manage 4D historical AIS data by Space Filling Curve

This MSc thesis aims to research how to efficiently manage 4D AIS data (Longitude, Latitude, Time, and MMSI (the ID of the vessel)) to do the fast query by using the Space Filling curve in PostgreSQL. The AIS is the Automatic Identification System which is born because the frequent occurrence of maritime accidents has caused casualties and...

Renovated Livability in Pecinan: A Living Complex in Pecinan, for Future Young Occupants and Visitors, by Vernacular Heritage Settlement Architectural Design

With the interest of redesigning non-monumental heritage groups, the Architects worked on the district called Pecinan (the Chinese-Javanese quarter) in Semarang, Indonesia. The site problems require to improve district livability, to renovate cultural variety, and to enrich the old town's heritage quality. The research highly considered with...

Wafer Scale Flexible Interconnect Fabrication for Heterogeneous Integration

System in a package (SIP) allows integrated circuit (ICs) modules or other components from different suppliers and technologies to be integrated into highly functional products. This SIP could realize miniaturized and multifunctional systems enabling emerging technologies like solid-state lightening (SSL), internet of things (IOT), etc. Due to...

Eventscape: New possibility of developing urban brownfield in central Duisburg to achieve its cultural identity

A number of industrial cities are striving for new directions for their own development in the post-industrial age nowadays. Most of existing projects on post-industrial cities often focus more on a proper re-development of brown field -- spatially and ecologically -- while less on the urgent condition of social structure of post-industrial...

Wideband High Power Amplifier Design

This thesis aims for high power wideband amplifiers suitable for base station instrumentation purposes. A power combing topology is introduced, not only to achieve high power but also good input and output matching. Two kinds of broadband 3-dB quadrature couplers, which are important components in the power combing topology, are designed and...

Retail lighting makes the difference: The consumer vocabulary for describing the attractiveness of apparel textiles and the influence of retail lighting conditions

In the highly competitive retail world, standing out from the neighboring shops is the first step to attract consumers. The fashion apparel industry provides an interesting case of hypercompetitive behavior. Fashion apparel retailers are always struggling for a marketing position with new products and retail strategies in an attempt to capture...

The Heston model with term structure

The purpose of this project is to extend the Heston model in order to incorporate the term structure (TS) of the implied volatility surface. This includes implementing a TS within the Heston model and its calibration to a set of market instruments. The TS Heston model with piecewise constant parameters is implemented to match the TS and the COS...