Many decisions in private and public organizations are made by groups. The paper explores strategies that the sponsor of a proposal may employ to convince a qualified majority of group members to approve the proposal. Adopting a mechanism design approach to communication, it emphasizes the need to distill information selectively to key members of the group and to engineer persuasion cascades in...

The study of probabilistic programs is of considerable interest for the validation of networking protocols, embedded systems, or simply for compiling optimizations. It is also a difficult matter, due to the undecidability of properties on infinite-state deterministic programs, as well as the difficulties arising from probabilistic aspects. In this thesis, we propose a formulaic language for the...

This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French manufacturing firms. We find evidence that the wage-bill share of older workers is lower in innovative firms and that the opposite holds for younger workers. This age bias affects both men and women. It is also evidenced within occupatio...

Agnès Lillo-Le Louët1; Martine Wolf2; Lilia Soufir3; Arnaud Galbois4,5,6; Anne-Sylvie Dumenil2; Georges Offenstadt4,5,7; Meyer-Michel Samama8, 9 1AP-HP, European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; 2AP-HP, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France; 3Saint-Joseph Hospital, Paris, France; 4 AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Service de Réanimation Médicale, Paris, France; 5UPMC, Univ Paris 06, S...

as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

1Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; 2Université Paris Descartes, Unité Mixte de Recherche S872, Paris, France; 3Inserm, U872, Paris, France; 4Inserm U770 and Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France; 5Inserm, U698, Université Paris 7, Paris, France; 6Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Un...

1Inserm, Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMR) S937, Paris; 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris 06, UMR S937, Paris; 3Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Institut de Génomique, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry; 4Inserm, UMR S626, Marseille; Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille; 5Laboratoire d’Hématologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Montpellier, Montpellier; 6Service d...

Viviane Chenal-Francisque, Caroline Charlier, Saleem Mehvish, Hélène Dieye, Alexandre Leclercq, Patrice Courvalin, Marc Lecuit Institut Pasteur, French National Reference Center and WHO Collaborating Center for Listeria, Paris, France; Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Paris, France; Inserm U1117, Paris, France; Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Division of Infectious ...

F. Dhombres1, 2, J. Charlet1, 3, Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Knowledge Representation and Management 1 INSERM, UMR_S 1142, LIMICS, 75006 Paris, France Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR_S 1142, LIMICS, 75006 Paris, France Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR_S 1142, LIMICS, 93430 Villetaneuse, France 2 Department of Fetal Medicine, Armand Trousseau Hosp...