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Anand, Nilesh (author), van Duin, Ron (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author)Efficiency of city logistics activities suffers due to conflicting personal preferences and distributed decision making by multiple city logistics stakeholders. This is exacerbated by interdependency of city logistics activities, decision making with limited information and stakeholders’ preference for personal objectives over system efficiency....journal article 2016
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Bhagwat, P.C. (author), Richstein, J.C. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), De Vries, Laurens (author)To ensure sufficient investment in electricity generation capacity, mechanisms such as strategic reserves are being considered or already implemented. We analyze the effectiveness of a strategic reserve in the presence of a growing portfolio share of renewable energy sources (RES) with EMLab-Generation, an agent-based electricity market model...journal article 2016
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Scharpff, J.C.D. (author), Roijers, Diederik M. (author), Oliehoek, F.A. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), de Weerdt, M.M. (author)In cooperative multi-agent sequential decision making under uncertainty, agents must coordinate to find an optimal joint policy that maximises joint value. Typical algorithms exploit additive structure in the value function, but in the fully-observable multi-agent MDP (MMDP) setting such structure is not present. We propose a new optimal solver...conference paper 2016
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Passenier, D (author), Mols, C (author), Bim, J (author), Sharpanskykh, Alexei (author)Safety culture is often understood as encompassing organizational members’ shared attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values associated with safety. Safety culture theory development is fraught with inconsistencies and superficiality of measurement methods, because the dynamic and political nature of culture is often ignored. Traditionally,...journal article 2016
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Sharpanskykh, Alexei (author), Haest, R (author)According to aviation statistics, most of the safety occurrences<br/>happen not in the air, but on the ground. Management of airlines and airports<br/>often consider failures to comply with safety-related regulations as important<br/>contributors to safety occurrences. To address the issue of compliance,<br/>approaches based on external...journal article 2016
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Peeters, M.M.M. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)As intelligent technology steadily becomes a part of modern societies, people collaborate with agents more frequently, and so agents need to be socially intelligent, i.e. personalised and context-sensitive. This paper introduces a context-sen-sitive personalisation framework for social agents that fa-<br/>cilitates the establishment of human...conference paper 2016
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Peters, J.A. (author)Synthetic variable temperature <sup>1</sup>H NMRD profiles and <sup>17</sup>O NMR relaxation and shift data were generated with a model based on the Solomon-Bloembergen-Morgan and Freed theories and then fitted simultaneously or individually. The effects of the fitting procedure and of experimental uncertainties on the resulting best-fit...journal article 2016
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Zhang, M. (author), Verbraeck, A. (author), Meng, Rongqing (author), Chen, Bin (author), Qiu, Xiaogang (author)Spatial contacts among human beings are considered as one of the influential factors during the transmission of contagious diseases, such as influenza and tuberculosis. Therefore, representing and understanding spatial contacts plays an important role in epidemic modeling research. However, most current research only considers regular spatial...journal article 2016
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Friege, J (author), Holtz, G (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author)Insulating existing buildings offers great potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting Germany’s climate protection targets. Previous research suggests that, since homeowners’ decision-making processes are inadequately understood as yet, today’s incentives aiming at increasing insulation activity lead to unsatisfactory results....journal article 2016
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Greeven, Sebastiaan (author), Kraan, O.D.E. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author)Developing model-based narratives of society’s response to climate change is challenged by two factors. First, society’s response to possible future climate change is subject to many uncertainties. Second, we argue that society’s mitigation action emerge out of the actions and interactions of the many actors in society. Together, these two...journal article 2016
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van Bekkum, Michael A. (author), Krieger, Hans-Ulrich (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Kaptein, F.C.A. (author), Kiefer, Bernd (author), Rijgersberg, R.M. (author), Racioppa, Stefania (author)The PAL project1 is developing an embodied conversational agent (robot and its avatar), and applications for child-agent activities that help children from 8 to 14 years old to acquire the required knowledge, skills, and attitude for adequate diabetes selfmanagement. Formal and informal caregivers can use the PAL system to enhance their...conference paper 2016
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Polevoy, G. (author), de Weerdt, M.M. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)People often interact repeatedly: with relatives, through file sharing, in politics, etc. Many such interactions are reciprocal: reacting to the actions of the other. In order to facilitate decisions regarding reciprocal interactions, we analyze the development of reciprocation over time. To this end, we propose a model for such interactions...conference paper 2016
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Tziviloglou, E. (author), Wiktor, V.A.C. (author), Jonkers, H.M. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)The innovative technology of self-healing concrete allows the material to repair the open micro-cracks that can endanger the structure’s durability, due to ingress of aggressive liquids. Various concepts of self-healing concrete use encapsulation techniques, in order to immobilize and protect the healing agent during mixing and setting. In this...conference paper 2015
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Bouarfa, S. (author)Purpose: In order to improve the safety, capacity, economy, and sustainability of air transportation, revolutionary changes are required. These changes might range from the introduction of new technology and operational procedures to unprecedented roles of human operators and the way they interact. Implementing such changes can introduce both...doctoral thesis 2015
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de Jeu, R.J.J. (author)The current decentralized support schemes for stimulating renewable energy from electricity (RES-E) in the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) cause cost inefficiencies, distort the market and competition and exhibit unclear welfare effects. RES-E policy harmonization, a top-down approach that equalize, support schemes among MS, can...master thesis 2015
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Scheltes, A.F. (author)The last mile in a public transport trip appears to be one of the main deterrents in public transport to be competitive with other modes of transport. The reason for this bad performance of the last mile can be related to the slow and inflexible character of the last mile. Where PRT systems aspire to deliver an on demand, direct service to a...master thesis 2015
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Kasmire, J. (author)The Westland-Oostland Greenport is a large Dutch industrial cluster that is economically, socially and culturally important. Like many industries and regions, the greenport is facing serious challenges as a result of globalisation, energy supplies, and greenhouse gas emissions. These challenges can be understood as sustainability issues that...doctoral thesis 2015
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Richstein, J.C. (author)In this research, several improvements to the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) were analysed. The EU ETS is a market for emission allowances and the European Union's main instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (of which CO2 is the main component). However, the CO2 allowance price in this market has been highly volatile...doctoral thesis 2015
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Sharpanskykh, A. (author), Haest, R. (author)Maintaining high levels of safety under conditions of ever increasing air traffic is a challenging task. Failures to comply with safety-related regulations are often considered to be important contributors to safety occurrences. To address the issue of compliance, approaches based on external regulation of the employees’ behavior were proposed....conference paper 2015
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Van Woerden, J.L. (author)The district heating system is currently a natural monopoly. Introducing multiple producers on district heating networks could have many benefits. By developing a conceptual model that captures the technical, economic and institutional layers of the district heating system, a solid basis for a simulation model can be made. The proposed agent...master thesis 2015