The Development of Public Library Design in the Netherlands; a Case Study on Forum Groningen

It was thought that because of the rise of the digital age, public libraries would eventually go extinct. However, research shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Visitor numbers are rising each year and new libraries are opened. There has been a change in the typology of public libraries that ensures the important role the library...

MOOC-Rec: Instructional Video Clip Recommendation for MOOC Forum Questions

In this work, we address the information overload issue that learners in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) face when attempting to close their knowledge gaps via the use of MOOC discussion forums. To this end, we investigate the recommendation of one-minute-resolution video clips given the textual similarity between the clips’ transcripts...

Measuring Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS) Offerings in a Cybercrime Forum

The emergence of Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) is a critical evolution in the cybercrime landscape. A key area of research on CaaS is where and how the supply of CaaS is being matched with demand. Next to underground marketplaces and custom websites, cybercrime forums provide an important channel for CaaS suppliers to attract customers. Our...

Competing Standard-Setting Organizations: A Choice Experiment

Standard-setting organizations (SSOs) establish goal-directed networks for innovators to jointly shape technology and markets through standards. The degree to which this can succeed depends to a large extent on network characteristics, which may differ substantially between SSOs. Many technological fields face intense competition between SSOs....

Manhattan Forum: Architecture and Democracy in the Valley of Giants

As the city of New York densifies, the post-democratic state grows its roots deeper into the bedrock. 90% of buildings in Manhattan are built without public review, and outdated zoning laws no longer protect the city's public assets, alienating the public and further widening the gap between rich and poor. The Manhattan Forum is a public/private...

The single-cell eQTLGen consortium

In recent years, functional genomics approaches combining genetic information with bulk RNA-sequencing data have identified the downstream expression effects of disease-associated genetic risk factors through so-called expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analysis. Single-cell RNA-sequencing creates enormous opportunities for mapping...

Satisfying Urban Thirst: Towards a water sensitive and inclusive urban ecosystem through the metabolism of Cape Town

In 2018 Cape Town faced the threat of becoming the first city in modern age to run out of drinking water and reach Day Zero, the day when due to a 3-year long drought the city’s taps are switched off and residents are compelled to fetch their daily 25 liters of water from communal taps. This time the city successfully managed to avoid the...

Piggyback Politics: Merging civic encounters with an infrastructural commodity

Ever since the Dutch gained universal voting rights in 1919, the way we participate in our politics (understood as an extension of everyday interactions between people) has hardly changed even when everything we know has been altered drastically. In the same time frame, information technologies have evolved from paper-based media to their latest...

World Urban Forum: Education for the City We Need: Teaching the New Urban Agenda

Launching of TU DELFT Urban Thinkers Report Education for the City We Need: Integrating the New Urban Agenda in Higher Education Curriculums. World Urban Forum 9, Kuala Lumpur, 7-13 February 2018. <br/><br/>Now that the New Urban Agenda has been enacted, the question on everybody’s lips is: HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT? In order to be able to implement...

Social presence in massive open online courses

The capacity to foster interpersonal interactions in massive open online courses (MOOCs) has frequently been contested, particularly when learner interactions are limited to MOOC forums. The establishment of social presence-a perceived sense of somebody being present and "real"-is among the strategies to tackle the challenges of online...

FORUM-Creating Centrality for Alamar by Promoting Self-Employment

The research area-Alamar, a satellite city to the east of Havana, Cuba, is investigated in social, economic and social scopes, as well as spatial character. <br/>A large-scale interventions is proposed—“FORUM”, operating at the scale of community infrastructure, providing a pilot building and a new spatial order for urban center where learning...

Deconstructing Rotterdam's modern city centre

In the 20th century, the Dutch city of Rotterdam was radically transformed from a historic town into a modern city, becoming the selfacclaimed 'city of architecture', home to international architectural design offices, publishers and institutions. Although it is already 60 years after the destruction of the Rotterdam inner city, the city still...

Debate Forum: A House for Social Issues for Brussels, the Capital City (Urban Intervention and Architectural Design Proposal)

Behind the scenes: Media industry stakeholders collaborating towards sustainability

The aim of this research is to discover ways that multi-stakeholder platforms for collaboration can be instrumental in the efforts of the media industry to achieve compliance with strategic sustainability and enhance its practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. Industries have gained awareness of their responsibilities towards environmental...

A scientific evaluation of telecom industry standards: Using enterprise ontology and the identification of business components

Alcatel-Lucent Switzerland (ALU) manages the networks of major telecommunication service providers. The extent of these insourced telecom services is described in a Service Level Agreement. It it essential for ALU to comply with the agreed service level, since violation will result in severe penalties. As of this moment, ALU's service desk...

International Fatigue Risk Management Forum: Safety Promotion and Feedback in FRMS

Chapter 8: International Fatigue Risk Management Forum - Safety Promotion and Feedback in FRMS The European Commission HILAS project (Human Integration into the Lifecycle of Aviation Systems - a project supported by the European Commission’s 6th Framework between 2005-2009) was focused on using human factors knowledge and methodology to address...