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- De Ruiter, R. (author) master thesis 2015
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Kasmire, J. (author)The Westland-Oostland Greenport is a large Dutch industrial cluster that is economically, socially and culturally important. Like many industries and regions, the greenport is facing serious challenges as a result of globalisation, energy supplies, and greenhouse gas emissions. These challenges can be understood as sustainability issues that...doctoral thesis 2015
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Van Woerden, J.L. (author)The district heating system is currently a natural monopoly. Introducing multiple producers on district heating networks could have many benefits. By developing a conceptual model that captures the technical, economic and institutional layers of the district heating system, a solid basis for a simulation model can be made. The proposed agent...master thesis 2015
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Meissner, C. (author)High inefficiencies in transport networks due to low utilization of transport modes, incurring unnecessary costs and burdens on the environment, are motivating companies to increasingly cooperate in logistics with companies from the same or another value chain. Although multi-company cooperations are likely to create benefits for the cooperating...master thesis 2015
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- Samson, M.J.N. (author) master thesis 2015
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Karippacheril, T.G. (author)The starting point for this research was the rapid proliferation of mobile devices, which had covered 95% of the world’s population by 2014. This research addresses the role of multi-sided mobile service platforms in improving the lives of smallholder farmers, who make up a large proportion of the world’s poor. The mobile phone has the potential...doctoral thesis 2015
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Schmidt, A. (author)Open source and peer production have been praised as organisational models that could change the world for the better. It is commonly asserted that almost any societal activity could benefit from distributed, bottom-up collaboration — by making societal interaction more open, more social, and more democratic. However, we also need to be mindful...doctoral thesis 2014
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Van Gool, B. (author)This research presents a servitization framework that can provide capital equipment manufacturers a helpfull tool for developing a sustainable and healthy business through services.master thesis 2014
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Van den Bergen, R.F.E.T. (author)Research indicates that the maritime sector is accountable for approximately 3% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, annually, and a trend of vastly growing amounts of CO2 emissions is projected for the future. Despite this significant share in the global warming problem, CO2 emissions from the maritime sector are not significantly...master thesis 2014
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Zuiderwijk, A.M.G. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Davis, C.B. (author)Open data ecosystems are expected to bring many advantages, such as stimulating citizen participation and innovation. However, scant attention has been given to what constitutes an open data ecosystem. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of essential elements of open data ecosystems for enabling easy publication and use of open...journal article 2014
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Zuiderwijk, A.M.G. (author), Helbig, N. (author), Gil-García, J.R. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)For decades good governance scholarship has focused attention on the importance of government openness [26], [34]. Since the 1960s, Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation has formed the backbone of institutional support for opening information and documents [76] and participatory processes [4], [79]. However, FOI represents a passive approach...journal article 2014
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Van der Zwaan, J.M. (author)Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in employing Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) as companions or coaches. These roles are typically performed by humans and require exhibiting certain social behaviors, such as providing social support. For interactions between users and coaching or companion ECAs to become truly social,...doctoral thesis 2014
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Fahim, P.B.M. (author)Since a company can merely perform as good as allowed by its suppliers, the extreme importance of supplier selection in supply chain management has been increasingly recognized. Supplier selection can be best described as a highly complex process due to the involvement of many, sometimes conflicting, both qualitative and quantitative criteria....master thesis 2014
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Solaimani Kartalaei, H. (author)For a long time, technology has served as a silver bullet to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and to outperform the competitors. However, access to and exploitation of technologies gradually becomes a commodity, hence a less powerful resource to be leveraged to a competitive edge. Instead, companies increasingly are captivated by the...doctoral thesis 2014
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- Delawari, A.A. (author) master thesis 2013
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Iychettira, K.K. (author)There is increasing concern that energy-only markets are inadequate when it comes to ensuring generation adequacy in the power sector over the long term. This is reflected in the fact that several Independent System Operators have commissioned studies about security of supply over the last few years; OFGEM and CEER (Council of European Energy...master thesis 2013
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Nguyen, M.T. (author)Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, currently faces a price of booming development: pollution from waste. For example, within the last 10 years, the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) has tripled in the city, from roughly 800,000 tons/year in pre-2007 to 2,400,000 tons/year in 2010. As the result, this situation challenges the home city of 6...master thesis 2013
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Mir Mohammadi Kooshknow, S.A.R. (author)Energy is inherent part of our current life. No one can imagine living without it. It has changed the lifestyle of people and it will continue to do so in future. About 80% of current global total primary energy supply belongs to non-renewable resources. It is also expected that non-renewable resources dominate in total primary energy supply in...master thesis 2013
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Pavel, A. (author)The worldwide mobile payments market is expected to have reached “$ 171.5 billion as a total in 2012, with a 61.9 % increase compared to 2011” and a constant annual forecasted growth of 42% until 2016 according to (Christy, 2012, para.1). In this fast growing market, there are two major categories identified, according to (Cluckey, 2011, p.1 ) :...master thesis 2013
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Spadaro, A. (author)Rapidly evolving IT infrastructures bring beneficial effects to society and promote information sharing and use. However, vulnerabilities create opportunities for hostile users to perform malicious activities and IT security has gradually turned into a critical research area for organizations and governments. Processes of decision making in...master thesis 2013
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