The rapid growth of FinTech (financial technology) companies has brought significant transformation in the global financial landscape (Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), 2021). This disruption is intensifying after the COVID-19 pandemic (International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2022). The decentralized …

This report analyzes the workflow between UX designers, product owners, and developers, and the design system used by UX designers at Studyportals, evaluating its strengths and weaknesses and proposing improvements for a more efficient and collaborative process. It emphasizes the importance of a design …

DurableCASE aims for a cooperativity framework for mobile (agro)robots. The framework comprises multiple software agents, partly centralized and partly to be integrated in high-level individual robot planning, that allow individual robots to become part of a team, performing functions faster and/ or …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading has been recognized as an important technology to increase the local self-consumption of photovoltaics in the local energy system. Different auction mechanisms and bidding strategies haven been investigated in previous studies. However, there has been no comparatively …

The goal of a local energy community (LEC) is to create a more sustainable, resilient, and efficient energy system by reducing dependence on centralized power sources and enabling greater participation and control by local communities and individuals. LEC requires transformations in local energy systems, …

Print.com is an international printing company with offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. With over 200 employees who work in several departments: Crew Control, Ground Control, Finance, Supply Chain, Customer Journey, Frequent Flyers, Co-Creation, Brand & Concept, and Tech. I am part …

This thesis is the result of the graduation phase of the HBO-ICT: Soft-ware Engineering bachelor degree by Thymo van Beers. A researchproject was conducted at BauWatch lasting 20 weeks. Bauwatch pro-vides outdoor security throughout Europe using thousands of cam-eras. The goal of this thesis is to design …

Incentives are frequently used by governments and employers to encourage cooperation. Here, we investigated the effect of centralized incentives on cooperation, firstly in a behavioral study and then replicated in a subsequent neuroimaging (fMRI) study. In both studies, participants completed a novel …

Over many years we’ve been looking at the emergence of “organized networks” as an alternative concept that could counter the social media platform a priori of gathering (and then exploiting) “weak links.”[1] Organized networks invent new institutional forms whose dynamics, properties, and practices are …

Power usage is an important aspect of wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) and reducing the amount of information that is to be transmitted is one effective way to save it. In previous contributions, we presented sensor selection as well as rate distribution methods to reduce the power usage of …