The Business Ecosystem of the Quantum Computing Market: Cooperation and Competition

The current second quantum revolution heralds the biggest technological advancements of the twenty-first century. At the forefront of this is the development of quantum computers, which promise to bring transformations to almost all sectors, from banking to drug research. With rising investments in developing full-scale, fault-tolerant quantum...

A Quantitative Comparison of Aggregate Trip-based, Disaggregate Tour-based, and Disaggregate Activity-based Travel Production Models

Activity-based modelling (ABM) is the latest development in travel demand modelling practice. Different from different conventional approaches (which concern mathematical relationships between personal characteristics and travel behaviour), ABM explicitly take into consideration the reasons behind an individual’s travel behaviour. Anno 2015, ABM...

A Multidisciplinary approach to Tsunami Risk Management: A proposal for a framework based on a case study of Iquique

In this multidisciplinary project a proposal for a framework for tsunami risk management in Chile, has been developed. This was done using Iquique in the north of Chile as a case study. Solutions for improvement of current practice have been searched within specific activity areas of hazard management: prediction, mitigation and response....