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Rajabalinejad, M. (author)Probabilistic techniques in engineering problems are needed because they provide a deeper understanding of failure mechanisms and occurrence probabilities than deterministic techniques. In addition, they draw our attention to the consequences of failure at an early stage in the design process. However, to achieve these advantages, a well-defined...doctoral thesis 2009
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Janic, M. (author)This paper develops an analytical model for the assessment of the cost performance of a given logistics network operating under regular and irregular (disruptive) conditions. In addition, the paper aims to carry out a sensitivity analysis of this cost with respect to changes of the most influencing factors. In particular, this is expected to...journal article 2009
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Schweckendiek, T. (author), Van den Ham, G.A. (author), De Groot, M.B. (author), De Gijt, J.G. (author), Hudig, P. (author), Brassinga, H.E. (author)A recently reclaimed site in the Port of Rotterdam will serve as location and foundation of an LNG terminal. LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) is recognized as hazardous material and underlies strict safety requirements. As part of the safety assessment of the entire installation, a specific analysis had to be carried out concerning the geotechnical...conference paper 2009
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Bogers, E.A.I. (author)The aim of the research is to gain insight into the impact of traffic information on day-to-day route choice. The effects of both en-route information and ex-post information are studied. Special attention is given to three other important aspects in day-to-day route choice: learning from experience and information, habits and the effect of...doctoral thesis 2009
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Tahmasseby, S. (author)This research focuses on the influence of reliability of urban public transport services on network evaluation and network design. Public transport services suffer from all kind of disturbances, varying demand patterns, weather conditions, incidents, road works, et cetera. Current practice uses all kinds of operational measures to ensure the...doctoral thesis 2009
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Schweckendiek, T. (author), Kanning, W. (author)Piping, also called under-seepage, is an internal erosion mechanism, which can cause the failure of dikes or other flood defence structures. The uncertainty in the resistance of a flood defence against piping is usually large, causing high probabilities of failure for this mechanism. A considerable part of this uncertainty is of epistemic nature...conference paper 2009
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Van Oort, N. (author), Van Nes, R. (author)Zoetermeer in The Netherlands. During peak hours the frequency on some trajectories is about 24 vehicles an hour. Dealing with these high frequencies and offering travelers a high quality product, according to waiting times as well as the probability of getting a seat, the operator designed a three step controlling philosophy. The first step is...conference paper 2010
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Van de Schouw, G. (author)The functioning of vital infrastructures, such as energy and telecommunications infrastructure, is key to societal and economic security and well-being in modern society. The reliability of these infrastructures is thus of paramount importance. Transmission system operators (TSOs) fulfill a central role in achieving this reliability, by...master thesis 2010
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Steenbergen, R.D.J.M. (author), Vrouwenvelder, A.C.W.M. (author)Evaluating and upgrading existing structures becomes more and more important. For a large part of the existing infrastructure and buildings the design life has been reached or will be reached in the near future. These structures need to be reassessed in order to find out whether the safety requirements are met. Not only for new structures but...journal article 2010
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Hoonhout, B.M. (author), Den Heijer, C. (author)The dune assessment methods used to ensure the safety of the lower areas in The Netherlands are based on simple empirical relations that are, strictly speaking, only valid for infinitely long, uniform and straight coasts. The wide application of these relations is mainly justified due to intentional overestimation of the expected dune erosion....conference paper 2010
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Borodin, D. (author)In this dissertation we address the overhead reduction of fault tolerance (FT) techniques. Due to technology trends such as decreasing feature sizes and lowering voltage levels, FT is becoming increasingly important in modern computing systems. FT techniques are based on some form of redundancy. It can be space redundancy (additional hardware),...doctoral thesis 2010
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Tsikrika, T. (author), Diou, C. (author), De Vries, A.P. (author), Delopoulos, A. (author)Automatic image annotation using supervised learning is performed by concept classifiers trained on labelled example images. This work proposes the use of clickthrough data collected from search logs as a source for the automatic generation of concept training data, thus avoiding the expensive manual annotation effort. We investigate and...journal article 2010
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Van der Kooij, H. (author), Campbell, A.D. (author), Carpenter, M.G. (author)The different measures used to characterize postural sway are sensitive to variations in sampling duration, yet there remains marked variability and a lack of consistency in this temporal parameter when compared between studies. We investigated the effect of sampling duration on 22 commonly used frequency and time domain measures and stabilogram...journal article 2011
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- Lafont, U. (author), Van Zeijl, H.W. (author), Van der Zwaag, S. (author) conference paper 2011
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Schweckendiek, T. (author)The reliability of flood defenses is often dictated by large uncertainties in the hydraulic loading and the structural resistance. Additional information decreases uncertainty, however, acquiring it is often costly. One source of information, even though in many cases readily available, is hardly used – survived loads. This article shows how...conference paper 2011
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De Haan, E.J. (author)Many of the assets managed by TenneT TSO have been installed in the sixties and seventies of the previous century. Consequently, 50% of their assets will reach their designed lifetime within ten years. Due to financial and technical restrictions not all the asset can be replaced based on their age. Hence, TenneT TSO developed a Health index tool...master thesis 2011
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Vazifehdan, J. (author)Wireless networks have provided us a variety of services which facilitate communication between people beyond the physical boundaries. Mobile telephony, mobile Internet and high-deffnition video calls are examples of services supported by modern networks nowadays. Beyond this, enhancements in processing capabilities of electronic devices coupled...doctoral thesis 2011
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Maljaars, J. (author), Steenbergen, R. (author), Abspoel, L. (author), Kolstein, M.H. (author)The assessment of the structural safety of existing br idges and viaducts becomes increasingly important in many countries owing to an increase in traffic loads. Most existing standards, however, are developed for the design of new structures. For this reason, an assessment method for determining the actual safety level of highway bridges and...journal article 2012
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Haron, N.Z.B. (author)Emerging nanoelectronic memories such as Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAMs) are possible candidates to replace the conventional memory technologies such as SRAMs, DRAMs and flash memories in future computer systems. Despite their advantages such as enormous storage capacity, low-power per unit device and reduced manufacturing difficulties,...doctoral thesis 2012
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Rajabalinejad, M. (author)This paper presents a generic method for the safety assessments of models with partial monotonicity. For this purpose, a Bayesian interpolation method is developed and implemented in the Monte Carlo process. integrated approach is the generalization of the recently developed techniques used in safety assessment of monotonic models and it...conference paper 2012