A studio based approach for business engineering and mobile services

In today's world, organizations are becoming increasingly interested in using mobile technology as a means to adapt to the ever-changing environment. An important challenge that the organizations are facing is how to efficiently and effectively support business process carried out by their mobile workers in distributed environments. In the...

Gaining insight into business networks: A simulation based support environment to improve process orchestration

In today's world, organizations are becoming increasingly interested in using business networks as a means to adapt to the ever-changing environment to increase their performance level. As a result, the focus of efforts to improve the performance of organizations has shifted from organizational level to the inter-organizational level. An...

The DSOL simulation suite: Enabling multi-formalism simulation in a distributed context

In this thesis the development of a java-based, simulation environment is presented. The core concepts are to support multiple decision makers in a distributed context with multiple continuous and discrete formalisms. The environment is named DSOL and is published under the open source LGPL licence

Actor analysis for water resources management: Putting the promise into practice

Water related problems such as floods, droughts, declining groundwater tables or polluted rivers have a major impact on numerous societies throughout the world. Despite these serious problems, policy makers seem to make scant use of the knowledge that is available with water experts. Conversely, water experts face the task of finding out how...

Railway design and maintenance from a life-cycle cost perspective: A decision-support approach

Purposive interaction in multi-actor decision making: Operationalizing Coleman's linear system of action for policy decision support

Purposive Interaction in Multi-Actor Decision Making; Operationalizing Coleman's Linear System of Action for Policy Decision Support, started out with a ball and a web, a policy domain moved by a network of actors. How can the ball maintain its pace? Who are the actors that make the difference? How can policy annalists support them in moving the...

Designing electronic intermediaries: An agent-based approach for designing interorganizational coordination mechanisms

Decision Support in Business Environments