François Bavaud
Professor emeritus

Université de Lausanne
Institut de géographie et durabilité
Mouline - Géopolis 3414
CH-1015 Lausanne
 
 
 
Tél. +41 21 692 4348
Francois.Bavaud@unil.ch
ORCID 0000-0002-4565-0715
72 Publications:

La géographie des relations cachées : distances et proximités en analyse quantitative
Author(s): Loup, Romain
Abstract: Cette thèse explore la manière dont les distances – qu'elles soient géographiques, politiques, économiques, linguistiques ou toponymiques – structurent le territoire. En s'inscrivant dans la...
Date de publication: 2026-01-23
Type: thèse de doctorat
Minéralité des vins: étude sémantique et sensorielle
Author(s): Deneulin, Pascale
Abstract: Apparu dans les années 1980, le terme de minéralité des vins est aujourd'hui encore très en vogue. Pour autant, il est toujours absent des dictionnaires...
Date de publication: 2025-10-03
Type: doctoral thesis
Measuring and Testing Multivariate Spatial Autocorrelation in a Weighted Setting: A Kernel Approach
Author(s): Bavaud, François
Abstract: We propose and illustrate a general framework in which spatial autocorrelation is measured by the Frobenius product of two kernels, a feature kernel and a...
Date de publication: 2024-07
DOI: 10.1111/gean.12390
Type: journal article
Journal: Geographical Analysis
Exact first moments of the RV coefficient by invariant orthogonal integration
Author(s): Bavaud, François
Abstract: The RV coefficient measures the similarity between two multivariate configurations, and its significance testing has attracted various proposals in the last decades. We present a...
Date de publication: 2023-11
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2023.105227
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Estimation of flow trajectories in a multi-lines transportation network
Author(s): Guex, Guillaume; Loup, Romain; Bavaud, François
Abstract: Characterizing a public transportation network, such as an urban network with multiple lines, requires the origin–destination trip counts during a given period. Yet, if automatic...
Date de publication: 2023-07-19
DOI: 10.1007/s41109-023-00570-7
Type: journal article
Journal: Applied Network Science
A (Dis)similarity Index for Comparing Two Character Networks Based on the Same Story
Author(s): Bavaud, François; Métrailler, Coline
Abstract: Comparing networks is always a complicated matter, whose effective implementation strongly depends on the amount of shared information between them, in particular whether nodes, edges,...
Date de publication: 2023
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: COMHUM 2022: Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities. CEUR Workshop Proceedings , Vol. 3602
Uses and practices of digital services in a situation of mobility: evolution versus revolution? The case of the Champs Elysées
Author(s): Delaplace, Marie; Kebir, Leïla; Gros-Balthazard, Marjolaine; Bavaud, François
Abstract: The ongoing digital revolution is transforming economic production systems as well as our daily lives. If the expectancies in terms of innovation and opportunities are...
Date de publication: 2022-09-02
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2045257
Type: journal article
Journal: European Planning Studies
Digitizing a 19th-Century Music Theory Debate for Computational Analysis
Author(s): Moss, Fabian; Köster, Maik; Femminis, Melinda; Métrailler, Coline; Bavaud, François
Abstract: We report the progress of the ongoing project “Digitizing the Dualism Debate: a case study in the computational analysis of historical music theory sources”. First,...
Date de publication: 2021
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: CHR 2021: Computational Humanities Research Conference. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2989
Pattern Detection for Spatial Data. A spatial autocorrelation and functional free energy framework for segmentation = Détection de formes pour les données spatiales. Un cadre d'autocorrélation spatiale et fonctionnelle d'énergie libre pour la segmentation
Author(s): Ceré, Raphaël
Abstract: Une forme (pattern en anglais) exprime une régularité dans le monde. Il s'agit ici de la détecter automatiquement. Cette régularité provient de l'organisation d'éléments observables...
Date de publication: 2021
Type: doctoral thesis
Soft Image Segmentation: On the Clustering of Irregular, Weighted, Multivariate Marked Networks
Author(s): Ceré, Raphaël; Bavaud, François
Editor(s): Ragia , L.; Laurini, R.; Rocha , J.
Abstract: The contribution exposes and illustrates a general, flexible formalism, together with an associated iterative procedure, aimed at determining soft memberships of marked nodes in a...
Date de publication: 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-06010-7_6
Type: chapter
Ouvrage: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Combien y a-t-il de variétés distinctes d'anglais?
Author(s): Bavaud, François
Abstract: Vouloir comparer au moyen d'un seul indicateur deux instances différant à la fois par leur taille (le nombre de tokens) et par la distribution relative...
Date de publication: 2018-10-10
DOI: 10.26034/la.cdclsl.2018.205
Type: journal article
Journal: Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage
Flow autocorrelation: a dyadic approach
Author(s): Bavaud, François; Kordi, Maryam; Kaiser, Christian
Abstract: The paper proposes and investigates a new index of flow autocorrelation, based upon a generalization of Moran's I, and made of two ingredients. The first...
Date de publication: 2018-07
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-018-0860-y
Type: journal article
Journal: The Annals of Regional Science
Geographical Exploration and Analysis Extended to Textual Content (Short Paper)
Author(s): Ceré, R.; Egloff, M.; Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Winter, S.; Griffin, A.; Sester, M.
Abstract: Textual and socio-economical regional features can be integrated and merged by linearly combining the between-regions corresponding dissimilarities. The scheme accommodates for various squared Euclidean socio-economical...
Date de publication: 2018
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.23
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)
Taking into account semantic similarities in correspondence analysis
Author(s): Egloff, Mattia; Bavaud, François
Editor(s): Piotrowski, Michael
Abstract: Term-document matrices feed most distributional approaches to quantitative textual studies, without consideration for the semantic similarities between terms, whose presence arguably reduce the content variety....
Date de publication: 2018
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018)
Multi-labelled Image Segmentation in Irregular, Weighted Networks: A Spatial Autocorrelation Approach
Author(s): Ceré, R.; Bavaud, F.
Abstract: Image segmentation and spatial clustering both face the same primary problem, namely to gather together spatial entities which are both spatially close and similar regarding...
Date de publication: 2017
DOI: 10.5220/0006322800620069
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management
Réseaux spatiaux: modèles, classification et flux
Author(s): Guex, G.
Abstract: Un réseau spatial est une structure constituée d'objets appelés noeuds, localisés dans l'espace et possédant des connexions de différentes nature appelées arêtes. Cette définition comprend...
Date de publication: 2016-04
Type: doctoral thesis
Analyse de réseau piéton et gestion scolaire: sinuosité, centricité et transport optimal régularisé
Author(s): Emmanouilidis, T.
Abstract: Que ce soit d'un point de vue, urbanistique, social, ou encore de la gouvernance, l'évolution des villes est un défi majeur de nos sociétés contemporaines....
Date de publication: 2016-02
Type: doctoral thesis
The transformed optimal transportation problem: sensitivity andsegregation of the children-to-school constrained assignment in Lausanne
Author(s): Emmanouilidis, Theophile; Guex, Guillaume; Bavaud, François
Date de publication: 2016-01-01
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Proceedings of Spatial Accuracy 2016
Correspondence Analysis, Cross-Autocorrelation and Clustering in Polyphonic Music
Author(s): Cocco, C.; Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Lausen, B.; Krolak-Schwerdt, S.; Böhmer, M.
Date de publication: 2015
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44983-7
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Data Analysis, Learning by Latent Structures, and Knowledge Discovery
Flow-based dissimilarities: shortest path, commute time, max-flow and free energy
Author(s): Guex, Guillaume; Bavaud, François
Editor(s): Lausen, B.; Krolak-Schwerdt, S.; Böhmer, M.
Date de publication: 2015
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44983-7
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Data Analysis, Learning by Latent Structures, and Knowledge Discovery
Textual navigation and autocorrelation
Author(s): Bavaud, F.; Cocco, C.; Xanthos, A.
Editor(s): Mikros, G.K.; Mačutek, J.
Date de publication: 2015
Type: book part
Ouvrage: Sequences in language and text
Factor Analysis of Local Formalism
Author(s): Bavaud, F.; Cocco, C.
Editor(s): Lausen, B.; Krolak-Schwerdt, S.; Böhmer, M.
Date de publication: 2015
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44983-7
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Data Analysis, Learning by Latent Structures, and Knowledge Discovery
Typologies textuelles et partitions musicales : dissimilarités, classification et autocorrélation
Author(s): Cocco, C.
Abstract: Axée dans un premier temps sur le formalisme et les méthodes, cette thèse est construite sur trois concepts formalisés: une table de contingence, une matrice...
Date de publication: 2014-07
Type: doctoral thesis
Spatial weights : constructing weight-compatible exchange matrices from proximity matrices
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Duckham, M.; Pebesma, E.; Stewart, K.; Frank, A. U.
Abstract: Exchange matrices represent spatial weights as symmetric probability distributions on pairs of regions, whose margins yield regional weights, generally well-specified and known in most contexts....
Date de publication: 2014
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11593-1_6
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Geographic information science : 8th International Conference, GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2014. Proceedings
Testing Spatial Autocorrelation in Weighted Networks : the Modes Permutation Test
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Abstract: In a weighted spatial network, as specified by an exchange matrix, the variances of the spatial values are inversely proportional to the size of the...
Date de publication: 2013-07
DOI: 10.1007/s10109-013-0179-2
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Geographical Systems
Interpolating between random walks and shortest paths: a path functional approach
Author(s): Bavaud, F.; Guex, G.
Editor(s): Aberer, K.; Flache, A.; Jager, W.; Liu, L.; Tang, J.; Gueret, C.
Date de publication: 2012
Type: book part
Ouvrage: Social Informatics
Textual autocorrelation : formalism and illustrations
Author(s): Bavaud, F.; Cocco, C.; Xanthos, A.
Editor(s): Dister, A.; Longrée, D.; Purnelle, G.
Abstract: Abstract Textual autocorrelation is a broad and pervasive concept, referring to the similarity between nearby textual units: lexical repetitions along consecutive sentences, semantic association between...
Date de publication: 2012
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: 11èmes Journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données textuelles
Segmentation and Clustering of Textual Sequences: a Typological Approach
Author(s): Cocco, C.; Pittier, R.; Bavaud, F.; Xanthos, A.
Editor(s): Angelova, G.; Bontcheva, K.; Mitkov, R.; Nikolov, N.
Abstract: The long term goal of this research is to develop a program able to produce an automatic segmentation and categorization of textual sequences into discourse...
Date de publication: 2011
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. International Conference (RANLP 8 : Hissar : 2011). Proceedings
On the Schoenberg transformations in data analysis: theory and illustrations
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Abstract: The class of Schoenberg transformations, embedding Euclidean distances into higher dimensional Euclidean spaces, is presented, and derived from theorems on positive definite and conditionally negative...
Date de publication: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-011-9092-x
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Classification
Unsupervised learning of word separators with MDL
Author(s): Xanthos, A.; Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 2010
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Actes des 10èmes Journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données textuelles (JADT 2010)
Modèles anonymes
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Brandt, P.Y.; Czellàr, J.; Desbiez-Piat, D.; Kilcher, H.; Reymond, J.; Vonèche, J.
Date de publication: 2010
Type: book part
Ouvrage: Des signes et des ordres : hommage à Christiane Gillièron Paléologue
Euclidean distances, soft and spectral clustering on weighted graphs
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Balcázar, J.L.; Bonchi, F.; Gionis, A.; Sebag, M.
Date de publication: 2010
Type: book part
Ouvrage: Machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases
Les transformations de Schoenberg : propriétés et applications en analyse des données
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 2010
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: 42èmes Journées de statistique, Marseille
VIKI : a semiotic-based system for multilingual knowledge retrieval
Author(s): Picca, D.
Abstract: Abstract Since its creation, the Internet has permeated our daily life. The web is omnipresent for communication, research and organization. This exploitation has resulted in...
Date de publication: 2010
Type: doctoral thesis
Handbook of Theoretical and Quantitative Geography
Editor(s): Bavaud, F.; Mager, C.
Date de publication: 2009-12
Type: book
Ouvrage: FGSE Workshop series
Aggregation invariance in general clustering approaches
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Abstract: General clustering deals with weighted objects and fuzzy memberships. We investigate the group- or object-aggregation-invariance properties possessed by the relevant functionals (effective number of groups...
Date de publication: 2009-11
DOI: 10.1007/s11634-009-0052-9
Type: journal article
Journal: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
Information Theory, Relative Entropy and Statistics
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Sommaruga, G.
Date de publication: 2009
Type: chapter
Ouvrage: Formal Theories of Information
Bidimensional regression: a novel algorithm for the computation of a viewing point in space based on the relation between the 2D projective transformation and space resection
Author(s): Borioli, J.; Brandner, C.; Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 2009
Type: conference abstract
Ouvrage: 16th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG'09), Maynooth (Ireland) 4th - 8th September, 2009.
Etude des modèles de Whittle markoviens probabilisés
Author(s): Carrillo, D.
Abstract: Etude des modèles de Whittle markoviens probabilisés Résumé Le modèle de Whittle markovien probabilisé est un modèle de champ spatial autorégressif simultané d'ordre 1 qui...
Date de publication: 2009
Type: doctoral thesis
The endogenous analysis of flows, with applications to migrations, social mobility and opinion shifts
Author(s): Bavaud, François
Date de publication: 2008
DOI: 10.1080/00222500802352493
Type: journal article
Journal: The Journal of Mathematical Sociology
Local concentrations
Author(s): Bavaud, François
Date de publication: 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2008.00196.x
Type: journal article
Journal: Papers in Regional Science
Apprentissage automatique de la morphologie : le cas des structures racine-schème
Author(s): Xanthos, A.
Abstract: RÉSUMÉ Cette thèse porte sur le développement de méthodes algorithmiques pour découvrir automatiquement la structure morphologique des mots d'un corpus. On considère en particulier le...
Date de publication: 2007
Type: doctoral thesis
Non-linear correspondence analysis in text retrieval: a kernel view
Author(s): Bavaud, François; Picca, Davide; Curdy, Benoît
Date de publication: 2006-04
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Proceedings of JADT, 8èmes Journées internationales d'Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles
Spectral Clustering and Multidimensional Scaling : A Unified View
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Batagelj, V.; Bock, H.-H.; Ferligoj, A.; Ziberna, A.
Date de publication: 2006
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Data Science and Classification
Markov associativities
Author(s): Bavaud, F; Xanthos, A
Date de publication: 2005
DOI: 10.1080/09296170500172437
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
Using local formalism in quantitative geography: a straightforward method for taking spatial auto-correlation into account
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 2005
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: 14th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography
On the Comparison and Representation of Fuzzy Partitions.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Date de publication: 2004
Type: journal article
Journal: Student
Generalized Factor Analyses for Contingency Tables.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Editor(s): Banks D et al.,
Date de publication: 2004
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Classification, Clustering , and Data Mining Applications
Sur la comparaison et la visualisation des partitions floues.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Editor(s): Dodge Y, Melfi G
Date de publication: 2003
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Méthodes et perspectives en classification
Une approche markovienne générale à l'analyse spatiale.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Date de publication: 2003
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Actes des XXXVèmes Journées de Statistique
Thermodynamique et statistique textuelle: concepts et illustrations
Author(s): Bavaud, F; Xanthos, A
Date de publication: 2002
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Actes des 6es Journées Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Données Textuelles (JADT 2002)
Quotient dissimilarities, euclidean embeddability, and Huygens' weak principle.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Editor(s): Jaguja K. et alii,
Date de publication: 2002
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Classification, Clustering and Data Analysis
The quasi-symmetric side of gravity modelling.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Date de publication: 2001
Type: journal article
Journal: Environment and Planning A
On a class of Aggregation-invariant Dissimilarities obeying the weak Huygen's principle.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Editor(s): H.A.L. Kiers, J.-P. Rasson, P.J.F. Groenen,; M. Schader,
Date de publication: 2000
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Data Analysis, Classification, and Related Methods
An Information Theoretical approach to Factor Analysis.
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Editor(s): Rajman M,; Chappelier, J.C.
Date de publication: 2000
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Proceedings of JADT 2000 (5èmes Journées internationales d'Analyse statistique des DonnéesTextuelles)
Modèles et données: une introduction à la Statistique uni-, bi- et trivariée
Author(s): Bavaud, François
Date de publication: 1998
Type: book
Models for Spatial Weights: a Systematic Look
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1998
Type: journal article
Journal: Geographical Analysis
The means inversion paradox: When the whole is inverted relatively to each of its parts
Author(s): Bavaud, François; Roux, Patricia
Date de publication: 1998
Type: journal article
Journal: Swiss Journal of Psychology
Guide de l'analyse statistique de données avec SPSS 6
Author(s): Bavaud, F.; Capel, R.; Crettaz de Roten, F.; Müller, J.-P.
Date de publication: 1996
Type: book
Linear and Quadratic Stochastic Models of Income Distribution : Technical Report MBS
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1995
Type: report
Context Dependent Utilities : Technical Report MBS 95-21.
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1995
Type: report
Triangular Dynamics Under Pressure
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1994
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics
Localisation et dispersion: une approche thermodynamique
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Editor(s): Association pour la Statistique et ses Utilisations (ASU),
Date de publication: 1994
Type: conference paper
Ouvrage: Actes des XXVIèmes Journées de Statistique
Adjoint Transform, Overconvexity and Sets of constant Width
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1992
Type: journal article
Journal: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Equilibrium properties of the Vlasov functional: the generalized Poisson-Boltzmann-Emden equation
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1991
Type: journal article
Journal: Reviews of Modern Physics
Continuum Models of Two-Dimensional Random Droplets
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1990
Type: journal article
Journal: Letters in Mathematical Physics
Isoperimetric Phase Transitions of Two-Dimensional Droplets
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Abstract: We consider two-dimensional assemblies of particles governed by hamiltonians depending on the area and the perimeter of their convex hull. Provided the hamiltonian is quadratically...
Date de publication: 1990
DOI: 10.1007/BF02156536
Type: journal article
Journal: Communications in Mathematical Physics
Statistical Mechanics of Convex Bodies
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1989
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics
Statistical Mechanics of Viscoelasticity
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1987
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics
The Wall Theorem for Elastic Moduli
Author(s): Bavaud, F.
Date de publication: 1986
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics
Statistical Mechanics of Elastic Moduli
Author(s): Bavaud, F.; Choquard, P.; Fontaine, J.-R.
Date de publication: 1986
Type: journal article
Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics
Viscoelasticity of the Pearson Gas
Author(s): Bavaud, F
Date de publication: 1986
Type: journal article
Journal: Helvetica Physica Acta

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