Modeling Socio-technical Systems with AgentSpring

AgentSpring is a new agent-based modeling framework especially suited to model and simulate complex socio-technical systems, such as energy markets or transport infrastructures. Common problems encountered when modeling and analyzing such systems are how to represent the variety of facts that describe the system and how to allow agents to make...

Improving international relations conferences through virtual interactions: Embodying a multi-agent Z specification framework

This study investigates virtual interactions in distributed collaboration, with the aim to improve international relations conferences through virtual interactions. This is done by addressing the problems and issues of operation, context and strategy that frequently affect international relations conferences, while preserving conference...

Understanding Business Model Innovation Pattern of Small and Medium Enterprises: Analyzing the Changes in Business Model and Operational Area in Response to Firm's External and Internal Factors- A Case Survey Research

The EU Innovation Union identified that innovations are needed to boost economic growth performance, where SMEs are considered vital for these goals. To achieve this, business model innovation (BMI) is identified as the new area to innovate and also source of future competitive advantage. Furthermore, business model changes as a form of...

Understanding the Base of the Pyramid: Inclusive Innovation Context Analysis Framework

Around 4 billion people are currently living below income of $3000 a year, constituting the largest and poorest socio-economic group in the world. This group of people, termed as the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), can be a lucrative market for innovative companies due to its massive size when targeted with innovative products and appropriate...

Developing a servitization framework - helping capital equipment manufacturers develop a sustainable and healthy business through services

This research presents a servitization framework that can provide capital equipment manufacturers a helpfull tool for developing a sustainable and healthy business through services.

Reconfiguring supply chains over the product life cycle: An exploratory study

Product lifecycles are becoming increasingly short in several industries. This has implications on the way companies are able to organize and adapt their operations. This thesis explores how supply chains can be reconfigured to adapt to such changes over the product life cycle. The main research questions are defined as: 1. What are the...

Combining backcasting and value focused thinking to develop pathways towards a sustainable system: The case of the water system on the Isle of San Andres

The utilization of the abundant renewables energy potential in Small Islands is vital in the near future to safeguard the access towards affordable and sufficient water. Growing population, rising tourism numbers and higher welfare causes an enlarging water demand. Meanwhile climate change, the el Nino/la Nina effect and the depletion of the...

The Simulation-based Multi-objective Evolutionary OptimizatioN (SIMEON) Framework

A powerful combination of simulation and optimization has been successfully applied to solve real-world decision making problems (Fu et al., 2000; Fu, Glover, & April, 2005). Unfortunately, there are scientific and application problems with this method. Firstly, there is no transparent and formal structure to define the integration between...

Developing a business opportunity assessment framework: The case of the Prodrive Automated Electrical Tester

A framework to assess business opportunities is being developed in this document. The framework is designed to solve the problem that the decision of managers to exploit a certain technology by means of a certain strategy is often based upon a feeling rather than a set of rational criteria. Therefore these decisions are hard to codify, discuss...

Business ecosystems governance: A framework for tackling complex systems

This document is the final Master Thesis Dissertation of Alexios Pagkozidis during academic year 2011-2013. It describes the findings of the research related to Business Ecosystem Innovation Governance for Smart Living platforms. The research was done with collaboration of Delft University of Technology and TP Vision B.V.. This work is part of...

Acceptance of Operational Business Intelligence in Organisations - Developing a framework describing the context and powers at play involved in achieving OpBI acceptance in organisations

Operational Business Intelligence systems have a great potential for organisations make use of to differentiate themselves. This research aims to find factors that influence the acceptance of such a system in an organisational context. Special attention is given to the several perspectives of the involved stakeholders. Through a literature...

The development and functionality of resources

With 20.000 signatures on the petition against shale gas, it can be stated that there are resistances towards the development of shale gas in the Netherlands (Schaliegasvrij Nederland, n.d.) Many people fear that in the Netherlands the same negative effects concerning the exploration of shale gas can occur as in the U.S. Though, it may be...