We propose a generic, Bayesian, information geometric approach to the exploration--exploitation trade-off in multi-armed bandit problems. Our approach, BelMan, uniformly supports pure exploration, exploration--exploitation, and two-phase bandit problems. The knowledge o...

International audience; The synthesis of the title compounds was achieved using ethyl 2-amino-6-methyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothieno[2,3-c]pyridine-3-carboxylate (1) as starting material. The reaction of the amino ester 1 with phenylisothiocyanate in boiling ethanol afforded...

International audience; The pilgrimage to Mecca, considered as the main vector of epidemics, was subject to strict control by the colonial powers since the XIX th Century. But during the First World War, the pilgrimage became also a propaganda weapon, and the colonial p...

International audience; In this presentation a technique for constructing bent func- tions from plateaued functions is introduced. This generalizes earlier techniques for constructing bent from near-bent functions. Analysing the Fourier spectrum of quadratic functions w...

Abstract Frame aggregation is one of the IEEE802.11n wireless networks features. In frame aggregation multiple frames are combined and then sent. However sending a large number of frames in one aggregation frame in an error-prone environment will result in massive frame...

International audience; We image the lithospheric and upper asthenospheric structure of western continental Yemen with 24 broadband stations to evaluate the role of the Afar plume on the evolution of the continental margin and its extent eastwards along the Gulf of Aden...

Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Times Cited: 0; International audience; A chemical study of the lichen Ramalina siliquosa complex found in Brittany was conducted. Eight chemotypes were considered and their chemical composition was elucidated for the first time by LC-MS analysis. Ten main compounds wer...

Background In Yemen, artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (AS + SP) has been used as first-line treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria, which accounts for about 99 % of malaria cases. There is evidence that resistance to SP is increasing, with potential neg...

This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [101506/Z/13/Z].