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A peer-to-peer market mechanism incorporating multi-energy coupling and cooperative behaviors

Wang, N. (author), LIU, Z. (author), Heijnen, P.W. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author)

As the use of distributed energy resources increases, peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading is becoming a promising way to harmonize the decarbonization and decentralization transformations in the energy sector. P2P markets give households the autonomy to make individual decisions and thus they may cooperate with each other to obtain economic...

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Agent-based modeling to integrate elements from different disciplines for ambitious climate policy

Savin, Ivan (author), Creutzig, Felix (author), Filatova, T. (author), Foramitti, Joël (author), Konc, Théo (author), Niamir, Leila (author), Safarzynska, Karolina (author), van den Bergh, Jeroen (author)

Ambitious climate mitigation policies face social and political resistance. One reason is that existing policies insufficiently capture the diversity of relevant insights from the social sciences about potential policy outcomes. We argue that agent-based models can serve as a powerful tool for integration of elements from different disciplines....

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Multi-Agent Based Stochastic Dynamical Model to Measure Community Resilience

Valinejad, Jaber (author), Mili, Lamine (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author)

Emergency services and utilities need appropriate planning tools to analyze and improve infrastructure and community resilience to disasters. Recognized as a key metric of community resilience is the social well-being of a community during a disaster, which is made up of mental and physical social health. Other factors influencing community...

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Designing inclusion and continuity for resilient communication during disasters

Banerjee, I. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)

This paper addresses the challenge of establishing a resilient disaster communication system that transitions seamlessly from a phone-based ad hoc network to any portable infrastructure and back. For this purpose, this paper presents a value-based design of an autonomous and self-organized protocol (SOS-hybrid). This design ensures seamless...

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Simulating thermal energy community formation: Institutional enablers outplaying technological choice

Fouladvand, J. (author), Aranguren Rojas, Maria (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author)

Energy communities are key elements for local energy transitions, collectively generating, distributing and consuming energy, using renewable energy technologies. Thermal energy communities, as one type of energy community, are focused on thermal energy applications, such as heating, cooling, bathing, showering and providing hot tap water. As...

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Listening Space: An exploratory case study on a persuasive game designed to enrich the experience of classical music concerts

Erdbrink, A.E. (author), Michael, J. (author), Kortmann, Rens (author), Hamel, M. (author), Eijck, K. Van (author), Verbraeck, A. (author)

Classical music venues in the Netherlands and throughout the world are struggling to attract new audiences. Especially younger visitors are underrepresented. Previous research emphasizes the importance of providing new, potentially interested audiences with more means to consume the music. This paper presents an exploratory case study with the...

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Environomic-Based Social Demand Response in Cyber-Physical-Social Power Systems

Valinejad, Jaber (author), Mili, Lamine (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author), Xu, Yijun (author)

According to the Department of Energy, demand response provides an opportunity for end-users to play a significant role in the efficiency, reliability, resilience, and sustainability of a power grid. This is made possible owing to the existence of storage devices and diversity of energy sources at the customer level and the advent of the...

journal article 2021

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Systems approaches to healthcare systems design and care delivery: An overview of the literature

Komashie, Alexander (author), Hinrichs-Krapels, S. (author), Clarkson, P.J. (author)

The healthcare sector is facing significant challenges that require a systems approach, resulting in a rapid growth in the application of systems approaches in healthcare since the beginning of the 21st century. Consequently, healthcare practitioners and policymakers now desire to understand the evidence-base for the approach, but little...

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Public agency and responsibility in energy governance: A Q study on diverse imagined publics in the Dutch heat transition

Rodhouse, T.S.G.H. (author), Pesch, U. (author), Cuppen, E. H.W.J. (author), Correljé, A. (author)

In Energy Social Science (ESS), the concept of imagined publics is used to describe how energy actors perceive societal groups around new energy technologies and projects. Findings indicate that imagined publics often build upon deficit assumptions; people are (unjustly) considered unknowledgeable, incapable, unwilling and irresponsible...

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COCREATE: a self-directed learning approach to agricultural extension programmes

Kusnandar, K. (author), van Kooten, O. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)

Participation has been proposed to improve agricultural extension programmes in developing countries. This paper reports on experience with COCREATE, an approach to agricultural extension programmes that supports agricultural chain actors in self-directed learning in action research with smallholder farmers and local traders in Indonesia....

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Public participation in crisis policymaking. How 30, 000 Dutch citizens advised their government on relaxing COVID-19 lockdown measures

Mouter, N. (author), Hernández, J.I. (author), Itten, A.V. (author)

Following the outbreak of COVID-19, governments took unprecedented measures to curb the spread of the virus. Public participation in decisions regarding (the relaxation of) these measures has been notably absent, despite being recommended in the literature. Here, as one of the exceptions, we report the results of 30, 000 citizens advising the...

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Introducing participatory fairness in emergency communication can support self-organization for survival

Banerjee, I. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Brazier, F.M. (author), Helbing, D. (author)

Participatory resilience of disaster-struck communities requires reliable communication for self-organized rescue, as conventional communication infrastructure is damaged. Disasters often lead to blackouts preventing citizens from charging their phones, leading to disparity in battery charges and a digital divide in communication...

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How do political features influence the co-production of government projects? A case study of a medium-sized chinese city

Ma, W. (author), Mu, Rui (author), de Jong, Martin (author)

Co-production is a solution by which the government provides public services. Coproduction theory is built upon Western experience and currently focuses on the types of coproduction in different policy stages, the barriers and governance strategies for co-production. However, little attention is paid to how political background will influence...

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Humanitarian access, interrupted: dynamic near real-time network analytics and mapping for reaching communities in disaster-affected countries

Warnier, Martijn (author), Alkema, Vincent (author), Comes, M. (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)

In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, local and international aid organisations deploy to deliver life-saving aid to the affected population. Yet pre-disaster road maps and road transportation models do not capture disruptions to the transportation network caused by the disaster or the dynamic changes of the situation, resulting in...

journal article 2020

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Critical Airport Infrastructure Disaster Resilience: A Framework and Simulation Model for Rapid Adaptation

Comes, M. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Feil, Wouter (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)

Resilient critical airport infrastructures affected by a disaster need to sustain minimal functionality and quickly resume full operation, while at the same time coping with the increased operational demands imposed by the unfolding disaster response. In this paper, we develop a resilience framework and model-driven approach that focuses on the...

journal article 2020

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Self-organizing topology for energy-efficient ad-hoc communication networks of mobile devices

Banerjee, I. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)

When physical communication network infrastructures fail, infrastructure-less communication networks such as mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET), can provide an alternative. This, however, requires MANETs to be adaptable to dynamic contexts characterized by the changing density and mobility of devices and availability of energy sources. To address...

journal article 2020

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Ad Hoc communication topology switching during disasters from altruistic to individualistic and Back

Banerjee, I. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)

Disaster communication has made immense progress in the last thirty years. At present, disaster research focuses on bottom-up approaches such as civilian inclusion in disaster response. With the advent of smartphones, citizen-based emergency communication has become possible. Present ad hoc communication technologies typically form a fully...

conference paper 2020

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The reciprocity of data integration in disaster risk analysis

Paulus, D. (author), Meesters, Kenny (author), de Vries, G. (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)

Humanitarian organizations are increasingly challenged by the amount of data available to drive their decisions. Useful data can come from many sources, exists in different formats, and merging it into a basis for analysis and planning often exceeds organizations’ capacities and resources. At the same time, affected communities’ participation in...

conference paper 2019

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Effects of data ambiguity and cognitive biases on the interpretability of machine learning models in humanitarian decision making

Paulus, D. (author), de Vries, G. (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)

The effectiveness of machine learning algorithms depends on the quality and amount of data and the operationalization and interpretation by the human analyst. In humanitarian response, data is often lacking or overburdening, thus ambiguous, and the time-scarce, volatile, insecure environments of humanitarian activities are likely to inflict...

conference paper 2019

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Sustainability indicators: Monitoring cross-county water cooperation in the Nzoia river basin, Kenya

Onencan, A.M. (author), Enserink, B. (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)

Kenya Water Services Regulatory Board (WASREB) Impact Report indicates a stagnation in water coverage at 55 percent, for the last three years, contrary to the 2015 target of 80 percent. One main reason for the stagnation is weak cross-county cooperation between hydrologically interdependent governments. WASREB has little guidance on what...

journal article 2019