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Debacker, Wim (author), Manshoven, Saskia (author), Peters, Martijn (author), Ribeiro, Andre (author), De Weerdt, Yves (author)
The built environment is considered as a key sector in which circular economy can be implemented. Within the H2020 project “Building as Material Banks” (BAMB), two innovative solutions are being forward to support this transition: i.e. Materials Passports and Reversible Building Design Protocols. Based on desk research and interviews with...
conference paper 2017
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Polevoy, G. (author), Trajanovski, S. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author)
Shared effort games model people's contribution to projects and sharing the obtained profits. Those games generalize both public projects like writing for Wikipedia, where everybody shares the resulting benefits, and all-pay auctions such as contests and political campaigns, where only the winner obtains a profit. In ?-equal sharing (effort)...
conference paper 2014
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Ströhle, P. (author), Gerding, E.H. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Stein, S. (author), Robu, V. (author)
We design new algorithms for the problem of allocating uncertain, flexible, and multi-unit demand online given uncertain supply, in order to maximise social welfare. The algorithms can be seen as extensions of the expectation and consensus algorithms from the domain of online scheduling. The problem is especially relevant to the future smart...
conference paper 2014
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Scharpff, J.C.D. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Volker, L. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author)
Scheduling of infrastructural maintenance poses a complex multi-agent problem. Commonly a central authority is responsible for the quality and throughput of the infrastructure, while the actual maintenance is performed by multiple self-interested contractors. Not only does the central authority have to (economically) incentivise agents to...
conference paper 2013
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Scharpff, J.C.D. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Volker, L. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author)
Scheduling of infrastructural maintenance poses a complex multi-agent problem. Commonly a central authority is responsible for the quality and throughput of the infrastructure, while the actual maintenance is performed by multiple self-interested contractors. Not only does the central authority have to (economically) incentivise agents to...
conference paper 2013
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Scharpff, J. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Volker, L. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author)
We address efficient planning of maintenance activities in infrastructural networks, inspired by the real-world problem of servicing a highway network. A road authority is responsible for the quality, throughput and maintenance costs of the network, while the actual maintenance is performed by autonomous, third-party contractors. From a (multi...
conference paper 2013
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Scharpff, J. (author), Spaan, T.J. (author), Volker, L. (author), De Weerdt, M. (author)
conference paper 2013
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De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Gerding, E.H. (author), Stein, S. (author), Robu, V. (author), Jennings, N.R. (author)
En-route charging stations allow electric vehicles to greatly extend their range. However, as a full charge takes a considerable amount of time, there may be significant waiting times at peak hours. To address this problem, we propose a novel navigation system, which communicates its intentions (i.e., routing policies) to other drivers. Using...
conference paper 2013
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Scharpff, J.C.D. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author)
We study the planning of maintenance activities on public infrastructural networks – road networks, Internet, power grids, etc. – in contingent environments such that the negative impact on the network user is minimised. Traditional efforts hereto are mainly of a regulatory nature, whereas we propose charging the service-providers (agents)...
conference paper 2012
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Volker, L. (author), Scharpff, J. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Herder, P.M. (author)
Transportation networks are important public infrastructures because they enable economic and social activity. Trends in contracting the maintenance of such assets have caused a shift in governance from a public body to market-like arrangements and changed the roles and responsibilities among asset owner, asset manager and service providers....
conference paper 2012
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Noroozian, A. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Witteveen, C. (author)
The fundamental problem with P2P networks is that quality of service depends on altruistic resource sharing by participating peers. Many peers freeride on the generosity of others. Current solutions like sharing ratio enforcement and reputation systems are complex, exploitable, inaccurate or unfair at times. The need to design scalable...
conference paper 2012
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Ten Thije, O. (author), Planken, L.R. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author)
Efficient management of temporal constraints is important for temporal planning. During plan development, many solvers employ a heuristic-driven backtracking approach, over the course of which they maintain a so-called Simple Temporal Network (STN) of events and constraints. This paper presents the Vertex-IPPC algorithm, which efficiently...
conference paper 2011
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Planken, L.R. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Van der Krogt, R. (author)
conference paper 2011
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De Weerdt, E. (author), Van Kampen, E. (author), Chu, Q.P. (author), Mulder, J.A. (author)
Trajectory optimization has been a large field of research for many years. The drawback is that for non-convex, constrained problems practically all available solvers cannot guarantee that the globally optimal trajectory is found. Interval analysis based solvers however can provide this guarantee. Interval analysis has been applied to trajectory...
conference paper 2011
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De Weerdt, E. (author), Van Oort, E.R. (author), Van Kampen, E. (author), Chu, Q.P. (author)
Level set methods are used to determine the reachable set for a given time domain. In the aerospace industry level set methods are used to determine for example flight envelopes. A new level set method is presented which uses interval analysis to give guaranteed bounds on the solution. Unlike the current grid-based methods the new method does...
conference paper 2011
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De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Ketter, W. (author), Collins, J. (author)
We consider the problem of designing a pricing mechanism for precisely controlling the real-time balance in electricity markets, where retail brokers aggregate the supply and demand of a number of individual customers, and must purchase or sell power at the wholesale level such that the total supply matches total demand. This is typically done...
conference paper 2011
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Verwer, S.E. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Witteveen, C. (author)
We advocate the use of an explicit time representation in syntactic pattern recognition because it can result in more succinct models and easier learning problems. We apply this approach to the real-world problem of learning models for the driving behavior of truck drivers. We discretize the values of onboard sensors into simple events. Instead...
conference paper 2011
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Wu, M. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author), La Poutré, H. (author)
In the market of global logistics, agents need to decide upon whether to accept jobs sequentially offered to them. These jobs, which need to be executed in the near future, have different payments and time constraints. In the offering process we study here, an agent (with limited capacity) needs to make an immediate acceptance decision with...
conference paper 2011
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Máhr, T. (author), Srour, F.J. (author), De Weerdt, M. (author)
In most real-world settings, a transportation plan requires modifications during execution. A thorough evaluation of transportation planning methods thus requires testing and comparison in a dynamic environment. We give conditions on a simulation environment that follow from this requirement, and propose a multi-agent simulator meeting these...
conference paper 2011
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Verwer, S. (author), De Weerdt, M.M. (author), Witteveen, C. (author)
conference paper 2010
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