Safety Assessment of Trans-boundary and Multi-modal Hazardous Materials Transportation: Concept Development: The LPG and LNG cases

Great amounts of hazardous materials are transported both inside and outside the countries, either in a single-mode or multi-modal way. This situation, in combination with the dangerous nature of hazardous materials and the severe consequences of an accident involving them, consist the transportation of hazardous materials a complex problem for...

Decision support framework for a sustainable waste management system in Ahmedabad, India

Rapid Urbanization has been the recent trends observed across all the countries of the globe. With the rising levels of global population, the global consumption and hence the rate of waste generation has also simultaneously increased. Hence, one of the key roles of the local municipalities is to decide, develop and maintain a waste management...

Prioritizing and selecting KPIs: An AHP-based model to evaluate the alignments among strategy business model and performance metrics

Towards Meaningful and Valuable Data Mining Results in Organizations: Developing a framework for data mining that facilitates interaction between decision makers and data scientists to successfully apply data mining in a business context

Data mining is more and more applied in organizations, but often fails to realize its full potential. It delivers too many results, and not all results are useful for the organization. Moreover, by applying DM in organizations, the interface between data mining and decision making has to be crossed. This report presents a framework to apply data...

Structuring the fuzzy front end of new product development

Global opportunities for airborne wind

It is the objective of this graduation research to determine the nations with the highest deployment opportunity for airborne wind energy (AWE) generation systems. Compared to conventional, ground based, wind energy systems, the flying structure of the airborne wind turbine substitutes the rotor blades and a tether substitutes the tower. These...

The Effect of Abstract and Specific Mindsets on Energy Tariff Selection

This research investigated the effect of different cognitive styles on decision making. Knowing how someone’s mindset influences choice is important for the development of decision support and guidance tools, and algorithms modelled after the human brain. We conducted two online experiments on first choice in an energy tariff ranking task which...

The decision support environment for energy transition: What are the benefits of combining a qualitative serious game and a quantitative decision support tool in order to provide necessary insights for the key stakeholders?

This research proposes a decision support environment to assist the main stakeholders (The Municipality, Consumers, Network operators, Energy providers and Technology enablers) during the energy transition decision making process at city level. The research is a part of the TRANSFORM project’s work package three. The TRANSFORM project develops a...

A multi-actor analysis approach in decision making: A framework to complement ISA-95 guidelines within manufacturing companies

Decision making in manufacturing activities is an everyday business. Manufacturing activities involve the interaction of different actors (i.e. departments) to provide information or activities that will serve as an input for decision making. The situation of dependency, network and cooperation in these activities calls in to question the...

Exploratory modeling: A promising method for flood risk management?

This thesis compares exploratory modeling and analysis (EMA) to other methods for analyzing uncertainty. A set of criteria to compare the performance of methods is designed. Based on two case studies the perfromance of EMA on these criteria is assessed. Based on a workshop with experts the advantages of EMA over other methods for analyzing...