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Cidade e interação: o papel do espaço urbano na organização social [City and interaction: the role of space in social organization]

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Como ações pessoais, aparentemente caóticas, podem gerar os imensos sistemas de interações em que vivemos? Neste artigo, buscamos responder a esta pergunta sugerindo que há um papel para as cidades, na forma de coordenar nossas ações. Investigamos esse pro ...

PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA PARANA-PUCPR2018

Social Interaction and the City: The Effect of Space on the Reduction of Entropy

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

How can individual acts amount to coherent systems of interaction? In this paper, we attempt to answer this key question by suggesting that there is a place for cities in the way we coordinate seemingly chaotic decisions. We look into the elementary proces ...

2017

Agent-Based Routing in Queueing Systems

Olivier Gallay

Waiting time in any network is often a costly and hence a bad experience. Therefore, to avoid jamming regions becomes essential in the optimization of traffic flows. In this regard, the conception and the control of complex networks supporting flows of uni ...

EPFL2010

Object-based Tag Propagation for Semi-automatic Annotation of Images

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann, Péter Vajda, Ivan Ivanov

Over the last few years, social network systems have greatly increased users’ involvement in online content creation and annotation. Since such systems usually need to deal with a large amount of multimedia data, it becomes desirable to realize an interact ...

2010

Assessing the Crash-Failure Assumption of Group Communication Protocols

André Schiper, Sergio Mena

Designing and correctly implementing Group Communication Systems (GCSs) is notoriously difficult. Assuming that processes fail only by crashing provides a powerful means to simplify the theoretical development of these systems. When making this assumption, ...

2005