Projects
Higher Order Modelling for First Order Solvers KU Leuven
Many common computational problems can be posed as model expansion problems, where the task is to find a solution satisfying a set of constraints. Many different paradigms and approaches exist to solve these problems. Likewise, there are many languages to express these problems in. Some of these are standardized, such as Answer Set Programming (ASP) or Minizinc. For some languages there is only one system, like the FO(.) language. The ...
Advanced bearing modelling for the numerical analysis of system-level machine dynamics KU Leuven
The last few decades have seen a growing trend towards lightweight and high performance mechanical systems. Meanwhile, the average time-to-market has been drastically reduced. These recent developments are driving the manufacturer's need to predict the dynamic machine behaviour more accurately and at an early design stage. Due to the advent of modern computational capabilities, numerical simulation tools can be used for this ...
Spatio-temporal modelling of the epidemiology of nephropathia epidemica and Lyme borrelosis KU Leuven
Modelling 3D structure of forest canopies using terrestrial LiDAR data to evaluate remotely sensed hyperspectral response KU Leuven
The forest canopy is a region of vast ecological relevance constituting the bulk for photosynthetically active foliage and biomass. Canopy-radiation interactions taking place in forest canopies are fundamental in understanding forest growth, regeneration and dynamics. Light detection and ranging scanning systems, have greatly contributed to the development of comprehensive 3D models across a wide range of disciplines, and is becoming key in ...
Fundamental issues in Software Engineering: Modelling, Verification and Evolution of Software - MoVES Vrije Universiteit Brussel
User modeling for personalized Ad retrieval KU Leuven
The era of Social Media-as we know it today-started around the early 2000s. Social media enable a form of virtual content sharing that is fundamentally different than before. Social media content is no longer created and published by specific individuals, but instead is continuously modified by all users in a collaborative fashion. Nowadays, users around the world are taking advantage of social media as one of their key components of ...
Machine Learning for Energy Performance Prediction in Early Design Stage of Buildings KU Leuven
The early building design is an iterative process. In this process, architects and engineers evaluate different design concepts to ensure the design brief is fulfilled. The rising need for a design to adhere to certain performance has introduced building performance simulation (BPS) into the design process. Early design decisions have the highest impact on building performance. Therefore, it is important to make good design decisions at this ...
Latent Variable Models for Language and Image Understanding in Social Media and E-Commerce Data KU Leuven
More content has been created in the past few years than in the entire history of humankind. With the exponential growth of user-contributed content, it becomes increasingly important to develop systems capable to intelligently process both language and images.
While understanding language appears effortless for humans from a young age, for computers, this is quite a challenging task. Inherently, languages are ambiguous and rich. Many ...
Personalized decision support models KU Leuven
Decision support systems are essential for managing an organization's operational and strategic processes. Although many of these systems model individual human beings, they do not take into account those individuals' unique characteristics. As a result, solutions generated are often infeasible for reasons such as ignoring personal habits. This dissertation explores two real-world cases in which accommodating such personalization is ...