Ethics by design and research ethics for artificial intelligence

Designing Coastal Interfaces: Landscape architecture explorations in the Pearl River Delta, the Haringvliet and Pekalongan City through six MSc-graduation projects

This graduation studio explores the potential of a landscape-based regional design approach to contribute to more resilient coastal landscapes around the globe. Such an approach addresses the interaction between the natural and urban landscape throughout the scales of space and time. It takes the landscape as the basis for sustainable urban...

Evaluatie pilot Transformatiekader: Erfgoedfabriek Provincie Noord Brabant

The great planning game: Exploring the variety of values and worldviews in planning

This game explores different styles of spatial planning and different “types” of planners. The objective of this game is to make planning student sensitive to the variety of planning styles around the world. The types of planners described here (rather humorously) are based on the meticulous research conducted by Karina Sehested from the...

Leidraad Transformatiekader: Pilot Erfgoedfabriek Noord Brabant

Operative Guidelines for Protection of Places of Worship from Terrorist Attacks: A new approach toward security design of sensitive buildings

The present thesis is aimed at defining operative guidelines devoted to the prevention and limitation of disastrous consequences for man's life and property in case of terrorist attacks perpetrated in places of worship. These guidelines are meant to be applied by governs of Western societies at different levels of spatial planning, with...

Quantifying the Encapsulation of Implemented Software Architectures

In the evaluation of implemented software architectures, metrics can be used to provide an indication of the degree of encapsulation within a system and to serve as a basis for an informed discussion about how well-suited the system is for expected changes. Current literature shows that over 40 different architecture-level metrics are available...

Crawling Ajax-based Web Applications through Dynamic Analysis of User Interface State Changes

Using JavaScript and dynamic DOM manipulation on the client-side of web applications is becoming a widespread approach for achieving rich interactivity and responsiveness in modern web applications. At the same time, such techniques, collectively known as Ajax, shatter the metaphor of web ‘pages’ with unique URLs, on which traditional web...