Publications

Modelling traffic pattern has always been a, major area of concern in transportation research. A custom agent-based simulation framework is developed to model travel behaviour in the region of Flanders (Belgium). The framework uses an activity-based approach to model traffic demand. The major idea behind activity-based models is that travel demand is derived from the activities that. individuals and households need or wish to perform. ...

Waste is an essential part of the circular economy and bio-waste especially has a lot of potential to be valorised further. Consequently, the waste treatment sector requires new technology and business models to deal with waste in a legitimate manner. Since there are a lot of technical studies that often overlook the context and systemic studies that overlook firm-level needs, we argue that there is a need for a systemic approach to analyse ...

In this paper, we extend the model of wound healing by Boon et al. (J Biomech 49(8):1388-1401, 2016). In addition to explaining the model explicitly regarding every component, namely cells, signalling molecules and tissue bundles, we categorized fibroblasts as regular fibroblasts and myofibroblasts. We do so since it is widely documented that myofibroblasts play a significant role during wound healing and skin contraction and that they are the ...

© 2018 by the authors. The ongoing economic pressure on farmers has resulted in lower gross margins, lower income, and a continuous decrease in the number of farmers in large parts of the world. Most remaining farmers upscale their activities by taking over the land of their former competitors, resulting in a decrease in agricultural employment and an increase in average farm size, accompanied by specialisation and new management techniques. ...

During the last decades, ongoing economic pressure as a result of increasing specialisation, mechanisation and globalisation have led to a continuous decrease in farmers numbers in many parts of the world. This process is leading to profound changes in the socio-ecological system of rural areas worldwide and confronts policy makers and rural planners with new challenges. To better understand such complex systems that are, to a certain extent, ...

Health interventions improve the management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children under 5 in high-burden low-income countries. However, evaluation of their implementation faces a paucity of information and could benefit from a system perspective derived from the knowledge of implementers and experts. These challenges could be addressed using simulation modelling. We compared Markov and agent-based models of interventions for improving ...

This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies,from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments. It features papers written by leading experts in the field that will help readers to better understand the usefulness of ABM for population projections, how ABM can be injected with empirical data to achieve a better match between model and reality, how geographic information can be fruitfully used ...

Emergence is a term used to describe the appearance of novel and complex properties, behaviors, or patterns from the interactions of simpler components within a system. This term, also known as "phase transitions", poses challenges for predicting the system behaviors by analyzing its individual parts in isolation. One useful computational paradigm to understand such emergent behaviors is Agent-based Modelling (AbM), which explicitly models the ...