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An Honorable Exit
by Éric VuillardFrom the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.How can a modern army lose to an army of peasants? Delving into the last gasps of the First Indochina War (1946–1954), which saw the communist Việt Minh take control of North Vietnam, Éric Vuillard vividly illustrates the attitudes that both enabled French colonialist abuses and ultimately led to their defeat and withdrawal. From the Michelin rubber plantation, where horrific working conditions sparked an epidemic of suicides, to the battlefield, a sense of superiority over the &“yellow men&” pervaded European and American forces. And, as with so many conflicts throughout history, there were key actors with a motivation deeper than nationalism or political ideology—greed. An Honorable Exit not only brings to life scenes from the war, but also looks beyond the visceral reality on the ground to the colder calculations of those who seek to benefit from conflict, whether shrewd bankers, who can turn a military win or loss into financial gain, or intelligence operatives like the CIA, who aim to influence governments across the globe.
Adoption of Innovation: Balancing Internal and External Stakeholders in the Marketing of Innovation
by Alexander Brem Éric ViardotThis edited volume brings together academics from both innovation and marketing fields to explore the additional value for companies that can be generated with the innovations in marketing and the marketing of innovations. If ideas need to reach the marketplace, then marketing strategies, concepts and tools - such as the continuous development of new product and services - become vital for their success. On the other hand, marketing management is influenced by innovation as illustrated by the way social media and Internet have revolutionized the traditional marketing-mix. Such linkages between innovation and marketing research need to be much stronger as companies have to convince internal and external stakeholders to achieve successful innovation strategies. State-of-the-art research output from different perspectives would suit the needs of a researcher as well as the company CEO alike.
Evolution of Innovation Management
by Alexander Brem Éric ViardotUses new approaches and solutions to tackle innovations in an international context. Some of the challenges of innovating are remarkably consistent and recent times have shown the emergence of new ways for stimulating and managing the innovation process. The authors explore these new routes and assess their value for markets and companies.
Central Banking, Asset Prices and Financial Fragility (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)
by Éric TymoigneThe current literature on central banking contains two distinct branches. On the one side, research focuses on the impact of monetary policy on economic growth, unemployment, and output-price inflation, while ignoring financial aspects. On the other side, some scholars leave aside macroeconomics in order to study the narrow, but crucial, subjects of financial behaviours, and financial supervision and regulation. This book aims at merging both approaches by using macroeconomic analysis to show that financial considerations should be the main preoccupation of central banks. Eric Tymoigne shows how different views regarding the conception of asset pricing lead to different positions regarding the appropriate role of a central bank in the economy. In addition, Hyman P. Minsky’s framework of analysis is used extensively and is combined with other elements of the Post Keynesian framework to study the role of a central bank. Tymoigne argues that central banks should be included in a broad policy strategy that aims at achieving stable full employment. Their sole goal should be to promote financial stability, which is the best way they can contribute to price stability and full employment. Central banks should stop moving their policy rate frequently and widely because that creates inflation, speculation, and economic instability. Instead, Tymoigne considers a pro-active financial policy that does not allow financial innovations to enter the economy until they are certified to be safe and that focuses on analyzing systemic risk. He argues that central banks should be a guide and a reformer that allow a smooth financing and funding of asset positions, while making sure that financial fragility does not increase drastically over a period of expansion. This book will be of interest to students and researchers engaged with central banking, macroeconomics, asset pricing and monetary economics.
The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation
by Éric Toussaint“A compelling explanation of the deep-seated mechanisms at work in the international credit system” from the coauthor of Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank (Counterfire).For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Treated as sacrosanct, immutable, and eternally binding, it has become the yoke of choice for imperial powers in the post-colonial world to enforce their subservience over the global south. In this ground-breaking history, renowned economist Éric Toussaint argues for a radical reversal of this balance of accounts through the repudiation of sovereign debt.“Since 2008 CADTM has campaigned for ‘a new doctrine of illegitimate, illegal, odious, and unsustainable debt’ cancellation. This doctrine includes considerations of whether the debtor state is democratic, whether it respects human rights, whether the debt is incurred within the framework of ‘structural adjustments’ (enforced austerity), and includes all debts incurred to pay back previous odious debts. On grounds of global social justice, The Debt System makes a strong case for this new doctrine.” —Against the Current“This work has much to commend it; it provides detailed analyses of the impact of indebtedness in several nations . . . The author shows that, contrary to orthodox arguments, debt repudiation can be both justified and successfully carried out. I recommend the book wholeheartedly.” —Counterfire
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XII
by Robert Hirschfeld Shigeru Chiba Éric Tanter Erik ErnstThe LNCS journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techniques in the context of all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution. The focus of the journal is on approaches for systematic identification, modularization, representation, and composition of crosscutting concerns, i. e. , the aspects and evaluation of such approaches and their impact on improving quality attributes of software systems. This volume, the 12th in the Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development series, contains one regular paper, on modular reasoning in aspect-oriented languages from a substitution perspective, and four extended, improved papers selected from those presented at Modularity 2014. Topics covered include novel dynamic semantics through delegation proxies, modularity potential detection based on co-change clusters, improvements in reusability for components of semantic specifications of programming languages, and probabilistic model checking applied to dynamically generated members of a product line.
On Symbolism and Symbolisation: The Work of Freud, Durkheim and Mauss
by Éric SmadjaIn On Symbolism and Symbolisation: The Work of Freud, Durkheim and Mauss, Éric Smadja returns to the end of the 19th century and explores how the concepts of symbolism and symbolisation have been discussed among theorists, and how this discussion has developed and revolutionised the human sciences as we know them today. Uniquely, he connects three key thinkers of psychoanalysis, sociology and ethnology – Freud, Durkheim and Mauss – and discusses how their diverse epistemological paths blend and have consequently shaped our representation of humanity, society and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. In this innovative work, Smadja provides a complete biographical journey of these three influential founders, beginning with a dedicated chapter on Freud, followed by Durkheim and then Mauss. He explains each of their revolutionary creations – Freud’s psychoanalysis, Durkheim’s French school of sociology and Mauss’s modern French ethnology – before exploring their ground-breaking, yet differing, conceptions of symbolism and symbolisation, offering a discussion of specific and common aspects detected between these conceptions. In his conclusions, Smadja focusses on France to examine what became of their thoughts after the second half of the 20th century. He inspects the fields of French anthropology, sociology and psychoanalysis: Lévi-Strauss and his structuralist revolution, his colleagues Françoise Héritier and Maurice Godelier, Pierre Bourdieu, who was an ethnologist before becoming a sociologist, and, of course, Lacan. On Symbolism and Symbolisation: The Work of Freud, Durkheim and Mauss is a pioneering work that will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to academics and students of psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and the history of ideas. It will also be of interest to anyone wanting to learn more about the life and work of these three major theorists and the connections between the human and social sciences.
The Oedipus Complex: Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate
by Éric SmadjaThis book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here, Éric Smadja explores the complicated historical and epistemological conditions leading up to the emergence of the conflict between the two disciplines. He considers the origins of each science, the "creation" of the Oedipus complex, and the place, role and influence of Freud’s key and controversial work Totem and Taboo, both in the history of psychoanalysis and as it connects with anthropology internationally. Focusing on such key figures as Bronislaw Malinowski, Ernest Jones, Franz Boas, Georges Devereux, Emile Durkheim, Claude Levi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, Smadja charts the course of the debate as it unfolded during the twentieth century and tracks its contemporary status of the debate, with a focus on figures in both France and the United States. Discussing the divergences and convergences between the two fields, he compares and contrasts their historical, epistemological and methodological features and reflects on the new "acculturative" disciplines emerging from their interaction. The book concludes with a look at what the conflictual history of these two human sciences can tell us about the history of ideas and their processes and modes of communication. Exploring a dispute which reaches back to the very beginnings of psychoanalysis and anthropology, The Oedipus Complex will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, psychotherapists and academics and students of psychoanalytic studies, anthropology and the history of ideas.
Process Engineering Renewal 1: Background and Training
by Jean-Claude André Éric SchaerProcess engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the exponential increase in techniques and innovations. Rapid advances in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, as well as current societal needs – sustainable development, climate change, renewable energy, the environment – are developments that must be taken into account in industrial renewal. Process Engineering Renewal 1 – the first volume of three – focuses on training, demonstrating the need for innovation in order for the field to have a framework that is sustainable, in a highly changeable world.
The Ink Drinker
by Martin Matje Éric SanvoisinWHAT IF YOUR Dad loved books, owned a bookstore, and even called his cherished volumes "my little bookies"? You would probably despise books-just like the young protagonist in this deliciously bizarre story. One summer vacation, while Odilon is working in the store and hoping shoplifters will ease his burden, he spots a weird, pale stranger drinking a book. With a straw. As soon as the ink drinker flees (at the sound of the boy's gasp), the young spy locates the customer's book and discovers that it is completely blank except for a letter or two! He races out of the store on the heels of this tough customer-all the way to the cemetery. . . .
Machine Learning for Networking: 4th International Conference, MLN 2021, Virtual Event, December 1–3, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13175)
by Selma Boumerdassi Éric Renault Paul MühlethalerThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2021, held in Paris, France, in December 2021. The 10 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They present and discuss new trends in in deep and reinforcement learning, pattern recognition and classification for networks, machine learning for network slicing optimization, 5G systems, user behavior prediction, multimedia, IoT, security and protection, optimization and new innovative machine learning methods, performance analysis of machine learning algorithms, experimental evaluations of machine learning, data mining in heterogeneous networks, distributed and decentralized machine learning algorithms, intelligent cloud-support communications, resource allocation, energy-aware communications, software-defined networks, cooperative networks, positioning and navigation systems, wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, and underwater sensor networks.
Machine Learning for Networking: 5th International Conference, MLN 2022, Paris, France, November 28–30, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13767)
by Éric Renault Paul MühlethalerThis book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2022, held in Paris, France, November 28–30, 2022. The 12 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers present novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of Machine Learning and Networking.
Machine Learning for Networking: 6th International Conference, MLN 2023, Paris, France, November 28–30, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14525)
by Selma Boumerdassi Éric Renault Paul MühlethalerThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2023, held in Paris, France, during November 28–30, 2023. The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The conference aims at providing a top forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss new trends in machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition and optimization for network architectures and services.
Machine Learning for Networking: First International Conference, MLN 2018, Paris, France, November 27–29, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11407)
by Selma Boumerdassi Éric Renault Paul MühlethalerThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2018, held in Paris, France, in November 2018. The 22 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They present new trends in the following topics: Deep and reinforcement learning; Pattern recognition and classification for networks; Machine learning for network slicing optimization, 5G system, user behavior prediction, multimedia, IoT, security and protection; Optimization and new innovative machine learning methods; Performance analysis of machine learning algorithms; Experimental evaluations of machine learning; Data mining in heterogeneous networks; Distributed and decentralized machine learning algorithms; Intelligent cloud-support communications, resource allocation, energy-aware/green communications, software defined networks, cooperative networks, positioning and navigation systems, wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, underwater sensor networks.
Machine Learning for Networking: Second IFIP TC 6 International Conference, MLN 2019, Paris, France, December 3–5, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12081)
by Selma Boumerdassi Éric Renault Paul MühlethalerThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2019, held in Paris, France, in December 2019. The 26 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They present and discuss new trends in deep and reinforcement learning, patternrecognition and classi cation for networks, machine learning for network slicingoptimization, 5G system, user behavior prediction, multimedia, IoT, securityand protection, optimization and new innovative machine learning methods, performanceanalysis of machine learning algorithms, experimental evaluations ofmachine learning, data mining in heterogeneous networks, distributed and decentralizedmachine learning algorithms, intelligent cloud-support communications,ressource allocation, energy-aware communications, software de ned networks,cooperative networks, positioning and navigation systems, wireless communications,wireless sensor networks, underwater sensor networks.
Machine Learning for Networking: Third International Conference, MLN 2020, Paris, France, November 24–26, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12629)
by Selma Boumerdassi Éric Renault Paul MühlethalerThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2019, held in Paris, France, in December 2019. The 26 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They present and discuss new trends in deep and reinforcement learning, pattern recognition and classification for networks, machine learning for network slicing optimization, 5G system, user behavior prediction, multimedia, IoT, security and protection, optimization and new innovative machine learning methods, performance analysis of machine learning algorithms, experimental evaluations of machine learning, data mining in heterogeneous networks, distributed and decentralized machine learning algorithms, intelligent cloud-support communications, ressource allocation, energy-aware communications, software de ned networks, cooperative networks, positioning and navigation systems, wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, underwater sensor networks.
Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking
by Selma Boumerdassi Samia Bouzefrane Éric RenaultThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking, MSPN 2015, held in Paris, France, in June 2015. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They discuss new trends in networking infrastructures, security, services and applications while focusing on virtualization and cloud computing for networks, network programming, software defined networks (SDN) and their security.
Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking
by Selma Boumerdassi Samia Bouzefrane Éric RenaultThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking, MSPN 2015, held in Paris, France, in June 2015. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They discuss new trends in networking infrastructures, security, services and applications while focusing on virtualization and cloud computing for networks, network programming, software defined networks (SDN) and their security.
Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking: 4th International Conference, MSPN 2018, Paris, France, June 18-20, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11005)
by Selma Boumerdassi Samia Bouzefrane Éric RenaultThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking, held in Paris, France, in June 2018. The 27 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They discuss new trends in networking infrastructures, security, services and applications while focusing on virtualization and cloud computing for networks, network programming, software defined networks (SDN) and their security.
Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking: 5th International Conference, MSPN 2019, Mohammedia, Morocco, April 23–24, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11557)
by Selma Boumerdassi Samia Bouzefrane Éric Renault Cherkaoui LeghrisThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking, held in Mohammedia, Morocco, in April 2019. The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They discuss new trends in networking infrastructures, security, services and applications while focusing on virtualization and cloud computing for networks, network programming, software defined networks (SDN) and their security.
Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking: 9th International Conference, MSPN 2023, Paris, France, October 26–27, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14482)
by Selma Boumerdassi Samia Bouzefrane Éric Renault Soumya Banerjee Fabrice MourlinThis book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking, MSPN 2023, held in Paris, France, during October 26–27, 2023.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows vertical tools on machine leaning and artificial intelligence, network programming and Cloud computing, Industrial Internet of things, Digital Twins and Security.
Smart and Sustainable Agriculture: First International Conference, SSA 2021, Virtual Event, June 21-22, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1470)
by Selma Boumerdassi Éric Renault Mounir GhoghoThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Agriculture, SSA 2021, held as a virtual event in June 2021. The 12 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 25 qualified submissions. The papers provide discussion on new trends in communication and networking, Internet of Things, data processing for smart agriculture, renewable-energy based devices, low-cost solutions for wide-area exploitations and developing countries, smart agriculture and urban farming, smart irrigation, application to small-size andlarge-size exploitations, application of ancestral farming to smart agriculture, waste management for agriculture 2.0, and census of regional ancestral farming.
El amor y los bosques
by Éric ReinhardtEl retrato de una mujer en busca de una pasión. Una Madame Bovary contemporánea Bénédicte Ombredanne, una provinciana mujer de clase media, hace todo lo posible por conocer a Éric, el autor del libro que ha cambiado su vida. En sus encuentros en un café de París, o en sus mensajes por mail, le confía sus secretos más íntimos: la tormentosa relación con un marido cruel y egoísta, y el descubrimiento de una nueva sexualidad con un amante encontrado en una página de citas en internet. En un momento dado pierden el contacto por un tiempo, pero cuando Éric se entera del destino de Bénédicte, viajará a Metz en busca de toda la verdad. Ganadora del Premio Renaudot des Lycéens Candidata al Premio Goncourt Finalista del Premio Médicis La crítica ha dicho... «Enfado y consternación. Era uno de los favoritos, pero el Premio Goncourt no será para él. Una de las mejores novelas de la temporada y un gran éxito de ventas.» Les Inrocks «El amor y los bosques es también una novela... sobre una novela. El primer capítulo es en realidad una curva que nos permite comprender a la génesis del libro -pero, ¿es realidad? ¿Es ficción?- Contiene hermosas páginas sobre la escritura y la literatura, sobre la importancia de ambas, que son oxígeno para el alma.» Le Point «El magnífico retrato de una Bovary contemporánea.» Le Soir «El destino de la heroína de El amor y los bosques (¡qué título tan maravilloso!) marcará a buen seguro a más de un lector.» L'Express «La escritura de Éric Reinhardt es muy rica, casi lírica.» La Presse «Un descenso a los infiernos. Una escritura brillante, una historia poderosa.» Libération «Éric Reinhardt firma una de las más bellas novelas de esta rentrée.» La Libre Belgique
El dormitorio conyugal
by Éric ReinhardtLa última novela del ganador del Premio Renaudot des Lycéens y una de las voces más importantes de la literatura francesa contemporánea. «Una oda fascinante a la belleza, al arte y al amor.»Fabienne Pascaud, Télérama Cuando, hace diez años, la mujer de Éric Reinhardt le anunció que tenía un cáncer de pecho, la noticia resultó devastadora para él. A la operación, el doloroso tratamiento, el cuidado de dos hijos pequeños, se sumaba la incapacidad que el escritor sentía para protegerla en su inmensa vulnerabilidad. Ella, sin embargo, le propuso un trato: él debía terminar su novela cuanto antes y ella debía curarse. El autor escribió febrilmente y cada noche le leía a su esposa fragmentos de su libro. Finalmente, la novela fue publicada, y su mujer se restableció. Inspirándose en esa vivencia, Reinhardt recrea la historia de Nicolas, un compositor de unos cuarenta años a quien su mujer enferma exhorta a que termine una sinfonía con la que, juntos, ganar la batalla. El dormitorio conyugal es una novela de introspección acerca del poder de la belleza, del arte y del amor y de su capacidad de salvar la vida. La crítica ha dicho...«Una novela eminentemente íntima y profundamente generosa. Una profesión de fe artística y una declaración de amor vibrante.»Florence Bouchy, Le Monde des Livres «Haciendo uso de una construcción audaz, La habitación matrimonial presenta el relato de un hombre confrontado a la enfermedad de la mujer a la que ama. Éric Reinhardt explora de nuevo los espíritus atormentados.»Vincent Roy, Transfuge «Éric Reinhardt sondea sus miedos íntimos y explica lo que sucede en una pareja cuando la enfermedad golpea. Una sinceridad radical.»Françoise Dargent, Le Figaro «El libro más audaz de la rentrée literaria.»Florent Georgesco, France Culture «Éric Reinhardt es, más que nunca, él mismo, un romántico moderno.»Jérôme Garcin, L'Obs «El autor convierte en novela una prueba que soldó más que nunca su propia pareja.»Valérie Trierweiler, Paris Match
Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200–450 CE
by Éric RebillardFor too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups divided by clear markers of belief, ritual, and social practice. More recently, however, a growing body of scholarship is revealing the degree to which identities in the late Roman world were fluid, blurred by ethnic, social, and gender differences. Christianness, for example, was only one of a plurality of identities available to Christians in this period.In Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE, Éric Rebillard explores how Christians in North Africa between the age of Tertullian and the age of Augustine were selective in identifying as Christian, giving salience to their religious identity only intermittently. By shifting the focus from groups to individuals, Rebillard more broadly questions the existence of bounded, stable, and homogeneous groups based on Christianness. In emphasizing that the intermittency of Christianness is structurally consistent in the everyday life of Christians from the end of the second to the middle of the fifth century, this book opens a whole range of new questions for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of Christianity.