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de Wit, S. (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author), Specht, M.M. (author), Aivaloglou, E.A. (author)From an early age, girls may opt out of Computer Science (CS) for not fitting the CS stereotypes of being male, asocial and technology-oriented. These stereotypes might be strengthened by children's books on programming, but little is known about this. Therefore, this paper explores the gender, social interactions and interests of characters...conference paper 2024
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de Wit, S. (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author), Specht, M.M. (author), Aivaloglou, E.A. (author)Background and Context. Increasing gender diversity in the field of Computer Science (CS) benefits the economy as well as gender equality. However, several obstacles - including underdeveloped CS interests, lack of programming experience, and a misfit with the stereotypes of computer scientists - prevent women from entering the field....conference paper 2023
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Hermans, S.L.N. (author), Pompili, M. (author), Baier, S. (author), Beukers, H.K.C. (author), Humphreys, P.C. (author), Schouten, R.N. (author), Vermeulen, R.F.L. (author), Tiggelman, M.J. (author), Dos Santos Martins, L. (author), Dirkse, B. (author), Borregaard, J. (author), Wehner, S.D.C. (author), Hanson, R. (author)We report on the realization of a multi-node quantum network. Using the network, we have demonstrated three protocols; generation of a entangled state shared by all nodes, entanglement swapping and quantum teleportation between non-neighboring nodes.conference paper 2023
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van der Werf, V. (author), Zhang, Min Yi (author), Aivaloglou, E.A. (author), Hermans, Felienne (author), Specht, M.M. (author)Motivation. Many people interested in learning a programming language choose online courses to develop their skills. The concept of variables is one of the most foundational ones to learn, but can be hard to grasp for novices. Variables are researched, but to our knowledge, few empirical observations on how the concept is taught in practice...conference paper 2023
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Molaei, M. (author), Koops, L.S.W. (author), Hermans, M.H. (author)Although a considerable amount of literature has addressed the public procurement in the construction industry, still little is known about procurement in small and repetitive activities. In practice, however, public clients are often involved in repetitive tasks such as maintenance activities. Dutch water boards, regional governmental bodies...conference paper 2022
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Jansen, B. (author), Hermans, Felienne (author)The use of spreadsheets in industry is widespread. It is known that spreadsheets have an average life span of five years, and during this life span, they are used on average by thirteen different persons. Consequently, spreadsheets need maintenance, and knowledge about the spreadsheet needs to be transferred from one user to another. To minimize...conference paper 2021
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Aniche, Maurício (author), Mulder, F. (author), Hermans, Felienne (author)Grading large classes has become a challenging and expensive task for many universities. The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), located in the Netherlands, has observed a large increase in student numbers over the past few years. Given the large growth of the student population, grading all the submissions results in high costs. We...conference paper 2021
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Kuitert, L. (author), Volker, L. (author), Hermans, M.H. (author)In the construction industry, public and semi-public clients increasingly depend on private parties to achieve project outcomes by adopting network type of governance approaches. However, social-political responsibilities remain at the public side. Hence, the general challenge for public commissioners is to find a new balance between...conference paper 2020
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Sarkar, Advait (author), Borghouts, Judith W. (author), Iyer, Anusha (author), Khullar, Sneha (author), Canton, Christian (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author), Gordon, Andrew D. (author), Williams, Jack (author)We report results from a survey on spreadsheet use and experience with textual programming languages (n=49). We find significant correlations between self-reported formula experience, programming experience, and overall spreadsheet experience. We discuss the implications of our findings for spreadsheet research and end-user programming...conference paper 2020
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Fu, J. (author), Brouwer, J.C. (author), Richardson, I.M. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author)Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steels are considered to be one of the candidate structural materials for advanced nuclear applications due to their high elevated-temperature strength, corrosion resistance, and radiation tolerance. Joining of ODS steels by traditional fusion joining techniques is not applicable, because the melting...conference paper 2020
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Aniche, Maurício (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author), van Deursen, A. (author)Software testing is an important topic in software engineering education, and yet highly challenging from an educational perspective: students are required to learn several testing techniques, to be able to distinguish the right technique to apply, to evaluate the quality of their test suites, and to write maintainable test code. In this paper,...conference paper 2019
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Suijkerbuijk, Bart (author), Straub, A. (author), Hermans, M.H. (author)Recently in the Netherlands collaboration emerged as the proposed best way of working together. Clients and contractors are promoting collaboration, and they also prescribe collaboration in their future visions on the construction sector. We challenge this automatism by which collaboration is chosen as the most effective and efficient way. We...conference paper 2019
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Kuitert, L. (author), Volker, L. (author), Hermans, M.H. (author)Today’s societal challenges increasingly ask for collaborations of public, private and societal parties to achieve public goals though public service delivery projects. In these PPPs project managers have to align the interests of the permanent parent organization with the interests of the temporary project organization. Especially in urban area...conference paper 2019
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Hermans, M.H. (author), Veldhuis, J.H. (author), Huizing, D.S. (author), Rots, S.J. (author)Municipalities account for a considerable share in the total production of construction work in the Netherlands. Through their commissioning role, public entities can act as a ‘launching customer’ for innovation. New procurement schemes have been and are being installed to improve quality and productivity, reduce risks and enhance sustainability...conference paper 2019
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Roy, S. (author), van Deursen, A. (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author)Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is a programming language widely used by end-user programmers, often alongside the popular spreadsheet software Excel. Together they form the popular Excel-VBA application ecosystem. Despite being popular, spreadsheets are known to be fault-prone, and to minimize risk of faults in the overall...conference paper 2019
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Jansen, B. (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author)Spreadsheets are frequently used in industry to support critical business decisions. Unfortunately, they also suffer from error-proneness, which sometimes results in costly consequences. Experiments in the field of program education have shown that programmers tend to make fewer errors and can better focus on the logic of a program if they use a...conference paper 2019
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Roy, S. (author), van Deursen, A. (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author)Automatically inferred invariants have been found to be successful in detecting regression faults in traditional software, but their application has not been explored in the context of spreadsheets. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of automatically inferred invariants in detecting regression faults in spreadsheets. We conduct an...conference paper 2018
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Eftekharimilani, P. (author), Gao, H. (author), Huizenga, R.M. (author), van der Aa, EM (author), Amirthalingam, M. (author), Richardson, I.M. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author)Advanced high strength steels (AHSS) are increasingly used in automotive industry; thousands of resistance spot welds are applied to car body-in-white. High alloying levels of AHSS result in lower weldability. Residual stresses play an essential role on the formation of defects and the mechanical performance of the weld. An electrical-thermal...conference paper 2018
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Agarwal, G. (author), Gao, H. (author), Amirthalingam, M. (author), Richardson, I.M. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author)Advanced high-strength steels (AHSS), which are increasingly used in the automotive industry, meet many functional requirements such as high strength and crash resistance. Some of these steels contain high amounts of alloying elements, which are required to achieve the necessary mechanical properties, but render these steels susceptible to weld...conference paper 2018
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Willems, Thijs (author), Kuitert, L. (author), van Marrewijk, Alfons (author), Volker, L. (author), Hermans, M.H. (author)Successfully sharing knowledge through interactions between projects and the organization is, especially in a situation of changing work processes, an important capability for organizations to learn. The aim of this study is to gain insights into the process of project-based learning, specifically by studying how project-based learning relates...conference paper 2018