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Jurševskis, Renāts (author)Recent developments in applying reinforcement learning to cooperative environments, like negotiation, have brought forward an important question: how well can a negotiating agent be trained through self-play? Previous research has seen successful application of self-play to other settings, like the games of chess and Go. This paper explores the...bachelor thesis 2022
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Fledderus, Eddy (author)The domains of the negotiation can vary significantly. It is possible that a domain is very cooperative, where both agents can receive a high utility; the opposite is also possible, where the domain is very competitive and the agents cannot both get a high utility. In the same manner, the agents can have different strategies leading to a...bachelor thesis 2022
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Gaghi, Radu (author)This paper introduces a strategy for learning opponent parameters in automated negotiation and using them for future negotiation sessions. The goal is to maximize the agent’s utility while being consistent in its performance over various negotiation scenarios. While a number of reinforcement learning approaches in the field have used Q-learning,...bachelor thesis 2022
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Agrawal, Arpit (author)With the prospects of decentralized multi-agent systems becoming more prevalent in daily life, automated negotiation agents have made their place in these collaborative settings. They are an approach to promote communication between the agents in reaching solutions that are better for all involved.<br/><br/>Recent literature has shown great...bachelor thesis 2022
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Merhi, Nader (author)As a result of the growing awareness of the global environmental factors, principals of sustainability, and industrial ecology, the green chemistry and engineering are put to use into the development of the next generation of materials of construction. The need of materials independent from petroleum resources is considered a priority on the...master thesis 2022
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Lengkeek, H.J. (author)The Netherlands is inherently challenged by water, as a large part of the country lies below sea level and several major rivers in North-western Europe cross the country. The most prevalent form of protection from coastal and river floods in the Netherlands includes approximately 22,000 km of earthen dikes, of which 3800 km are primary flood...doctoral thesis 2022
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GUO, Zhuoran (author)Online searching for healthcare information has gradually become a widely used internet case. Suppose a patient suffers the symptom but is unsure of the action he needs to take, a self-diagnosis tool can help the patient identify the possible conditions and whether this patient needs to seek immediate medical help. However, the accuracy and...master thesis 2022
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Andretta, Francesca (author)Cycling is an increasingly attractive transportation mode, thanks to its health and environmental benefits. Personalized travel assistance services can help make cycling more appealing by providing speed or route advices that can reduce travel time and increase safety while taking into account the personal preferences of cyclists. Due to its...master thesis 2022
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Pierotti, J. (author)One of the world’s biggest challenges is that living beings have to share a limited amount of resources. As people of science, we strive to find innovative ways to better use these resources, to reach and positively affect more and more people. In the field of optimization, we aim at finding an optimal allocation of limited sets of resources to...doctoral thesis 2022
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Hamelers, Arthur (author)Villa Henny (1916), designed by Robert van’t Hoff, baptized as the concrete villa, defines a turning point in modernism in the Netherlands. The Villa has been extensively researched in relation to the De Stijl art movement and influence by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, yet less attention has been given to the fact that it is one of...student report 2022
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Lee, Ka Ho (author)The extraction of natural gas in the northern part of the Netherlands, from the region of Groningen, has been causing human-induced seismic activities for the past several decades. This is a problem since the existing building stock in this region, which consists of mainly unreinforced masonry buildings and historical structures, are not...master thesis 2022
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Becker, Simion (author)As the world is currently actively trying to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels, large investments are done in renewable energy sources and ways are sought after to electrify fossil fuel-intensive sectors. In line with these developments, the number of electric vehicles requiring access to the electric power grid has exploded putting...master thesis 2022
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Klerk, W.J. (author)Many countries rely on flood defence systems to prevent economic damage and loss-of-life due to catastrophic floods. Asset managers of flood defence systems need to cope with the consequences of structural degradation, and changing societal and environmental conditions, in order to satisfy performance requirements and optimize societal value of...doctoral thesis 2022
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Nota, Hugo (author)The effects of climate change are felt all around the world. An increased sea level goes hand in hand with an increased risk of flooding. To combat this, the coastlines must be reinforced to withstand future sea levels. However, repeatedly reinforcing coastlines to keep up with the sea level rise (SLR) could prove extremely costly. An...master thesis 2022
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van Zijl, Job (author)Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) shows great potential for flight control, due to its adaptability, fault-tolerance, and as it does not require an accurate system model. However, these techniques, like many machine learning applications, are considered black-box as their inner workings are hidden. This paper aims to break open the black box of...master thesis 2022
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Interpretability and performance comparisons of decision tree surrogate models produced by AGGREVATEWols, Jonathan (author)Imitation learning algorithms, such as AggreVaTe, have proven successful in solving many challenging tasks accurately and efficiently. In practice, however, they have not been applied quite as much. Black box policies produced by imitation learning algorithms can not ensure the safety needed for real-world applications. This paper extends this...bachelor thesis 2022
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Meijer, Caspar (author)Machine learning models are increasingly being used in fields that have a direct impact on the lives of humans. Often these machine learning models are black-box models and they lack transparency and trust which is holding back the implementation. To increase transparency and trust this research investigates whether imitation learning,...bachelor thesis 2022
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de Vringer, Stefan (author)Realistic vehicle routing problems have been highly relevant for years in a wide variety of domains. One such domain is food delivery, where well-crafted routes can reduce costs and contribute to customer satisfaction. This thesis formulates a problem variant for the restaurant meal delivery problem in order to examine the reoptimization of meal...master thesis 2022
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Remmerswaal, Willemijn (author)Both model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) have shown promising results in the control of traffic signals in urban traffic networks. There are, however, a few drawbacks. MPC controllers are not adaptive and therefore perform suboptimal in the presence of the uncertainties that always occur in urban traffic systems....master thesis 2022
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LU, Jingyi (author)Inspired by the natural nervous system, synaptic plasticity rules are applied to train spiking neural networks. Different from learning algorithms such as propagation and evolution that are widely used to train spiking neural networks, synaptic plasticity rules learn the parameters with local information, making them suitable for online learning...master thesis 2022