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Correljé, A. (author)
Making progress in the energy transition requires a more concrete conceptualization of the way in which the energy system works, now and in the future. This chapter presents a fairly simple conceptual framework that will help to analyze and understand the way in which communities provide themselves (more or less effectively) with the energy they...
book chapter 2023
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Gkiotsalitis, K. (author), Cats, O. (author), Liu, T. (author), Bult, J. M. (author)
The trips of a high-frequency urban rail line are typically planned with the aim of achieving even time headways. This results in reliable services for each urban rail line, where successive trips have the same time headway. Maintaining even time headways for each service line has significant advantages for the passengers of the line, but it...
journal article 2023
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Pourmohammad-Zia, Nadia (author), Karimi, Behrooz (author), Rezaei, J. (author)
The accurate operation of a Food Supply Chain (FSC) is a critical issue as it directly interfaces with health and safety matters. This study addresses coordination and conflict management in a three-level FSC that embraces a new inventory type known as growing items like poultry and livestock. The chain involves a rearing farm as the supplier...
journal article 2021
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Li, Yuanli (author), Xiang, Pengcheng (author), You, Kairui (author), Guo, Jin (author), Liu, Z. (author), Ren, Hong (author)
Mega infrastructure projects (MIPs) have become increasingly important to the realization of sustainable development in China. Sustainable development is a process of dynamic balance, and coordinating the triple bottom line (the environmental, social, and economic dimensions) will enable more sustainable development of MIPs. However, previous...
journal article 2021
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Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author), Meesters, Kenny (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)
Traditionally, disaster management information systems have been designed to facilitate communication and coordination along stable hierarchical lines and roles. However, to support coordination in disaster response, disaster management information systems need to cater for the emerging roles, responsibilities and information needs of the...
journal article 2020
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Meesters, Kenny (author), van Schilt, Isabelle (author), Aciru, Monica (author)
An increasing number of people are facing the consequences of volatile events around the globe, whether due to natural causes or man-made crises. To prevent further physical, psychological, social and economic collapse after such a critical event, fast and effective humanitarian interventions are needed. However, the mounting frequency and...
report 2019
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Bouarfa, S. (author), Müller, Jasper (author), Blom, H.A.P. (author)
Each day, airlines face disturbances that disrupt their carefully planned operations. Events like adverse weather conditions, sick crew members, or damaged aircraft often result in delays in the airline's schedule. An airline recovers from such disruptions through the role played by its Airline Operations Control (AOC). A Multi-Agent System ...
journal article 2018
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van de Walle, B.A. (author), Brugghemans, Bert (author), Comes, M. (author)
In responding to an emergency, the actions of emergency response teams critically depend upon the situation awareness the team members have acquired. Situation awareness, and the design of systems to support it, has been a focus in recent emergency management research. In this paper, we introduce two interventions to the core processes of...
journal article 2016
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Bharosa, N. (author)
During daily operations, relief agencies such as police, fire brigade and medical services manage information in accordance with their respective processes and organization structure. When disaster strikes, the ad-hoc combinations of such hierarchy based information systems fail to assure high information quality (IQ) and system quality (SQ) for...
doctoral thesis 2011
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De Rooij, J.P.G. (author)
The aim of this dissertation was to study the little examined, yet important issue of leadership for distributed teams. Distributed teams are defined as: “teams of which members are geographically distributed and are therefore working predominantly via mediated communication means on an interdependent task and in realizing a joint goal” (adapted...
doctoral thesis 2009
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Janssen, M. (author), Lee, J. (author), Bharosa, N. (author), Cresswell, A. (author)
Multi-agency disaster management requires collaboration among geographically distributed public and private organizations to enable a rapid and effective response to an unexpected event. Many disaster management systems often lack the capability to cope with the complexity and uncertainty. In this introduction to the special issues on advances...
journal article 2009
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Bharosa, N. (author), Lee, J. (author), Janssen, M. (author)
Although various scholars have researched issues regarding disaster management, few have studied the sharing and coordinating of information during disasters. Not much empirical data is available in this field and there is sparse insight into the factors that may impede or facilitate information sharing and coordination among stakeholders. In...
journal article 2009
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Ter Mors, A.W. (author), Yadati, C. (author), Witteveen, C. (author), Zhang, Y. (author)
We consider a multi-agent planning problem as a set of activities that has to be planned by several autonomous agents. In general, due to the possible dependencies between the agents’ activities or interactions during execution of those activities, allowing agents to plan individually may lead to a very inefficient or even infeasible solution to...
journal article 2009
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