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Nieuwenhuize, M. (author), Downe, S. (author), Gottfreðsdóttir, H. (author), Rijnders, M. (author), du Preez, A. (author), Vaz Rebelo, P. (author)Background The linear focus of ‘normal science’ is unable toadequately take account of the complex interactions that direct health care systems. There is a turn towards complexity theory as a more appropriate framework for understanding system behaviour. However, a comprehensive taxonomy for complexity theory in the context of health care is...article 2015
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Janssen, M. (author), van der Voort, H. (author), van Veenstra, A.F.E. (author)Many large transformation projects do not result in the outcomes desired or envisioned by the stakeholders. This type of project is characterised by dynamics which are both caused by and result of uncertainties and unexpected behaviour. In this paper a complex adaptive system (CAS) view was adopted in order to better understand project dynamics...article 2015
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Schraagen, J.M.C. (author)The goal of this study is to extend Rasmussen’s framework for risk management to research organisations having to deal with reduced income from government funding and increased market orientation. One human factors research organisation was studied in detail. Using archival records, changes were studied over the period 1989–2010. The results...article 2013
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Today’s embedded systems have to operate in a wide variety of dynamically changing environmental circumstances. Adaptivity, the ability of a system to autonomously adapt itself, is a means to optimise a system’s behaviour to accommodate changes in its environment. It involves making in-product trade-offs between system qualities at system level....book 2013
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Hendriks, A.J. (author), van de Laar, P.J.L.J. (author)Much, if not most, information needed to assess a crisis situation originates these days from cooperative sources such as the Internet and social networks. Public safety authorities face the challenge to compile this information of uncertain origin and quality in their situation understanding and response planning. Time matters: the integration...article 2013
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van Maanen, P.P. (author), Wisse, F. (author), van Diggelen, J. (author), Beun, R.J. (author)Problems with estimating trust in information sources are common in time constraining and ambiguous situations and often lead to a decrease of team performance. Humans lack the resources to track the integrity of information and thus tend to over- or under-rely on advice from support systems. Two types of adaptive team support have been...conference paper 2011
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de Jong, A.N. (author), van Eijk, A.M.J. (author), Benoist, K.W. (author), Gunter, W.H. (author), Vrahimis, G. (author), October, F.J. (author)Knowledge on the marine boundary layer is of importance for the prediction of the optical image quality obtained from long range targets. One property of the boundary layer, that can be studied rather easily by means of optical refraction measurements, is the vertical temperature profile. This profile can be compared with the profile, as...conference paper 2011
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van Willigen, W.H. (author), Schut, M.C. (author), Eiben, A.E. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)In this paper, we propose a technique for optimisation and online adaptation of search paths of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in search-and-identify missions. In these missions, a UAV has the objective to search for targets and to identify those. We extend earlier work that was restricted to offline generation of search paths by enabling the...conference paper 2011
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van den Broek, S.P. (author), Hanckmann, P. (author), Ditzel, M. (author)An approach for decision support, consisting of situation and threat assessment is described, as part of a distributed and adaptive multi-sensor fusion engine. The decision support module combines the management and assessment components for situations and threats. The situation assessment determines relations between observed and geographical...conference paper 2011
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Amditis, A. (author), Andreone, L. (author), Pagle, K. (author), Markkula, G. (author), Deregibus, E. (author), Romera Rue, M. (author), Bellotti, F. (author), Engelsberg, A. (author), Brouwer, R. (author), Peters, B. (author), de Gloria, A. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)The Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle interfacE (AIDE) is an integrated project funded by the European Commission in the Sixth Framework Programme. The project, which involves 31 partners from the European automotive industry and academia, deals with behavioral and technical issues related to automotive human-machine interface (HMI) design,...article 2010
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Borgers, H.J. (author), Kwint, M.E. (author), Petiet, P.J. (author), Spaans, M. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)Current missions demand commanding officers and their staff to be trained in decision and/or sense making in a complex and adaptive environment. An important factor for success in many missions is winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of the local population. The amount of violence, aid given, the damage level, the economic situation etcetera all...conference paper 2009
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TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author), van Foeken, E. (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author), van Iersel, M. (author)Sensor systems need to be more adaptive to perform well in dynamically changing environments. Common awareness in sensor systems enables distributed agents to perform coordinated actions and reason about other agents. In addition, physical distribution of the agents in the network prevent a single point of failure and provides distributed...conference paper 2009
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TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author), Kester, L.J.H.M. (author)Advances in network technologies enable distributed systems, operating in complex physical environments, to coordinate their activities over larger areas within shorter time intervals. Some envisioned application domains for such systems are defence, crisis management, traffic management and public safety. In these systems humans and machines...conference paper 2008
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te Brake, G.M. (author), Smets, N.J.J.M. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)This paper presents an experimental platform for the development and evaluation of mobile decision support for crisis response operations. Using a game-engine, synthetic task environments can be created in which coordination support and the usability of adaptive user interfaces for first responders can be examined in a highly controlled manner....conference paper 2007
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van Maanen, P.P. (author), Klos, T. (author), van Dongen, C.J.G. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)This paper argues that it is important to study issues concerning trust and reliance when developing systems that are intended to augment cognition. Operators often under-rely on the help of a support system that provides advice or that performs certain cognitive tasks autonomously. The decision to rely on support seems to be largely determined...conference paper 2007
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Matějka, P. (author), Burget, L. (author), Schwarz, P. (author), Glembek, O. (author), Karafiát, M. (author), Grézl, F. (author), Černocký, J. (author), van Leeuwen, D.A. (author), Brümmer, N. (author), Strasheim, A. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)This paper describes STBU 2006 speaker recognition system, which performed well in the NIST 2006 speaker recognition evaluation. STBU is consortium of 4 partners: Spescom Data Voice (South Africa), TNO (Netherlands), BUT (Czech Republic) and University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). The primary system is a combination of three main kinds of...conference paper 2007
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TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author), de Greef, T.E. (author), Arciszewski, H.F.R. (author)On Navy ships, technological developments enable crews to work more efficiently and effectively. However, in such complex, autonomous, and information-rich environments a competition for the users' attention is going on between different information items, possibly leading to a cognitive overload. This overload originates in the limitations of...bookPart 2007
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Berkhoff, A.P. (author), Wesselink, J.M. (author), TNO Industrie en Techniek (author)This paper discusses configurations for controlling broadband noise using piezoelectrically excited panels. The configurations can be distinguished by the physical layout and by the control structure. The physical layout of the system has some influence on the complexity of the control algorithms. For particular actuator/sensor combinations and...conference paper 2006
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Lenior, D. (author), Janssen, W.H. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Schreibers, K. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author)The theme Smart Transport can be described as adequate human-system symbiosis to realize effective, efficient and human-friendly transport of goods and information. This paper addresses how to attune automation to human (cognitive) capacities (e.g. to take care of information uncertainty, operator trust and mutual man-machine adaptations). An...article 2006