Projects
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, ...
Development of accelerator programme for social entrepreneurs to support the entire ecosystem 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 ...
Social Reform, Food and the Laboring Poor: Popular Restaurants in the Low Countries (1860-1920) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Voicing youth at social risk. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The goal is to investigate with and from the perspective of young people who are in social exclusion situations (such as refugees, migrants with or without papers, ...
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 ...
Techno-Economic Research for futuRe Access Infrastructure Networks KU Leuven
Launch of Knowledge Platform Diversity, Urbanity and Citizenship University of Antwerp
Middleware for Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications KU Leuven
Mobile crowd sensing applications offer an innovative approach to realise people-centric and environmental-centric sensing applications in scenarios such as smart buildings, traffic and road condition monitoring, or e-healthcare. These applications involve large numbers of participants using heterogeneous mobile devices. These devices differ in terms of hardware (e.g. on-board sensors available), software (e.g. operating system), and external ...