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Railroad diagrams (also called “syntax diagrams”) are a common, intuitive visualization of grammars, but limited tooling and a lack of formal attention to their layout mostly confines them to hand-drawn documentation. We present the first formal treatment of railroad diagram layout along with a principled, practical implementation. We characterize the problem as compiling a diagram language (specifying conceptual components and how they connect and compose) to a layout language (specifying basic graphical s

Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing2026

Practical Compositional Diagramming

Diagrams are rare and hard to work with in programming and theorem-proving environments. Existing diagramming systems do not meet the practical needs of interactive, exploratory use, such as keeping diagrams understandable as they grow in size with limited screen space, or as they evolve as the user steps through the program or proof. My research seeks to develop an approach—compositional diagramming—that meets these needs. Diagrams are formed of independent parts composed in systematic ways reflecting the

ACM2025

Augmenting the Panorama of the Battle of Murten with 3D Models of Cultural Artifacts

Panorama of the Battle of Murten is a 19th-century Swiss national treasure that is currently not accessible to the public. The DIAGRAM project [8] of the EPFL Laboratory for ExperimentalMuseology (eM+) focuses on digitising this painting and augmenting it with additional content. An ultra-high-resolution digital twin of the panorama was produced in the first stage of the project. The next phase will include enriching the obtained image with new features and preparing it for a series of interactive museumins

EPFL2024

Material and Energy Flow Analysis and Associated Environmental Impacts of Swiss Mobility

The development of material flow analysis (MFA) on large-scale systems is challenging due to the complexity and breadth of data that are required and the magnitude of the mass flows involved. This is true, for example, when trying to determine the material and energy flows at the country level of a whole sector, such as mobility. Various studies have provided data on particular aspects of these flows, but they often use different methodologies and generate inconsistent results. The challenge is to structure

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Architecture Diagrams - A Graphical Language for Architecture Style Specification

Architecture styles characterise families of architectures sharing common characteristics. We have recently proposed configuration logics for architecture style specification. In this technical report, we study a graphical notation to enhance readability and easiness of expression. We study simple architecture diagrams and a more expressive extension, interval architecture diagrams. For each type of diagrams, we present its semantics, a set of necessary and sufficient consistency conditions and a method tha

2016

Blending a MOOCs with interactive teaching

Bertrand Merminod, Pierre-Yves Gilliéron

When Massive Open Online Courses became a hot topic in Europe. The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) decided to take the challenge and launched an internal call for proposals. At the Geodetic Engineering Lab, we saw a possibility to use contact hours for exercises and fieldwork, rather than telling stories and showing diagrams. External students were considered, but the main purpose was to modernise the first year course "Fundamentals of Geomatics" for approximately 250 civil and environmental

2015

Distributed digital real-time control system for TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Damien Fasel, Philippe Marmillod, James Paley, Hoang Bao Le

A new digital feedback control system (named the SCD "Systeme de Controle Distribue") has been developed, integrated and used successfully to control TCV (Tokamak a Configuration Variable) plasmas. The system is designed to be modular, distributed, and sca ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Cyber-workstation for computational neuroscience

A Cyber-Workstation (CW) to study in vivo, real-time interactions between computational models and large-scale brain subsystems during behavioral experiments has been designed and implemented. The design philosophy seeks to directly link the in vivo neurophysiology laboratory with scalable computing resources to enable more sophisticated computational neuroscience investigation. The architecture designed here allows scientists to develop new models and integrate them with existing models (e.g. recursive lea

2010

Thermo-economic modeling of fuel decarbonization processes

A systematic framework is developed for the thermo-environomic modeling, analysis and optimization of fuel decarbonization processes using precombustion routes to decarbonize the fuel by CO2 removal before burning the purified H2-rich gas in a gas turbine for power generation. For each process step, the different technological options are summarized in a process block flow diagram. For the syngas synthesis coal and biomass gasification, steam and methane reforming, partial oxidation with pure oxygen or air,

2010

Intuitive Strategy for Parameter Setting in Video Segmentation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Elena Salvador

In this paper, we propose an original framework for an intuitive tuning of parameters in image and video segmentation algorithms. The proposed framework is very flexible and generic and does not depend on a specific segmentation algorithm, a particular evaluation metric, or a specific optimization approach, which are the three main components of its block diagram. This framework requires a manual segmentation input provided by a human operator as he/she would have performed intuitively. This input allows th

SPIE2003

Contribution à l'identification et au réglage robustes

The parametric uncertainty is defined as the gap between the complete model of a dynamical process and its simplified nominal one which is normally used to investigate the properties of the system. It is because of this model mismatch that the role of sensitivity in designing control systems becomes very important. In robust control, the parametric uncertainty is taken into account in both the analysis and the synthesis phases of the closed-loop system. In this thesis, first, robustness to small parameter v

EPFL1995

Modélisation et visualisation infographiques tridimensionnelles de structures et propriétés géologiques

This project, the computer-aided three-dimensional modeling and visualization of geological structures and properties, was conceived in the framework of the INFOGEOL project, "Modeling of Underground Civil Engineering Works Intersecting Geologic Structures". This project is carried out by the Laboratory of Geology of the Swiss Federal lnstitute of Technology in Lausanne (GEOLEP-EPFL). The work presented here is oriented to solving problems connected with modeling geologic structures rather than civil works,

EPFL1993

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