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Misteli, Phil (author)A refactoring is a program transformation that improves the design of the source code, while preserving its behavior. Most modern IDEs offer a number of automated refactorings as editor services. The Rename refactoring is the most-commonly applied refactoring and is used to change the identifier of a program entity such as a variable, a function...master thesis 2021
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Bot, Bernard (author)Compilers translate high-level source code into low-level machine code. To represent source code a compiler uses a language called the intermediate representation (IR). An IR for the compilation of functional languages is continuation-passing style (CPS). It provides convenient abstractions for both data flow and control flow. However, CPS...master thesis 2021
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Zwaan, Aron (author)Static Analysis is of indispensable value for the robustness of software systems and the efficiency of developers. Moreover, many modern-day software systems are composed of interacting subsystems written in different programming languages. However, in most cases no static validation of these interactions is applied. In this thesis, we identify...master thesis 2021
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Smith, Thomas (author)Stream processing has taken a prominent position in the software engineering industry. Many applications, from a small to large scale, embrace this paradigm to deal with the difficulties of responding to events that happen asynchronously: programmers define "operators" that perform small, independent tasks on individual events. These operators...master thesis 2020
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Wang, Zina (author)Relation extraction has been considered as one of the most popular topics nowadays, thanks for its common application in knowledge graph, machine reading and other artificial intelligence sub-field. However, this field has long been suffered from data hunger. Annotating large high-quality datasets for relation extraction is troublesome and time...master thesis 2020
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Stuyt, Mae-Ling (author)What is the future of urban industrial land? This is a challenge urban design and planning field has only just started to undertake. Currently, the differentiation between the urban core as the front stage zone for human residence and entertainment versus the rural periphery as the backstage zone for production, logistics and energy harvesting...master thesis 2020
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Kaptein, Lionel (author)Many grand challenges like climate change or health security cannot be solved by only the policymakers. Support and expertise of citizens is needed to solve these challenges (Gerton & Mitchell, 2019). Due to the demand for public participation, Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) fulfils the needs of involving many participants in a...master thesis 2020
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Ómarsdóttir, Þórunn (author)In this thesis, we study automatically generating explanatory reports for anomalous incidents in a train control system (TCS) using Natural Language Generation (NLG). A TCS is a type of safety-critical software that allows train controllers to correctly set the tracks for a train to pass. The goal of this research is to process the majority of...master thesis 2020
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Kumar, Paras (author)With the rapid growth of unstructured data across different mediums, it exposes new challenges for its analysis. To overcome this, data processing pipelines are designed with the help of different tools and technologies for the analysis of data at different stages. One of the applications which we find useful for our company is the creation of...master thesis 2020
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Folmer, Martijn (author)Programming robots with verbal commands is limited by the capabilities of the utilized natural language parser. A simple natural language parser which can understand only keywords and small phrases may be easy to use, but limited in what it can interpret and convey. Alternatively, a natural language parser which understands more complex commands...master thesis 2020
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van der Hout, J.R.T.E. (author)Image2Speech is the relatively new task of generating a spoken description of an image. Similar to Automatic Image Captioning, it is a task focused on describing images, however it avoids the usage of textual resources. An Image2Speech system produces a sequences of phonemes instead of (written) words which makes the Image2Speech task applicable...master thesis 2020
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Gamvrinos, S. (author)Code duplication is a form of technical debt frequently observed in software systems. Its existence negatively affects the maintainability of a system in numerous ways. In order to tackle the issues that come with it, various automated clone detection techniques have been proposed throughout the years. However, the vast majority of them operate...master thesis 2020
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Mazza, Maria Chiara (author)Anxiety is one of the most widespread and dangerous mental health disorders in developed and underdeveoped countries, affecting a wide number of college students all over the world. If not correctly treated in time, it might procure irreparable damages in people’s life, leading to drastic consequenses such as depression and suicidal intentions....master thesis 2020
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ter Haar Romenij, Jeroen (author)A significant portion of academic graduates have difficulty finding a first job after graduation. Research shows that the expectations of academic graduate job seekers and employers do not align and this graduation project confirms that job seekers and employers do not speak the same language. On the one hand, job seekers do not seem very able...master thesis 2020
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Lanting, Volker (author)The Spoofax Testing Language (SPT) is the existing solution for testing in the Spoofax language workbench. It allows developers of domain specific languages to write their test cases declaratively. As it aims to be implementation agnostic, developers don't need to concern themselves with the details of the artifacts generated by Spoofax, and can...master thesis 2020
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de Bode, Marieke (author)Due to its global economic attractive power, London is growing as never before. And although the divided and global city strives to develop towards more inclusivity in the city, the growth, revitalisation, redevelopment and renewal in London currently takes forms of exclusive urban development, better known as gentrification. This gentrification...master thesis 2020
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Salmi, Salim (author)STUDY OBJECTIVE: Suicide crisis chat counsellors work in an environment which de- mands high emotional and cognitive awareness. A shared opinion among counsellors is that as the chat conversation turns more difficult it takes longer and more effort to come up with a response. Supportive technology might resolve this ”writer’s block” by giving...master thesis 2019
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Rovers, Tim (author)This master thesis explores to what degree information about a company's commitment to privacy can be extracted from a privacy statement. To do this, firstly a new database of more than 1500 privacy statements is created using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Next, 72 different aspects related to privacy of the statements are enumerated by using natural...master thesis 2019
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Manousogiannis, Manolis (author)Online social networks have revolutionized the way people interact with each other nowadays. Users often share their experiences in various health - related topics like disease symptoms, drug treatments and other medical related issues in order to discuss with other patients dealing with similar conditions. During the production of a new drug,...master thesis 2019
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Oudkerk, Thijs (author)Unplanned maintenance is a costly factor in aircraft operations. Predictive Maintenance aims at reducing the surprise effect of unplanned maintenance and thereby its associated cost. A variety of statistical models are used to estimate the remaining life, as well as sensors to gauge component condition. The application to statistical models of...master thesis 2019