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Hessels, T.M. (author), Davids, Jeffrey C. (author), Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author)Strategic planning of water management at the river-basin scale requires (1) measurement and accounting of individual hydrological processes, (2) quantification of water resources, and (3) their optimal allocation. Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO) is an open-access parameterization enabling automated reporting of water...journal article 2022
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Knorringa, Jair (author)Carbon accounting in the financial sector has experienced a rapid growth over the last years. Both private and public institutions have focused their attention on the role the financial sector can play in accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy. More than 80% of the financial institutions worldwide acknowledge the importance of GHG...master thesis 2021
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Simons, G.W.H. (author)Downstream reuse of previously withdrawn water resources is a common phenomenon across river basins worldwide, particularly those with (semi-)arid climate conditions and intensive water resources development. Water reuse often occurs unplanned, remains undetected, and as a result is insufficiently considered in water saving attempts, water...doctoral thesis 2021
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Tegtmeier, Kaja (author)Most nations have agreed to limit the emission of greenhouse gases within the Paris Agreement. The agreement relies on the assumption that all participating nations have accurate means of estimating carbon emissions and offsets accurately. However, global carbon emission accounting methodologies lack accuracy in approach and required carbon...master thesis 2021
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Dixit, Kratagya (author)This thesis is for Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Customers who are interested in paying Just Prices, and who would like to understand what the origin of the concept is, how it differs from the 'fair price', and how a Just Price could be reached in practice. This thesis is forward-looking rather than backward-looking. It will lead to...master thesis 2021
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Arous, Ines (author), Dolamic, Ljiljana (author), Yang, J. (author), Bhardwaj, Akansha (author), Cuccu, Giuseppe (author), Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (author)Explainability is a key requirement for text classification in many application domains ranging from sentiment analysis to medical diagnosis or legal reviews. Existing methods often rely on "attention" mechanisms for explaining classification results by estimating the relative importance of input units. However, recent studies have shown that...conference paper 2021
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ten Caat, P.N. (author), Graamans, L.J.A. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)The municipality of Amsterdam has set stringent carbon emission reduction targets: 55% by 2030 and 95% by 2050 for the entire metropolitan area. One of the key strategies to achieve these goals entails a disconnection of all households from the natural gas supply by 2040 and connecting them to the existing city-wide heat grid. This paper aims to...journal article 2021
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Verdiesen, E.P. (author), Aler Tubella, Andrea (author), Dignum, M.V. (author)Accountability is a value often mentioned in the debate on intelligent systems and their increased pervasiveness in our society. When focusing specifically on autonomous systems, a critical gap emerges: although there is much work on governance and attribution of accountability, there is a significant lack of methods for the operationalisation...journal article 2021
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Nasrulin, B. (author), Pouwelse, J.A. (author)Decentralized systems offer alternatives to Big Tech. However, maintaining availability and correctness despite faults and manipulations in decentralized settings is challenging. In this paper, we introduce a collaborative model that is capable of exposing all observable lying, all cheating, and all faults, while only requiring merely...conference paper 2021
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Niemann, L.H.H. (author), Hoppe, T. (author)Since the 1990s, many countries have witnessed the emergence of organizations publishing environmental, social, and quality-of-life indicators at a city level in order to promote public aware-ness, democratic participation, and sustainability policies. Many such initiatives are short-lived, however, and reasons for their success and failure...journal article 2021
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Santoni De Sio, F. (author), Mecacci, Giulio (author)The notion of “responsibility gap” with artificial intelligence (AI) was originally introduced in the philosophical debate to indicate the concern that “learning automata” may make more difficult or impossible to attribute moral culpability to persons for untoward events. Building on literature in moral and legal philosophy, and ethics of...journal article 2021
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de Vos, M.A. (author), Pouwelse, J.A. (author)“Big Tech” companies provide digital services used by billions of people. Recent developments, however, have shown that these companies often abuse their unprecedented market dominance for selfish interests. Meanwhile, decentralized applications without central authority are gaining traction. Decentralized applications critically depend on...journal article 2021
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Liu, Yubo (author), Zhang, Chi (author), Tang, Qiuhong (author), Hosseini-Moghari, Seyed Mohammad (author), Haile, Gebremedhin Gebremeskel (author), Li, Laifang (author), Li, Wenhong (author), Yang, Kun (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author), Chen, Deliang (author)Rainfall is one of the most influential climatic factors on regional development and environment, and changes in rainfall intensity are of specific concern. In the Huaihe River Valley (HRV), heavy rainfall is a primary trigger of floods. However, the difference in the origin of moisture contributed to heavy rainfall and light rainfall is...journal article 2021
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Bichler, Tobias (author)Global plastic production increased from 200 million metric tons in 2002, to 359 million metric tons in 2019. It is estimated that plastics in the marine environment weigh more than 150 million metric tons and by 2050 could even outweigh the mass of fish in the ocean. Over half of the world population (55%) nowadays lives in urban areas and...master thesis 2020
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Hoogerbrugge, Coen (author)One of the tools that is being equipped in the fight against global warming is greenhouse gas accounting. This thesis studies what factors standard setters can use to influence the probability of widespread adoption for a newly proposed standardized measurement and calculation methodology for corporate greenhouse gas inventories. A theoretical...master thesis 2020
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Stannat, Alexander (author)Online P2P file sharing networks rely on the cooperation of participants to function effectively. Agents upand download files to one another without the need for any central authority. If agents all contribute to the network and share roughly the same amounts of data as they contribute the network will operate, however if some agents decide to...master thesis 2020
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Jenkins, A.J. (author), Keeffe, Greg (author), Martin, C.L. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Broersma, S. (author), Pulselli, Riccardo (author)The natural ecotone between people, community and carbon reduction is the zero-carbon community. Over recent decades, the design of zero-carbon communities has focussed too greatly on carbon emissions and not enough on building communities. Anthropogenic climate change is a human problem, yet people are seldom placed at the centre of design...conference paper 2020
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Escalante, Hugo Jair (author), Kaya, Heysem (author), Ali Salah, Albert (author), Escalera, Sergio (author), Güç;lütürk, Yağmur (author), Güçlü, Umut (author), Baro, Xavier (author), Sukma Wicaksana, Achmadnoer (author), Liem, C.C.S. (author)Explainability and interpretability are two critical aspects of decision support systems. Despite their importance, it is only recently that researchers are starting to explore these aspects. This paper provides an introduction to explainability and interpretability in the context of apparent personality recognition. To the best of our...journal article 2020