Saint-Contest (Calvados). Espace Entreprise

Web, infrastructure, entreprise et recherche : convergences

L’industrie de la recherche d’information a connu en 2007 une période de grande convergence capitalistique. Ceci est un signe indirect des coûts croissants de recherche et développement dans ce domaine : infrastructures matérielles, logicielles, accès aux utilisateurs, expertise des problématiques d’entreprise. Ces dépenses sont difficiles à internaliser au sein d’unités de recherche isolées et...

Complexité en espace de l'exploration de graphes

Graph Exploration is a problem motivated by several aspects of theoretical computer science, including logic and computational complexity. It has also numerous applications in robotics. In all these contexts, the amount of memory used by the mobile entity (robot, finite automaton, etc.) performing exploration is a key parameter. In this thesis, we study in depth the space complexity of graph ex...

EUROPA - Entreprise - European Competitiveness Report 2003

Contest architecture

A contest architecture specifies how the contestants are split among several subcontests whose winners compete against each other (while other players are eliminated). We compare the performance of such dynamic schemes to that of static winner-take-all contests from the point of view of a designer who maximizes either the expected total effort or the expected highest effort. For the case of a l...

Fugitive Saint

Angela Verne. (Catholic Printing Company, Farnwort'1' Bolton, Lanes. 18s.) "According to legend, she (St. Dymphna) fled from Ireland to Gheel with the priest Gonerbernus to escape the unholy desire of her own father, a pagan kl0fc of Ireland. The latter, however, discovered their whereabouts and put them ^ death." These stark sentences, which embody all that is known of the patron sain of the f...