Frank Schipper: Music 2.0: Fast Operas and Virtual Choirs
Music today is deeply affected by infrastructures. Retailers and the music industry feel the heat of new competitors offering free (and paid) listening, such as Grooveshark, Jango, Pandora, Spotify, or Youtube.
Road networks are traditionally designed to function efficiently and cost-effectively but only if things go according to plan. Disturbances are usually not taken into account in network planning. Researcher Maaike Snelder is taking a different approach. She argues that to make networks more robust and travel times more reliable, network design should take contingencies into account. more
The TU Delft has completed a research project on the regulation of wholesale electricity markets. This affects a range of factors with a high social impact, like electricity prices, the reliability of power supply and the integration of renewable energy. more
Exploring and exhibiting a variety of complex adaptive systems approaches to infrastructure, Next Generation Infrastructures and the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium are bringing together leading scientists, engineers and economists from their programmes to discuss the state-of-the-art in modelling change and adaptation in infrastructure systems. more
Igor Nikolic, Zofia Lukszo and Koen van Dam from the section Energy en Industry from the faculty Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft recently publiced the book Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems. more