Publications related to Exponential utility

Bayesian estimation of mixed multinomial logit models: Advances and simulation-based evaluations

Variational Bayes (VB) methods have emerged as a fast and computationally-efficient alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for scalable Bayesian estimation of mixed multinomial logit (MMNL) models. It has been established that VB is substan ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Quantification of the conditional value of SHM data for the fatigue safety evaluation of a road viaduct

Eugen Brühwiler, Imane Bayane

Fatigue safety verification of existing bridges that uses ‘‘re-calculation’’ based on codes, usually results in insufficient fatigue safety, triggering invasive interventions. Instead of “re-calculation”, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) should be used f ...

2019

Measurement system design for civil infrastructure using expected utility

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet, Romain Pasquier

For system identification, most sensor-placement strategies are based on the minimization of the model-parameter uncertainty. However, reducing the uncertainty in remaining-life prognosis of structures is often more relevant. This paper proposes an optimiz ...

Elsevier2017

Blind detection of polar codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Polar codes were recently chosen to protect the control channel information in the next-generation mobile communication standard (5G) defined by the 3GPP. As a result, receivers will have to implement blind detection of polar coded frames in order to keep ...

2017

Risk and Reward Preferences under Time Pressure

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Financial decision making under time pressure, though ubiquitous, is poorly understood; classical and behavioral finance are silent about the time required for a decision to be made. In an experiment, calibrating allowable decision times to 1, 3, and 5 s, ...

Oxford Univ Press2014

Bidder optimal assignments for general utilities

Monika Henzinger

We study the problem of matching bidders to items where each bidder i has general, strictly monotonic utility functions u(i,j)(p(j)) expressing his utility of being matched to item j at price p(j). For this setting we prove that a bidder optimal outcome al ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Enhance & Explore: an Adaptive Algorithm to Maximize the Utility of Wireless Networks

Patrick Thiran, Ruben Merz, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Adel Aziz

The goal of jointly providing efficiency and fairness in wireless networks can be seen as the problem of maximizing a given utility function. In contrast with wired networks, the capacity of wireless networks is typically time-varying and not known explici ...

2011

Bidder Optimal Assignments for General Utilities

Monika Henzinger, Paul David Dütting

We study the problem of matching bidders to items where each bidder i has a general, strictly monotonic utility functions u_{i,j}(p_j) expressing her utility of being matched to item j at price p_j . For this setting we prove that a bidder optimal outcome ...

Springer2009

Modelling human perception of static facial expressions

Michel Bierlaire, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Javier Cruz Mota, Gianluca Antonini, Matteo Sorci

Data collected through a recent web-based survey show that the perception (i.e. labeling) of a human facial expression by a human observer is a subjective process, which results in a lack of a unique ground-truth, as intended in the standard classification ...

2008

Three essays on the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland

Nicholas Bornstein

The present thesis studies the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland. The first part of the thesis concentrates on citizens' demand for environmental quality at ballots. The analysis is guided by the public choice framework, which is rooted ...

EPFL2007