2017 was het jaar van de artificiële intelligentie, IoT, blockchain en mixed reality. Vooral op het gebied van mixed reality werd het jaar met het nodige vuurwerk afgesloten.

The year 2017 was the year of artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain and mixed reality. It ended with some spectacular fireworks in the field of mixed reality.

From the article: "To extend the lifetime of products, an agent is connected to the product. This agent has several roles. It depends on the phase of the lifecycle what these roles will be. One of the roles in the usage or recycling phase is to negotiate for buying spare parts in case a part of the product …

Ecosystem engineering research has recently demonstrated the fundamental importance of non-trophic interactions for food-web structure. Particularly, by creating benign conditions in stressful environments, ecosystem engineers create hot beds of elevated levels of recruitment, growth, and survival of …

The Amsterdam Sensor Lab is part of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and its goal is to develop application specific sensor systems for applied research. In order to (anonymously) measure, for instance, traffic without influencing people’s behaviour, a pressure sensing sub-tile is …

A few years ago the Dutch government set goals for sustainability. These goals include switching to fully sustainable energy production by 2050. Using only conventional sustainable energy production methods like solar panels and wind turbines will not result in achieving the set goals, so alternative …

Workshop virtual coach: balanceren tussen personalisatie en big data

Uit de aankondiging: "Steeds meer systemen loggen gegevens over hoe het bedrijfsproces verloopt, maar loopt het proces wel zoals het bedoeld was? Wat zijn de knelpunten? Text mining is vaak lastig doordat er tijdstippen ontbreken, process mining kan niet werken zonder tijdstippen, de combinatie van …

In social settings, people often need to reason about unobservable mental content of other people, such as their beliefs, goals, or intentions. This ability helps them to understand, to predict, and even to influence the behavior of others. People can take this ability further by applying it recursively. …

One of the most remarkable phenomena in nature is mimicry, in which one species (the mimic) evolves to imitate the phenotype of another species (the model). Several reasons for the origin of mimicry have been proposed, but no definitive conclusion has been found yet. In this paper, we test several of …