With the ever increasing number of filed patent applications every year, the need for effective
and efficient systems for managing such tremendous amounts of data becomes inevitably …

We examine consumers' interactions with smart objects using a novel mixed-method
approach, guided by assemblage theory, to discover the emergence of automation …

This article proposes a method to uncover opportunities for exploitation and exploration from
consumer IoT interaction data. We develop a unique decomposition of cosine similarity that …

In this paper, we investigate the influence of term selection on retrieval performance on the
CLEF-IP prior art test collection, using the Description section of the patent query with …

Patents are used by legal entities to legally protect their inventions and represent a multi-
billion dollar industry of licensing and litigation. In 2014, 326,033 patent applications were …

1 Automation Assemblages in the Internet of Things: Discovering Qualitative Practices at the
Boundaries of Quantitative Change Page 1 1 Automation Assemblages in the Internet of Things …

The intellectual property economy, and, more narrowly, the patent economy, form an
incredibly wide-reaching and important part of the economic activity of the United States …

Information Retrieval often relies on the indexed terms that occur in the documents, but
rarely is the available associated metadata processed to aid in the retrieval process. In …

Ce mémoire étudie le régime actuel du droit des brevets relatifs à l'espace. Pour ce faire,
une analyse approfondie des notions juridiques et techniques mobilisées est réalisée, et …

Next-generation solar cell designs will figure significantly in the approaching green energy
mix. This thesis makes contributions to both the modeling and the materials of these devices …