A recent study by the Chamber of Commerce stated that the number of female ethnic entrepreneurs has been rising over the years. In particular, the Turkish female entrepreneurs are ahead. However, the reason why these numbers are increasing has not been given. Therefore this research paper will examine: …

Agent-based models (ABMs) are important tools for predicting infectious disease epidemics and for designing effective interventions. ABMs take into account individual differences, for instance in contact rate. The drawbacks of ABMs are high complexity and low performance. In this paper, we present a …

For the purpose of good and trustworthy management information for the government, our research institute has built a data space system that makes it possible to periodically monitor data flows within as well as between organizations of the justice domain. The aim of this system is to get insight into …

On preserving privacy whilst integrating data in connected information systems.

Local governments are increasingly looking for new ways to involve citizens in policy and decision-making, for example by combining public sector data sources with data gathered by citizens. Several examples exist of data gathering where personal mobile devices act as data collectors. While these efforts …

In this paper we present the concepts and implementation of a data space system for the management of data from heterogeneous sources in the criminal justice field. Our system exploits domain knowledge in the field of justice to streamline and to relate the content of different databases in the chain. …

The availability of real-life data sets is of crucial importance for algorithm and application development, as these often require insight into the specific properties of the data. Often, however, such data are not released because of their proprietary and confidential nature. We propose to solve this …

For a successful public value strategy, the elements “public values/strategic goals”, authorizing environment” and “operational capability” should be coherently aligned. In this paper, we discuss how we have aligned these elements in the context of Open Data. We focus on the relationships between …

Het idee om overheidsdata vrij beschikbaar te stellen aan de samenleving is relatief nieuw en heeft een groot innovatief potentieel. Rotterdam speelt in op internationale bewegingen om informatie uit de publieke sector vrij te geven als open data. Om dit proces in gang te zetten en te bespoedigen heeft …

ING, KLM, SNS. Ze waren slachtoffer van Ddos-aanvallen. Soms dagenlang. Wat is daar tegen te doen, vroeg Profielen aan Sunil Choenni, lector bij het kenniscentrum Human Centered ICT en expert op het gebied van cybercrime.