Optimization of Island Electricity System: Transition to a sustainable electricity supply system on islands through the implementation of a hybrid system including ocean energy technologies

Climate change without adequate countermeasures has become one of humanity's greatest threat. Energy production by means of renewable energy sources is therefore one of the crucial measures that will play a paramount role in reducing the pollutant emissions of fossil fuel dependency. Small islands in particular are an exemplary case of the...

Using a decision tree to analyse results of a simulated execution of operational planning decisions of a container terminal

Container terminals are important nodes in the worldwide supply chain. The planning of the daily operations of a container terminal is a complex task and sub optimal decisions can be made due to interconnected sub processes, interrelated decisions, time and uncertainty. If suboptimal planning decisions are made in the planning, consequences will...

Beyond the borders of electricity: The cross border effects of a German capacity market on the Netherlands

Within electricity markets, serious concerns exist whether a competitive electricity market will provide the necessary incentives for investment in generation. In Europe several countries are looking at the options of implementing a capacity mechanism. A capacity market provides a possible solution to this problem of generation adequacy but the...

How to Win the Game? Strategic, Simultaneous, Many-to-Many, Non-Cooperative Negotiation

Negotiations are an everyday phenomena, and yet the process is so complex, ill-structured and even chaotic that analysis becomes challenging. Consequently, we currently lack systematic understanding of the dynamics that govern negotiations concerning multiple issues with multiple participants who behave strategically. The objective of this...

The added value of simulation in increasing maturity levels of customer service processes

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is widely used in analyzing and improving business processes. Business process maturity models (BPMM) are used to define maturity levels of business processes and give recommendations how maturity levels can be increased. While each has proven their efficiency in their own way, very little attention is paid to the...

Predicting the Diffusion of Technology in the Market Adaptation Phase

Introduction of a new product in the market brings new opportunities to a company but also involves many risks. Many companies cease to exist in this turbulent period, even before the technology reaches mass-diffusion. In this study we look at the processes in the period of pre-diffusion and in particular in the market adaptation phase. With...

Sustainable tourism simulation in Norway

The tourism sector of Norway is one of the sectors that aim for sustainability and is the subject of an ambitious project. With an estimated 5% of the total global CO2 emissions coming from tourism, this is a good sector to examine for improvements in sustainability. The tourism sector in combination with the government started the project...

Developing a Decision Support System for the Logistics Planning of Reel-lay Projects at Heerema Marine Contractors

The Simulation-based Multi-objective Evolutionary OptimizatioN (SIMEON) Framework

A powerful combination of simulation and optimization has been successfully applied to solve real-world decision making problems (Fu et al., 2000; Fu, Glover, & April, 2005). Unfortunately, there are scientific and application problems with this method. Firstly, there is no transparent and formal structure to define the integration between...

Realising Transformation through Simulation: A universal indicator for transformation by using serious gaming

Municipalities in the Netherlands are required to improve the quality of the public services and become more accessible through the internet. Theory on transformation says that to acquire that goal these government organisations must transform their organisational structure to become more process and chain based. A lot of municipalities appear...

Supporting Workforce Planning With a Simulation Based Tool

An organizations workforce is one of its most important strategic assets. Getting the right workforce at the right time is a very hard job in a constantly changing labor market. To make this job a little bit easier a workforce planning tool has been developed. This tool supports Human Resource Specialists with giving insight into how an...

Supporting Workforce Planning

The goal of this project is to develop a workforce planning tool. A workforce planning tool is a decision support system (Keen and Sol, 2008) that enables Accenture to make better informed and faster decisions about its future workforce. The workforce planning tool has been developed with a design science approach. This approach is an iterative...

Coping with uncertainties in the rail sector

A method is developed that deals with uncertainties concerning the possible future train services and to what extent different infrastructure alternatives accommodate these train services. A case study is done for the rail line The Hague - Rotterdam. Amongst other methods, a policy analysis approach, a traffic modeling program and a net present...

Evaluating tram schedules with the aid of simulation

HTM is a major role player in the public transportation sector of the Netherlands with its tram and bus services. The company is continually working to improve their infrastructure management policies by considering aspects such as vehicle priorities, driver allocation and vehicle schedules. One obstacle in the way of HTM’s continual improvement...