New governance practices associated wit the modernisation of health systems within Europe focus on equipping health consumers with more information and power in their interactions with clinicians. This paper uses material on health care reform in Britain and Germany to highlight ways in which consumerism is refracted through different institutional histories and current political projects. Thes...

Vehicular sensor networks (VSNs) are built on top of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) by equipping vehicles with sensing devices. These new technologies create a huge opportunity to extend the sensing capabilities of the existing road traffic control systems and improve their performance. Efficient utilisation of wireless communication channel is one of the basic issues in the vehicular netwo...

In the context of an agile project, negative interactions are addressed by equipping the ‘conventional’ positive user story engineering process with a number of conceptual models, including those for negative user story and negative role. The challenges inherent in eliciting negative uses, negative roles, and negative user stories are highlighted. The cost of engineering negative user stories i...

A multiplicative Schwarz overlapping domain decomposition method is considered for solving elliptic boundary value problems. By equipping the relevant Sobolev spaces on the subdomains with wavelet bases, adaptive wavelet methods are used for approximately solving the subdomain problems. The union of the wavelet bases forms a frame for the Sobolev space on the domain as a whole. The resulting me...

A multiplicative Schwarz overlapping domain decomposition method is considered for solving elliptic boundary value problems. By equipping the relevant Sobolev spaces on the subdomains with wavelet bases, adaptive wavelet methods are used for approximately solving the subdomain problems. The union of the wavelet bases forms a frame for the Sobolev space on the domain as a whole. The resulting me...

In this paper we propose equipping Generative Adversarial Networks with the ability to produce direct energy estimates for samples. Specifically, we develop a flexible adversarial training framework, and prove this framework not only ensures the generator converges to the true data distribution, but also enables the discriminator to retain the density information at the global optimum. We deriv...

This chapter introduces Part II on modeling tutoring knowledge in ITS research. Starting with its origin and with a characterization of tutoring, it proposes a general definition of tutoring, and a description of tutoring functions, variables, and interactions. The Interaction Hypothesis is presented and discussed, followed by the development of the tutorial component of ITSs, and their evaluat...

The three-dimensional characterization and mapping of remote environments is an important task that generates a good deal of attention both by end users and by researchers across several Želds of interest. In the mobile robotics community, a great deal of work has been done in equipping vehicles with sensors that can acquire three-dimensional and even multimodal information about the location a...

Equipping software with contracts, especially in the case of library components, opens up a whole range of applications. I will describe two of them, part of current work in the chair of software engineering at ETH. The first is automatic, “push-button” testing of contract-equipped components. The second is mathematical proof that such components satisfy their contracts. In both cases the effor...

We are concerned with mapping class groups of surfaces with nonempty boundary. We present a very natural method, due to Thurston, of finding many different left orderings of such groups. The construction involves equipping the surface with a hyperbolic structure, embedding the universal cover in the hyperbolic plane, and extending the action of the mapping class group on it to its limit points ...