Transfer learning for process design with reinforcement learning

Process design is a creative task that is currently performed manually by engineers. Artificial intelligence provides new potential to facilitate process design. Specifically, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown some success in automating process design by integrating data-driven models that learn to build process flowsheets with process...

Forks in the road: Critical design moments for identifying key processes in stakeholder interaction

While the importance of transdisciplinary (Td) processes as a means to address societal problems is well-established, guidance for the intentional design of stakeholder interactions to meet specific goals, under different conditions and contexts, remains less explored. We propose the concept of critical design moments (CDMs) as a lens through...

Redesigning Client Acquisition through Experience

This report describes the process and outcomes of a graduation project for the MSc program Strategic Product Design. The client organization in this project is Innovation Booster (IB). IB, founded in 2012 and located in Amsterdam, is specialized in innovation services. IB is active in segments characterized by traditional and complex...

Production Biospheres: A new production space in Hembrug

The project named production biospheres created a process design aimed on the adaptive reuse of the Plots In The Woods site on the Hembrug terrain near Zaandam. The landscape and urban design for the site is based on methods used by landscape architects and ecologists based on the three terms cultivate, stage and set up, not just creating. The...

Internet of Things (IoT) in Real Estate: Designing guideline for employee-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) implementation in office real estate

The purpose of this research is to extend knowledge on adding value to office employees (end users) due to smart technology implementation. The focus of this research document is given to end users since the problem statement emphasises a need of a strategic change in CREM’s activities related to smart technology implementation. The problem...

Governance of cybersecurity communities: Understanding threat intelligence sharing as a collective action problem through incentivization of the National Detection Network

Organizations benefit from improved cybersecurity threat detection capabilities if they share information in a community of their peers. However, organizations are unlikely to share the sensitive information that is most valuable as this poses individual risks. Information sharing in cybersecurity communities therefore forms a collective action...

Improvement to structure details in ship sections for robotic welding

The master thesis is a parallel development of a Maritime Manufacturing Robotics project. The aim of the thesis is to find out how to make it easier and convenient for robotic welding in ship section production by improving ship structures. The objective is to design a work process and evaluation method to be followed to do structure...

The development of smart grid systems: Connecting the resident and the development team

This thesis examines the process of smart grid development in order to optimise the resident involvement in this process. It is a case study of the project Nieuwveense Landen in Meppel with inspirational influences from other smart grid projects. Smart grid housing is the concept of locally obtaining and using energy. Energy exchange within the...

Strategic Management of University Real Estate supported by BIM: An application to the real estate of the Greek University A.U.Th.

In this research the case of the Greek university Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is addressed, focusing on the university's real estate property, as one of its corporate resources. In this sense, real estate decision making is related with the performance of the organization. The main research question has been formulated as: "In which...

Implementing participatory water management: Recent advances in theory, practice, and evaluation

Many current water planning and management problems are riddled with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and conflict, so-called “messes” or “wicked problems.” The realization that there is a need to consider a wide variety of values, knowledge, and perspectives in a collaborative decision making process has led to a multitude of new methods...

Improving the Efficiency of Collaboration in Philips Consumer Lifestyle

The thesis will contribute to the SMART VORTEX Project. The goal of the research is to improve the efficiency of decision making among the engineers in PCL. The main research question is "how can we design a process to improve the efficiency of collaboration among the engineers in PCL". To achieve this goal of the research, there are four...

Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation

Many current water planning and management problems are riddled with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and conflict, so-called “messes” or “wicked problems.” The realization that there is a need to consider a wide variety of values, knowledge, and perspectives in a collaborative decision making process has led to a multitude of new methods...

Feasibility study of CO2 capture by anti-sublimation

Processes for carbon capture and storage have the drawback of high energy demand. In this work the application of CO2 capture by anti-sublimation is analyzed. The process was simulated using Aspen Plus. Process description is accomplished by phase equilibria models which are able to reproduce the vapor-liquid and vapor-solid equilibria....

High-throughput technologies for bioseparation process development

Ammoxidation of Halogentoluenes for the Production of Halogen substituted Benzonitriles

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