Integrating Sustainability into Marine Infrastructure Projects: Designing a Success Factor Model for Contracting Organizations

Already back in 1970s, the Club of Rome concluded that the world would become unliveable for future generations, if population growth and industrialization keep up the same speed (Silvius, Schipper, & Planko, 2012). Despite this, today’s industrialization can not only be observed on land, but also increasingly in the marine environment. The ...

Beyond Explicit Reports: Comparing Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Underlying Dimensions of Music Preference

Prior research from the field of music psychology has suggested that there are factors common to music preference beyond individual genres. Specifically, research has shown that self-reported ratings of preference for individual musical genres can be reduced to 4 or 5 dimensions, which in turn have been shown to correlate to relevant...

Advanced Factorization Models for Recommender Systems

Recommender Systems have become a crucial tool to serve personalized content and to promote online products and media, but also to recommend restaurants, events, news and dating profiles. The underlying algorithms have a significant impact on the quality of recommendations and have been the subject of many studies in the last two decades. In...

Modelling Counterparty Credit Exposure under the risk-neutral measure

Three interest rate models are researched: Displaced Exponential-Vasicek, Hull-White one factor and Hull-White two factors with time-dependent volatility parameters. The motivation for this is two-fold: firstly, we would like to understand how the capital calculations would be impacted when yield curves are modelled under the three different...