Jacques Nicolas

Olfactory, chemical and e-nose measurements to characterize odors emission of construct materials for the implementation of the European construction products directive (CPD) on a Belgian level (2009)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Degrave, Christophe, Nicolas, Jacques, Lor, Marc, VauSe, Kevin, Dinne, Karla, ...

OLFACTION AND ELECTRONIC NOSE

Long Term Stability Of Metal Oxide-Based Gas Sensors For E-nose Environmental Applications: an overview (2009)

c-GAMMA: Comparative Genome Analysis of Molecular Markers (2009)

OLFACTION AND ELECTRONIC NOSE

Peterlongo, Pierre, Nicolas, Jacques, Lavenier, Dominique, Vorc'H, Raoul, Querellou, Joël

Discovery of molecular markers for efficient identification of living organisms remains a challenge of high interest. The diversity of species can now be observed in details with low cost genomic...

c-GAMMA: Comparative Genome Analysis of Molecular Markers (2009)

Peterlongo, Pierre, Nicolas, Jacques, Lavenier, Dominique, Vorc'H, Raoul, Querellou, Joël

Discovery of molecular markers for efficient identification of living organisms remains a challenge of high interest. The diversity of species can now be observed in details with low cost genomic...

The problem of odours when drying sewage sludges (2008)

Léonard, Angélique, Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Crine, Michel

Business meeting of the Drying Working Party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering

Odour annoyance assessments around landfill sites:methods and results (2008)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Delva, Julien, Collart, Catherine, Lebrun, Vincent

International conference on environmental odour monitoring and control NOSE 2008

Domain organization within repeated DNA sequences: application to the study of a family of transposable elements., in "Bioinformatics", vol. 22, n o 16 (2008)

Sébastien Tempel, Mathieu Giraud, Dominique Lavenier, Israël-césar Lerman, Sophie Valin, Ivan Couée, ...

Motivation: The analysis of repeated elements in genomes is a fascinating domain of research that is lacking relevant tools for transposable elements, the most complex ones. The dynamics of...

application to the study of a family (2008)

Sébastien Tempel, Mathieu Giraud, Dominique Lavenier, Israël-césar Lerman, Anne-sophie Valin, Ivan Couée, ...

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl337

Les odeurs dans l'environnement : dimensions sensorielles et méthodes d'évaluation. (2008)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Delva, Julien

Les différentes composantes de la nuisance olfactive ainsi que les diverses méthodes d'évaluation correspondantes sont présentées de manière concrète et en relation avec les normes existantes....

J’ai travaillé sur les problèmes de modélisation du vivant avec l’hypothèse fondamentale qu’il s’agit de machines symboliques et la volonté d’aider le chercheur en biologie à traiter...

J’ai travaillé sur les problèmes de modélisation du vivant avec l’hypothèse fondamentale qu’il s’agit de machines symboliques et la volonté d’aider le chercheur en biologie à traiter...

Modeling local repeats on genomic sequences (2008)

Jai travaillé sur les problèmes de modélisation du vivant avec lhypothèse fondamentale quil sagit de machines symboliques et la volonté daider le chercheur en biologie à traiter avec...

Nicolas, Jacques, Rousseau, Christine, Siegel, Anne, Peterlongo, Pierre, Coste, François, Durand, Patrick, ...

This paper deals with the specification and search of repeats of biological interest, i.e. repeats that may have a role in genomic structures or functions. Although some particular repeats such as...

Modeling local repeats on genomic sequences (2008)

Nicolas, Jacques, Rousseau, Christine, Siegel, Anne, Peterlongo, Pierre, Coste, François, Durand, Patrick, ...

This paper deals with the specification and search of repeats of biological interest, i.e. repeats that may have a role in genomic structures or functions. Although some particular repeats such as...

Setting up a decision rule from estimated uncertainty : emission limit value for PCDD and PCDF incineration plants in Wallonia, Belgium. (2008)

Jai travaillé sur les problèmes de modélisation du vivant avec lhypothèse fondamentale quil sagit de machines symboliques et la volonté daider le chercheur en biologie à traiter avec...

Bergmans, B., Idczack, F., Maetz, P., Nicolas, Jacques, Petitjean, S.

Complex analytical procedures are often required to prove the non-compliance with a specific legislation. In the case of a small overlap of the limit, integration of the method uncertainty in the...

Complementary approaches to measure environmental odours emitted by landfill areas (2008)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Delva, Julien, Nicolas, Jacques

This paper presents different methods to assess the odour emission and the odour annoyance in the surroundings. It is shown, on the example of landfill areas and composting facilities, that chemical...

Implementation of health aspects (ER N°3) in the Construction Products; Directive (CPD) regarding emissions to indoor air (2008)

Lor, Marc, Vause, K, Goelen, E, Maes, F, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques

11th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate

Development and validating procedure of a formula to calculate a minimum separation distance from piggeries and poultry facilities to sensitive receptors (2008)

Nicolas, Jacques, Delva, Julien, Cobut, Pierre, Romain, Anne-Claude

A specific formula to calculate separation distance from piggeries and poultry facilities to sensitive receptor is developed for Walloon Region, in Belgium. The paper briefly presents the main...

Spécificités et contraintes de la mesure des odeurs dans l'environnement par réseaux de capteurs (2008)

Inference of finite automata: Reducing the search space with an ordering of pairs of states (2007)

Journée CMC2 sur les microcapteurs chimiques de gaz

L'inférence Grammaticale Régulière Vue Comme Un Problème De Coloriage Et Propagation De Contraintes Sur Un Graphe (2007)

. We investigate the set of all minimal deterministic finite automata accepting a given set of words and rejecting another given set of words. We present several criteria to order the exploration of...

Ecole Doctorale: Sciences Pour l'Ingenieur (2007)

Introduction Au sein de la famille des m'ethodes d'inf'erence inductive de s'equences [AS83], l'inf'erence grammaticale est un processus d'apprentissage `a partir...

Jacques Chodorowski, Enrique Vidal, Mm. Geraldine, Damnati Examinateurs, Christian Jacquemin, ...

pour obtenir le grade de: Docteur de l'Universit e de Rennes 1

Logol : Modelling evolving sequence families through a dedicated constrained string language (2007)

Logol : Modelling evolving sequence families through a dedicated constrained string language (2007)

The report reviews the key milestones that have been reached so far in applying formal languages to the analysis of genomic sequences. Then it introduces a new modelling language, Logol, that aims at...

Logol : Modelling evolving sequence families through a dedicated constrained string language (2007)

The report reviews the key milestones that have been reached so far in applying formal languages to the analysis of genomic sequences. Then it introduces a new modelling language, Logol, that aims at...

Logol : Modelling evolving sequence families through a dedicated constrained string language (2007)

The report reviews the key milestones that have been reached so far in applying formal languages to the analysis of genomic sequences. Then it introduces a new modelling language, Logol, that aims at...

Study of VOC and odour emissions during the convective drying of urban residual sludges (2007)

The report reviews the key milestones that have been reached so far in applying formal languages to the analysis of genomic sequences. Then it introduces a new modelling language, Logol, that aims at...

Léonard, Angélique, Martin, Georges, Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Crine, Michel

Symposium International sur les Ecotechnologies appliquées aux boues résiduaires - Eco-process et Eco-utilisation

Issues around field measurements with electronic noses : low concentration and specificity of odorous compounds (2007)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude

Gospel Workshop on selectivity enhancement through sampling and preconcentration technologies

Mise en évidence des zones touchées par la désertification par télédétection a basse résolution au Niger (2007)

Yvon-Carmen Hountondji;, Pierre Ozer, Jacques Nicolas

Dans l’optique d’identifier les endroits potentiellement affectés par la désertification au cours des deux dernières décennies, 109 stations réparties dans trois zones bioclimatiques du...

Monitoring an odour in the environment with an electronic nose : requirements for the signal processing (2007)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Delva, Julien, Nicolas, Jacques

Gospel Workshop on bioinspired signal processing

Model-based Identification of Helitrons Results in a New Classification of Their Families in Arabidopsis thaliana (2007)

Tempel, Sébastien, Nicolas, Jacques, El Amrani, Abdelhak, Couée, Ivan

Helitrons are a class of prolific transposable elements in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Although 37 families were identified after the recent discovery of helitrons, no systematic classification...

Model-based Identification of Helitrons Results in a New Classification of Their Families in Arabidopsis thaliana (2007)

Tempel, Sébastien, Nicolas, Jacques, El Amrani, Abdelhak, Couée, Ivan

Helitrons are a class of prolific transposable elements in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Although 37 families were identified after the recent discovery of helitrons, no systematic classification...

Détection de domaines dans des séquences génomiques : un problème de couverture optimale (2007)

Veber, Philippe, Tempel, Sébastien, Andonov, Rumen, Lavenier, Dominique, Nicolas, Jacques

Nous proposons une approche pour faire apparaître les domaines structurant une famille de séquences génomiques. Cette approche repose sur l'hypothèse que les unités fonctionnellement pertinentes...

Logol : Modelling evolving sequence families through a dedicated constrained string language (2007)

Logol : Modelling evolving sequence families through a dedicated constrained string language (2007)

The report reviews the key milestones that have been reached so far in applying formal languages to the analysis of genomic sequences. Then it introduces a new modelling language, Logol, that aims at...

Détection de domaines dans des séquences génomiques : un problème de couverture optimale (2007)

The report reviews the key milestones that have been reached so far in applying formal languages to the analysis of genomic sequences. Then it introduces a new modelling language, Logol, that aims at...

Veber, Philippe, Tempel, Sébastien, Andonov, Rumen, Lavenier, Dominique, Nicolas, Jacques

Nous proposons une approche pour faire apparaître les domaines structurant une famille de séquences génomiques. Cette approche repose sur l'hypothèse que les unités fonctionnellement pertinentes...

Electronic nose : a promising tool for landfill odour monitoring (2007)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Delva, Julien

The paper briefly presents the advantages and drawbacks of the use of electronic noses to monitor continuously the odours generated by a landfill area. It stresses more particularly on the remaining...

Monitoring of PCDDs and PCDFs of waste incinerators in Wallonia : uncertainty evaluation. (2007)

Bergmans, B., Idczak, F., Maetz, P., Nicolas, Jacques, Nadin, C., Petitjean, S.

27th international symposium on halogenated environmental organic pollutants and POPs "Dioxin2007"

Controlling factors of gully erosion in the upper part of the Isser river watershed (Algiers, N. Algeria) (2007)

Daoudi, M., Dewitte, Olivier, Gerard, Pierre, Cornet, Yves, Nicolas, Jacques, Abdellaoui, A., ...

European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Different approaches to measure environmental odours emitted by landfill areas (2007)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Delva, Julien, Nicolas, Jacques

ISOEN 2007

Formules de calcul de distances à respecter entre bâtiments d'élevage et habitations pour que l'odeur soit acceptable. Comparaisons et proposition, puis validation d'une formule pour la Wallonie (Belgique) (2007)

Nicolas, Jacques, Cobut, Pierre, Otte, Benoît, Romain, Anne-Claude

7èmes journées de la recherche avicole.

Browsing repeats in genomes: Pygram and an application to non-coding region analysis (2006)

Durand, Patrick, Mahé, Frédéric, Valin, Anne-Sophie, Nicolas, Jacques

Abstract Background A large number of studies on genome sequences have revealed the major role played by repeated sequences in the structure, function, dynamics and evolution of genomes. In-depth...

The electronic nose as a warning device of the odour emergence in a compost hall (2006)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Ledent, Catherine

A self-made electronic nose consisting in a sensor array of six commercial tin oxide gas sensors is used to monitor the odour emission from a compost facility. Supervised data processing tools, such...

Aspects opérationnels et expérimentaux de la surveillance de l'environnement au SCK•CEN (2006)

ANSAY, Gilles, Thiry, Yves, Nicolas, Jacques

L’établissement de ce travail a rencontré un objectif double : Faire connaissance avec un nombre non négligeable d’outils de surveillance de l’environnement à l’intérieur et à...

BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central Methodology article (2006)

Patrick Dur, Frédéric Mahé, Anne-sophie Valin, Jacques Nicolas

Applying the electronic nose in the environment : requirements for the instrument (2006)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Delva, Julien

Gospel Artificial Olfaction Showcase

The electronic nose as a warning device of the odour emergence in a compost hall (2006)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Ledent, Catherine

A self-made electronic nose consisting in a sensor array of six commercial tin oxide gas sensors is used to monitor the odour emission from a compost facility. Supervised data processing tools, such...

Detection of diverse mould species growing on building materials by gas sensor arrays and pattern recognition (2006)

Kuske, Martyna, Padilla, M, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Rubio, R, Marco, S

This work explores the detection of moulds growing in different building materials by using a metal oxide sensor array. Four moulds species have been considered. Pattern classification provides...

Domain organization within repeated DNA sequences: application to the study of a family of transposable elements (2006)

Tempel, Sébastien, Giraud, Mathieu, Lavenier, Dominique, Lerman, Israël-César, Valin, Anne-Sophie, Couée, Ivan, ...

Motivation: The analysis of repeated elements in genomes is a fascinating domain of research that is lacking relevant tools for transposable elements (TEs), the most complex ones. The dynamics of...

Estimation of odor emission rate from landfill areas using the sniffing team method (2006)

Nicolas, Jacques, Craffe, Flavien, Romain, Anne-Claude

The monitoring of the odor annoyance generated by a landfill area is difficult, since it is a multi-area-sources problem, with a discontinuous odor emission. This paper proposes an adaptation of the...

Motif Discovery on Promotor Sequences (2005)

Häußler, Maximilian, Nicolas, Jacques

Transcriptional regulation is the mechanism in the cell that controls when and how genes are expressed into proteins. This document gives an overview over current computational approaches that try to...

The dog and rat olfactory receptor repertoires (2005)

Quignon, Pascale, Giraud, Mathieu, Rimbault, Maud, Lavigne, Patricia, Tacher, Sandrine, Morin, Emmanuelle, ...

Abstract Background Dogs and rats have a highly developed capability to detect and identify odorant molecules, even at minute concentrations. Previous analyses have shown that the olfactory receptors...

Microbial volatile organic compounds as indicators of fungi. Can an electronic nose detect fungi in indoor environments? (2005)

Kuske, Martyna, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques

The paper presents a review of several studies on the detection of microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs) considered as indicators of fungal contamination. As fungi produce specific profiles,...

Monitoring the exhaust air of a compost pile as a process variable with an e-nose (2005)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Godefroid, D, Kuske, M, Nicolas, Jacques

In this paper, the monitoring of the composting process with an e-nose is presented. An emission chamber is developed for this purpose and put on a household waste compost pile. A lab-made e-nose...

Organisation modulaire des séquences d'ADN répétées: application à l'étude des hélitrons non-autonomes dans le génome d'Arabidopsis thaliana (2005)

Tempel, Sébastien, Giraud, Mathieu, Lerman, Israel, Couée, Ivan, El-Amrani, Abdellak, Nicolas, Jacques

Suffix-Tree Analyser (STAN): looking for nucleotidic and peptidic patterns in genomes (2005)

Nicolas, Jacques, Durand, Patrick, Ranchy, Grégory, Tempel, Sébastien, Valin, Anne-Sophie

Motif Discovery on Promotor Sequences (2005)

Häußler, Maximilian, Nicolas, Jacques

Transcriptional regulation is the mechanism in the cell that controls when and how genes are expressed into proteins. This document gives an overview over current computational approaches that try to...

Motif Discovery on Promotor Sequences (2005)

Häußler, Maximilian, Nicolas, Jacques

Transcriptional regulation is the mechanism in the cell that controls when and how genes are expressed into proteins. This document gives an overview over current computational approaches that try to...

BIOINFORMATICSAPPLICATIONS NOTE (2005)

Genome Analysis, Jacques Nicolas, Patrick Dur, Grégory Ranchy, Sébastien Tempel, Anne-sophie Valin

Suffix-tree analyser (STAN): looking for nucleotidic and peptidic patterns in chromosomes

Fuzzy k-NN applied to moulds detection (2005)

Kuske, Martyna, Rubio, R, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Marco, S

The possibility to detect Aspergillus versicolor growing on different building materials by a metal oxide sensor array is studied. Results show that an accurate classification rate of 89 +/- 3% can...

Fuzzy K-NN applied to moulds detection (2005)

Kuske, Martyna, Rubio, R., Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Marco, S.

The possibility to detect Aspergillus versicolor growing on different building materials by a metal oxide sensor array is studied. Results show that an accurate classification rate of 89 ± 3% can be...

Monitoring the exhaust air of a compost pile with an e-nose and comparison with GC-MS data (2005)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Godefroid, D, Nicolas, Jacques

In this paper, monitoring of the composting process with an e-nose is presented. An emission chamber is developed for this purpose and put on a household waste compost pile. A lab-made e-nose with...

Microbial volatile organic compounds as indicators of fungi. Can an electronic nose detect fungi in indoor environments? (2005)

Kuske, Martyna, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques

The paper presents a review of several studies on the detection of microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs) considered as indicators of fungal contamination. As fungi produce specific profiles,...

Mise en évidence de la résilience de la végétation sahélienne par télédétection basse résolution au Niger à la suite d’épisodes de sécheresse. (2005)

Hountondji, Yvon Carmen, Nicolas, Jacques, Sokpon, Nestor, Ozer, Pierre

In order to identify areas where desertification may have occurred over the last two decades, 109 stations located in three bioclimatic zones of Niger are analyzed. Time series of remote sensing data...

Suffix-tree analyser (STAN): looking for nucleotidic and peptidic patterns in chromosomes (2005)

Nicolas, Jacques, Durand, Patrick, Ranchy, Grégory, Tempel, Sébastien, Valin, Anne-Sophie

Summary: We have developed STAN (suffix-tree analyser), a tool to search for nucleotidic and peptidic patterns within whole chromosomes. Pattern syntax uses a string variable grammar-like formalism...

Interest of the use of electronic nose for field monitoring of odours in the environment (2005)

Suffix-Tree ANalyser (STAN): looking for nucleotidic and peptidic patterns in chromosomes (2005)

Electronic nose is a promising technique for field monitoring of malodours in the environment. It is based on an array of non-specific gas sensors coupled with some form of mathematical data...

Nicolas, Jacques, Durand, Patrick, Ranchy, Grégory, Tempel, Sébastien, Valin, Anne-Sophie

Summary: we have developed STAN, a tool to search for nucleotidic and peptidic patterns within whole chromosomes. Pattern syntax uses a String Variable Grammar-like formalism which allows the...

Applying the electronic nose in the environment (2005)

Nicolas, Jacques, Delva, Julien, Romain, Anne-Claude

4th nose II short course "Fundamental of sensor systems"

Mise en évidence des zones touchées par la désertification par télédétection a basse résolution au Niger (2004)

Hountondji, Yvon Carmen, Ozer, Pierre, Nicolas, Jacques

In order to identify areas where desertification may have occurred over the last two decades, 109 stations located in three bioclimatic zones of Niger are analyzed. Time series of remote sensing data...

Establishing the limit of detection and the resolution limits of odorous sources in the environment for an array of metal oxide gas sensors (2004)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude

Odour identification with gas sensor arrays relies on two main parameters: the limit of detection, defined as the concentration of the analyte corresponding to the lowest detectable signal for the...

Adaptation et test d'un nez électronique pour suivre en continu la nuisance olfactive générée par un centre de compostage (2004)

Ledent, Catherine, Dauby, B., Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude

L'article présente le travail de fin d'études de Catherine Ledent. Celui-ci a consisté à la mise au point et au test sur le terrain (sur le centre de compostage à Habay) d'un nez électronique...

Detection of moulds growing on building materials by gas sensor arrays and pattern recognition (2004)

Kuske, Martyna, Padilla, M., Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Rubio, R., Marco, S.

Technical digest of Eurosensors 2004

Fuzzy K-NN applied to moulds detection (2003)

Kuske, Martyna, Rubio, R., Nicolas, Jacques, Marco, S., Romain, Anne-Claude

ISOEN'03

Appliquer le nez électronique pour reconnaître et suivre en continu de mauvaises odeurs dans l'environnement (2003)

Grammatical inference for disulfid bonds prediction within protein (2003)

Journée scientifique "L'électronique et les cinq sens"

Ingrid Jacquemin, Jacques Nicolas

We address the issue of predicting cystins groups within proteins. We propose a two step method for thus task: First, a universal model is built using a formal grammar, able to reconize bonds between...

Threshold Extraction in Metabolite Concentration Data (2003)

Andre Flöter, Jacques Nicolas, Torsten Schaub, Joachim Selbig

The further development of analytical techniques based on gas chromatography and mass spectrometry now facilitate the generation of larger sets of metabolite concentration data. These are a prime...

The use of sensor arrays for environmental monitoring: interests and limitations (2003)

Bourgeois, W, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Stuetz, RM

Continuous, in situ monitoring of air, water and land quality is fundamental to most environmental applications. Low cost and non-invasive chemical sensor arrays provide a suitable technique for in...

The use of sensor arrays for environmental monitoring: interests and limitation (2003)

Bourgeois, Wilfrid, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques

Continuous, in situ monitoring of air, water and land quality is fundamental to most environmental applications. Low cost and non-invasive chemical sensor arrays provide a suitable technique for in...

Applying the electronic nose in the environment : requirements for the sensors (2002)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Andre, Philippe

Third international seminar on semiconductor gas sensors (SGS2002)

Assessment of detection thresholds of metal oxide sensors based e-nose to the pollution emitted by odorous sources. (2002)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude

Ninth international symposium on olfaction and electronic nose ISOEN'02

Mesure des odeurs par le nez électronique (2002)

Applying the electronic nose in the environment : requirements for the sensors. (2002)

14 février 2002

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Andre, Philippe

third international seminar on Semiconductor Gas Sensors (SGS 2002)

Three years experiment with the same tin oxide sensor arrays for the identification of malodorous sources in the environment (2002)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe

The paper discusses the ability of recognition models to classify malodours in the environment 3 years after their calibration, with the same sources releasing odours. Two methodologies applicable...

Assessment of odour annoyance by e-nose in the field : some results (2002)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Kuske, M

1st NOSE II short course

La mesure des odeurs dans l'environnement : des méthodes sensitives au nez électronique (2001)

Solvent detection in indoor air with a sensor array (2001)

3 octobre 2001

Maternova, J., Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques

8th conference Eurodeur

Ten years of data gathering of radon exhalation in the Belgian "Province of Luxembourg" (2001)

Kuske, Martyna, Debbaut, Vincent, Bomboire, A., Drouguet, B., Deckers, P., Guillaume, M., ...

Proceedings of the Third eurosymposium on protection against radon

IpNose: Electronic nose for remote bad odour monitoring system (2001)

Alex Perera, Toni Pardo, Teodor Šundiæ, Ricardo Gutierrez-osuna, Santiago Marco, Jacques Nicolas

Electronic noses are intelligent instruments that are able to classify and quantify different gas/odours. Here we suggest the integration of a small form factor computer inside the electronic nose....

Chemometrics methods for the identification and the monitoring of an odour in the environment with an electronic nose (2001)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Maternova, Jindriska

The purpose of the paper is to briefly review some researches regarding the adaptation of the electronic nose principle to recognise some malodour sources in the environment, if possible directly in...

Chemometrics methods for the identification and the monitoring of an odour in the environement with an electronic nose (2001)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Maternova, J

The purpose of the paper is to briefly review some researches regarding the adaptation of the electronic nose principle to recognise some malodour sources in the environment, if possible directly in...

IpNose : Electronic nose for remote bad odour monitoring system in landfill sites. (2001)

Perera, A., Pardo, T., Sundi, T., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Marco, S., Nicolas, Jacques

8th conference Eurodeur

Optimal heating control in a passive solar commercial building. (2001)

Kummert, Michaël, Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques

A smart heating controller has a twofold objective: to save as much energy as possible while maintaining an acceptable comfort level in the building. Due to very large time constants in the building...

Sensor arrays : an inspired idea or an objective measurement of environmental odours ? (2001)

Stuetz, R.M., Nicolas, Jacques

1st IWA International conference on odour and VOCs : measurement, regulation and control techniques

Sensor arrays : an inspired idea or an objective measurement of environmental odours ? (2001)

Stuetz, R.M., Nicolas, Jacques

The measure of annoyance odours from sewage treatment, landfill and agricultural practise has become highly significant in the control and prevention of odorous emissions from existing facilities and...

Choice of a suitable E-nose output variable for the continuous monitoring of an odour in the environment (2001)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Monticelli, D., Maternova, Jindriska, Andre, Philippe

ISOEN 2000

Identification of several environmental odours with tin oxide sensor array : three years later (2001)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Maternova, J

Third NOSE course

Evaluation of tin oxide sensor array for on-line assessment of odor annoyance (2001)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Maternova, J

Field screening with electronic nose" within the 2nd international conference "Field Screening Europe

Optimal heating control in a passive solar commercial building (2000)

Use of a simple tin oxide sensor array to identify five malodours collected in the field (2000)

EuroSun'2000 Congress

Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Wiertz, Véronique, Maternova, Jindriska, Andre, Philippe

A laboratory-made malodour sensing system including 12 commercial tin oxide gas sensors (Figaro Engineering) is used to identify five typical sources of olfactive annoyance: printing houses, paint...

Les pollutions dans l'air intérieur des bâtiments - Diagnostic - Incidences sur la santé. (2000)

Kuske, Martyna, Nicolas, Jacques

Ce n’est qu’au cours des années 70 que certains problèmes de santé ont pu être directement associés à l’environnement intérieur des maisons. Les crises pétrolières ont stimulé une...

Using the classification model of an electronic nose to assign unknown malodours to environmental sources and to monitor them continuously (2000)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Wiertz, Véronique, Maternova, Jindriska, Andre, Philippe

The paper provides some considerations resulting from measurements with electronic noses around real sources of malodour in the environment: compost facilities, printing houses, paint shops, waste...

Measurement requirements for environmental monitoring : application of the electronic nose principle. (2000)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Andre, Philippe

IBERsensor

Utilisation élémentaire d'un réseau de capteurs "SnO2" pour la reconnaissance d'odeurs environnementales (1999)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Wiertz, Véronique, Maternova, Jindriska, Andre, Philippe

Eurodeur 99

We propose to set the grammatical inference problem in a logical framework. The search for admissible solutions in a given class of languages is reduced to the problem of unifying a set of terms....

We propose to set the grammatical inference problem in a logical framework. The search for admissible solutions in a given class of languages is reduced to the problem of unifying a set of terms....

We propose to set the grammatical inference problem in a logical framework. The search for admissible solutions in a given class of languages is reduced to the problem of unifying a set of terms....

Jacques Nicolas, Jacques Nicolas

We propose to set the grammatical inference problem in a logical framework. The search for admissible solutions in a given class of languages is reduced to the problem of unifying a set of terms....

Universités et systèmes de management environnemental des entreprises. Relais pour l'administration, fenêtres pour les entreprises wallonnes et savoir-faire des bureaux d'études (1999)

Nicolas, Jacques, Hecq, Walter

Colloques de l'Association Universitaire pour l'Environnement

Modelling the propagation pathway of street-traffic noise : practical comparison of German guidelines and real-world measurements (1999)

Wetzel, Edgar, Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe, Boreux, Jean-Jacques

In Germany, several guidelines were developed to model the noise propagation pathway. The study compares the guidelines DIN 18005, RLS-90 and VDI 2714, all of which provide some kind of sound object...

Building and HVAC optimal control simulation. Application to an office building. (1999)

Kummert, Michaël, Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques

3th International Symposium on HVAC

Identification of pollutant gases with a multisensorial arrange. (1999)

Negri, Martin, Reich, S, Fernandez, D, Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Lamagna, A

The 6th internationla symposium Olfaction&Electronic nose (ISOEN)

First trends towards a field odour detector for environmental applications (1999)

Nicolas, Jacques, Romain, Anne-Claude, Wiertz, V, Maternova, J, Andre, Philippe

The 6th internationla symposium Olfaction&Electronic nose (ISOEN)

Coupling thermal simulation and airflow calculation for a better evaluation of natural ventilation strategies (1998)

Andre, Philippe, Kummert, M., Nicolas, Jacques

SSB'98

Convention relative au Développement de techniques d'identification d'odeurs dans l'environnement, Rapport final (1998)

Heating optimal control applied to a passive solar commercial building (1998)

Au cours des 11 mois de la présente convention, les objectifs suivants ont été atteints : - établir une "carte d'identité" physico-chimique de 5 sources odorantes représentatives en Région...

Short-term weather forecasting for solar buildings optimal control : an application of neural networks (1998)

EuroSun'98

Kummert, M., Andre, Philippe, Guiot, J., Nicolas, Jacques

Eufit'98

How considering incompatible state mergings may reduce the DFA induction search tree (1998)

Surveillance de l'environnement : Méthodologie (1998)

. A simple and effective method for DFA induction from positive and negative samples is the state merging method. The corresponding search space may be tree-structured, considering two subspaces for...

Chorologie et écologie de Pycnoporus Cinnabarinus (Polyporaceae) en Belgique, au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg et dans les régions limitrophes (1998)

L'étude des nombreux problèmes environnementaux auxquels notre monde actuel doit faire face passe inévitablement par une phase initiale de collecte de l'information. Comparée à la mesure...

Thoen, Daniel, Fraiture, A, Nicolas, Jacques

L'extension récente, après 1960, de Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, en Belgique, au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg et dans les régions limitrophes est analysée à l'aide d'une série chronologique de cartes...

Nez électronique adapté aux odeurs de sucrerie, Rapport final (1998)

Analyse syntaxique non déterministe utilisant un modèle de n-grams (1997)

Au terme de cette convention FIRST, un savoir faire en matière de mesure d'odeur environnementale a été développé à sur le campus d'Arlon. Ce savoir faire étoffe ainsi l'acquis de l'équipe de...

Sinoquet, Christine, Nicolas, Jacques

Nous étudions le problème de l'analyse non déterministe de séquences. Dans l'objectif de produire les meilleures solutions, nous proposons un modèle de couplage entre analyseur syntaxique et...

Simulation based analysis of the overheating risk in an auditorium building (1997)

Analyse syntaxique non déterministe utilisant un modèle de n-grams (1997)

Clima 2000 conference

Sinoquet, Christine, Nicolas, Jacques

Nous étudions le problème de l'analyse non déterministe de séquences. Dans l'objectif de produire les meilleures solutions, nous proposons un modèle de couplage entre analyseur syntaxique et...

Analyse syntaxique non déterministe utilisant un modèle de n-grams (1997)

Sinoquet, Christine, Nicolas, Jacques

Nous étudions le problème de l'analyse non déterministe de séquences. Dans l'objectif de produire les meilleures solutions, nous proposons un modèle de couplage entre analyseur syntaxique et...

Inf'erence grammaticale r'eguli`ere : caract'erisation des solutions canoniques dans l'espace des fusions (1997)

Francois Coste, Jacques Nicolas

Nous int'eressant `a l'ensemble des solutions canoniques pour l'inf'erence grammaticale r'eguli`ere, nous proposons une repr'esentation compacte de l'espace et une...

Regular Inference as a graph coloring problem (1997)

Inférence Grammaticale Régulière: Caractérisation De L'ensemble Des Solutions Canoniques (1997)

We consider the problem of learning the set of all most general DFA consistent with a labeled sample. The paper proposess a constraints based specification of the set of solutions and gives an...

Regular Inference as a graph coloring problem (1997)

Introduction Au sein de la famille des m'ethodes d'inf'erence inductive de s'equences [AS83], l'inf'erence grammaticale est un processus d'apprentissage des r`egles...

Regular Inference as a graph coloring problem (1997)

this paper. We have implemented algorithm 2 using a version of DSATUR algorithm (Br'elaz 1979) for the coloring step. Results are summarized in the following table. #s/#t characterizes the size...

Fran Cois, Jacques Nicolas

We consider the problem of learning the set of all most general DFA consistent with a labeled sample. The paper proposess a constraints based specification of the set of solutions and gives an...

In situ measurement of olfactive pollution with inorganic semiconductors : Limitations due to humidity and temperature influence (1997)

Romain, Anne-Claude, Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe

Age model estimation in paleoclimatic research : fuzzy regression and radiocarbon uncertainties (1997)

Boreux, Jean-Jacques, Pesti, G., Duckstein, L., Nicolas, Jacques

A fuzzy linear regression-based method to relate the depth and age of sediment layers is described. Because algae, moss or local plants respond to climatic change, the age and depth of sediment...

Optimized thermal zone controller for integration within a building energy management system. (1997)

Echantillonnage et environnement. (1997)

Clima 2000

Chorologie et écologie de Pycnoporus Cinnabarinus (Polyporaceae) en Belgique et au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1997)

Cet ouvrage reprend le texte des contributions des différents intervenants au séminaire "Echantillonnage et Environnement" organisé par la Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise en 1996. Les...

Thoen, Daniel, Fraiture, A., Nicolas, Jacques

Symposium international systématique et écologie des macromycètes

Development of an integrated tool for solar buildings design and renewal. (1996)

Development of simplified models for solar buildings optimal control (1996)

PLEA 96 International conference

Simulation-based analysis of the renewal of a passive solar commercial building (1996)

EuroSun'96

Odours identification in the environment by means of mathematical methods (1996)

PLEA 96 International conference

Maternova, Jidrinska, Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe, Vigneron, S

The aim of the present paper is to test and compare some mathematical discrimination or pattern recognition methods in order to identify one among three air pollution sources.The basic material in...

La surveillance de l'environnement à la F.U.L. (1996)

Etude des groupements de macrophytes vasculaires aquatiques de la Semois en rapport avec la qualité globale des eaux et du milieu (1996)

L'article décrit les activités de recherche et d'enseignement en surveillance de l'environnement à la Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise à Arlon. Il présente le contexte historique qui a...

Thoen, Daniel, Roussel, Laurence, Nicolas, Jacques

Les groupements de macrophytes aquatiques de la Semois (ca. 200 km de long) ont été décrits par l'analyse de 218 relevés de végétation réalisés durant l'année 1994. De l'amont vers l'aval,...

Un capteur thermique de mesure de la qualité du sol. (1995)

Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe, Hanson, Alain, Martin, V.

3ème Colloque européen "Des capteurs pour l'environnement"

Use of an integrated software for building design and system simulation. (1995)

Andre, Philippe, Boreux, Jean-Jacques, Hanson, Alain, Nicolas, Jacques, Thoen, Daniel, Vasel, Jean-Luc

Fourth international conference "System simulation in buildings"

L'environnement (1995)

Il s'agit du chapitre 14 d'un ouvrage collectif consacré à la mesure et à l'instrumentation. Ce chapitre présente plusieurs aspects de la démarche de la mesure dans l'environnement. Il explicite...

Analysis methodology, experimental investigation and computer optimization of a passive solar commercial building in the Belgian climate (1994)

Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques, Rivez, Jean-François, Debbaut, Vincent

The Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise (FUL) building (completed in 1986) has been selected as a Belgian candidate for participation in the IEA (International Energy Agency) Task XI project...

An integrated software for passive solar building design (1993)

Thermal confort analysis in a passive solar commercial building (1993)

ISES 93 Congress

Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques, Colson, B.

ISES 93

An integrated software for building design. (1993)

Thermal comfort analysis in a passive solar building. (1993)

Congres Building design, technology and occupant well-being in temperate climates.

Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques, Colson, B.

Building design, technology and occupant well-being in temperate climates

Thermal conductivity measurements in soil using an instrument based on the cylindrical probe method (1993)

Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe, Rivez, Jean-François, Debbaut, Vincent

The article discusses the underlying hypothesis, the limits, the range of application, and the practical operation of a versatile thermal conductivity analyzer based on a transient cylindrical probe...

Le bâtiment solaire passif de la Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise à Arlon (1992)

Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques, Boreux, Jean-Jacques, Debbaut, Vincent, Geelen, Jacques, Hanson, Alain, ...

Description des différentes technologies solaires passives: systèmes à gain direct, murs de masse et serres, mises en oeuvre lors de l'extension de la FUL. Présentation du bilan des performances...

Application de la théorie des systèmes à la thermique des bâtiments. Problèmes de modélisation, d'identification et de contrôle (1992)

Base de calcul pour le dimensionnement d'une tour de refroidissement à tirage naturel (1992)

La théorie est utilisée pour développer des modèles simplifiés, pour estimer, par des méthodes d'identification de systèmes, les variables d'état et les paramètres de ces modèles et enfin...

Nicolas, Jacques, Vasel, Jean-Luc

Le but de cet article est de fournir de façon exhaustive l'ensemble des relations qui permettent le calcul des transferts thermiques dans une tour de refroidissemenmt à contrecourant et à tirage...

Expert system : a versatile tool for the real time control of a solar building (1992)

Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe

The expert-system approach is well suited to manage complexes heating systems, with various energy sources and different possible strategies of heating or cooling. A specific computer tool is applied...

Environmental monitoring at FUL (1992)

De Backer, Louis W., Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques

The paper presents the research and teaching activities of Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise (Arlon) and more particularly in the domain of Environmental Monitoring. Particular attention is...

Analysis, monitoring and evaluation of a passive solar commercial building including mass walls and direct gain features : the "Auditoires FUL" Building in Arlon (Belgium) (1991)

Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques, Debbaut, Vincent

ISES 91 Congress

Application of the optimal control theory for the definition of energy/Comfort efficient strategies in an high thermal inertia passive solar commercial building (1991)

Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques, Rivez, Jean-François, Debbaut, Vincent

ISES 91 Congress

L'inertie dans la maison individuelle : un gain de consommation énergétique ? Simulation et étude de cas (1991)

Nicolas, Jacques, Andre, Philippe, Rivez, Jean-François, Debbaut, Vincent

L'inertie thermique dans le bâtiment est l'une des composantes les plus étudiées en architecture bioclimatique. Le principal intérêt d'une grande capacité thermique est d'assurer le confort,...

Finite-elements design of a guarded heating cylinder to measure thermal properties of materials (1990)

Nicolas, Jacques, Martin, Fabrice, Andre, Philippe, Rivez, Jean-François

A device for the measurement of thermal properties of phase change materials and, in general, of medium thermal conductivity materials, is described. The measuring cell is a modified version of the...

Modélisation des échanges thermiques et de la circulation d'air dans un lit bactérien (1990)

Nicolas, Jacques, Vasel, Jean-Luc

The temperature is one of the main parameters governing the biological reactions in a trickling filter. The present model proposes a set of equations applicable for the determination of a temperature...

Application of identification methods for the determination of heat exchange coefficients in a passive solar commercial building. (1989)

Andre, Philippe, Nicolas, Jacques, Rivez, Jean-François

Congres ISES 89

Solar assisted heat pump system and in-ground energy storage in a school building. (1988)

Nicolas, Jacques, Poncelet, Jean-Pol

An experimental solar-assisted heat pump system with a hybrid ground-coupled storage at the F.U.L. in Arlon, Belgium, is described. It includes a 382 m2 solar roof, two types of water storages, heat...

Le stockage thermique par chaleur latente (1988)

Martin, F., Nicolas, Jacques

L'article présente le principe du stockage d'énergie par transformation de phase ainsi que les matériaux employés (composés organiques, sels hydratés et matériaux à transformation...

Gestion énergétique de maisons unifamiliales avec dalle à haute inertie et stockage en galets (1988)

Nicolas, Jacques, Rivez, Jean-François, Lieffrig, Vincent, Fontaine, Michel

Computer simulation of a bivalent heating installation (1986)

Nicolas, Jacques, Poncelet, Jean-Pol

A computer simulation program for a dwelling heating installation has been developed and tested. It uses principles and defined parameters, with simplifications to reduce the program size and...

Le stockage thermique. Etat de l'art. (1986)

La spectrométrie des électrons AUGER (1978)

La spectrométrie des électrons AUGER (1978)

La technique d'analyse des surfaces par la spectrométrie des électrons Auger est décrite. Après un rappel historique de la découverte du mécanisme de réémission électronique par Auger, en...