The aim of this report is to determine whether there exists a difference in the public access to justice between several member states of the European Union. The report examines the judicial structures of three member states, along with the circumstances surrounding the access to the courts. A case study …

Introduction: Ambient intelligence technologies are a means to support ageing-in-place by monitoring clients in the home. In this study, monitoring is applied for the purpose of raising an alarm in an emergency situation, and thereby, providing an increased sense of safety and security. Apart from these …

This paper describes an agent-based software infrastructure for agile industrial production. This production is done on special devices called equiplets. A grid of these equiplets connected by a fast network is capable of producing a variety of different products in parallel. The multi-agent-based underlying …

The first part of this paper will start with an introduction of the general context of the education system in The Netherlands. This is followed by a presentation of the general characteristics of the teacher education system, of the balance between school autonomy and government control, and of the …

In the nineties the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), faculty Maritime Technology (MT), department of hydromechanics, and the RNLNC, nautical sciences department, led by professor J.A Spaans, explored the possibility of determining the coefficients from full-scale sea trials. As a starting point …

Students' educational careers in Higher Education: a search into key factors regarding study outcome One of the political goals of the EU is to develop 'the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010'. The Dutch knowledge economy faces an increased demand for highly-educated inhabitants, …

Voordat domotica ingezet wordt, moet er wel eerst bekend zijn wat u er aan heeft. Neem het Unattended Autonomous Surveillance-systeem (UAS). Maakt dit UAS-systeem bij thuiswonende cliënten met een verpleeghuisindicatie uitstel van verpleeghuisopname mogelijk? Deze vraag heeft Vilans onderzocht in samenwerking …

The principle of minimum relative entropy is proposed as a general fundamental principle that could be used by the brain to do inference and update beliefs about the world. It originates from information and probability theory, but we relate it it to the brain, to the concept of surprise and to a minimum …

conceptualizes the tension between autonomous art, community art and the state

conceptualizes the tension between autonomous dance and community dance in the light of the commitment of the state