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Allessie, David (author)
The European Union is exploring the possibilities of blockchain for their services and processes as a bottom-up approach to the coordination of citizens and economic administrators. However, the multi-actor complexity and the systems complexity of blockchain technology makes decision-making in this subject a difficult task, resulting in a...
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Francisconi, Mattia (author)
Over eight years from its conception, Blockchain is considered as a ground-breaking innovation in information technology. The technology’s promises of complete disintermediation and enhanced process visibility turned supply chain and logistics into a fertile ground for a blockchain potential implementation. Despite these high expectations, both...
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Dijkstra, Martijn (author)
In response to greater demand for transparency, technology advancements and the disintermediation by startups are gradually making some of the information public. As a result, property-related information is increasingly available in digital and paper form. However, a significant portion of the digitized information is hosted on disparate...
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de Vos, Thijs (author)
The Netherlands currently lacks a large scale aggregation system which can unlock decentralised flexibility to improve the reliability of the electricity grid in the presence of a significant amount of variable renewable energy sources. In this reserach, the aggregator blockchain technology is perceived as an enabler for a decentralised...
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El Maouchi, Mourad (author)
Traceability is an increasingly important aspect of the supply chain with several highlights throughout the last few decades. Parties, such as consumers and government agencies, have shown an increase in demand for information regarding their products and materials. Studies throughout the last few years have proposed approaches for a...
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van den Biggelaar, Dirk (author)
<br/>We witness the rise of prosumers: consumers that produce a surplus of energy that can be sup- plied back into the grid. However, for energy-trade between prosumers and consumers, a cen- tralized and undesirable middle-man is still necessary. We developed a method to decentralize essential aspects of energy distribution between households....
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Winter, Thomas (author)
In our current society both the demand for electricity is increasing and the demand for electrical energy as energy carrier is increasing. Renewable sources will play an important role in future energy generation due to societal developments. These distributed energy resources introduce new challenges to our current electrical power system. One...
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Burnaby Lautier, Reynier (author)
Due to the increasing use of Blockchain technology, patent offices are receiving a high number of applications for the protection of intellectual property rights of Blockchain technology applications. The protection of Blockchain technology applications is problematic however, due to the limited connection between emerging high technology and...
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Fani, Kees (author), Hoogland, Pavel (author), Borba da Silva Falcão Ferreira, Manuel (author)
During the project the team aimed to make a decentralized web based game on the blockchain, that is fun to play and is indistinguishable from traditional centralized games. To accomplish this it was chosen to create the game on the EOS blockchain platform. The EOS blockchain platform features great improvements upon older more popular platforms...
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Weihs, Benjamin (author)
The building industry is characterized by the creation of organizational silos. These silos are causing frictions and inefficiencies on an operational, financial and managerial level. The following research is approaching these silos within the case of X-Decks, a temporary and circular parking project, and the means of blockchain technology.<br/...
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van der Laan, Bjorn (author)
Smart contracts are applications that are deployed and executed on a blockchain's decentralised infrastructure. Many smart contract applications rely on data that resides outside the blockchain. However, while traditional web applications can communicate with trustworthy data sources directly through the Internet, this is not possible for smart...
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Sewsingh, Ricky (author)
During military or peacekeeping operations it is often the case that coalitions are formed between nations or instances to achieve common objectives by joint decision making and resource sharing. Often a coalition partner participates for a certain period of time and other nations or instances might want to join the coalition in a later stage,...
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Stevens, Lars (author)
Situation: Information management enables humanitarian organizations to make adequate interventions based on timely, appropriate and trustworthy information. A crucial type of information are identities, because they can be used to assess vulnerability and efficiently manage aid distribution. Vulnerability determines who receives aid first...
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Seuren, Floor (author)
The global market for real estate has experienced a significant growth since the financial crisis in 2008. The current global value amounts to more than $200 trillion and comprises nearly 60% of the value of all global assets, including equities, bonds, and gold. Yet, the commercial real estate market is inefficient and opaque due to its...
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Harms, Jan-Gerrit (author)
Trust on the internet is largely facilitated by reputation systems on centralized online platforms. How- ever reports of data breaches and privacy issues on such platforms are getting more frequent. We argue that only a decentralized trust system can enable a privacy-driven and fair future of the online economy. This requires a scalable system...
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Zhang, Bohao (author)
Since the dawn of BitTorrent technology, free-riding has always been a critical<br/>issue restricting the performance and availability of the BitTorrent network. To solve this problem, BitTorrent involves a tit-for-tat mechanism which does not function satisfactorily against free-riding. Private trackers implement credit systems to eliminate...
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Välling, Rasmus (author)
Recently we have been witnesses to a string of controversial elections: the 2016 US Presidential election, the 2016 Brexit referendum, the 2018 Russian presidential election, the 2018 Zimbabwe elections. The controversies surrounding elections are seemingly endless.<br/><br/>Why are these examples relevant? In the 21st century, we are still...
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Scholte, Abe (author)
Blockchain technology can be transformational to a lot of business sectors. Businesses have attempted to extract value from blockchain technology but failed to do so. An unexplored blockchain business initiative is Tokenized Ecosystems. Startups using Tokenized Ecosystems have the potential to disrubt incumbent businesses. Yet, it is unclear how...
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Visser, Ben (author)
Blockchain technology is able to guarantee an immutable data record which could avoid disputes and litigations. It could also significantly reduce time and costs through process automation. The technology presents a potential solution for the many legal barriers in BIM, regarding ownership of information. This thesis will continue research based...
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van Rossum, Ben (author)
Today, mortgage originators are under a significant amount of pressure. Following the Basel IV accord, mortgage originators (Dutch banks: ING, ABN, AMRO, and Rabobank) must hold more capital reserves to create a buffer for difficult financial times. Possessing these extra capital reserves comes with the expense of sustaining current economic...
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