infonet-economy

This article describes a multi-modal routing problem, which occurs each time a user wants to travel from a point A to a point B, using either ride-sharing or public transportation. The main idea is to start from an itinerary using public transportation, and then substitute part of this itinerary by ride-sharing. We first define a closeness estimation between the user’s itinerary and...

Mobile applications are becoming very complex since business applications increasingly move to the mobile. Hence the same problem of code maintenance and comprehension of poorly documented apps, as in the desktop world, happen to the mobile today. One technique to help with code comprehension is to reverse engineer the application. Specifically, we are interested in the functional...

In this paper, we test for scope effects in Contingent Valuation applying different distributional assumptions for WTP, a non-parametric estimation and an estimation based on an open-ended format. Mean WTP is sensitive to the distributional assumption, but so is the scope effect. The nonparametric model, without conditions on the distribution, is the best able to identify scope...

Classical energy planning models assume that consumers are rational and this is obviously not always the case. This paper proposes an original method to take into account the consumer’s real behavior in an energy model. It couples a classical energy model with a Share of Choice model.

Face à la multitude des méthodes de test d’utilisabilité existantes, il peut être difficile de choisir la plus adaptée. Cette étude se propose de comparer deux d’entre elles en les appliquant au site e-rara.ch : la première avec modérateur et think-aloud, et la seconde automatisée à distance. A l’aide du même test construit avec le logiciel Loop11, le but est de déterminer si l’une...