The influence of the exponential demand for EV infrastructure on Utrecht's aspiration to become a 10-minute city

All over the world, cities are attempting to emit less carbon to limit the possibly detrimental effects of human-induced climate change. One way to limit carbon emissions is by reducing fossil fuel car use and transitioning to forms of low-carbon mobility. Electric vehicles (EVs) are an exponentially popular low-carbon transport solution,...

Applying Constraint Programming To Enterprise Modelling

Enterprise Modelling (EM) is the process of producing models, which in turn can be used to support understanding, analysis, (re)design, reasoning, control and learning about various aspects of an enterprise. Various EM techniques and languages exist, and are often supported by computational tools, in particular simulation. The goal of this...

Design approaches to tackle ethical issues for proficiency estimation in AI-enabled recruitment

Companies have been looking for automation in their hiring practices and Artificial Intelligence offers a solution. A popular opinion on the topic is that AI-enabled hiring will enhance talent acquisition overall, eliminating bias and bettering results. However, deployed AI hiring tools often do not offer a solution but worsen the problem by...

Uncertainty Analysis on Multi-model Ecologies: A Study on Methods to Analyse the Impact of Uncertainties in Multi-model Ecologies and their Application to the Windmaster Model

Our contemporary society consists of increasingly complex systems-of-systems in which technical and social subsystems influence each other. Multi-models reflect this complexity and are useful to analyse these complex socio-technical systems. They consist of connected simulation models which may each have their focus on a subsystem or modelling...

Agent-based Modelling of Complex Socio-technical Operations at Airports Serving as a Humanitarian Hub

Airports play a key role during humanitarian relief operations. It is therefore important to connect the humanitarian and aviation disciplines to find possibilities to improve these airport operations when operating during and after a humanitarian disaster. This research provides a methodology on how to model, verify, calibrate and validate the...

Evaluating Asset Management Strategies of Water Cycle Systems under Different Socio-technical Contexts

The main objective of this research was to understand on what extent external elements are taken into account in the strategic decision-making process on asset management and why specific external elements are more important than others. This objective was shaped from Vitens objective to improve their long-term asset management planning in line...

Witnessed Presence in Networked Wearables

Wearable electronics is a nascent sector of technology that is already generating a lot of excitement and speculation as a clear candidate for (yet another) disruptive innovation. Data from the (social) Internet in combination with various deployments of ubiquitous computing such as the Internet of Things (IoT) together a promise of...

DC Microgrids in the Netherlands

The Dutch electricity system is changing and subject to multiple developments. Important developments are the increasing share of distributed energy resources (DER?s) such as solar panels and the increasing use of electronics like computers and televisions. While DER?s produce DC (Direct Current) power, electronics consume DC power. Nevertheless...

A new perspective on usability: Towards a usable gas-desulphurization agent-based model at Shell P&T

While agent-based models (ABM) are increasingly used to study overall system behaviour of various systems, they can also be hard to use by people and organisations that are not familiar with this modelling paradigm. Creating usable agent-based models is thus an important aspect to consider while constructing agent-based models. However, an ABM...

On Track in Reducing Uncertainties: Exploration of the Value of the HAZOP Methodology as a Tool for Decision Makers at ProRail involved in Multi-Actor Decision Making

ProRail is the railway management company of the Netherlands. It is responsible for the construction, maintenance, management, and safety of the Dutch railway system. ProRail has as a goal an annual five per cent increase in the number of transported passengers up to 2020. This goal cannot be reached with the current way of transporting...