PLASTICITY: Shaping the transitions to a resilient and circular plastic manufacturing system

Different government bodies, from the European Union down to the Port of Rotterdam Authority have implemented the policy goal to become circular by 2050 to minimize demand and dependence on finite resources. However, a circular economy - an economic model in which materials circulate in closed loops and waste is viewed as a resource - is vastly...

Covert DNS Storage Channel Detection: Uncovering surreptitious data exchange using the phonebook of the internet

The cyber arms race has red and blue teams continuously at their toes to keep ahead. Increasingly capable cyber actors breach secure networks at a worrying scale. While network monitoring and analysis should identify blatant data exfiltration attempts, covert channels bypass these measures and facilitate surreptitious information extraction. The...

PROJECT C.R.A.N.I.U.M.: Constructing a Real-time Alarm for Nearing Intracranial hypertension Using Machine learning

Introduction Intracranial hypertension (IH) is a harbinger of secondary brain injury in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI), can be mitigated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and is associated with a poor prognosis. Current clinical practice consists of treating IH once it has occurred, by medical or surgical interventions. This...

Rotterdam Werkt: Improving interorganizational mobility through centralizing vacancies and resumes

Rotterdam Werkt! is a network of fourteen organizations in the Rotterdam area in the Netherlands. Their goal is to increase labor mobility between these organizations through sharing vacancies, exchanging employees and partaking in joint projects. Rotterdam Werkt! has tasked us with creating a central platform on which all vacancies are...

Automated timetable generation for Egyptian schools

Cairo-based IT company Key2Soft is working on a comprehensive system to automate various systems in Egyptian primary-,middle- and high schools. This software system, named Key2School, includes a timetabling component, with which the company aims to relieve the workload of timetablers by providing them with a system which automatically generates...