Designing the IdeaBooster: A competencies connector in major innovations

This thesis investigated the problems surround major innovations in companies from the perspective of major innovation capability. Based on the problems the IdeaBooster was designed to support companies in connecting to the right people by leveraging their networks.

Feasibility study of a superconducting helicopter electrical propulsion motor

As a response to the need for lower carbon transmissions for means of transportation, the aerospace industry is looking into more electric aircraft. One concept of such an aircraft is a hybrid helicopter that uses highly efficient diesel engines and electrical propulsion motors. The feasibility of this concept is greatly determined by the...

De implementatie van BIM door woningcorporaties in renovatieprojecten

Het gebruik van BIM als middel bij innovatieve bouwprocessen moet het mogelijk maken om een stap dichterbij het oplossen van de problematiek rondom de woningvoorraad, de huidige regelgeving, de stijging van de totale kosten, het grote aandeel vermijdbare kosten en de financiële noodzaak om te streven naar meer efficiëntie in onderhoud en...

A Comparative Information Visualization Approach to Physically-Based Rendering

In this work we present a novel information visualization framework to gain in- sight into the light transport in a physically-based rendering setting. The framework consists of a sampling-based data reduction technique, an extended interactive parallel coordinates plot that provides an overview of the attributes linked to each light sample, 2D...

Packaging design for a FairChain brand

Moyee Coffee is a company that buys coffee berries in Ethiopia and sells coffee in the Netherlands. Currently they outsource the roasting (grinding) and packaging processes in between. The company aims at doing the roasting (grinding) and packaging in their own facilities in Ethiopia in the future. Thereby they pursue balance in the coffee...

Strategic positioning of the customer order decoupling point within a project based organization - A case study at Vanderlande

Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for Rich and Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems

In optimization, many variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem exists with all sorts of restrictions and characteristics. Heuristics that find near-optimal solutions are known and tested on in the literature, such as heuristics that escape local minima with the use of large neighborhoods. An example is Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search, which...

Improving the patient experience for children at the paediatric acute medical unit

An acute admission is a disruption from daily life and affects the child patient and his or her family. To reduce this disruption of daily life, the VKC is planning to build a Paediatric Acute Medical Unit (P-AMU) in the coming years. The VKC (Vrouw-Kind Centrum; Woman-Child Center) is the center of excellence in the field of all woman and child...

Design for fairness in AI: Cooking a fair AI Dish

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging field which unleashes massive new (business) opportunities. The potential growth and broad application of the AI technology has great economic benefits however also severe societal implications. Simultaneously, ethical challenges arise with its development. Questions of values and ethics are becoming...

The influence of railway signalling characteristics on resilience

Seven disrupted scenarios have been simulated on the railway corridor Utrecht-Den Bosch, each over three signalling configurations to find the effect of in-cab signalling and reduced block section lengths on resilience. Furthermore, the place of resilience in decision making and design of railway signalling has been investigated. Although...

Analysis of the Interannual Variability of the Amazon-Orinoco River Plume: and its effects on Sea Surface Temperatures in the Caribbean Sea

TheAmazon-Orinoco river plume is a buoyant freshwater lens of 1.2 × 10⁶km², which has been traced over 2000 km from the Amazon river mouthinto the Caribbean Sea and along the Lesser Antilles. The river plume iswarmer than the surrounding open-ocean waters, with temperaturedifferences up to 1.5 ∘C caused...

Short-Term Traffic Forecasting on Highways Using Neural Networks: A Congestion Pattern-Based Assessment

As traffic demands are ever increasing and building new infrastructure poses challenges in densely populated areas, it is important to optimally utilise existing infrastructure. Short-term traffic forecasting can help with this task, as its predictions can help to prevent congestion by rerouting vehicles. Recently, neural networks developed for...

The Nature-Inclusive Redesign: The possibilities of nature-inclusive redesign in Dutch urban monumental buildings

In the last century, biodiversity has come under increasing pressure, and this is also the case in the urban context. The preservation of biodiversity is an important issue. Research shows that part of this biodiversity is largely dependent on the buildings and vegetation in the city and to help this biodiversity we need to build as nature...