Landscape in Flux: Precision and error of the natural phenomena affecting the coastline

Natural phenomena are continually changing the coastline and sculpting the land in various ways. By surveying these changes a map can be produced of a landscape in flux. But if the landscape is ever changing, what does it tell us about the precision of flux. The essay also tries to give an answer to the question if there can be error in flux or...

Plastic Identification Anywhere: Development of open-source tools to simplify plastic sorting

Plastic pollution is a well-known problem worldwide, and is still growing. It negatively affects humans and wildlife through animal death, groundwater pollution and incorporation of micro plastics in our digestive system. There are many initiatives focusing on reducing the negative effects of plastic pollution, but the amount of plastic consumed...

Machine Learning for Software Refactoring: a Large-Scale Empirical Study

Refactorings tackle the challenge of architectural degradation of object-oriented software projects by improving its internal structure without changing the behavior. Refactorings improve software quality and maintainability if applied correctly. However, identifying refactoring opportunities is a challenging problem for developers and...

Computer Vision for Exam Grading: Final Report

Grading exams is a time-consuming activity for teachers. Zesje is an open-source tool created to aid teach-ers in exam grading and streamline the grading process. Zesje currently uses computer vision techniques torealign images, and automatically find student numbers. However, teachers can currently only use Zesje tograde questions manually....

BEPStore: The reverse App Store

FeedbackFruits is a company that offers an online learning solution to help innovate education. Their platform is used on a daily basis by teachers and students to improve their learning experience. When using the platform, the users often think of valuable feedback and new features they would like to see added. This report describes the process...

Analyzing the State of Static Analysis: A Large-Scale Evaluation in Open Source Software

Static analysis is an important part of today's quality assurance process. It can be performed manually, by means of code reviews, or automatically, by automated static analysis tools (ASATs). However, there is still much unknown about the state of static analysis. This includes hard data on how prevalent static analysis is among projects. And...

Open Factory

An exploration into the future nature of industrial spaces

Insects as a sustainable alternative to feed animals in the city

Insects can be alternative source of nutrients in various parts of the food-chain, as feed for livestock but also human consumption. However, the acceptation of insects as a source of nutrients is low. Insects are in no way a part of western culture except when they are a pest. Insects do play a vital role in upcoming developments such as urban...

Hierarchy in Meritocracy: Community Building and Code Production in The Apache Software Foundation

This research is about code production in top-level open source communities of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). We extensively analyzed Subversion repository logs from 70 top-level Apache open source projects in the ASF from 2004 to 2009. Based on interactions in code production during one-year periods we constructed networks of file co...

Smart grids: Changing consumer interaction

Today, the supply of energy is based on fossil fuels, which is often considered as an important cause of climate change. Moreover, the supply of energy is increasingly dependent of a few, sometimes political instable regions. An energy transition is needed for the maintenance of our welfare and environment. The needed energy transition will...

Open source databaseondersteuning in TOPdesk Enterprice

Integratie van open source database in TOPdesk Enterprice en het maken van testcases om de werking van deze en andere databases te valideren.