Sustainable Supply Chain of Roses from East-Africa

Design and Evaluation of a Conversational Agent Model based on Stance and BDI providing Situated Learning for Triage-Psychologists in the Helpline of 113 Suicide Prevention

Objective: This thesis aided the 113 Suicide Prevention (113), the national suicide prevention center for The Netherlands, by investigating technical solutions for the helpline, implementing an e-learning prototype housing six suicidal personas within a conversational agent model, and evaluating and analyzing an experiment on its effect, which...

Synchronization of networked oscillators under nonlinear integral coupling

In this paper, we consider synchronization of dynamical systems interconnected via nonlinear integral coupling. Integral coupling allows one to achieve synchronization with lower interaction levels (coupling gains) than with linear coupling. Previous results on this topic were obtained for synchronization of several systems with all-to-all...

Optimization of the capacity of a rose sorting system using discrete event simulation

In Rose cultivation companies in the Netherlands, there is a demand for a higher sorting capacity on the existing sorting systems. The objective for this research is to advice which part of the sorting system needs to be adjusted to gain a higher sorting capacity. For the current sorting systems, five bottlenecks are defined, the bottlenecks...