Scientific publications


Explore the publications from TNO‑ESI, showcasing our research findings and expertise. This includes peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, and research reports, as well as more accessible publications that share insights from our collaborations with industry partners. You can easily search the publications by keyword to find what is most relevant to you.

Year
2023
Authors
Vasenev, A.; Marincic, J.

TNO report : System architecting for environmental sustainability and circularity – literature review

In this report, we summarize a selection of articles from the state-of-the-art in the domain of environmental sustainability and circularity (ESC). In particular, we focus on (1) frameworks connecting business goals and system architect’s technical decisions and (2) design principles for product design.
Year
2023
Authors
Acur, S.; Hendriks, A.J.; Meijaard, Y.; Vliet-Hameeteman, C. van der

SOS! Ensuring safety and security in an expanding system of systems landscape

Year
2023
Authors
Baneshi, S.; Varbanescu, A.L.; Pathania, A.; Akesson, B.; Pimentel, A.

Estimating the Energy Consumption of Applications in the Computing Continuum with iFogSim

Digital services - applications that often span the entire computing continuum - have become an essential part of our daily lives, but they can have a significant energy cost, raising sustainability concerns. The computing continuum features multiple distributed layers (edge, fog, and cloud) with specific computing infrastructure and scheduling decisions at each layer, which impact the overall quality of service and energy consumption of digital services.
Year
2023
Authors
Muller, G.; Veen, L. van; Aker, J. van den

Systems Engineering Education: From Learning Program to Business Value

Published in
Systems, 11(510)
The complexity of delivering business value is increasing technically and socially. The increasing complexity triggers the need for an increase in systems competence in several roles within the technical domain. One of the core disciplines to focus on this competence is systems engineering, which gets increasing attention within the Dutch ecosystem to enhance individuals and organizations further in this competence.
Year
2023
Authors
Hegge, J.; Hendriks, D.; Laar, P. van de; Sanden, L.J. van der; Oortwijn, W.; Yang, N.

State-of-the-art study on formalisms and methods to specify and analyze flows in logistic processes

Year
2023
Authors
Verriet, J.H.

Compositional Performance Prediction for Tightly Coupled Manufacturing Systems

In this report, we have described a domain model for the timing behaviour of production systems consisting of multiple connected units. The domain model consists of four domain-specific languages: The Material language specifies the materials to be handled by a production system and the operations that can be performed on these materials.
Year
2023
Authors
Fokkink, W.; Goorden, M.; Hendriks, D.; Mortel-Fronczak, A. van de; Oortwijn, W.; Rooda, K.

Synthesis-based engineering of supervisory controllers

Published in
Mikroniek(6), pp. 22-26.
Synthesis-based engineering (SBE) provides assistance needed to manage the complexity of guaranteeing safe control, by combining model-based engineering with computer-aided design. It builds on the synthesis procedure computing a correctby-construction controller from models of the to-be-controlled system and associated requirements.
Year
2023
Authors
Houben, R.; Reinten, I.; Dreschler, W.A.; Mathijssen, R.; Dijkstra, T.M.H.

Preferred Strength of Noise Reduction for Normally Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners

Published in
Trends in hearing, 27
Preference for noise reduction (NR) strength differs between individuals. The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate whether hearing loss influences this preference, (2) to find the number of distinct settings required to classify participants in similar groups based on their preference for NR strength, and (3) to estimate the number of paired comparisons needed to predict to which preference group a participant belongs.
Year
2023
Authors
Roncea, A.

Improving the verification capabilities of ComMA : Master Thesis

Designing and maintaining robust interfaces for software components of component-based systems is a challenging task. To address this issue, TNO-ESI and Philips have employed model-driven engineering techniques by creating ComMA (Component Modelling and Analysis Suite), a framework that has been successfully used in the industry.
Year
2023
Authors
Gerwen, E. van; Barnini, L.; Borth, M.

Differential Diagnosis with Active Testing

The diagnosis of complex systems benefits greatly from a differential, multistep approach that narrows down the list of possible conditions or failures that share the same observable effects to a single root cause. We provide a suitable and practically applicable methodology for this. In extension to existing work, it covers all types of diagnostic actions, i.