Redispatch and balancing: Same but different. Links, conflicts and solutions.

The authors provide a critical analysis of existing approaches to balancing and congestion management (specifically redispatch) and their effects on the incentives for service providers. This issue is particularly important in the view of the harmonization of ancillary service procurement in Europe, introduction of cross-border balancing...

First order multi-lane traffic flow model – an incentive based macroscopic model to represent lane change dynamics

Unbalanced lane usage on motorways might lead to the reduction in capacity<br/>of the motorway. Lane-level traffic management present new opportunities<br/>to balance the lane-flow distribution and help reduce congestion.<br/>In order to come up with efficient traffic management strategies on a<br/>lane-level, there is a need for accurate lane...

The Role of Hosting Providers in Web Security: Understanding and Improving Security Incentives and Performance via Analysis of Large-scale Incident Data

In theory, hosting providers can play an important role in fighting cybercrime and misuse. This is because many online threats, be they high-profile or mundane, use online storage infrastructure maintained by hosting providers at the core of their criminal operations. <br/>However, in practice, we see large differences in the security measures...

User contribution in peer-to-peer communities

Towards Incentivizing ISPs To Mitigate Botnets

ISPs form a centralized point to control botnet infections. However, they do not have enough incentives to invest in mitigation of botnets. In this paper, we propose an approach based on comparative metrics to incentivize ISPs to mitigate botnets.

Reverse Stackelberg Games: Theory and Applications in Traffic Control

One of the major challenges in optimization-based control of large-scale intelligent infrastructural networks such as traffic networks is to find efficient multilevel optimization schemes through which decisions can be made by agents or controllers of different interacting layers. The hierarchical game on which this dissertation is focused can...

Online Networks as Societies: User Behaviors and Contribution Incentives

Online networks like email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, eBay, and BitTorrent-like Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have become popular and powerful infrastructures for communication. They involve potentially large numbers of humans with their collective inputs and decisions, and they often rely on the cooperation and the contribution of their users...

Social and cultural drivers of incentive effectiveness in infrastructure projects

Formal incentives systems aim to encourage improved performance by offering a reward for the achievement of project-specific goals. Despite argued benefits of incentive systems on project delivery outcomes, there remains debate over how incentive systems can be designed to encourage the formation of strong project relationships within a complex...

How Can Procurement Contribute to Network Performance? Streamlining Network, Project and Procurement Objectives

The core business of governmental organizations like Rijkswaterstaat in the Netherlands is the optimal management of road-end waterway networks. The coming years many maintenance, renewal and extension projects will be executed in these networks. Projects give a disturbance in functionality of the network. Network management is to keep this...

Modelling human and organizational behaviour in a high-risk operation

A core part of the risk modelling program for the Oil and Gas industry being carried out at Delft University of Technology is the influence of humans, within an organisation, as well as the technical factors. Specific attention is given to the incentive structure of operators, staff and managers, which in previous models had only been indicated...

Contracting Economics of Large Engineering and Construction Projects

Large Engineering and Construction Projects (LECPs) form an important area of economic activity, covering a range of different artefacts. These projects have in common that they are massive undertakings, spanning long time periods and they involve large capital investments. Uncertainty and risk are the ruling paradigms. In the oil, gas and...

Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery

In this paper, we present evidence on the effect of greater numbers of police personnel on victimisation of crime and experience of nuisance. We make use of individual data from a Dutch victimisation survey unique in its size, duration and scope. By using individual victimisation data we provide evidence on the effects of police on nuisance...

Incentive systems for wastewater treatment and reuse in irrigated agriculture in the MENA region: Evidence from Jordan and Tunisia

As a result of chronic water scarcity, the countries of the MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa) recognize reclaimed wastewater as a non-conventional water resource. Nonetheless, in this region, substantial amounts of the wastewater that are collected are still discharged into the sea or water courses without treatment. Moreover, most...