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Kenis, Michiel (author), Bruninx, K. (author), Delarue, Erik (author)Flow-based market coupling is a critical element of the electricity market in Europe. Transmission System Operators determine the commercial transmission capacity that can be implicitly traded in a zonal day-ahead market. However, this entails a trade-off: higher commercial transmission capacities increase market efficiency, affecting the...journal article 2024
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de Buisonjé, David R. (author), Reijnders, T. (author), Cohen Rodrigues, Talia R. (author), Santhanam, Prabhakaran (author), Kowatsch, Tobias (author), Breeman, Linda D. (author), Janssen, Veronica R. (author), Kraaijenhagen, Roderik A. (author), Kemps, Hareld M.C. (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)Background: Financial incentives are a promising tool to help people increase their physical activity, but they are expensive to provide. Deposit contracts are a type of financial incentive in which participants pledge their own money. However, low uptake is a crucial obstacle to the large-scale implementation of deposit contracts. Therefore,...journal article 2024
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Flipse, S.M. (author), Kalmar, E. (author)In this whitepaper, we address an issue that has been emerging within the academic community: how do we align our personal career perspectives with ideas of democratic, open and inclusive research and innovation strategies? We address this issue and voice our concerns regarding the governance of this alignment within our lovely institution in...journal article 2023
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de Buisonjé, David R. (author), Brosig, Fiona (author), Breeman, Linda D. (author), Bloom, Erika Litvin (author), Reijnders, T. (author), Janssen, Veronica R. (author), Kraaijenhagen, Roderik A. (author), Kemps, Hareld M.C. (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)Background: Gamification and deposit contracts (a financial incentive in which participants pledge their own money) can enhance effectiveness of mobile behavior change interventions. However, to assess their potential for improving population health, research should investigate implementation of gamified deposit contracts outside the research...journal article 2023
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Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Yu, Chenxi (author), Qian, QK (author), Huang, R. (author), You, K. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)Under China's national strategy of carbon neutrality by 2060, it is urgently necessary and challenging for the governments to proactively explore policy tools to facilitate energy-efficient renovation of existing buildings. Currently, a considerable number of studies have been conducted on building energy-efficient renovation and its...review 2023
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de Buisonjé, D. R. (author), Reijnders, T. (author), Cohen Rodrigues, T. R. (author), van den Broek, I. (author), Kraaijenhagen, R. A. (author), Janssen, V. R. (author), Kemps, H. M.C. (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)Background: There is an urgent need to find new approaches that improve long-term adherence to a healthy lifestyle for people with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Deposit contracts (a financial incentive in which the participant deposits own money) are inexpensive and effective, but acceptability among CVD patients is unclear. This study...journal article 2023
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van Tilburg, Jasper (author), Cavalcante Siebert, L. (author), Cremer, Jochen (author)This paper presents a decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) approach to an incentive-based Demand Response (DR) program, which aims to maintain the capacity limits of the electricity grid and prevent grid congestion by financially incentivizing residential consumers to reduce their energy consumption. The proposed approach...conference paper 2023
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Akbari, Amirhossein (author), Alavi-Koosha, Ahmadreza (author), Moradi Sepahvand, M. (author), Toulabi, Mohammadreza (author), Amraee, Turaj (author), Bathaee, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi (author)This article presents an electric vehicle (EV)-integrated security constrained unit commitment (EV-SCUC) based on N−1 criteria for single line outage contingency under intermittency of load and renewable energy sources (RESs). Two EV control mechanisms are proposed. In first, EV balance control, financial targets are prioritized while...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Guoqiang (author), Xu, Keyi (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Huang, R. (author), Li, B. (author), Wang, Ran (author)The construction industry's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality has underscored the urgency of promoting green and low-carbon sustainable affordable housing. However, the development process has encountered several challenges, including conflicts between the central and local governments arising from differences in value preferences,...journal article 2023
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Lone, Q.B. (author)IP spoofing is the act of forging source IP addresses assigned to a host machine. Spoofing provides users the ability to hide their identity and impersonate another machine. Malicious users use spoofing to invoke a variety of attacks. Examples are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, policy evasion and a range of application-level...doctoral thesis 2022
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Eslamizadeh, S. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Castelo Branco Ferreira Costa, R. (author), Kunneke, R.W. (author), Weijnen, M.P.C. (author)Considering that the industrial sector consumes almost one-third of the energy demand globally, it is an urgent call to reduce the carbon footprints in this sector. Among different approaches to meet this goal, such as the employment of carbon capture technologies and increasing energy efficiency within industries, transitioning to renewable...journal article 2022
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Ottun, Abdul Rasheed (author), Mane, Pramod C. (author), Yin, Zhigang (author), Paul, Souvik (author), Liyanage, Mohan (author), Pridmore, Jason (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Sharma, Rajesh (author), Nurmi, Petteri (author), Flores, Huber (author)Federated learning (FL) is a promising privacy-preserving solution to build powerful AI models. In many FL scenarios, such as healthcare or smart city monitoring, the user's devices may lack the required capabilities to collect suitable data, which limits their contributions to the global model. We contribute social-aware federated learning...journal article 2022
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Zhan, Juhong (author), Jiang, Yue (author), Cieri, Christopher (author), Liberman, Mark (author), Yuan, Jiahong (author), Chen, Yiya (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)This paper describes our use of mixed incentives and the citizen science portal LanguageARC to prepare, collect and quality control a large corpus of object namings for the purpose of providing speech data to document the under-represented Guanzhong dialect of Chinese spoken in the Shaanxi province in the environs of Xi’an.conference paper 2022
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Yau, Yung (author), Hou, H. (author), Yip, Ka Chi (author), Qian, QK (author)Eco-certification schemes are usually launched with various incentives provided by local governments to facilitate green building development and building energy retrofits. A number of barriers to building energy retrofitting have been identified in previous literature, while the barriers to the eco-certification of existing buildings are under...journal article 2021
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de Buisonjé, David (author), van der Geer, Jessica (author), Keesman, Mike (author), van der Vaart, Roos (author), Reijnders, T. (author), Wentzel, Jobke (author), Kemps, Hareld (author), Kraaijenhagen, Roderik (author), Janssen, Veronica (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)Background: A promising new approach to support lifestyle changes in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the use of financial incentives. Although financial incentives have proven to be effective, their implementation remains controversial, and ethical objections have been raised. It is unknown whether health care professionals ...journal article 2021
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Fayyaz, Muhammad (author), Bliemer, Michiel C.J. (author), Beck, Matthew J. (author), Hess, Stephane (author), van Lint, J.W.C. (author)Surveys with stated choice experiments (SCE) are widely used to derive values of time and reliability for transport project appraisal purposes. However, such methods ask respondents to make hypothetical choices, which in turn could create a bias between choices made in the experiment compared to those in an environment where the choices have...journal article 2021
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Khastieva, D. (author)Environmental and political factors determine long-term development for renewable generation around the world. The rapid growth of renewable generation requires timely changes in power systems operation planning, investments in additional flexible assets and transmission capacity. The development trends of restructured power systems suggest that...doctoral thesis 2020
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Noroozian, A. (author)Hosting providers are theoretically in a key position to combat cybercrime as they are often the entities renting out the resources that end up being abused by miscreants. Yet, notwithstanding hosting providers' current security measures to combat abuse, their responses vary widely. In many cases the response is ineffective, as empirical...doctoral thesis 2020
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Huang, J. (author), Talbi, Rania (author), Zhao, Z. (author), Boucchenak, Sara (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Roos, S. (author)Federated Learning is an emerging distributed collaborative learning paradigm adopted by many of today's applications, e.g., keyboard prediction and object recognition. Its core principle is to learn from large amount of users data while preserving data privacy by design as collaborative users only need to share the machine learning models...conference paper 2020
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Poplavskaya, K. (author), Joos, Marine (author), Krakowski, Vincent (author), Knorr, Kaspar (author), De Vries, Laurens (author)The authors provide a critical analysis of existing approaches to balancing and congestion management (specifically redispatch) and their effects on the incentives for service providers. This issue is particularly important in the view of the harmonization of ancillary service procurement in Europe, introduction of cross-border balancing...conference paper 2020