Léon Walras, un siècle après (1910-2010), Arnaud Diemer et Jean-Pierre Potier (dir.). Peter Lang, 2013, 224 pages

Pierre Rayer (1793–1867): un demi-siècle de médecine française

indecision and resistance to change all hindered plans set out so hopefully in Tenon's fifth memoir, with his vision of 'How splendid hospitals can be'. It is tempting to see parallels in some of the problems faced by Tenon in drawing up his reports and in the politics of the finance, administration and location of hospitals today. The recent Tomlinson Report on hospitals throws the same shadow...

Jean-Pierre Ramis, président,

Jean - Pierre Belaich

Bandit Algorithms for Tree Search Pierre - Arnaud Coquelin —

Bandit based methods for tree search have recently gained popularity when applied to huge trees, e.g. in the game of go [GWMT06]. The UCT algorithm [KS06], a tree search method based on Upper Confidence Bounds (UCB) [ACBF02], is believed to adapt locally to the effective smoothness of the tree. However, we show that UCT is too “optimistic” in some cases, leading to a regret Ω(exp(exp(D))) where...

Jean-Pierre Danthine: Taming the financial cycle

The crisis originated in the bursting of a house price bubble driven by an excessive credit expansion in the US, which eventually pushed the global financial system to the brink of collapse. In some countries, such as Spain or Ireland, the crisis was further compounded by the bursting of their own housing bubbles. In this regard, the current crisis is an excellent example. Historical evidence s...