Designing Positive AI: How optimizing for contextual wellbeing inspired a design method for artificial intelligence that promotes human flourishing

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from <i>curatorial</i> AI in YouTube to <i>generative</i> AI in ChatGPT, demonstrates both potential for progress and risks of harm. Adopting a Positive Design approach aimed at directly enhancing human wellbeing, this dissertation develops the concept of...

Countermeasures against Fault Injection Attacks in Neural Networks and Processors

Machine learning has gained a lot of recognition recently and is now being used in many important applications. However, this recognition was limited in the hardware security area. Especially, very few approaches depend on this powerful tool to detect attacks during operation. This thesis reduces this gap in the field of fault injection attack...

Effects Assessment for Targeting Decisions Support in Military Cyber Operations

Cyber Warfare is perceived as a radical shift in the nature of warfare. It can represent a real alternative next to other types of Military Operations to achieve military and/or political goals in front of adversaries. To this end, Cyber Operations use specific technologies i.e. cyber weapons/capabilities/means. With a short but intense history...

Affective Body Language of Humanoid Robots: Perception and Effects in Human Robot Interaction

Algorithms for Simple Temporal Reasoning

This dissertation describes research into new methods for automated temporal reasoning. For this purpose, several frameworks are available in literature. Chapter 1 presents a concise literature survey that provides a new overview of their interrelation. In the remainder of the dissertation, the focus is on quantitative frameworks, i.e. temporal...

Knowledge Discovery and Pavement Performance: Intelligent Data Mining

The main goal of the study was to discover knowledge from data about asphalt road pavement problems to achieve a better understanding of the behavior of them and via this understanding improve pavement quality and enhance its lifespan. Four pavement problems were chosen to be investigated; raveling of Porous Asphalt Concrete (PAC), cracking of...

Automatic Lipreading in the Dutch Language

This thesis deals with many aspects of the bimodal speech processing research. It lays out the general framework of visually enhanced speech processing computer systems together with some insight in the human speech bimodal speech perception. There are three main contributions to the field of bimodal speech processing presented in the thesis....

Computing with cables: Towards massively parallel neuro computers