GANAesthetic : An experience of interactively exploring aesthetically pleasing images and incorporating the human perception of beauty to discover aesthetic latent dimensions

Despite the fact that climate change is becoming increasingly dangerous and prevalent, there is still a lack of public engagement. This can be explained by the fact that the media portrays climate change as an abstract concept. The message can be more effectively communicated through visual art because it is more likely to invoke emotional...

Designing and Evaluating Rebalancing Algorithms for Payment Channel Networks

Payment Channel Networks(PCN) utilize payment channels with an established link capacity between two nodes to route transactions over multiple links to carry out transactions. Such transactions can support a blockchain due to the transactions happening off-chain, i.e., not requiring any information to be published to a ledger. PCNs can help aid...

Evaluating and Improving Large-Scale Machine Learning Frameworks

Given the increasing popularity of Machine Learning, and the ever increasing need to solve larger and more complex learning challenges, it is unsurprising that numerous distributed learning strategies have been brought forward in recent years, along with many large scale Machine Learning frameworks. It is however unclear how well these...

Quantum network routing via link prediction

A network of devices capable of transmitting quantum information called a quantum network has promising applications with vast benefits. One of the most near term achievable application is the quantum key distribution. It could be used for sharing a secret key between two end-users through any insecure authenticated communication channel. Other...

Addressing the challenges of Cloud Computing adoption in an enterprise environment: Use case for encouragement and raising awareness among the staff, development of secure and compliant components and analysis of application performance on different Microsoft Azure Cloud Services within the Cloud Competence Center in Rabobank

Rabobank is currently planning a complete transition of its services to the public<br/>cloud. Currently there are around 400 DevOps teams that need to make the<br/>transition from deployment on traditional on-premise infrastructure, to deploying their products to the public cloud. The thesis project investigates what are some of the biggest...

Algorithms for a bounded-width order acceptance and scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup time using decision diagrams

Order acceptance and scheduling problems (OAS) is a category of problems where the decision of which jobs to schedule and how to schedule them is intertwined. Decision diagrams have in recent years become a popular method of finding bounds for scheduling problems. However, their use in problems where orders can also be rejected has not yet been...

Creating trust through verification of interaction records

Trust on the internet is largely facilitated by reputation systems on centralized online platforms. How- ever reports of data breaches and privacy issues on such platforms are getting more frequent. We argue that only a decentralized trust system can enable a privacy-driven and fair future of the online economy. This requires a scalable system...

Design and Experimental Evaluation of a System based on Dynamic Conits for Scaling Minecraft-like Environments

Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time,<br/>and provides both entertainment and education to people around the globe.<br/>One of the main challenges in gaming is increasing the scalability of these games to support the large numbers of players they attract.<br/>Minecraft-like games make this challenge even more difficult by...

Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation in Peer-to-Peer Network: A Multiparty Computation Approach

Current interconnected society provides us with numerous devices communicating with one another. Exchange of data thus become an integral part in our live. Data become valuable commodity in today's setting because of their usage by individual and other interested parties. Several parties may be interested in computing a function over their data...

A Blockchain Consensus Protocol With Horizontal Scalability

Blockchain systems have the potential to decentralise many traditionally centralised systems. However, scalability remains a key challenge. Without a horizontally scalable solution, where performance increases by adding more nodes to the system, blockchain systems remain unsuitable for ubiquitous use. We design a novel blockchain system called...

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