infonet-economy

Increasingly, we use mobile applications and services in our daily life activities, to support our needs for information, communication or leisure. However, user acceptance of a mobile application depends on at least two conditions; the application's perceived experience and the appropriateness of the application to the user's context and needs. Yet, we have a weak...

Parmi les actions réparatrices suite à la violation de droit de propriété intellectuelle, la méthode des redevances vise à indemniser le titulaire sur la base des redevances de licence qui auraient été dues dans le cadre d'un contrat de licence. Elle est régulièrement appliquée à l'étranger mais plus difficilement en Suisse car elle fait l'objet d'une approche...

n this chapter we focus specifically on the outcomes of political violence, especially violence committed by armed groups. The literature on political violence and terrorism has grown massively since 9/11, but has so far been mostly silent about outcomes This is even more striking if we consider that the very purpose of the vast majority of tactical political violence is precisely to...

Despite the development of the political violence and terrorism literature, which has moved strongly forward in the past decade, scientific works on the consequences of armed groups are still rare. This article encourages cross-fertilization between the sparse studies of the consequences of political violence and the growing body of research on how social movements matter. First, we...

This research presents methods for detecting and isolating faults in multiple MEMS-IMU configurations. First, geometric configurations with n sensor triads are investigated. It is proofed that the relative orientation between sensor triads is irrelevant to system optimality in the absence of failures. Then, the impact of sensor failure or decreased performance is investigated. Three...

In this paper, we propose a new criterion for selection between nested models. We suppose that the correct model is one (or near one) of the available models and construct a criterion which is based on the Bregman divergence between the out-of-sample prediction of the smaller model and the in-sample prediction of the larger model. This criterion, the prediction divergence criterion (...

Filtering methods are powerful tools to estimate the hidden state of a statespace model from observations available in real time. However, they are known to be highly sensitive to the presence of small misspecifications of the underlying model and to outliers in the observation process. In this paper, we show that the methodology of robust statistics can be adapted to sequential...

This chapter reviews the definition and characterization of the asset management contract, the determination of the applicable law, the regulation and self-regulation that apply, the duties of an asset manager and the relevant standards, and examines the liability of asset managers. It is the Swiss Chapter in an international comparative survey of these topics.