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Research question: A social network programme called J’arrête de fumer was set up in 2016 in the six French-speaking cantons of Switzerland. It consists of Facebook groups where people agree on a date to quit smoking. A peak of relapse appears during the first three weeks of the programme. This research aims to explore the feasibility of building a Chatbot to help people to get over...

The integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) onto public roads presents both technical and social challenges. Public understanding and acceptance of AVs requires engagement with people who live in, work at or visit cities where they are deployed on public road networks. We investigate the impact of one of the first placements of AV passenger transport on public roadways: the Sion...

Theprocessesofradiomicsconsistofimage-basedpersonalizedtumorphenotypingforpre-cision medicine. They complement slow, costly and invasive molecular analysis of tumoral tissue. Whereastherelevanceofalargevarietyofquantitativeimagingbiomarkershasbeen demonstrated for various cancer types, most studies were based on 2D image analysis of relatively small patient cohorts. In this work, we...

Co-creation as a joint collaborative process between organizations and customers offers new models and sources of creativity and innovation for businesses to differentiate their value from the value their competitors offer. However, a successful co-creation strategy involves understanding the shared interests of the parties and resolving tensions between internal and external...

During the financial crisis that first hit the U.S. economy and soon became a world crisis, investors reduced their holdings of foreign equities, and, at the same time, they increased their holdings of short-term government bonds. The paper analyzes, within the context of a DSGE model, the hedging properties of foreign bond and foreign equity holdings during a crisis, when the degree...

This paper investigates the characteristics and performance of family investment holdings across the world. Their unique combination of family wealth and expertise and investments in stock markets make them a special asset class for retail investors. We find that families are strongly involved in terms of stake and management both in their holdings and the holding’s investments. We...

This paper looks at the impact of digitalization on third-party logistics (3PL) business models. An eclectic framework for the analysis of digital disruptions in service industries is elaborated by linking Porter’s five forces to insights from research on digitalization and innovation. Applying this framework to the business field of 3PL reveals that logistics service providers face...

Techniques originating from the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) areas have extensively been applied to develop intelligent and pervasive systems such as assistive monitoring, feedback in telerehabilitation, energy management, and negotiation. Those application do-mains particularly include three major characteristics: intel-ligence, autonomy and real-time...