Stimulating an energy fuel transition in the residential sector of Chinese lower-tier cities

China is undergoing massive changes in order to tackle their carbon dioxide emissions problem. Aside from the problem of climate change, it is facing another problem – that of air pollution. Use of dirty fuels by residential households such as biomass and coal cause emissions harmful for the environment, as well as to the health of citizens. In...

BrixMS - Context Independent Modelling and Simulation

The global society is facing a number of Grand Challenges, problems that are often ill- defined and for which time is running out. Finding potential solutions requires the use of Modelling and Simulation (M&S) tools that can facilitate large scale collaborative and multi-perspective efforts. Ideally this is done by building across contexts...

Operationalizing Urban Resilience: A Machine Learning Approach

Innovation beyond the stage-gate: Factors influencing commercialisation phase within financial services and solutions to mitigate barriers

Financial services industry which used to be relatively traditional is in the midst of change caused by the emergence of FinTech, forcing traditional firms to improve its innovation effectiveness. There exist various studies on corporate entrepreneurship, especially on the fuzzy front-end. However, studies on the back-end phase of innovations...

Managing Service Innovations in Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer Contexts

With the rapidly growing service economy, firms must address the fundamental needs of the customers to sustain their competitive advantage. The role of the customer is being increasingly stressed by both academia and practice. However, an important implication from this is to make a distinction between the business customer and the general...

Modelling traffic in the Randstad using a dynamic zone model based on the Network Fundamental Diagram

The aim of this master thesis is to develop a dynamic zone-based traffic model for large areas, using the concept of the Network Fundamental Diagram (NFD), which relates the average internal flow (production) and speed in a zone to the number of vehicles in the same zone (accumulation). The model that has been developed is then applied to the...

Pre-coalitions in international politics: Using software agents to simulate strategic a priori coalitions in diplomatic negotiations and evaluate their sufficiency

Enhancing the Resilience of a Semiconductor Supply Network via Modeling and Simulation of Business Continuity Strategies for Alternative Sites: A Case Study of Building a Resilient Supply Network at Infineon

Enhancing supply chain resilience is of vital importance in today’s business to manage and mitigate the risks, especially in the semiconductor industry challenged with long cycle times and short product life-cycles. Transferring production from a primary site to an alternative site after a disaster is one of the strategies to ensure resilience...

A method for generating fixed feasible ordering and delivery schedules for grocery retailers: The distribution challenge of Krónan

A distribution network is the pathway that all products and services go through before reaching the end consumer. It consists of interdependent institutions which perform tasks such as inventory carrying, generation of demand and physical distribution. The physical distribution has direct impact on both supply chain costs and customer service...