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Yuan, S. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Bai, Y. (author)Chemical plants face safety hazards and security threats that may induce catastrophic scenarios. Safety and security barriers are employed widely to protect chemical plants from accidental and intentional undesired events and mitigate consequences. Managing safety and security barriers effectively and economically is a research topic with...journal article 2023
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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)We present a generic methodology for developing a Health Indicator out of strain-based Structural Health Monitoring data suitable for implementation in prognostic tasks. For this purpose, an in-house test campaign is launched. Single-stringered composite panels are subjected to compression-compression fatigue with the strains being monitored...journal article 2023
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Kheybari, Siamak (author), Davoodi Monfared, Mansoor (author), Salamirad, Amirhossein (author), Rezaei, J. (author)To design a bioethanol supply chain, along with the transportation and operational costs, it is vital to consider more factors categorized into three sustainability pillars (i.e. economy, social and environment). In this paper, to develop a mathematical model for bioethanol supply chain (BSC), we propose a two-phase methodology; in the first...journal article 2023
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van Dam, Leanne (author)The aviation industry faces the challenge of reducing its climate eects. This paper aims to determine whether optimizing flight trajectories can reduce the environmental impact of aircraft during the climb and descent phases. It addresses the research gap in sustainable flight trajectory optimization by combining state-of-the-art research on...master thesis 2022
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Porta i Ko, Agustí (author)Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems benefit from a high lift airfoil to increase the power output, to that end, multi-element airfoils are investigated for AWE applications. This thesis aims to optimize a multi-element airfoil for a rigid AWE kite that operates in a pumping cycle. Since the kite has distinct operational phases, i.e., reel-out and...master thesis 2022
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van Frankenhuijzen, Timo (author)Labour shortage in the logistic sector and the poor work conditions as a baggage handler are a major and highly relevant problem for airports around the world. A solution is provided by Vanderlande Industies: a baggage loading robot. Since the efficiency of the stacking process is sufficient, operators that overlook the robot must intervene...master thesis 2022
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Ramdin, Shiv (author)Engine maintenance needs to be planned timely and strategically. This can only be done if the health of the engine can be predicted, which requires an accurate engine performance model. Developing such a model is becoming increasingly challenging, due to the reduced number of sensors in modern gas turbines. Besides this, a lot of data is...master thesis 2022
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Dann Ruiz, Nicolas (author)Healthcare systems worldwide rely heavily on the efficient allocation of caregivers in home- based care. Despite this, to this day, the majority of home healthcare (HHC) organisations plan their operations manually, an extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive task yielding sub-optimal solutions. Research efforts in the operations research ...master thesis 2022
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Lin, N.M. (author)Reservoirs have a significant role to manage fresh water resources for irrigation, hydropower generation, domestic and industrial use, flood and drought control and navigation. To date, more than 50,000 large dams have been constructed in the world for providing water-related services to our society that support socioeconomic development of many...doctoral thesis 2022
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Marang, Ruben (author)Machine learning models are increasingly being used within software engineering for their predictions. Research shows that these models’ performance is increasing with new research. This thesis focuses on models for method name prediction, for which the goal is to have a model that can accurately predict method names. With this thesis, we could...master thesis 2022
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van Eijck, Sabine (author), Nannes, Roel (author)Negotiations in urban development projects can take a long time, going back and forward to the designer many times, even leading to stalemate situations. Requirements can be set intuitively, without knowing what the side effects of the constraints will be for the urban development. On top of that, approval of all stakeholders is needed to be...master thesis 2022
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van der Spaa, Jan (author)Bicycles have an important role to play in the transition towards a more sustainable mobility. In order to achieve the modal shift towards bicycles, more must be done to accommodate cyclists. Although controlled intersections do increase the (perceived) safety of crossings with motorized vehicles, they are seen as major obstacles, and cyclists...master thesis 2022
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Roseboom, Bart (author)Cyber-physical systems are complex systems constructed from different independent parts. A self-driving car is an example of a cyber-physical system where independent parts have to come together in order to result in a car that is able to drive by itself. The main challenge is finding failures within the interactions between the independent...master thesis 2022
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Molenaar, Lennart (author)This research is about which geometry of FRP slabs is the most optimal, in terms of costs, to use for a given load and boundary conditions taking the occurring uplift bolt forces into account. The first part of the report focuses on the calculation of the uplift forces in the bolted connections caused by the moving loads. For this, first a...master thesis 2022
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Goslinga, Daan (author)The online supermarket Picnic uses the volume of groceries to pack them into totes and bags. While this generally works well, there are cases in which an article's volume fits into a designated space, but its dimensions do not. To prevent this so-called overflow, Picnic uses a maximum fill rate of 85%, which means that no tote can be filled to...master thesis 2022
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Xanthopoulos, Stavros (author)Nowadays, urban areas are exposed to various challenges such as climate change, social inequalities, and congestion. Mobility hubs present the opportunity to reshape our cities and mitigate the previously mentioned problems by contributing to a more sustainable and equitable transport system. This thesis defines mobility hubs as places where...master thesis 2022
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Tromp, Marije (author)VanillaGP is an Inductive Program Synthesis algorithm that takes a Genetic Algorithm (GA) approach by using its 3 components: selection, mutation, and crossover. Many different alternatives exist for these components and although this is not the only application of a GAs on the Program Synthesis domain, it has not been extensively evaluated what...bachelor thesis 2022
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Okoń, Michał (author)In recent months, researchers developed several new search procedures to augment the process of program synthesis. While many of them performed better than their predecessors, the proposed solutions are still far from ideal. One possible way of overcoming the shortcomings of single search methods is employing genetic algorithms, which have been...bachelor thesis 2022
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Tempelman, Philip (author)Program synthesis is used in various ways to automate repetitive tasks or to generate software automatically. Search-based program synthesis constitutes searching the space of candidate programs created from a given language. However, this form of program synthesis is very expensive in terms of computing power. By optimising the synthesiser’s...bachelor thesis 2022
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EFTHYMIOU, NIKOLAOS (author)Program Synthesis is a challenging problem in Artificial Intelligence. An important element of a program synthesizer is the objective function that guides the combinatorial search for a program that satisfies a given user intent. Given multiple I/O example transformations that correspond to the intended behavior of the program, this function...bachelor thesis 2022