Designing a locomotive device driven by a shape memory alloy composite: a mimicry of the caterpillar movement

The materials we encounter in our every day lives already extend beyond the traditional materials of wood, metal, ceramics and glass. The characteristics and behavior of materials and material composites are continuously being tweaked. The introduction of new materials that can respond to inputs from the environment has brought about a new...

A model driven IDE for M-industries’ Alan

While software is becoming increasingly important in our world, software development is also advancing with an increasing pace. One of the reasons is the increase in available information, which triggered the birth of a new programming paradigm: Model Driven Development (henceforth MDD). Though this can shorten the development time and make it...

Application of seismic interferometry by Multidimensional Deconvolution to USArray data

Seismic interferometry by crosscorrelation has found wide application over the last decade. With which, the Green’s function is retrieved between two receiver positions. Because the bulk of the ambient seismic field consists of surface wave energy, most applications in seismology utilize the surface wave part of the Green’s function. The correct...

Surface-wave retrieval using Seismic Interferometry by multi-dimensional deconvolution

In this thesis, seismic interferometry by multi dimensional deconvolution is used to retrieve the surface-wave response from a virtual source to a receiver by using the observations due to, often passive, noise sources located elsewhere. The virtual source response is used to retrieve the phase velocity, a property used for shallow subsurface...

A Selection Method for Model-Driven Development Tools

This thesis project helps Logica adopt Model-Driven Development in an efficient way. A Modeling Tool Selection Method is constructed that helps selecting a Model-Driven Development tool at the start of an embedded system engineering project. This Modeling Tool Selection Method helps software engineers to decide when to use which Model-Driven...

An Enterprise Ontology based approach to Model-Driven Engineering

Because of the lack of a significant increase of productivity in the last 20 years we are still in a huge need for increasing the return a company derives from its software development effort. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) aims to raise the level of abstraction in application modeling and increase automation in application development, thereby...