Vanaf het eind van de vorige eeuw staat de creatieve industrie volop in de belangstelling van beleidmakers en onderzoekers, ook in ons land. De sector wordt gezien als een belangrijk onderdeel van de creatieve economie en representeert een nieuwe bron van economische en maatschappelijke waarde. In Nederland …

Computers create environmental problems. Their production requires electricity, raw materials, chemical materials and large amounts of water, and supplies (often toxic) waste. They poison dumping sites and pollute groundwater. In addition, the energy consumption in IT is growing exponentially, with and …

Information and communications technologies (ICT) can be very important to provide access to urban cultural heritage collections. Urban archives contain a lot of (historical) information about people, places, events, objects, trade and artefacts. Its worthwhile to make this information accessible for …

Founded in 2004, the Games for Health Project supports community, knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Games for Health Conference brings together researchers, medical professionals and game developers to share …

Using an ontology to automatically generate questions for ordinary people requires a structure and concepts com- pliant with human thought. Here we present methods to develop a pragmatic, expert-based and a basic-level ontology and a framework to evaluate these ontologies. Comparing these ontologies …

In this paper we present an experiment which has been performed to validate a pragmatic-based, expert-based and basic-level ontology. These ontologies were created for use in an application which generates questions for ordinary people with the purpose to determine a crisis situation. All three ontologies …

Ambient monitoring systems offer great possibilities for health trend analysis in addition to anomaly detection. Health trend analysis helps care professionals to evaluate someones functional health and direct or evaluate the choice of interventions. This paper presents one case study of a person that …

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) affect the environment in various ways. Their energy consumption is growing exponentially, with and without the use of ‘green’ energy. Increasing environmental awareness within information science has led to discussions on sustainable development. ‘Green …

Het proefschrift gaat in op de werkwijze, het belang en het gedrag van muziekuitgevers, de pioniers van de muziekindustrie. Sinds de uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst geven muziekuitgevers composities uit op bladmuziek of licenseren zij deze. Door het succes van de grammofoonplaat werden de uitgevers een …

1e alinea column: Afvalverwerker van Gansewinkel heeft de geweldige, creatieve, slogan áfvalbestaat niet, en bouwt daar een nieuwe business mee. Zo zijn er meer voorbeelden van bestaande ondernemingen die nieuwe, creatieve, combinaties toepassen in hun business en een win-win organiseren voor alle stakeholders …