Flood damage cost estimation in 3D based on an indicator modelling framework

Flooding and other natural disasters pose risks to cities and residential homes, and these are set to increase in the face of climate change. Single-family residential buildings are of particular interest because they are difficult to insure and often highlight wealth discrepancies in society in the wake of natural disasters. Calculating...

Testing Code Generators against Definitional Interpreters

Large companies suffer from the increasing complexity that exist in their software systems. Evolving their software becomes even harder if we consider that a change in one system can affect several other parts of their software architecture. Especially banks that need to be always complied with regulations, have to constantly make changes in...

MAIA: A framework for developing agent-based social simulations

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...

Model driven construction and costumization of modeling and simulation web applications

Model-driven evolution of software architectures

Software evolves continuously. As a consequence, software systems tend to become increasingly complex and, as such, more difficult to change. A software system's complexity is for a large part determined by its structure, or architecture. In this thesis we investigate how to reduce the risks and costs associated with the evolution of software...