Publications des institutions partenaires
The metro map method ::a general procedure for the creation of training curricula in research data management
Institution partenaire
English / 04/10/2018
The CoWaBoo protocol and applications ::towards the learnable social semantic web
Web platforms and applications are generating a normalized environment for users to consume information. This process of making the Internet experience “clickable” and “fun” comes at a price: we are less inclined to face important decisions on how applications work, data are handled, or how algorithms decide. This article will examine the possibility of shifting from predetermined...
Institution partenaire
English / 14/09/2018
The dial-a-ride problem with electric vehicles and battery swapping stations
The Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) consists of designing vehicle routes and schedules for customers with special needs and/or disabilities. The DARP with Electric Vehicles and battery swapping stations (DARP-EV) concerns scheduling a fleet of EVs to serve a set of pre-specified transport requests during a certain planning horizon. In addition, EVs can be recharged by swapping their...
Institution partenaire
English / 14/09/2018
Combining behavioral approaches with techno-economic energy models ::dealing with the coupling non-linearity issue
Consumer behaviour is often complex and even sometimes not economically rational. Wrongly, the first techno-economic energy planning models assumed the economic rationality hypothesis and, therefore, represented consumers’ behaviour incorrectly. Nevertheless, the current trend is to couple these models with behavioural approaches that were specially developed to describe the real...
Institution partenaire
English / 14/09/2018
Training, consulting and teaching for sustainable approach for developing research data life-cycle management expertise in Switzerland
Developing research in different fields is defendable as well as necessary for the development of disciplines and knowledge construction in general. The progress of qualitative and quantitative approaches is based on hard competitiveness and high level of innovation. This increases the need of a rigorous management of research process which should be more and more accurate and...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/09/2018
Management accounting and control practices ::qualitative research of Swiss industries using enterprise resources and planning systems
Based on qualitative research that was conducted on enterprises from the industrial sector, we acquired new knowledge on the use and the needs of management accounting and control practices. The focus of the study was small and middle industries based in the French-speaking part of Switzerland using an ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) system. The research aims to highlight the...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/07/2018
On the properties of high-order non-monetary measures for risks
This paper investigates how welfare losses for facing high-order risk increases change when the risk environment of the decision maker is altered. To that aim, we define the nth-order utility premium as a measure of pain associated with facing the passage of one risk to a more severe one and we examine some of its properties. Changes in risk are expressed through the concept of...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/05/2018
A semi-Lagrangian splitting method for the numerical simulation of sediment transport with free surface flows
We present a numerical model for the simulation of 3D poly-dispersed sediment transport in a Newtonian flow with free surfaces. The physical model is based on a mixture model for multiphase flows. The Navier–Stokes equations are coupled with the transport and deposition of the particle concentrations, and a volume-of-fluid approach to track the free surface between water and air. The...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/05/2018
A least-squares/relaxation method for the numerical solution of the three-dimensional elliptic Monge–Ampère equation
In this article, we address the numerical solution of the Dirichlet problem for the three-dimensional elliptic Monge–Ampère equation using a least-squares/relaxation approach. The relaxation algorithm allows the decoupling of the differential operators from the nonlinearities. Dedicated numerical solvers are derived for the efficient solution of the local optimization problems with...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/05/2018
A study on the heterogeneous fleet of alternative fuel vehicles ::reducing CO2 emissions by means of biodiesel fuel
In the context of home healthcare services, patients may need to be visited multiple times by different healthcare specialists who may use a fleet of heterogeneous vehicles. In addition, some of these visits may need to be synchronized with each other for performing a treatment at the same time. We call this problem the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Synchronized...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/05/2018
Is taxing waste a waste of time?: evidence from a Supreme Court decision
Environmental taxes are often underexploited. This paper analyses the effectiveness of a garbage tax, assessing its effects on multiple outcomes as well as its acceptability. We study how a Supreme Court decision, mandating the Swiss Canton of Vaud to implement a tax on garbage, affects garbage production and beliefs about the tax. We adopt a difference-in-differences approach...
Institution partenaire
English / 30/04/2018
Is taxing waste a waste of time? ::evidence from a Supreme Court decision
Environmental taxes are often underexploited. This paper analyses the effectiveness of a garbage tax, assessing its effects on multiple outcomes as well as its acceptability. We study how a Supreme Court decision, mandating the Swiss Canton of Vaud to implement a tax on garbage, affects garbage production and beliefs about the tax. We adopt a difference-in-differences approach...
Institution partenaire
English / 30/04/2018
From emergence to emergences: a focus on pandemic influenza
Institution partenaire
English / 18/04/2018
Operational route choice methodologies for practical applications
This paper focuses on the application of tractable route choice models and presents a set of methods for deriving relevant disaggregate and aggregate route choice indicators, namely link and route flows. Tractability is achieved at the disaggregate level by the recursive logit model and at the aggregate level by the mental representation item (MRI) approach. These two approaches are...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/04/2018
Train timetable design under elastic passenger demand
A passenger centric timetable is such a timetable that the satisfaction of the passengers is maximized. However, these timetables only maximize the probability of a passenger to take the train, but provide no insight on the actual choices of the passengers. Therefore, in this manuscript we replace the deterministic passenger satisfaction function with a probabilistic demand...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/04/2018
The feasibility of equilibria in large ecosystems: a primary but neglected concept in the complexity-stability debate
The consensus that complexity begets stability in ecosystems was challenged in the seventies, a result recently extended to ecologically-inspired networks. The approaches assume the existence of a feasible equilibrium, i.e. with positive abundances. However, this key assumption has not been tested. We provide analytical results complemented by simulations which show that equilibrium...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/04/2018
Modeling purchases of new cars: an analysis of the 2014 French market
This paper analyzes and compares different policy scenarios as well as discusses price elasticities and willingness to pay and to accept using revealed preference (RP) data from the French new-car market in 2014 by means of a cross-nested logit (CNL) model. We focus particularly on electric and hybrid vehicles. We use interactions between the cost (both fixed and running costs) and...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/04/2018
Small steps to make restaurants more sustainable
Institution partenaire
English / 16/04/2018
Is a company’s hospitality characterized by its visits?: hospitality experiences and cultural dimensions observed through Swiss and French company visits
The objective of this article is to characterize the company visit as a situation of hospitality and understand how it can be a differentiator. Thus, it addresses managerial concerns about the transmission of expertise or craftsmanship and visitor relations. This exploratory works serves two purposes: it primarily aims to introduce the concept of company hospitality into the...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/03/2018
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