The mobility system is undergoing a paradigm shift from fossil fuel-based mobility towards carbon neutrality and greater energy efficiency. Yet this transformation is still in its infancy. In order to reach the CO2 target defined by the Paris Agreement, an increased use of sharing and electric vehicles is suggested. While many scholars have already investigated the factors relevant for promoting the use of sharing or electric vehicles, ...

Front camera data from tablets used in educational settings offer valuable clues to student behavior, attention, and affective state. Due to the camera’s angle of view, the face of the student is partially occluded and skewed. This hinders the ability of experts to adequately capture the learning process and student states. In this paper, we present a pipeline and techniques for image reconstruction of front camera recordings. Our setting ...

Timber building industry is facing a major transformation with digitalization and automation being more broadly adopted. Prefabricated timber frame structures can be mass-produced on large robotic assembly lines, increasing the productivity and competitiveness of wood over standard inorganic materials such as steel or concrete. While standardization is likely to limit creativity, new digital tools, on the contrary, give the possibility ...

This paper proposes new Fitness Landscape Analysis (FLA) metrics as measures for problem difficulty in heuristic search. The sensitivity and variable interaction metrics are based on Sobol indices, a common technique in sensitivity analysis. The fitness- and state-variance and the fitness- and state-skewness metrics are based on the second and third central statistical moments. We compute metric values for around 550 continuous test ...

In highly dense crowds of humans, collisions between people occur often. It is common to simulate such a crowd as one fluid-like entity (macroscopic), and not as a set of individuals (microscopic, agent-based). Agent-based simulations are preferred for lower densities because they preserve the properties of individual people. However, their collision handling is too simplistic for extreme-density crowds. Therefore, neither paradigm is ...