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Ahmed, Mohammad Samir (author), van der Velden, Joep (author), Soleymani, A. (author), van den Brom, P.I. (author), Konings, Maaike (author), Itard, L.C.M. (author), Specht, M.M. (author), Sjoer, Ellen (author), Zeiler, Wim (author)Buildings need to be carefully operated and maintained for optimum health, comfort, energy performance, and utility costs. The increasing use of Machine Learning combined with Big Data in the building services sector has shown the potential to bring energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Therefore, upskilling and reskilling the current...conference paper 2022
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Sekwenz, M.T. (author), Wagner, Ben (author)Content moderation is protecting human rights such as freedom of speech, as well as the right to impart and seek information. Online platforms implement rules to moderate content on their platforms through their Terms of Service (ToS), which provides for the legal grounds to delete content. Content moderation is an example of a socio-technical...abstract 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Chen, Yifei (author), Kumar, Neeraj (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Current connected and autonomous vehicles will contribute to various and green vehicular services. However, sharing personal data with untrustworthy Navigation Service Providers (NSPs) raises serious location concerns. To address this issue, many Location Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms (LPPMs) have been proposed. In addition, several...journal article 2022
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Mukhopadhyay, Atri (author), Iosifidis, G. (author), Ruffini, Marco (author)The development of Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has resulted from the requirement for supporting next generation mobile services, which need high capacity, high reliability and low latency. The key issue in such MEC architectures is to decide which edge nodes will be employed for serving the needs of the different end users. Here, we...journal article 2022
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Boess, S.U. (author)The scaling up of zero energy (ZE) renovations contributes to the energy transition. Yet ZE renovations can be complex and error-prone in both process and outcome. This article draws on theory from sociotechnical design, participatory design, and inclusive design to analyse four recent case studies of ZE renovation/building in the Netherlands....journal article 2022
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Itard, L.C.M. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author), van den Brom, P.I. (author)The HVAC sector is essential to realize the energy transition and is facing numerous challenges like educating enough HVAC engineers to carry out the task and being able to integrate knowledge from the construction, energy, IT and health sectors and to cope with rapid technological changes. The availability of structured and easy-to-follow...conference paper 2022
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Streefkerk, I.N. (author), van den Homberg, Marc J.C. (author), Whitfield, Stephen (author), Mittal, Neha (author), Pope, Edward (author), Werner, Micha (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Comes, M. (author), Ertsen, M.W. (author)Droughts and changing rainfall patterns due to natural climate variability and climate change, threaten the livelihoods of Malawi's smallholder farmers, who constitute 80% of the population. Provision of seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) is one means to potentially increase the resilience of rainfed farming to drought by informing farmers in...journal article 2022
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Silva, Ana (author), de Brito, Jorge (author), Thomsen, A.F. (author), Straub, A. (author), Prieto, Andrés J. (author), Lacasse, Michael A. (author)In the last decades, considerable work has been done regarding service life prediction of buildings and building components. Academics and members of the CIB W080 commission, as well as of ISO TC 59/SC14, have made several efforts in this area and created a general terminology for the concept of service life, which is extremely relevant for...review 2022
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Alves Beirigo, B. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Alonso Mora, J. (author), Schulte, F. (author)With the popularization of transportation network companies (TNCs) (e.g., Uber, Lyft) and the rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs), even major car manufacturers are increasingly considering themselves as autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) providers rather than individual vehicle sellers. However, matching the convenience of owning a vehicle...journal article 2022
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Azcarate Aguerre, J.F. (author), Klein, T. (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Veerman, Martijn (author)The servitisation of the built environment, through the implementation of product–service systems, is considered a promising business strategy to achieve a circular economy transition. This servitisation faces a number of practical challenges, among them the technological readiness and effective integration and application of existing and...journal article 2022
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van Driel, W.D. (author), Jacobs, B. (author), Watte, P. (author), Zhao, X. (author)Reliability is an essential scientific and technological domain intrinsically linked with system integration. Nowadays, semiconductor industries are confronted with ever-increasing design complexity, dramatically decreasing design margins, increasing chances for and consequences of failures, shortening of product development and qualification...journal article 2022
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Knödler, L. (author), Salmi, C. (author), Zhu, H. (author), Ferreira de Brito, B.F. (author), Alonso Mora, J. (author)Autonomous mobile robots require accurate human motion predictions to safely and efficiently navigate among pedestrians, whose behavior may adapt to environmental changes. This paper introduces a self-supervised continual learning framework to improve data-driven pedestrian prediction models online across various scenarios continuously. In...journal article 2022
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Simons, L.P.A. (author), Pijl, Hanno (author), Verhoef, John (author), Lamb, Hildo J. (author), van Ommen, Ben (author), Gerritsen, B. (author), Bizino, Maurice B. (author), Snel, Marieke (author), Feenstra, R.W. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)Hybrid e-health support was given to 11 insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) patients, with electronic support plus a multi-disciplinary health support team. Challenges were low ICT and health literacy. After 50 weeks, attractiveness and feasibility of the intervention were perceived as high: recommendation 9.5 out of 10 and...journal article 2022
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Ferreira, Cicero (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)In recent years, shared services centers (SSCs) have been central to organizational transformation strategies of many large firms and governments to reduce costs, improve service quality, and innovate services. SSCs are undergoing significant transformations due to the advancement of technologies. To better understand the technologies’ impact on...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Saravanakumar, Karthikeyan (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)Because the essential quality metrics of blast furnace slag are based on its oxide composition, the determination of chemical compositions of unhydrated slag grains in an aged concrete could be useful for understanding its past performance and in predicting the remaining service life of existing slag-bearing concrete. In this research, the...journal article 2022
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Ekka, A. (author), Keshav, Saket (author), Pande, S. (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Jiang, Yong (author)Study region: Upper Cauvery river basin, India Study focus: Reservoir construction is one of the major contributors to changes in natural river flow regime characteristics. This study aims to understand the hydrological alterations resulting from the construction of reservoirs and water abstraction in the upper regions of the basin. The...journal article 2022
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Pownkumar, V. (author), Ananthan, P. S. (author), Ekka, A. (author), Qureshi, Neha W. (author), T, Velumani (author)Habitat alterations and fragmentation caused by anthropogenic modifications of the riverine landscape have affected fish biodiversity by reducing the number of fish species. Fish are a major element of the aquatic environment, and they play an important role in maintaining ecosystem resilience. However, an incomplete understanding of links...journal article 2022
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Van Wessel, Robert M. (author), Kroon, Philip (author), de Vries, H.J. (author)Many organizations have embraced agile methods. Studies show a trend of large-scale application of agile frameworks company-wide. Emergent architecture design as part of an agile approach is effective at the project level but causes issues when services need to interact seamlessly at the enterprise level. Enterprise architecture (EA) can provide...journal article 2022
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Meijers, B.M. (author)We investigate how PCServe, a web service for disseminating massive point clouds, performs for read-only access (i.e. a visualization application). PCServe is backed by a database model based on Space Filling Curves. By adding a virtual hierarchy of blocks to the database, we can support different visualization applications for retrieval of...journal article 2022
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Keys, Patrick W. (author), Warrier, Rekha (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author), Galvin, Kathleen A. (author), Boone, Randall B. (author)Achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is contingent on understanding the potential interactions among human and natural systems. In Kenya, the goal of conserving and expanding forest cover to achieve SDG 15 “Life on Land” may be related to other SDGs because it plays a role in regulating some aspects of Kenyan...journal article 2022