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Dujmović, Grga (author)The increasing presence of Machine Learning in all fields of study requires an improvement in how it is taught. Previous research on this topic examined how to teach ML concepts and highlighted the importance of using technology and leveraging relevant pedagogical content knowledge. It did not compare the impact of previous programming knowledge...bachelor thesis 2024
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Brouwer, Bas (author)Wind energy is deemed important in the Netherlands in sustainable energy transitions. While Commercial Wind Energy Project Developers (CWEPDs) bring professionalism, Local Energy Cooperatives (LECs) promote local renewable initiatives. The Dutch Klimaatakkoord aims for 50% community-owned renewable electricity, but real-world implementation of...master thesis 2023
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Dekkers, Mees (author)The Paris Agreement seeks to limit global temperature rise and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The UN's Sustainable Development Goal 7 emphasizes sustainable energy access, with smart grids playing a crucial role. These grids adapt to user behavior and interconnect various components. While smart grids address challenges in integrating...master thesis 2023
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van Dijk, Jolijn (author)With the increasing transition to battery electric vehicles (EVs) and concerns about the capacity of the existing electrical infrastructure, the need for effective grid capacity management has become apparent. The V2X innovation, also known as bidirectional charging, has potential to enable EVs to interact with the electricity grid for various...master thesis 2023
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Subramanian, Manjula (author)Sustainable energy transition is the need of the hour, more so, because of the accelerated effects of climate change. This necessitates rapid, continuous, and persuasive political and technological approaches to enable an ecosystem of green alternatives for countries to support their net-zero ambitions. One such emerging technology approach is...master thesis 2023
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Vasilev, Kiril (author)The data used in machine learning algorithms strongly influences the algorithms' capabilities. Feature selection techniques can choose a set of columns that meet a certain learning goal. There is a wide variety of feature selection methods, however, the ones we cover in this comparative analysis are part of the information-theoretical-based...bachelor thesis 2023
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Jansen, Nicki (author)The Dutch government has set an ambitious goal: by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands should be 49% lower than they were in 1990.But even though geothermal energy is gaining recognition given the high heating demand in the Netherlands and its subsurface potential, implementation of this technology, especially in urban areas, is...master thesis 2022
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SYMEONIDIS, DIMITRIOS (author)The effects of climate change on the global community are becoming more strongly felt every year, creating devastation on our everyday lives. To combat that, a transition to low-carbon energy carriers is being envisioned by state and private actors through pledges during climate conferences and several candidate carriers are proposed. Among...master thesis 2022
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Avé, Tondan (author)This thesis explored the contrast between the overarching category of entrepreneurship (from here on, “mainstream entrepreneurship” or ME) and the subset of technology entrepreneurship (TE) through a comparison of The Netherlands (low TE/high ME) and Japan (high TE/low ME), addressing the problem that currently no dedicated frameworks for TE...master thesis 2022
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van Wieringen, Victor (author)In this research the Metropolis-Hastings algorithmis implemented for the problem of program synthesis and compared with Brute, a best-first search, together with multiple other different search algorithms. The implementation and choices of the Metrolpolis-Hastings algorithm are discussed in detail. The algorithms are tested for three different...bachelor thesis 2022
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Struyvelt, Loïc (author)This master thesis seeks to better understand the investment valuation procedure followed by software venture capitalists (VC) in the European context. I explain how VCs perform fair value estimations of software start-ups with the emerging comparable analysis technique. Furthermore, this study examines the relative importance of start-up...master thesis 2022
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Govindaraj Ayyanar, Arjun (author)In recent years, false information on social media platforms has become a centre of attention due to its consequences on elections and public health. COVID-19 has shown how an infodemic fuelled by false information can be detrimental to public health. Existing measures are ineffective. Thus, the thesis takes an exploratory approach from the lens...master thesis 2021
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Li, Jinguo (author)Background, issues, and main research questions: Circularity (circular economy) is being developed in many countries around the world where it has been set as a development goal (Schröder et al, 2019). However, the progress in implementing circularity varies from country to country. Most of the countries that are leading in...master thesis 2021
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Mohamed Abbas Eltahir Elabbas, Mohamed (author)The situation of power system reforms in Africa displays incomplete reform steps and unfulfilled goals. The performance statistics of the power system are very low and tremendous efforts remain to be exerted to bridge the gap. Reforms in Africa were pursued with the end goal of creating an electricity market on both the national and the regional...master thesis 2021
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Alkan, Efe (author)Pseudo-random number generators are the essential part of many security protocols such as signature schemes, key-exchange protocols and encryption algorithms. The security of these protocols is usually dependent on the quality of the generators they use. The generation of unpredictable random numbers supplies refreshment to the protocols, which...bachelor thesis 2021
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Berendsen, Dan Dan (author)The use of Internet of things (IoT) devices is on the rise and given their involvement with sensitive data the security for these devices is of greater importance. As these devices are connected with the internet being able to have secure communication is crucial. Some of the major aspects for secure communication are identification and message...bachelor thesis 2021
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Adriaanse, P.E.A. (author)With the current fast paced growth in the number of devices connected to the internet, many of these having limited computational capability, security concerns are of increasing importance. To meet the necessity of providing secure encryption to constrained devices many lightweight cryptographic schemes have been developed. This paper provides a...bachelor thesis 2021
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Eckhardt, Thomas (author)Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN's) are networks of sensor that wirelessly communicate to each other. The communication of these sensors needs to be secured to prevent leaking of potentially sensitive information of the data sent between the user, gateway and sensors. For WSN's lightweight authentication, protocols have been developed in order to...bachelor thesis 2021
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de Heer, Hugo (author)MalPaCA makes use of unsupervised machine learning to provide malware capability assessment by clustering the temporal behaviour of malware network packet traces. A comparative analysis was performed on various clustering algorithms to determine the best clustering algorithm in terms of network behaviour discovery. The clustering algorithms...bachelor thesis 2021
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Grace, Veronica (author)Within the Netherlands, approximately 8.5 million tonnes of solid waste are produced annually. Being the capital city with the most populated district in the Netherlands, higher municipal solid waste accumulation in Amsterdam is in existence. A substantial portion of the municipal waste in Amsterdam is categorized as organic waste, with a...master thesis 2020