Natures, Sciences, Sociétés : premier dossier

Dossier – Mineral oil hydrocarbons

The Natures of Nonconfigurationality

Population, development, and human natures

At the dawn of this new millennium, the human enterprise is quickly becoming a globally unified one. Yet numerous obstacles and pitfalls remain in the path of a full and fair unification. A substantial fraction of the world’s population is well-off and increasingly connected through trade and communications systems. But an even larger fraction is struggling to make ends meet and is only sketchi...

Natures and Perspectives

“Nature” and “Perspective” have similar meaning for Eclipse developers and for personnel in a software product line organization. The nature of product line work differs from one part of the organization to another. A developer using Eclipse switches among perspectives to have ready access to the specific tools needed for the nature of the current work such as testing, modeling, or plug-in deve...

Courrieu – dossier HDR II

This paper presents an algorithm that allows for encoding probability density functions associated to samples of points of R. The resulting code is a sequence of points of R whose density function approximates that of the set of data points. However, contrarily to sampled data points, code points associated to two different density functions can be matched, which allows to efficiently compare s...