- document
-
Armbrust, T.M.P. (author)An Agent Based Model is devised of the Brazilian bio-ethanol system in order to experiment with the emergence of a biokerosene supply chain within this existing market. The results show how the government blending mandate enforces a biomass competition for biofuels which means that the price of biokerosene can not reach kerosene price parity.master thesis 2014
- document
-
De Wildt, T.E. (author)Three main goals have been assigned to Dutch electricity policy: a reliable, affordable and clean electricity sector. In order to make the electricity section cleaner by decreasing GHG emissions, the SDE+ regulation has been introduced to increase the share of renewable energies in the overall electricity production. The drawback of the...master thesis 2014
- document
-
Moorlag, R. (author), Auping, W.L. (author), Pruyt, E. (author)Now that conventional gas resources are rapidly declining in many industrialised regions, national governments are considering the exploration and production of unconventional resources, with shale gas in particular. Large-scale development of these resources could significantly lower import dependency of the gas supply of many countries. The...conference paper 2014
- document
-
Moorlag, R.A.C.W.M. (author)With the decline of conventional gas resources in many industrialised regions, energy security has increasingly become a topic of interest. Fuelled by disturbed diplomatic relations, both national and regional governments have the desire to decrease their dependency on foreign nations for their gas supply. However, the energy future of these...master thesis 2014
- document
-
Harbers, M. (author), Aydogan, R. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Human teamwork can be supported by agent technology by providing each human team member with an agent that monitors, supports and advices the human. The agent can, for example, monitor the human’s workload, and share that information with (agents of) other team members so that work can be distributed effectively. However, though sharing...conference paper 2014
- document
-
Richstein, J.C. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), De Vries, L.J. (author)The recent low CO2 prices in the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) have triggered a discussion whether the EU ETS needs to be adjusted. We study the effects of CO2 price floors and a price ceiling on the dynamic investment pathway of two interlinked electricity markets (loosely based on Great Britain, which already has introduced a...journal article 2014
- document
-
Van Tongeren, S.A.E. (author)A conceptual framework is made to analyze evolving processes in socio-technical systems. Agent-based modeling is used to test the conceptual framework.master thesis 2014
- document
-
Mast, E.H.M. (author)The aim of this study is to develop a method to identify the barriers to and opportunities in the development of large-scale offshore wind energy in the Netherlands, taking into account the uncertainties of the future and consequences of decisions, from technological, economical, social, political and environmental perspectives. The research...doctoral thesis 2014
- document
-
Kisjes, K.H. (author)Continuous economic growth, ignoring the incidental recession, is currently still coupled with increases in the use of resources and generation of wastes. The European Commission (EC) is looking for ways to achieve absolute decoupling between economic growth and environmental impacts. A shift from product-based to function-based production and...master thesis 2014
- document
-
Kisjes, K.H. (author)This paper describes a simulation model for informing policies towards absolute decoupling, with a focus on the possible contribution of servicising, i.e. a shift from product-based to service-based production and consumption patterns. The model is agent-based and represents a generic artificial market that revolves around a central consumption...journal article 2014
- document
-
Simoni, M.D. (author)Charging drivers for the congestion they cause is a well-known concept among economists, traffic engineers and transport professionals. Many studies have been performed to explore and better address this issue during the history of transport economics and in recent years the first congestion pricing schemes have been finally implemented in some...master thesis 2013
- document
-
Paling, J. (author)This research presents a new way to assess the impact of location decisions for new power plants by power producers. It builds on an existing agent-based model that is able to simulate market and investment behavior of power produc- ers in a north western European electricity market (EMlab-generation). This study adds a module that is based on...master thesis 2013
- document
-
Park Lee, E. (author)The aim of this thesis is to define the specifications of an agent-based model to study the adoption and diffusion of solar PV in the Netherlands, accounting for consumer preferences and social influences. The conceptualization of the model is based on five pillars: agent-based modeling, the theory of planned behavior, choice modeling, dif-...master thesis 2013
- document
-
Verhoog, R. (author)Biogas networks can reduce CO2 emissions by replacing natural gas consumption with biogas consumption. This means that biogas production can contribute to the Dutch targets to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% and increase renewable energy production to 16% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. It is unclear how the biogas infrastructure system will...master thesis 2013
- document
-
Baharlou, E. (author), Menges, A. (author)Agent-based systems have been widely investigated in simulation and modeling. In this paper, it is proposed that agent-based systems can also be developed as generative systems, in which different aspects of performative design can be defined as separate drivers in a proper computational framework. In this manner constrained generating...conference paper 2013
- document
-
Parascho, S. (author), Baur, M. (author), Knippers, J. (author), Menges, A. (author)The performance of an architectural object is highly difficult to both define and measure in its complexity since it is integrating a constantly increasing amount of information, from concrete measurable characteristics to the subjective perception of individual users. The question arising though is how to predict the performance of a building...conference paper 2013
- document
-
Mir Mohammadi Kooshknow, S.A.R. (author)Energy is inherent part of our current life. No one can imagine living without it. It has changed the lifestyle of people and it will continue to do so in future. About 80% of current global total primary energy supply belongs to non-renewable resources. It is also expected that non-renewable resources dominate in total primary energy supply in...master thesis 2013
- document
-
Mahalingam, A. (author)Developments in the electricity system need to accommodate the pressure of steadily rising demand, advanced technology integration in addition to increasing penetration levels of renewable energy sources (RES) and distributed generation (DG). As such, European energy policy for 2020 is aimed at reducing greenhouses gases by 20%, increasing RES...master thesis 2013
- document
-
Bellinga, P.B. (author)This thesis presents an assessment of the economic and environmental effects of Extended Producer Responsibility and No Reuse Policies, by using an agent-based model of Mobile Phone End of Life Networks. Electronic waste of mobile phones is an increasing problem. Governments have reacted by adopting various types of legislation, the most common...master thesis 2013
- document
-
Bouarfa, S. (author), Blom, H.A.P. (author), Curran, R. (author), Everdij, M.H.C. (author)Purpose Commercial aviation is feasible thanks to the complex socio-technical air transportation system, which involves interactions between human operators, technical systems, and procedures. In view of the expected growth in commercial aviation, significant changes in this socio-technical system are in development both in the USA and Europe....journal article 2013