Mindful Music Listening: Fostering Wellbeing on Music Streaming Platforms through Positive AI

Recommender systems have become a core strategy of countless online sites and platforms including music streaming services like Spotify. These recommender systems are associated with limiting our exposure to a narrower range of content, this is even the case for features designed to promote discovery like Spotify’s Discover Weekly. Discover...

Pricing Barrier Options under Lévy Processes using Dimension-reduced Cosine Expansion

Barrier options are fundamental financial tools that give rise to pricing challenges, particularly when embedded within stochastic models. This study directs its focus towards Lévy processes as a strategic approach to navigate and resolve these intricate complexities. The model assumption adopted in this thesis is that the underlying log-asset...

Bayesian parameter estimation applied to (non-)Gaussian random fields

The purpose of this study is to define and estimate multivariate statistic models, inspired by the data of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, and apply those models to self-simulated data. Two distinct models are constructed using random fields, which include a set of parameters, structural covariance among random variables and a...

Hybrid interaction of timber decks in movable bridges

Highway traffic bridges have been subjected to increasing loads over the past decades. Some of the movable bridge leafs in these highway bridges were constructed in the 1960s and they are now close to the end of their intended life span. These bridge leafs were typically designed and executed with hardwood deck boards. In the initial design...

Ramp metering: a microscopic control approach: A case study in the Netherlands

In order to reduce congestion numbers on the highways, ramp metering can be used. The currently existing ramp metering control strategies are of a macroscopic nature. This means that the average occupancy on the main lane or average flow values on the main lane determine the temporarily fixed cycle times for the traffic light located near the on...

The impact of blockchain technology on insurance business models: Stress testing the insurers' business models using the STOF Model

As the insurance industry engages in numerous processes which are characterized by the exchange of data which is updated by multiple parties; a blockchain, as a single source of truth, has the potential to increase efficiency and reduce the complexity of these processes. However, the complexity, uncertainty, transforming potential and barriers...

Preliminary structural design and financial feasibility study of a transportable multifunctional stadium

Large sport events require multiple large scale stadiums. However, often there is insufficient local demand to make use of all the stadiums throughout their lifetime. Hence, more and more high quality large scale stadiums, built for a onetime event, become vacant after the event. This research aims to design the structural configuration of the...

A new Detroit

A new sustainable strategy for shrinking city Detroit.

New Information System: Design of a Web-based Information System for the planning department of Viva Telecom

Introductie: Dit rapport is een verslag van het New Information System project bij Viva Telecom te Cochabamba, Bolivia. Nick Klomp, Paul Spiele en Bart-Jan Vink hebben hier in het kader van hun bachelorproject de situatie geanalyseerd, een ontwerp voor een systeem gemaakt en een prototype hiervan geïmplementeerd. In de maanden juli en augustus...

Design of a no-reference perceptual ringing artifact metric

Anaerobe membraan filtratie

Pluimveeslachterij Frisia heeft Waterleiding Friesland benaderd met de vraag naar de mogelijkheid tot het leveren van industriewater.

Resource allocation for Virtual Private Networks in B-ISDN

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are a major growth market in present-day telecommunication networks. Moreover, provision of a VPN service in the future Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN) is seen as a pre-requisite to successful B-ISDN deployment. Hence the need to investigate how such a service could be provided; this report...

Korel-korrel interacties

Weinig is bekend omtrent de interacties tussen korrels en vloeistof in een hoog-geconcentreerd zand-watermengsel, zoals dat in een slurry-stroom (zandsluitingen en zettingsvloeiingen) of bij sheetflow (bij zandtransport door golven aan de kust) optreedt. In dit rapport worden de resultaten gepresenteerd van experimenten, waarin deze interacties...