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Follow the Clairvoyant: an Imitation Learning Approach to Optimal Control

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, John Lygeros, Luca Furieri, Andrea Martin

We consider control of dynamical systems through the lens of competitive analysis. Most prior work in this area focuses on minimizing regret, that is, the loss relative to an ideal clairvoyant policy that has noncausal access to past, present, and future d ...

Elsevier2023

Understanding the Information-Based Transformation of Strategy and Society

Thomas Alois Weber

The world economy is undergoing dramatic changes, largely driven by the new availability of fine-grained information. Innovative ways of using datalarge and small-have also prompted a rethinking of the boundaries for the combination and use of knowledge. T ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

An Evaluation of Diversification Techniques

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

Diversification is a method of improving user satisfaction by increasing the variety of information shown to user. Due to the lack of a precise definition of information variety, many diversification techniques have been proposed. These techniques, however ...

Springer2015

Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon.com

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

Coopetition (collaboration between competing firms) is a phenomenon that has recently captured a great deal of attention due to its increasing relevance to business practice. However, current research on coopetition is still short on explaining how the pot ...

2014

Advances in 3D focused ion beam tomography

Marco Cantoni

This article summarizes recent technological improvements of focused ion beam tomography. New in-lens (in-column) detectors have a higher sensitivity for low energy electrons. In combination with energy filtering, this leads to better results for phase seg ...

Cambridge University Press2014

Efficient Scanning for EM Based Target Localization

Pascal Fua, Graham Knott, Raphael Sznitman, Aurélien Lucchi, Natasa Pjescic-Emedi

For biologists studying the morphology of cells, Electron Microscopy (EM) is the method of choice with its {\it nm} resolution, across increasingly larger volumes. However, the time necessary to acquire such image series is long and often limits the amount ...

2012

Coopetition In The Global Book Industry: The Case Of Amazon.Com’s Evolution

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

Coopetition (collaboration between competing firms) is a phenomenon which has recently captured a great deal of attention due to its increasing relevance to business practice. The current research on coopetition is still short in explaining how the potenti ...

2011

A Functional Perspective on Learning and Innovation: Investigating the Organization of Absorptive Capacity

We investigate the intra-organizational antecedents of firm-level absorptive capacity (AC). Specifically, we examine how the functional areas of R&D, manufacturing and marketing contribute to the absorption of knowledge coming from different external knowl ...

Taylor & Francis2011

Effective Nonmarket Strategies: A Model of Political Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

This proposal focuses on the firms’ political capabilities as the major determinant to effectiveness of their nonmarket strategy. The term “nonmarket strategy” is relatively young and was primarily coined by Baron (1995) referring to the fact that a firm h ...

2010

The importance of being early

Nikolaos Geroliminis

This research quantifies the relationship between the cost of earliness and lateness by empirically observing commute trips from two different sources. The first empirical analysis uses individual level travel survey data from six metropolitan regions whil ...

2010

Diversification into logistics : strategies for incumbent postal operators in Europe

Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...

EPFL2008

Multi-agent modelling of electricity markets : transaction processes and generation capacity expansion under competition

Abdelaziz Lahlou

This thesis describes the development of three conceptual models built to serve as decision support tools in liberalised electricity markets. The introduction of competition, higher uncertainty and decentralised planning requires new planning and analysis ...

EPFL2007

How much room is left for European gas incumbents?

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In the context of the liberalization of the European natural gas market former monopolists face a challenge to react to market opening by realigning their strategies. Three major groups of companies can be identified that are capable to influence the Europ ...

2007