Ecrit en 1975 par James G. Ballard, le roman High-Rise met scene la reconfiguration d’une tour d’habitation moderne, de style brutaliste, un ecosysteme au sein duquel les residents adoptent des comportements tribaux archaiques. Cette permet l’emergence d’un etre humain nouveau, dote capacites sensorielles adaptees a son environnement postmoderne. Cet article explore formes que prend cette emerg...

Le cahier non thematique de ce numero 52 illustre une nouvelle fois la diversite des observables genetiques. Diversite chronologique d’abord, avec etude portant sur les Confessions Rousseau. Gauthier Ambrus y cherche a situer le moment genese conceptuelle cette œuvre partir duquel commence se definir forme generique originale qui sera sienne – et peut-etre aussi « pli impose au m[ou]v[emen]t [d...

Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is an interesting way of maximizing performance by enhancing processor utilization. We investigate issues involving the behavior of the memory hierarchy with SMT. First, we show that ignoring L2 cache contention leads to strongly overestimate the performance one can expect and may lead to incorrect conclusions. We then explore the impact of various memory hiera...

The consensus paradigm can be used as a building block in many practical problems, like atomic broadcast, atomic commitment, group membership and leader election. It is well known that consensus cannot be solved deterministically in an asynchronous distributed system that is subject to even a single crash failure. Mobile systems are more prone to failures than conventional distributed systems. ...

In order to evaluate the capacity of a communication network architecture to resist to the possible faults of some of its components, several (un)reliability metrics are currently used. In this paper, we consider the K-terminal (un)reliability measure. The exact evaluation of this parameter is NP{hard problem. An alternative approach is to perform estimations using Monte Carlo simulation method...

Artiicial neural networks may learn to solve arbitrary complex problems. But knowledge acquired is hard to exhibit. Thus neural networks appear as \black b o xes", the decisions of which can't be explained. In this survey, diierent techniques for knowledge extraction from neural networks are presented. Early works have s h o wn the interest of the study of internal representations, but these st...

Cet article s’interesse a plusieurs textes litteraires publies propos du mouvement des Gilets jaunes. Il defend l’hypothese que ce social, par sa critique radicale de toutes les formes representation et delegation, denaturalise certains reflexes certaines croyances litteraires. s’agit montrer en particulier jaunes ont mis deroute une certaine conception la litterature comme arme tournee contre ...