Variational Algorithms for Bayesian Inference in Latent Gaussian Models

Promotor: Prof. dr. T.M. Heskes (RUN)
Promotie: 24 Januari 2011

Organizing Agent Organizations. Syntax and Operational Semantics of an Organization-Oriented Programming Language

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.J.Ch. Meyer (UU)
Copromotores: Dr. M.M. Dastani (UU), Dr. F. M. de Boer (CWI)
Promotie: 7 February 2011

Compositional Design and Verification of Component-Based Information Systems

Promotores: : Prof. dr. K.M. van Hee (TU/e), Prof. Dr. W. Reisig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Copromotores: Prof. dr. W. Scheper (UU), Dr. N. Sidorova (TU/e)
Promotie: 15 February 2011

Insights in Reinforcement Learning; Formal analysis and empirical evaluation of temporal-difference learning algorithms

Promotores: Prof. dr. J.J.Ch. Meyer (UU), Prof. dr. L.R.B. Schomaker (RUG)
Copromotor: Dr. M.A. Wiering (RUG)
Promotie: 17 January 2011

Enterprise Architecture Coming of Age - Increasing the Performance of an Emerging Discipline

Promotor: : Prof. dr. J.C. van Vliet (VUA)
Promotie: 25 February 2011

Semantically-Enhanced Recommendations in Cultural Heritage

Promotores: Prof. dr. P.M.E. De Bra (TU/e), Prof. dr. A.Th. Schreiber (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. L.M. Aroyo (VUA)
Promotie: 08 Februay 2011

Multimodal Information Presentation for High Load Human Computer Interaction

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Theune (UT)
Promotie: 03 February 2011

BDI-based Generation of Robust Task-Oriented Dialogues

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.J. Ch. Meyer (UU)
Copromotores: Dr. ir. R.J. Beun (UU), Dr. R van Eijk (UU)
Promotie: 09 March 2011

Contextualised Mobile Media for Learning

Promotores: Prof. dr. E.J.R. Koper (OU), Prof. Dr. M. Specht (OU)
Promotie: 10 June 2011

Cloud Content Contention

Promotores: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (TiU), Prof. dr. E.O. Postma (TiU)
Promotie: 30 March 2011

Designing for Awareness: An Experience-focused HCI Perspective

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT), Prof. dr. G. van der Veer (OU)
Copromotor: Dr. D. Heylen (UT)
Promotie: 18 February 2011

Grid Architecture for Distributed Process Mining

Promotor: Prof. dr. W.M.P. van der Aalst (TU/e)
Copromotor: Dr. N. Sidirova (TU/e)
Promotie: 29 March 2011

Airport under Control; Multiagent Scheduling for Airport Ground Handling

Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (TiU), Prof. dr. E.O. Postma (TiU)
Copromotores: Dr. ir. N. Roos (UM), Dr. A.H. Salden (Almende B.V.)
Promotie: 25 May 2011

Behavioral Finance and Agent-Based Artificial Markets

Promotores: Prof. Dr. J. Spronk (EUR), Prof. Dr. Ir. U. Kaymak (EUR, TU/e)
Promotie: 25 March 2011

The Meaning of Structure: the Value of Link Evidence for Information Retrieval

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.S. MacKenzie-Owen (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. J. Kamps (UvA)
Promotie: 15 April 2011

Selective Search in Games of Different Complexity

Promotor: Prof. dr. G. Weiss (UM)
Copromotores: Dr. M.H.M. Winands (UM), Dr. ir. J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (UM)
Promotie: 25 May 2011

Exploring Topic Structure: Coherence, Diversity and Relatedness

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UvA)
Promotie: 18 May 2011

Strategic Decision-Making in complex games

Promotor: Prof. dr. G. Weiss (UM)
Copromotores: Dr. K. Tuyls (UM), Dr. J. Ramon (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Promotie: 15 June 2011

The Mind’s Eye on Personal Profiles

Promotores: Prof. dr. E.J.R. Koper (OU) en Prof. dr. P.B. Sloep (OU)
Copromotor: Dr. J.M. van Bruggen (OU)
Promotie: 17 June 2011

Guiding service-oriented software engineering - A view-based approach

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.C. van Vliet (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. P. Lago (VUA)
Promotie: 06 October 2011

Modularization and Specification of Service-Oriented Systems

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.L.G. Dietz (TUD)
Promotie: 05 July 2011

System Evaluation of Archival Description and Access

Promotor: Prof. dr. T. Thomassen (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. J. Kamps (UvA)
Promotie: 30 September 2011

Finding People and their Utterances in Social Media

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UvA)
Promotie: 18 October 2011

Behavior Generation for Interpersonal Coordination with Virtual Humans On Specifying, Scheduling and Realizing Multimodal Virtual Human Behavior

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir . A. Nijholt (UT)
Promotie: 09 September 2011

Analysis and Validation of Models for Trust Dynamics

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Hoogendoorn (VUA)
Promotie: 09 September 2011

Virtual Agents for Human Communication - Emotion Regulation and Involvement-Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents and Robots

Promotores: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA), Prof. dr. E. Konijn (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. T. Bosse (VUA), Dr. J. Hoorn (VUA)
Promotie: 19 September 2011

Dynamic website optimization through autonomous management of design patterns

Promotor: Prof. dr. G. van der Veer (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. S. Bhulai (VUA)
Promotie: 25 November 2011

Effective Focused Retrieval by Exploiting Query Context and Document Structure

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.S. Mackenzie Owen (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr.J. Kamps (UvA)
Promotie: 07 October 2011

Discrimination-aware Classification

Promotor: Prof. dr. Paul De Bra (TU/e)
Copromotor: Dr. T. Calders (TU/e)
Promotie: 11 October 2011

Affective Signal Processing (ASP): Unraveling the mystery of emotions

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT), Prof. dr. T. Dijkstra (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. J.H.D.M. Westerink (Philips Research)
Promotie: 16 September 2011