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Tsaniklidis, Georgios (author)Nowadays, the high demand for road transportation often reaches a point where it exceeds the capacity of freeway traffic networks, resulting in congestion. Freeway traffic congestion is a major social problem, as it is the reason for increased time delays, higher accident risk and environmental pollution. There is, therefore, the need for a...master thesis 2023
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Villar Guardia, Amadeo (author)Due to technological breakthrough in recent decades and the rapid increase in the availability of multidimensional data, data science has become one of the most important areas of research. Within this field, modeling dependence of random variables is gaining great interest. To cope with this task, the use of graphical models is often advocated....master thesis 2022
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Delboo, Maxime (author)This thesis contains a rigorous derivation of the path integral formulation of the Isingmodel with multiple original proofs. Besides that, thesis also contains various resultsof simulations of the 2D square lattice Ising Model with nearest-neighbour interactionsusing the Swendsen-Wang algorithm. Using finite size scaling to find critical...bachelor thesis 2022
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Duan, Xiaowei (author)The inverse shortest path problem (ISPP) is a problem based on graph theory, that is to design link weights in a graph to satisfy that given paths are the shortest between the corresponding node pairs. It can be used in networks of complex systems to solve practical problems such as re-routing in transportation systems and reallocating resources...master thesis 2022
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Verduyn, Thomas (author)The need of computational power for engineering applications has been ever increasing and with classical computers approaching their physical limits, new ways of improvement have to be investigated. One of the promising solutions is quantum computing. Most engineering problems require solving a system of linear equations of higher dimensions and...master thesis 2022
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Barbera, Matteo (author)Flying-wings show great potential for a vast number of applications, in both commercial and military sectors, thanks to their long range and fast forward flight, but suffer due to their lack of vertical take-off and landing capabilities. This paper presents a proof of concept for a novel landing method for a conventional flying wing that does...master thesis 2022
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Choudhary, Shivesh (author)The growing demand for electricity and the importance of decarbonization have forced to transition from fossil fuels to sustainable sources of energy like wind and solar. Currently, the universal power mix remains dominated by fossil fuels but plans are in motion to achieve the target set for the upcoming years. It involves grid expansion and...master thesis 2022
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Machine Learning Based local Reduced Order Modeling for the prediction of Unsteady Aerodynamic LoadsCatalani, Giovanni (author)Advancements in aircraft performance require increasingly complex design processes and tools. Simulating the unsteady non-linear aerodynamic interaction between a maneuvering aircraft and the surrounding flowfield poses serious challenges. High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods, based on the numerical solution of the Navier...master thesis 2022
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van Dam, Leanne (author)The aviation industry faces the challenge of reducing its climate eects. This paper aims to determine whether optimizing flight trajectories can reduce the environmental impact of aircraft during the climb and descent phases. It addresses the research gap in sustainable flight trajectory optimization by combining state-of-the-art research on...master thesis 2022
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Porta i Ko, Agustí (author)Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems benefit from a high lift airfoil to increase the power output, to that end, multi-element airfoils are investigated for AWE applications. This thesis aims to optimize a multi-element airfoil for a rigid AWE kite that operates in a pumping cycle. Since the kite has distinct operational phases, i.e., reel-out and...master thesis 2022
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van Frankenhuijzen, Timo (author)Labour shortage in the logistic sector and the poor work conditions as a baggage handler are a major and highly relevant problem for airports around the world. A solution is provided by Vanderlande Industies: a baggage loading robot. Since the efficiency of the stacking process is sufficient, operators that overlook the robot must intervene...master thesis 2022
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Hoogenboom, Iwan (author)Solutions to many real-life optimization problems take a long time to evaluate. This limits the number of solutions we can evaluate. When optimizing with an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) a frequently used approach is to approximate the objective using a surrogate function, replacing the time-consuming real evaluation. This surrogate model is...master thesis 2022
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Ramdin, Shiv (author)Engine maintenance needs to be planned timely and strategically. This can only be done if the health of the engine can be predicted, which requires an accurate engine performance model. Developing such a model is becoming increasingly challenging, due to the reduced number of sensors in modern gas turbines. Besides this, a lot of data is...master thesis 2022
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Dann Ruiz, Nicolas (author)Healthcare systems worldwide rely heavily on the efficient allocation of caregivers in home- based care. Despite this, to this day, the majority of home healthcare (HHC) organisations plan their operations manually, an extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive task yielding sub-optimal solutions. Research efforts in the operations research ...master thesis 2022
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de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, Aymar (author)Vehicle routing problems have been studied for more than 50 years, and their in- terest has never been higher. It is partly due to their significant economic impact. Decreasing the traveling time, certainly for big organizations, can save costs in the range of millions of dollars and increase their service quality. Moreover, the wide variety of...master thesis 2022
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Everse, Luc (author)Neural networks (NNs) have, in recent years, become a major part of modern pattern recognition, and both theoretical and applied research evolve at an astounding pace. NNs are usually trained via gradient descent (GD), but research has shown that GD is not always capable of training very small networks. As a result, networks trained via GD are...master thesis 2022
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Morssink, Wouter (author)Designing golf course routings is a challenging problem as a golf course should obey the golf course regulation, be safe to play by having enough room between the holes and be diverse and challenging to the golf players. A potential exact solution can come in the form of a constraint programming model, in which solvers take care of the...master thesis 2022
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Marang, Ruben (author)Machine learning models are increasingly being used within software engineering for their predictions. Research shows that these models’ performance is increasing with new research. This thesis focuses on models for method name prediction, for which the goal is to have a model that can accurately predict method names. With this thesis, we could...master thesis 2022
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van Eijck, Sabine (author), Nannes, Roel (author)Negotiations in urban development projects can take a long time, going back and forward to the designer many times, even leading to stalemate situations. Requirements can be set intuitively, without knowing what the side effects of the constraints will be for the urban development. On top of that, approval of all stakeholders is needed to be...master thesis 2022