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Li, Qiongxiu (author), Heusdens, R. (author), Christensen, M.T. (author)Privacy issues and communication cost are both major concerns in distributed optimization in networks. There is often a trade-off between them because the encryption methods used for privacy-preservation often require expensive communication overhead. To address these issues, we, in this paper, propose a quantization-based approach to achieve...journal article 2022
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Hong, Huifen (author), Baldi, S. (author), Yu, Wenwu (author), Yu, Xinghuo (author)This article investigates the distributed time-varying optimization problem for second-order multiagent systems (MASs) under limited interaction ranges. The goal is to seek the minimum of the sum of local time-varying cost functions (CFs), where each CF is only available to the corresponding agent. Limited communication range refers to the...journal article 2022
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Kasi, D.G. (author), de Graaf, M.N.S. (author), Motreuil-Ragot, P.A. (author), Frimat, Jean-Phillipe M. S. (author), Ferrari, Michel D. (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Mastrangeli, Massimo (author), van den Maagdenberg, Arn M.J.M. (author), Mummery, Christine (author), Orlova, Valeria (author)Organ-on-a-chip (OoC) and microfluidic devices are conventionally produced using microfabrication procedures that require cleanrooms, silicon wafers, and photomasks. The prototyping stage often requires multiple iterations of design steps. A simplified prototyping process could therefore offer major advantages. Here, we describe a rapid and...journal article 2022
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Prevaes, Matthijs (author)Adequate flood protection is important to many countries, but especially so to the Netherlands. With a large share of its population centers located below sea level, in so-called polders, the need for flood protection systems quickly becomes apparent. This need is even more pressing with the rise of sea levels and the increase in river discharge...student report 2022
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Raja, A.A. (author), Grammatico, S. (author)In this article, we consider a sequence of transferable utility coalitional games, where the actual coalitional values are unknown but vary within known bounds. As a solution to the resulting family of games, we formalize the notion of 'robust core.' Our main contribution is to design two distributed algorithms, namely 1) distributed payoff...journal article 2022
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Mukhopadhyay, Atri (author), Iosifidis, G. (author), Ruffini, Marco (author)The development of Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has resulted from the requirement for supporting next generation mobile services, which need high capacity, high reliability and low latency. The key issue in such MEC architectures is to decide which edge nodes will be employed for serving the needs of the different end users. Here, we...journal article 2022
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Fielbaum, Andres (author), Kucharski, R.M. (author), Cats, O. (author), Alonso Mora, J. (author)Emerging on-demand sharing alternatives, in which one resource is utilised simultaneously by a circumstantial group of users, entail several challenges regarding how to coordinate such users. A very relevant case refers to how to form groups in a mobility system that offers shared rides, and how to split the costs within the travellers of a...journal article 2022
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Zheng, Y. (author), Shyrokau, B. (author), Keviczky, T. (author), Sakka, Monzer Al (author), Dhaens, Miguel (author)The benefits of automated driving can only be fully realized if the occupants are protected from motion sickness. Active suspensions hold the potential to raise the comfort level in automated passenger vehicles by enabling new functionalities in chassis control. One example is to actively lean the vehicle body toward the center of the corner...journal article 2022
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Ebrahimigharehbaghi, S. (author), Qian, QK (author), de Vries, G. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)The building sector can contribute considerably to reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the Netherlands, the GHG emissions must be mitigated by 95% by 2050 relative to the 1990 baseline. Various factors, such as low renovation rates cause uncertainties in reaching these targets. The current study aims for investigating the barriers...conference paper 2022
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Akhtar, Syed Adnan (author), Sharifi K., Arman (author), Mohajerin Esfahani, P. (author)We present a learning method to learn the mapping from an input space to an action space, which is particularly suitable when the action is an optimal decision with respect to a certain unknown cost function. We use an inverse optimization approach to retrieve the cost function by introducing a new loss function and a new hypothesis class of...journal article 2022
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Yue, D. (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)This article addresses the continuous-time distributed optimization of a strictly convex summation-separable cost function with possibly nonconvex local functions over strongly connected digraphs. Distributed optimization methods in the literature require convexity of local functions, or balanced weights, or vanishing step sizes, or algebraic...journal article 2022
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Fabiani, Filippo (author), Tajeddini, Mohammad Amin (author), Kebriaei, Hamed (author), Grammatico, S. (author)We propose a two-layer, semi-decentralized algorithm to compute a local solution to the Stackelberg equilibrium problem in aggregative games with coupling constraints. Specifically, we focus on a single-leader, multiple follower problem, and after equivalently recasting the Stackelberg game as a mathematical program with complementarity...journal article 2022
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Colling, A.P. (author), Hekkenberg, R.G. (author), van Hassel, E.B.H.J. (author), Vidić, M. (author), Bačkalov, I. (author)Objective: This study investigates the implementation of the waterborne platooning transport concept in two of the largest European inland navigation corridors, the Rhine and the Danube region. Each region has different geo-economic and environmental features. These features are compared, and their effects on implementing a waterborne...journal article 2022
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Ebrahimigharehbaghi, S. (author), Qian, QK (author), de Vries, G. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)The building sector is responsible for more than one-third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Netherlands has set an ambitious target to reduce GHG emissions by 95% by 2050 compared to the 1990 baseline. Several factors, such as low retrofitting rates, lead to uncertainties in achieving these targets. In the residential sector, the...journal article 2022
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Jansen, B. (author), van Stijn, A. (author), Eberhardt, Leonora Charlotte Malabi (author), van Bortel, G.A. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author)The construction sector can become more sustainable by applying the Circular Economy concept, which distinguishes two main pathways: substituting materials for biological materials, or optimizing the use or reuse of technical materials. Practitioners sometimes choose one pathway over the other, but knowledge of which of these pathways yields...journal article 2022
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Ali, Khalid (author), Mensah, Ekow A. (author), McDermott, Eugene Ace (author), Kirkham, Frances A. (author), Stevenson, Jennifer (author), Hamer, Victoria (author), Parekh, Nikesh (author), Schiff, Rebekah (author), van der Cammen, T.J.M. (author)Background: Medication-related harm (MRH) is an escalating global challenge especially among older adults. The period following hospital discharge carries high-risk for MRH due to medication discrepancies, limited patient/carer education and support, and poor communication between hospital and community professionals. Discharge Medical...journal article 2022
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Kronmüller, M. (author), Fielbaum, Andres (author), Alonso Mora, J. (author)This paper presents a novel approach to route heterogeneous fleets for flash delivery operations. Flash deliveries offer to serve customers' wishes in minutes. We investigate a scenario that allows to pick up orders at multiple depots with a heterogeneous vehicle fleet leveraging different modes of transportation. We propose the Heterogeneous...conference paper 2022
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Bender, Roman (author), Féron, Damien (author), Mills, Douglas (author), Ritter, Stefan (author), Bäßler, Ralph (author), Bettge, Dirk (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Wilms, M.E. (author)A global transition towards more sustainable, affordable and reliable energy systems is being stimulated by the Paris Agreement and the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This poses a challenge for the corrosion industry, as building climate-resilient energy systems and infrastructures brings with it a long-term...journal article 2022
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Kok, M. (author)Risk-informed decision-making needs methods for assessing flood risk, and often the flooding probability and the consequences of floods (such as economic damage and fatalities) play an important role in the risk assessment. Also, measures to reduce the flood risk need to be formulated, in order to make a risk-informed decision, whether to...book chapter 2022
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Shahbazzadeh, Majid (author), Sadati, Seyed Jalil (author), Hassan HosseinNia, S. (author)This article proposes a systematic approach for optimal reset law design of a class of nonlinear systems. By using the guaranteed cost control method, sufficient conditions for the design of optimal reset law are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. In an offline design procedure, the reset law is computed that minimizes the upper...journal article 2022