thesis, we build on the inherent characteristics of ultrasounds and explore...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Fast prototyping and deformation of virtual humans
The creation of virtual representations of real humans is a challenging task that has been investigated for the last three decades. It utilizes a multi-dimensional approach that is used extensively in computer graphics and computer animation applications, and it also involves various fields. This work focuses on facilitating and improving the process of the representation and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Artificial agents as social companions: design guidelines for emotional interactions
Virtual and robotic agents are becoming increasingly prominent, taking on a variety of everyday life roles (i.e., assistants, tutors, coaches, companions). Displaying social and affective behaviour is a necessary requirement when agents need to interact and collaborate with humans. Nevertheless, current agent prototypes lack important skills, such as recognising human emotions,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
On the feasibility and privacy benefits of on-device data mining for opportunistic crowd-sensing and service self-provisioning
The average mobile device includes several sensors as a standard feature. Moreover, it roams with its owner, and can be used to collect context information on their behalf. It is often vital to collect data in order to create realistic models that might help us understand and predict the world. However, sharing personal data increases the chance of a user’s privacy being compromised...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
From Intellectual Property (Data-Related) Disputes to Data Disputes: Towards the Creation of a Global Dispute Resolution Ecosystem for Data Dispute in the Digital Era
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
From Intellectual Property (Data-Related) Disputes to Data Disputes: Towards the Creation of a Global Dispute Resolution Ecosystem for Data Disputes in the Digital Era
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
DelibAnalysis: understanding online deliberation through automated discourse quality analysis and topic modeling
The thesis examines political discourse quality online and proposes a methodology for analyzing online conversations in an automated way. The study builds on Habermas' work by examining the quality of the public sphere in a digital age. Primarily, it examines the portion of the public sphere which deals with political discussions on online platforms. The proposed technique,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Sell in May and Go Away: The Evidence in the International Equity Index Futures Markets
Institution partenaire
English / 13/12/2017
Cumulative prospect theory and mean-variance analysis: a rigorous comparison
We propose a numerical optimization approach that can be used to solve portfolio selection problems including several assets and involving objective functions from cumulative prospect theory (CPT). Implementing the suggested algorithm, we compare asset allocations that are derived for CPT based on two different methods: maximizing CPT along the mean–variance efficient frontier so...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2017
The Code is the Model
Conventionally, agent-based models are specified in a combination of natural language and mathematical terms, and their implementation seen as an afterthought. I challenge this view and argue that it is the source code that represents the model best, with natural language and mathematical descriptions serving as documentation. This modeling paradigm is inspired by agile software...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2017
Default ambiguity: credit default swaps create new systemic risks in financial networks
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2017
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