Open data infrastructures: The design of an infrastructure to enhance the coordination of open data use

Governments and researchers traditionally focus on the publication of Open Government Data (OGD), whereas the actual use of the data is often neglected. Open data initiatives are often criticized for not realising the promoted benefits, yet only the use of OGD can result in these benefits. OGD use requires several actors, activities and tools;...

Cognitive Coordination for Cooperative Multi-Robot Teamwork

Multi-robot teams have potential advantages over a single robot. Robots in a team can serve different functionalities, so a team of robots can be more efficient, robust and reliable than a single robot. In this dissertation, we are in particular interested in human level intelligent multi-robot teams. Social deliberation should be taken into...

Coordinated Multi-Agent Planning and Scheduling

Coordinating autonomous planning and scheduling

Regulation of gas infrastructure expansion

The topic of this dissertation is the regulation of gas infrastructure expansion in the European Union (EU). While the gas market has been liberalised, the gas infrastructure has largely remained in the regulated domain. However, not necessarily all gas infrastructure facilities – such as gas storage facilities, LNG import terminals and certain...

Unravelling Interdependence: Coordinating Public-Private Service Networks

Governments aim to improve service delivery towards citizens and businesses. One of the main trends in this area is that organisations are increasingly trying to integrate service delivery by using information and communication technology (ICT). Service integration is necessary as individual service offerings are often just a part of a bigger...

Service Composition: A Method for Developing Compositions in a Multi-actor Context

The Role of Technology in Distributed Team Coordination: A multi-method investigation of a technology change process in the field

The goal of this project was two-fold: firstly, to add to the theoretical knowledge about the impact of complex media combinations for distributed team coordination, and secondly, to increase the practical knowledge for organizations and designers on how to design and implement complex technological solutions for the support of distributed teams...

A Framework for ICT-Supported Coordination in Crisis Response

Crisis response efforts often require coordinating a previously unknown adhocracy of agencies under time pressure. While current technologies that support coordination are successful for well-defined static process descriptions, they may fall short in the face of more complex and unpredictable scenarios, such as a crisis or emergency. Using...

A Unified Approach towards Decomposition and Coordination for Multi-level Optimization

Complex systems, such as those encountered in aerospace engineering, can typically be considered as a hierarchy of individual coupled elements. This hierarchy is reflected in the analysis techniques that are used to analyze the physcial characteristics of the system. Consequently, a hierarchy of coupled models is to be used, accounting for...

Multi-Agent Look-Ahead Traffic-Adaptive Control

The objective of this thesis is to create a distributed, multi-agent, approach to traffic control. This PhD thesis' focus is on the control of a network instrumented by traffic signals.A thorough literature study has been performed, reviewing the current state of the art in traffic signal control. On the basis of this literature survey, a...

Coordination among Autonomous Planners

Plan Merging in Multi-Agent Systems

Coordinating distributed work: Exploring situated coordination with gaming-simulation

Organizational work has become more and more distributed nowadays. Information and communication technologies (ICT) provide opportunities to improve coordination of distributed work, but in practice many organizations struggle with integrating new organizational structures, new work practices and ICT. In this dissertation we present a design...

Designing electronic intermediaries: An agent-based approach for designing interorganizational coordination mechanisms

The structure of business communication: Theory, model and application

Designing organizational coordination