Digital transformation and accountants as advisors

Pluggable Advisors as Epiphyte Systems

François Pachet 1, Sylvain Giroux 2, Gilbert Paquette 3 1LAFORIA, Université Pierre&Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France E-mail: [email protected] 2IREMIA, de La Réunion, 15, avenue René Cassin, 97489 St-Denis, La Réunion, France E-mail: [email protected] 3LICEF, Télé-Université, 1001, rue Sherbrooke est, H2X3M4 Montréal, Canada E-mail: [email protected]

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

Board of Consultants and Advisors

Robots and Avatars as Hosts, Advisors, Companions, and Jesters

manner of artificially intelligent entities in our daily lives. Unfortunately, in the interim, this has been true mostly in the realm of science fiction. Recently, however, pioneering researchers have been bringing together advances in many subfields of AI, such as robotics, computer vision, natural language and speech processing, and cognitive modeling, to create the first generation of robots...

Digital Innovation and Strategic Transformation

D igital technologies—and how we use them in our personal lives, work, and society—have changed the face of business and will continue to do so. Moreover, research organizations such as Gartner and Accenture, along with MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson,1 indicate that the digital technologies that underlie computers, robots, and smart equipment are changing rapidly, becoming more powerful, and t...