Factors Affecting the Decision-Making Process between Owner and Contractor Mining

When making a decision between conducting owner and contractor mining, it is common for the mine owner to take into consideration a number of factors to assess the suitability of either method for any particular project. This research identifies and investigates the key factors by means of literature review and questionnaires and interviews with...

Van Gogh, The other story, A culturally diverse Van Gogh Museum: A framework for a culturally diverse Van Gogh Museum

The aim of this graduation project is to research the current way youngsters, with a diverse migration background (age 18-30 and living in Amsterdam) experience the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (VGM) and to design an intervention that provides them with a relevant and enriching Van Gogh experience to thereby increase its inclusiveness. Over the...

Towards Explaining Automated Credit Decisions: The design of an Explicability Assessment Framework (EAF) for Machine Learning Systems

The use of machine learning systems has great potential to better predict probabilities of default for credit underwriting. Despite this advantage, herewith there exists the substantial risk of discrimination. Moreover, machine learning models with the highest prediction-accuracy are often the least explicable (i.e. explainable). Nonetheless,...