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Aggarwal, S. (author)Big data applications are becoming more commonplace due to an abundance of digital data and increasingly powerful hardware. One of these classes of hardware devices are FPGAs, which are being used today in various ways such as data centers and embedded systems. High performance, power efficiency, and reprogrammability are the primary reasons...master thesis 2020
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Speelman, Tim (author)Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a new paradigm in digital identity systems that puts the end-user in control: no other actor manages, permits or revokes their digital existence. TrustChain is an academic peer-to-peer networking stack supporting SSI. It delivers passport-grade assurance by integrating with Dutch government....master thesis 2020
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van Vliet, J.I.M. (author), van Dijk, J.M.C. (author), de Tombe, L.J. (author), Marang, R.J. (author), van de Brug, W.G. (author)The aim of this project is to improve the scalability of the Opencraft server. The Opencraft server is based on an open-source implementation of the vanilla Minecraft server. This thesis focuses on improving the messaging system of the Opencraft server. The existing implementation of the messaging system is very basic. It went through all online...bachelor thesis 2020
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van den Bos, Laurens (author)The temperature of drinking water is an important parameter, affecting physical, chemical, biological and aesthetic properties of the water. Currently, measurements exceeding the legal limit of 25ᵒC at the tap are exceptional. However, there are reasons to believe that the number of exceedances will increase due to climate change and...master thesis 2020
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Zhang, Yingfei (author)For drinking water companies in Netherlands, the current conventional treatment technique may not be fully capable to cope with potential future problems resulted from climate change, salinization and social developments, such as population growth. Innovative technologies like reverse osmosis and more strict drinking water standards are expected...master thesis 2019
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Kohalli, Shivanand (author)Blockchains such as the Bitcoin facilitate the online transaction between users without an intermediate financial institution and can serve as a global currency. However, at the moment, blockchain solutions are suffering from low transaction throughput and high delays. For instance, the bitcoin network processes at most 7 transactions per second...master thesis 2019
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Shafiepour, Kamdin (author)High penetration of rooftop PV generation in the distribution network increases the variability of power flows and the frequency of network and hence congestions occurs at various network locations of the network. Congestions have various defects such as it deteriorates network performance, power quality and therefore can lead to a shutdown by...master thesis 2019
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Graur, Dan (author)Given the increasing popularity of Machine Learning, and the ever increasing need to solve larger and more complex learning challenges, it is unsurprising that numerous distributed learning strategies have been brought forward in recent years, along with many large scale Machine Learning frameworks. It is however unclear how well these...master thesis 2019
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Gerard, Valentin (author)The apparition of the Internet was a revolution that allowed to connect people all around the world. It was a disruptive technology that helped to shape the modern society as we know it today. However, to trust a person we interact with but we are not able to see is difficult. In order to trust people in this huge network, different digital...master thesis 2019
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Agrawal, Charu (author)Imagine being lost in a desert with a bunch of friends, all of a sudden. Survival will be difficult. You will have mirages, distrust among friends and no means to leave landmarks on the sand. Unable to locate yourself, you will have no means to contact people with maps. The best you can do in such a situation is to stay together in the vicinity...master thesis 2019
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van der Stel, Paul (author), de Vries, Caren (author), Lemaire, Chris (author), van Tartwijk, Maarten (author), Baartman, Wesley (author)For this project, JEM-id tasked us with creating a proof of concept of a new online auction in the form of a web application for Royal FloraHolland. JEM-id is a software company operating in the agricultural domain.<br/>The pre-existing digital auction is not available as a web application and has generated technical debt over the past twenty...bachelor thesis 2019
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Shi, Gaomei (author)In recent years, many countries and administrative domains exploit control over their communication infrastructures to censor online materials. The concrete reasons behind the Internet censorship remain poorly understood due to the opaque nature of the systems. Generally, Internet censorship is to disrupt the free flow of information. It involves...master thesis 2019
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van IJzendoorn, Bas (author)In decentralized applications requirements on latency are high. For instance, in trading<br/>applications a millisecond latency advantage can save companies millions of dollars. In<br/>this thesis a design is proposed for an overlay in a decentralized peer-to-peer system<br/>that lowers the latency between connected peers. The overlay is...master thesis 2018
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Fang, Jiaxing (author)Driven by the fast development of water purification technologies, tightening of water quality regulations and the increasing public concern on water-related health problems, drinking water companies have spared no efforts on treatment processes upgradation as well as striving on maintenance aspects. In the event of perturbation such as supply...master thesis 2018
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Donkervliet, Jesse (author)Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time,<br/>and provides both entertainment and education to people around the globe.<br/>One of the main challenges in gaming is increasing the scalability of these games to support the large numbers of players they attract.<br/>Minecraft-like games make this challenge even more difficult by...master thesis 2018
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Bertens, Johannes (author)Business processes are part of every company’s daily business. In the past hundreds of years, almost every aspect in the operation of businesses has seen a two-pronged transformation: first, toward defining and then following processes, and second, toward making the processes efficient through the use of technology.<br/>In this work, we define a...master thesis 2017
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Stegmann, Irma (author)Increased use of the distribution grid due to the uptake of distributed energy resources and the expected penetrations of Electrical Vehicles (EVs) could lead to congestion problems in the distribution grid. Congestion refers to issues related to the overheating of components or voltage issues in the distribution network. Avoiding these issues...master thesis 2017
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Karambelkar, Sahil (author)Rise in distributed energy resources has prompted a shift in the way electricity market operators function. Traditionally, centralized optimization techniques are used by such operators to plan for economic dispatches of power tominimize the overall operational costs and increase system social welfare. Due to the dispersed nature of renewable...master thesis 2017
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Hajonides van der Meulen, Thomas (author)The environmental and social impact of the energy generation and distribution industry on the biosphere is negative or unknown due to a lack of supply chain transparency. For electricity and gas distribution system operators (DSOs), the opportunity to contribute significantly to more environmental and social sustainable development in the energy...master thesis 2017
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Cong, Kelong (author)Blockchain systems have the potential to decentralise many traditionally centralised systems. However, scalability remains a key challenge. Without a horizontally scalable solution, where performance increases by adding more nodes to the system, blockchain systems remain unsuitable for ubiquitous use. We design a novel blockchain system called...master thesis 2017