Effects Assessment for Targeting Decisions Support in Military Cyber Operations

Cyber Warfare is perceived as a radical shift in the nature of warfare. It can represent a real alternative next to other types of Military Operations to achieve military and/or political goals in front of adversaries. To this end, Cyber Operations use specific technologies i.e. cyber weapons/capabilities/means. With a short but intense history...

Advise, Formalize and Integrate MDO Architectures: A Methodology and Implementation

An Agent Based Modelling Approach for Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of City Logistics Solutions

This thesis presents a comprehensive framework for multi-stakeholder analysis of city logistics solutions using agent based modeling. The framework describes different stages for the systematic development of an agent based model for the city logistics domain. The framework includes a multi-perspective city logistics ontology and its validation,...

An Ontology-Based Approach for Knowledge Lifecycle Management within Aircraft Lifecycle Phases

In the aerospace domain, manufacturers and operators constantly seek to improve their products and processes. Increasingly, knowledge-based applications are developed to support or automate knowledge-intensive engineering tasks, saving time and money. However, engineering knowledge changes over time, which has implications for the usability and...

A Knowledge-Intensive Approach to Computer Vision Systems

This thesis focusses on the modelling of knowledge-intensive computer vision tasks. Knowledge-intensive tasks are tasks that require a high level of expert knowledge to be performed successfully. Such tasks are generally performed by a task expert. Task experts have a lot of experience in performing their task and can be a valuable source of...

Capturing socio-technical systems with agent-based modelling

What is a suitable modelling approach for socio-technical systems? The answer to this question is of great importance to decision makers in large scale interconnected network systems. The behaviour of these systems is determined by many actors, situated in a dynamic, multi-actor, multi-objective and multi-level jungle. Models to support such an...

New instruments for dynamic building-construction: Computer as partner in construction

For dynamic processes to become possible in Building-Construction, ICT support is needed. Data access and data exchange needs to be ubiquitous. Existing research often only targets elaborate international standards (that don't really get off the ground because of international differences) or it targets big, elaborate, expensive systems (that...

Gellish: A generic extensible ontological language - design and application of a universal data structure -

Since long data storage and data communication lack a common standard universal data model as well as a common data language for the application domains of database users. This hampers data communication between systems and causes costly data conversion processes. Various solutions have been proposed. However, those solutions either have a...