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Koning, Robbert (author)Recent years have seen an increasing interest in stablecoins from major corporate and governmental parties. The European Central Bank is investigating the possibility of introducing its own Central Bank Digital Currency. The desired features of such a currency are under discussion. One such feature is offline spending: the ability to use the...master thesis 2023
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Ahmad, J.I. (author)Drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) are intended to supply hygienically safe and biostable water for human consumption. To supply aesthetically pleasant drinking water at the customers tap, water treatment and supply requires energy for production and distribution purposes (e.g. overall between 0.47 kWh/m<sup>3</sup> in the Netherlands)....doctoral thesis 2022
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Eijsvogel, Nienke (author)Containerization, a lightweight form of virtualization, increasingly became more popular in the last decade. Containers can offer a level of isolation and privacy to the user, which are not always sought after. High performance computing workloads benefit from having a custom container filesystem, but would suffer from any overhead incurred by...master thesis 2022
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van der Sande, Robin (author)With the increasing appearance of DC loads and DC sources in the MVAC distribution grids, the need for DC power systems is getting more and more pronounced. As a result, the MMC has become a promising and innovative technology that can serve as the interface between a DC and AC network. The MMC-based MVDC distribution link is one of the...master thesis 2022
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Provó Kluit, Mark (author)Largescale machine learning frameworks can accelerate training of a neural network by per forming distributed training on a cluster using multiple GPUs per node and multiple nodes. Because distributed training on a cluster involves many nodes which need to communicate and load and exchange data, a machine learning framework may at certain...master thesis 2022
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Habib, Benjamin (author)Whereas in the past, Distribution Systems played a passive role in connecting customers to electricity, Distribution System Operators (DSOs) will have to take in the future a more active role in monitoring and regulating the network to deal with the new behaviors and dynamics of the system brought by the energy transition. State Estimation, a...master thesis 2022
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van Meerten, Martijn (author)Distributed concurrency bugs (DC bugs) are bugs that are triggered by a specific order of events in distributed systems. Traditional model checkers systematically or randomly test interleavings but suffer from the state-space explosion in long executions. This thesis presents DiscoTest, a testing tool for DC bugs in blockchain consensus...master thesis 2022
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Shen, Yu (author)Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising solution to the blockchain scalability problem. They move payments off-chain, i.e., not all payments have to be included in the blockchain. Thus, they do not require that every payment is broadcast to all participants and verified by them. Not requiring global consensus reduces latency, computation...master thesis 2022
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Breugelmans, Thom (author)Increasing digitalisation of society due to technical advancement has increased the appearance and size of cyber- physical systems. These systems require real-time reliable control, which comes with its challenges. These systems need reliable communication despite the presence of attacks or faulty processes and bad connections, which can disrupt...bachelor thesis 2022
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Sluijk, Dany (author)In this paper we will consider the Byzantine Reliable Broadcast problem on partially connected net- works. We introduce an routing algorithm for networks with a known topology. It will show that when this is combined with cryptographic signatures, we can use the routing algorithm to create an optimal amount of messages. We will introduce a few...bachelor thesis 2022
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Koper,ook geschreven Jansen, Wybe (author)As the world continues to embrace cloud computing, more applications are being scaled elastically. Elastic scaling allows applications to add or remove computing resources based on the load experienced by the application. When the load is high more resources are provisioned enabling the application to keep up with the load. When the load is low...master thesis 2022
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Piao, L. (author)Direct current distribution systems (DCDS) are a promising alternative to alternating current (AC) systems because they remove AC--DC conversion between sources and loads that cause energy losses. Compared to AC systems, a DCDS has higher power capacity, energy efficiency and reliability, and no need for synchronisation---suitable where a large...doctoral thesis 2022
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Hendrikx, Roemer (author)In the past 8 years, Bitcoin has dominated the cryptocurrency markets and drawn attention from academia, developers and legislators alike. Bitcoin has been praised for its impact on decentralizing trust and currencies but also criticized for its volatility and energy-inefficient consensus mechanism. To improve its limitations, in 2016, payment...master thesis 2022
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Vergara Barrios, P.P. (author), Salazar, Mauricio (author), Giraldo, Juan S. (author), Palensky, P. (author)In this paper, a Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approach to optimally dispatch PV inverters in unbalanced distribution systems is presented. The proposed approach exploits a decentralized architecture in which PV inverters are operated by agents that perform all computational processes locally; while communicating with a central agent to...journal article 2022
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Moradi Sepahvand, M. (author), Amraee, Turaj (author), Aminifar, Farrokh (author), Akbari, Amirhossein (author)Integration of smart grid technologies in distribution systems, particularly behind-the-meter initiatives, has a direct impact on transmission network planning. This paper develops a coordinated expansion planning of transmission and active distribution systems via a stochastic multistage mathematical programming model. In the transmission level...journal article 2022
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Nibhanupudi, S.S. (author), Ishchenko, Anton (author), Tindemans, Simon H. (author), Palensky, P. (author)Transition from fossil fuels to sustainable sources of energy like wind and solar is the need of the hour. All over the globe, plans are in motion to achieve this goal. This implies addition of new elements to the grid in the form of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). These affect the working of distribution grids and to ensure reliable as...conference paper 2022
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Li, Jun (author), Ren, Anran (author), van der Mark, Ed (author), Liu, G. (author)Drinking water quality deteriorates from treatment plant to customer taps, especially in the plumbing system. There is no direct evidence about what the differences are contributed by plumbing system. This study compared the water quality in the water main and at customer tap by preparing a sampling tap on the water main. The biomass was...journal article 2022
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Chen, L. (author), Li, Xuan (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Liu, G. (author)The aperiodic changes in the quantity and community of planktonic and particle-associated bacteria have hampered the understanding and management of microbiological water quality in drinking water distribution systems. In this study, online sampling was combined with the microbial fingerprint-based SourceTracker2 to capture and trace the...journal article 2022
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Garzón Díaz, J.A. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Taormina, R. (author)Surrogate models replace computationally expensive simulations of physically-based models to obtain accurate results at a fraction of the time. These surrogate models, also known as metamodels, have been employed for analysis, control, and optimization of water distribution and urban drainage systems. With the advent of machine learning (ML),...review 2022
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Jarne Ornia, D. (author), Mazo, M. (author)We present an approach to reduce the communication of information needed on a Distributed Q-Learning system inspired by Event Triggered Control (ETC) techniques. We consider a baseline scenario of a Distributed Q-Learning problem on a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Following an event-based approach, N agents sharing a value function explore the...conference paper 2022