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Special issue of The Geneva Papers on microinsurance
By providing underserved, low-income populations with protection against risks to their livelihoods and health, microinsurance helps poorer segments of society increase their resilience to adverse events. Despite significant development in many emerging markets in recent years, however, large protection gaps remain, many of which have been and will continue to be exacerbated by COVID...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/08/2021
Digital individual benefit statement ::the use of a triangulation methodology to design a digital platform for Switzerland
Old age retirement pensions are an important concern among the Swiss but estimating one’s income after retirement is difficult due to the Swiss insurance system’s complexity. This project’s aim is to prepare for developing a digital platform that will allow individuals to plan for retirement in a simplified manner. The main objective of the platform will be togive individuals the...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/06/2021
A digital individual benefit statement to mitigate the risk of poverty in retirement ::the case of Switzerland
Old-age retirement benefits are a major concern among the Swiss population but estimating one’s revenue after retirement is challenging due to the Swiss social system’s complexity. In Switzerland, as with many other countries, the risk of poverty for retiree people is high, especially for women who often work part-time. The research presented in this paper proposes a methodology to...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/06/2021
Special issue of The Geneva Papers in memory of Dr Orio Giarini
A new special issue of The Geneva Papers on risk and insurance is dedicated to Dr Orio Giarini – founder of The Geneva Association – who died on 28 February 2020.
Institution partenaire
English / 07/06/2021
A robust share-of-choice model
In this paper, we propose an approach to take into account , in a robust way, part-worth uncertainty in a share-of-choice (SOC) model. More precisely, we extend the method proposed by Wang and Curry by endogenously including competition. Indeed in their approach, competition is described exogenously and the model cannot take into account part-worth uncertainty for the competition’s...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/02/2021
Dismissing poisoned digital evidence from blockchain of custody
This paper presents a solution to dismiss a digital evidence from a permissioned blockchain-based legal system, serving as evidence chain of custody. When challenged into court, a digital evidence can be entirely dismissed, as well as all the procedural acts originating from this evidence, including personal gathered data. Since a blockchain, by design, cannot be altered, this paper...
Institution partenaire
English / 03/12/2020
Tainted digital evidence and privacy protection in blockchain-based systems
Institution partenaire
English / 03/07/2020
Least-squares/relaxation method for the numerical solution of a 2D Pucci’s equation
The numerical solution of the Dirichlet problem for an elliptic Pucci’s equation in two dimensions of space is addressed by using a least-squares approach. The algorithm relies on an iterative relaxation method that decouples a variational linear elliptic PDE problem from the local nonlinearities. The approximation method relies on mixed low order finite element methods. The least-...
Institution partenaire
English / 15/04/2020
Security governance as a service on the cloud
Small companies need help to detect and to respond to increasing security related threats. This paper presents a cloud service that automates processes that make checks for such threats, implement mitigating procedures, and generally instructs client companies on the steps to take. For instance, a process that automates the search for leaked credentials on the Dark Web will, in the...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/03/2020
Blockchain-based digital evidence inventory
This paper proposes the use of a blockchainbased structure in order to store evidences in a digital forensics investigation. The traditional chain of evidence is augmented with properties of immutability and traceability, thanks to a cryptographic process. The blockchain is constructed by forensics experts by adding evidences through the process. Since the blockchain is immutable, it...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/06/2019
PLC hacking on sea vessels
This paper presents a case of alleged PLC (Programmable Logic controller) hacking aboard a commercial ship, and the forensic investigation of PLC components. It presents the lessons drawn from this case and the particular difficulty of investigating PLC and SCADA systems onboard. Whereas hacking is often seen as taking control of a ship, or part of a ship, it is also related to the...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/06/2019
Optimal design of e-service ::a robust approach
Service design optimizers benefited greatly from the development of conjoint analysis, which appeared more than forty years ago. Conjoint analysis is a powerful and popular method to estimate consumers’ preferences. As this method is based on a survey, the estimated utility functions can be subject to inaccuracies. In this paper, we propose a service design optimizer that combines...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/06/2019
A supply-demand modeling of the Swiss roundwood market ::actors responsiveness and CO2 implications
Given the importance of wood products in CO2 sequestration, an increase in the use of local wood in construction may help reduce the sector's net emissions. However, given the low prices of wood, the Swiss forest industry is unwilling to produce more, despite the important potential of wood mobilization. Financial incentives may help meet the goals of both environmental and...
Institution partenaire
English / 29/03/2019
A hedonic approach to estimate the price of reliability, energy efficiency and safety for new cars in Switzerland
When purchasing a car in Switzerland, consumers can consult three quality labels. First, a reliability label provides the probability that a given car will have a breakdown in the next year. Second, an energy efficiency label, based on fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, ranks cars from A to G. Third, a safety label, based on crash tests, ranks cars from five to one stars...
Institution partenaire
English / 21/03/2019
Impacts of blockchain on the audit profession
Institution partenaire
English / 12/10/2018
Customizing a variant annotation-support tool ::an inquiry into probability ranking principles for TREC precision medicine
Institution partenaire
English / 12/10/2018
Evaluation of forecasting approaches using hybrid multicriteria decision-making models
The demand forecast is the most influential input into enterprise activities planning thus creating a challenging issue for Demand Planning experts in model selection. Models including quantitative, qualitative and hybrid forecasting methods have been developed and are widely used. The literature reveals the use of several case-dependent error measures to evaluate forecasting...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/10/2018
Large-scale nonlinear variable selection via kernel random features
We propose a new method for input variable selection in nonlinear regression. The method is embedded into a kernel regression machine that can model general nonlinear functions, not being a priori limited to additive models. This is the first kernel-based variable selec- tion method applicable to large datasets. It sidesteps the typical poor scaling properties of kernel methods by...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/10/2018
Estate fiscal policies, long-term care insurance and informal care
This paper studies the effects of estate recovery, estate taxation and long-term care (LTC) subsidies on the incentives both to buy LTC insurance and to transfer wealth by elderly parents and to provide informal care by children to their dependent elderly parents. We also investigate the effect of these three fiscal policies on public budgets allocated to finance LTC needs. Estate...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/10/2018
Biomedical ontology alignment ::an approach based on representation learning
Background: While representation learning techniques have shown great promise in application to a number of different NLP tasks, they have had little impact on the problem of ontology matching. Unlike past work that has focused on feature engineering, we present a novel representation learning approach that is tailored to the ontology matching task. Our approach is based on embedding...
Institution partenaire
English / 04/10/2018
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