Strategic Behaviour in Power Wholesale Electricity Markets: Design, Implementation & Validation of an Agent-based Simulation Platform KU Leuven
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This project has a two-fold objective. First, it wants to come up with a hermeneutic tool to interpret lists found in modern novels, i.e. is novels written from the second half of the nineteenth century up till now. Second, it wants to use this tool to trace the development of literary listing from the first modern Dutch novel (Multatuli’s Max Havelaar 1860) to the present day (Grunberg 2010).
Though the first objective is practical and ...
Probability distributions are fundamental tools for data analysis and statistical inference. Although often a symmetric distribution is used as a reference density for statistical modelling, it is unsuitable for multiple other applications. In this dissertation, we study a broad family of asymmetric distributions that can describe skewed data properly. A symmetric density is a special element in this family of densities. Based on the proposed ...
Wheat is an important raw material for the production of staple food in the Western world. Therefore, uncontrolled variations in wheat yield and quality are of major concern for farmers and the wheat processing industry. Such variations are often caused by adverse climatological conditions like repeated and prolonged rainfall shortly before or during harvest. Preharvest sprouting (PHS) of wheat is the germination of the seed in the ear of the ...
This PhD investigates the feasibility of applying Deep Learning methods to monocular autonomous navigation. Deep Learning has shown impressive results over the last seven years in computer vision, moving from hand crafted algorithms to end-to-end learned models. Whether the same idea of moving from hand crafted algorithms to end-to-end trained deep neural networks is also applicable to monocular navigation is still an open ...
The protection of coastal areas from erosion is an issue of great importance, not only for the hinterland safety but also for ecological, environmental or other reasons such as the recreational use of the coastal areas. In depth Investigation of key features of coastal erosion, such as the wave-induced sediment transport and the associated bed morphology evolution is inevitable in order to understand this process.
Coastal erosion ...
Children are admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) when they acutely need vital organ support to avoid imminent death. Although most of the children need intensive care for only a few days and most of them seemingly recover well from the acute insult, many of them are confronted with long-term consequences after critical illness as observed years after hospital discharge. This legacy, which remains largely unexplained, broadly ...