As part of our efforts to complete the software CODYRUN validation, we chose as test building a block of flats constructed in Reunion Island, which has a humid tropical climate. The sensitivity analysis allowed us to study the effects of both diffuse and direct solar radiation on our model of this building. With regard to the choice and location of sensors, this stage of the study also led us t...

and the controversy raging round this problem. Brooke (1937) of the 'Excision of Patella' fame recently followed up 54 of his cases treated 5 to 15 years previously. His faith in the efficiency of this operation was reiterated and reinforced as the result of this follow-up. An immediate controversy followed the appearance of this paper in which Max Page (1946), Bankart (1946), Tippett (1946)" a...

This paper presents initial values of global and diffuse luminous efficacy at Saint-Pierre (Reunion Island). Firstly, data used were measured for a period of 6 months, from February to June 2008. During this period, all defined day-types have been studied (clear, cloudy and intermediate). Generally, the meteorological database of Reunion does not contain information for illuminance values. On t...

The advertisement placement problem deals with space and time sharing by advertisements on the Internet. Consider a Web page containing a rectangular display area (e.g., a banner) in which advertisements may appear. The display area can be utilized eeciently by allowing several small ads to appear simultaneously side by side, as well as by cycling through a schedule of ads, allowing diierent ad...

We adapt a probabilistic latent variable model, namely GaP (Gamma-Poisson) [6], to ad targeting in the contexts of sponsored search (SS) and behaviorally targeted (BT) display advertising. We also approach the important problem of ad positional bias by formulating a one-latent-dimension GaP factorization. Learning from click-through data is intrinsically large scale, even more so for ads. We sc...

Due to the current environmental situation, energy saving has become the leading drive in modern research. Although the residential houses in tropical climate do not use air conditioning to maintain thermal comfort in order to avoid use of electricity. As the thermal comfort is maintained by adequate envelope composition and natural ventilation, this paper shows that it is possible to determine...

Estimating sugarcane biomass is difficult to achieve when working with highly variable spatial distributions of growing conditions, like on Reunion Island. We used a dataset of in-farm fields with contrasted climatic conditions and farming practices to compare three methods of yield estimation based on remote sensing: (1) an empirical relationship method with a growing season-integrated Normali...

This paper presents the results of a research which took place at the University of NiceSophia Antipolis during the last four years and is now continued at the University of La Reunion. It particularly describes the architecture of an authoring system, EDDI, which aims at providing a basis for the development of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). The system is not general to any domain to teac...