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Kumar, Prashant (author), Debele, Sisay E. (author), Sahani, Jeetendra (author), Rawat, Nidhi (author), Marti-Cardona, Belen (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Basu, Bidroha (author), Basu, Arunima Sarkar (author), Menenti, M. (author)Nature-based solutions (NBS) for hydro-meteorological risks (HMRs) reduction and management are becoming increasingly popular, but challenges such as the lack of well-recognised standard methodologies to evaluate their performance and upscale their implementation remain. We systematically evaluate the current state-of-the art on the models...review 2021
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Mouter, N. (author), Shortall, R.M. (author), Spruit, S. (author), Itten, A.V. (author)To achieve a successful energy transition, it is vital to integrate citizens’ needs into government policies through participatory processes. However, offline participatory approaches can be overly intensive which leads to an over-representation of citizens who think that the issue is in their immediate interest. Hence, elected officials often...journal article 2021
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Mohammed, Safa A. (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Hrachowitz, M. (author), Hamouda, Mohamed A. (author)Many calibrated hydrological models are inconsistent with the behavioral functions of catchments and do not fully represent the catchments’ underlying processes despite their seemingly adequate performance, if measured by traditional statistical error metrics. Using such metrics for calibration is hindered if only short-term data are...journal article 2021
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Lu, Chang (author), He, X. (author), van Lint, J.W.C. (author), Tu, Huizhao (author), Happee, R. (author), Wang, M. (author)Surrogate measures of safety (SMoS) play an important role in detecting traffic conflicts and in traffic safety assessment. However, the underlying assumptions of SMoS are different and a certain SMoS may be adequate/inadequate for different applications. A comprehensive approach to evaluate the validity and applicability of SMoS is lacking...journal article 2021
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Spoelstra, A.M.C.M.G. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author), Scarano, F. (author), Mahalingesh, Nikhil (author)The aerodynamic drag of a trailing cyclists in a tandem formation is investigated at different lateral and longitudinal separations. A Ring of Fire (RoF) experiment is conducted at the Tom Dumoulin bike park of Sittard-Geleen in the Netherlands. The method is based on stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (Stereo-PIV) measurements followed...journal article 2021
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Mouter, N. (author), Koster, Paul (author), Dekker, Thijs (author)Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a new survey method which elicits citizens' preferences over the allocation of public budgets as well as their private income. In a PVE, citizens are asked to choose the best portfolio of projects given a governmental and a private budget constraint. First, this paper aligns PVE with the traditional Kaldor...journal article 2021
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Lago, Jesus (author), Marcjasz, Grzegorz (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Weron, Rafał (author)While the field of electricity price forecasting has benefited from plenty of contributions in the last two decades, it arguably lacks a rigorous approach to evaluating new predictive algorithms. The latter are often compared using unique, not publicly available datasets and across too short and limited to one market test samples. The...review 2021
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Symbiotic System of Systems Design for Safe and Resilient Autonomous Robotics in Offshore Wind FarmsMitchell, Daniel (author), Blanche, Jamie (author), Zaki, Osama (author), Roe, Joshua (author), Kong, Leo (author), Harper, Samuel (author), Robu, Valentin (author), Lim, Theodore (author), Flynn, David (author)To reduce Operation and Maintenance (OM) expenditure on offshore wind farms, wherein 80% of the cost relates to deploying personnel, the offshore wind sector looks to advances in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) for solutions. Barriers to residential Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) autonomy as a service, include operational...journal article 2021
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Slokom, M. (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Larson, M.A. (author)In this paper, we propose a new privacy solution for the data used to train a recommender system, i.e., the user–item matrix. The user–item matrix contains implicit information, which can be inferred using a classifier, leading to potential privacy violations. Our solution, called Personalized Blurring (PerBlur), is a simple, yet effective,...journal article 2021
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Versteeg, Niki (author), Hermans, L.M. (author), Ahrari, Sara (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)Most water and development interventions aim to contribute to long-term sustainable impacts. Given the uncertainties involved in these longer-term water development projects, adaptive planning approaches hold promise to connect planning, implementation and evaluation. Recent innovations report promising results, but find limited wide-spread...journal article 2021
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Torkashvanda, G. (author), Li, M. (author), Vink, P. (author)BACKGROUND: The Human-Centered Design methodology advocates VR prototyping, as an effective tool to evaluate concepts in a cost-efficient, time-saving way. It is the question of whether it works in the development of a product intended to increase privacy while flying. OBJECTIVE: The current study aims at the application of virtual reality on...journal article 2021
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de Gelder, E. (author), Elrofai, Hala (author), Saberi, Arash Khabbaz (author), Paardekooper, Jan Pieter (author), Den Camp, Olaf Op (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)The development of safety validation methods is essential for the safe deployment and operation of Automated Driving Systems (ADSs). One of the goals of safety validation is to prospectively evaluate the risk of an ADS dealing with real-world traffic. ISO 26262 and ISO/DIS 21448, the leading standards in automotive safety, provide an approach...journal article 2021
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van der Waa, J.S. (author), Nieuwburg, Elisabeth (author), Cremers, Anita (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Current developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) led to a resurgence of Explainable AI (XAI). New methods are being researched to obtain information from AI systems in order to generate explanations for their output. However, there is an overall lack of valid and reliable evaluations of the effects on users' experience of, and behavior in...journal article 2021
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Mulderij, Lisanne S. (author), Hernández, J.I. (author), Mouter, N. (author), Verkooijen, Kirsten T. (author), Wagemakers, Annemarie (author)Overweight and obesity are a growing problem, especially among people with a low income. Policymakers aspire to alleviate this problem by implementing publicly funded projects. This study has three aims: 1) to explore citizen preferences regarding the public funding of projects promoting a healthy body weight among people with a low income, 2...journal article 2021
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Mouter, N. (author), Koster, Paul (author), Dekker, Thijs (author)Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a new method to assess the desirability of government projects. In a PVE, individuals select their preferred portfolio of government projects given a constrained public budget. Individuals’ preferences for (the impacts of) government projects can be determined based on these choices. The obtained...journal article 2021
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Dartevelle, Olivier (author), van Moeseke, Geoffrey (author), Mlecnik, E. (author), Altomonte, Sergio (author)In a context of global warming, summer thermal comfort is a key issue for the design and operation of nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs). Although there are various methods and benchmarks for the long-term evaluation of summer thermal conditions in free-running buildings, their application to the residential sector is still debated. Based...journal article 2021
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Fahim, P.B.M. (author), Rezaei, J. (author), Montreuil, Benoit (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author)Maritime ports are an integral part of global trade and the supply network system. An upcoming paradigm for innovation in this system is that of the Physical Internet (PI). This highly advanced way of shipping will present a very different logistics environment with respective challenges for maritime ports. For those investing in or operating...journal article 2021
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van Wee, G.P. (author)Cycling is increasingly receiving attention in research and policy and practice, in many cities and regions in the world. The focus is mainly on cycling infrastructure and effects on travel behavior and health. The economics of cycling have not received a lot of attention yet. This chapter gives an overview of the current state of knowledge...book chapter 2021
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Ekstrand, Michael D. (author), Chaney, Allison (author), Castells, Pablo (author), Burke, Robin (author), Rohde, David (author), Slokom, M. (author)There is significant interest lately in using synthetic data and simulation infrastructures for various types of recommender systems research. However, there are not currently any clear best practices around how best to apply these methods. We proposed a workshop to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in simulating...conference paper 2021
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Weber, J.H. (author), Bu, R. (author), Cai, Kui (author), Schouhamer Immink, Kees A. (author)Decoders minimizing the Euclidean distance between the received word and the candidate codewords are known to be optimal for channels suffering from Gaussian noise. However, when the stored or transmitted signals are also corrupted by an unknown offset, other decoders may perform better. In particular, applying the Euclidean distance on...journal article 2020