Projects
Bonus Social Valorisation - award VI en VII (2018-2019): L. Deliens & J. Cohen Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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 ...
The added value of the cooperative business model for current and future social needs - VIONA. University of Antwerp
Witnesses in Theban Property Contracts: a practical application of Social Network Analysis KU Leuven
Inspired by Padgett and Ansell’s seminal paper on the Medici: ‘Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici 1400-1434’, we aim to explore different types of relationships attested in the Theban sources and compare the resulting networks.
There has been a substantial amount of research undertaken into the Theban scribes and contracting parties, but witnesses have often been left out. We aim to tackle the issue of who these witnesses were, ...
Special merit regarding social valorisation - call 2012 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Greenways as a New Planning Strategy in the Pearl River Delta, China KU Leuven
The term of greenway is a derivation from greenbelt and parkway, which refer to linear green open spaces that serve for ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic, or other purposes compatible with the concept of sustainable land use. In the 1990s, the greenway movement in the world arose as a response, driven by basic human needs, to urbanization. In the diverse contexts, greenways have been an adaptive ...
Crime & Society: New Challenges Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Disaster Governance: Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability KU Leuven
English summary
Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...