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Decentralised systems made of autonomous devices and software are gaining more and more interest. These autonomous el ements usually do not know each other in advance and act without any central control. They thus form a society of devices and software, and as such need: basic interaction mechanisms for understanding each other and a social infrastructure supporting interactions...

Several social-economical developments, like the ageing society, stimulate the use of ICT applications for mobile healthcare (e.g., tele-monitoring). To support novel m-health applications, the consequences of developing these applications should be considered in the scope of a comprehensive architecture. Additionally, contextual information plays an important role for personalised...

The emergence of 3G networks gives rise to new mobile services in many different areas of our daily life. Examples of demanding mobile services are mobile-healthcare (i.e. m-health) services allowing the continuous monitoring of a patient's vital signs. However, a prerequisite for the successful deployment of m-health services are appropriate performance characteristics of...

L'étude des parcours professionnels apporte des éléments intéressants sur les spécificités des cohortes, définies selon l'année de naissance et le sexe. Comment celles-ci se comportent-elles tout d'abord du passage de la formation à l'entrée dans la vie active? Où se situent encore les différences entre hommes et femmes au niveau de la participation...

Estimation of the Pareto tail index from extreme order statistics is an important problem in many settings such as income distributions (for inequality measurement), finance (for the evaluation of the value at risk), and insurance (determination of loss probabilities) among others. The upper tail of the distribution in which the data are sparse is typically fitted with a model such...

In affective psychology, there is a persistent controversy about the number, the nature and the definition of the affect structure dimensions. Responding to the methodological criticisms addressed to the preceding studies, we conciliated the principal theories regarding the affect structure with the same experimental setting. In particular, using the semantic items all around the...