List of dissertations 2014

2014-01

Nicola Barile (UU)

Studies in Learning Monotone Models from Data

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.P.J.M. Siebes (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. A. J. Feelders (UU)
Promotie: 10 February 2014

2014-02

Fiona Tuliyano (RUN)

Combining System Dynamics with a Domain Modeling Method

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. H.A. Proper (RUN), Prof. dr. ir. Th.P. van der Weide (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. P. Van Bommel
Promotie: 27 January 2014

2014-03

Sergio Raul Duarte Torres (UT)

Information Retrieval for Children: Search Behavior and Solutions

Promotor: Prof. dr. P.M.G. Apers (UT), Prof. dr. T.W.C. Huibers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. D. Hiemstra (UT)
Promotie: 14 February 2014

2014-04

Hanna Jochmann-Mannak (UT)

Websites for children: search strategies and interface design - Three studies on children's search performance and evaluation

Promotor: Prof. dr. T.W.C Huibers (UT), Prof. dr. L.R. Lentz (UU)
Copromotor: Prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders (UU)
Promotie: 09 January 2014

2014-05

Jurriaan van Reijsen (UU)

Knowledge Perspectives on Advancing Dynamic Capability

Promotor: Prof. dr. S. Brinkkemper (UU)
Copromotor: Prof. dr. R. Helms (UU)
Promotie: 19 March 2014

2014-06

Damian Tamburri (VU)

Supporting Networked Software Development

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. C. van Vliet (VU)
Copromotor: Dr. P. Lago (VU)
Promotie: 19 March 2014

2014-07

Arya Adriansyah (TU/e)

Aligning Observed and Modeled Behavior

Promotor: Prof. dr. W. M. P. van der Aalst (TU/e)
Copromotor: Dr. B. F. van Dongen (TU/e)
Promotie: 03 April 2014

2014-08

Samur Araujo (TUD)

Data Integration over Distributed and Heterogeneous Data Endpoints

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. H. Reinders (TUD), Prof. dr. ir. A. P. de Vries (TUD/CWI)
Promotie: 04 February 2014

2014-09

Philip Jackson (TiU)

Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence: Representation and Computation of Meaning in Natural Language

Promotores: Prof. dr. H. Bunt (TiU), Prof. dr. W. Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Promotie: 22 April 2014

2014-10

Ivan Salvador Razo Zapata (VUA)

Service Value Networks

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. M. Akkermans (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. P. De Leenheer (VUA), Dr. J. Gordijn (VUA)
Promotie: 20 May 2014

2014-11

Janneke van der Zwaan (TUD)

An Empathic Virtual Buddy for Social Support

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. Jonker (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. V. Dignum (TUD)
Promotie: 10 March 2014

2014-12

Willem van Willigen (VUA)

Look Ma, No Hands: Aspects of Autonomous Vehicle Control

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. E. Eiben (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. E. Haasdijk (VUA), Dr. ir. L. Kester (TNO)
Promotie: 28 May 2014

2014-12

Arlette van Wissen (VUA)

Agent-Based Support for Behavior Change: Models and Applications in Health and Safety Domains

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. M. C. A. Klein (VUA)
Promotie: 25 March 2014

2014-14

Yangyang Shi (TUD)

Language Models With Meta-information

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. Jonker (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Larson (TUD)
Promotie: 11 March 2014

2014-15

Natalya Mogles (VUA)

Agent-Based Analysis and Support of Human Functioning in Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Applications in Safety and Healthcare

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. T. Bosse (VUA), Dr. M. C. A. Klein (VUA)
Promotie: 08 April 2014

2014-16

Krystyna Milian (VUA)

Supporting trial recruitment and design by automatically interpreting eligibility criteria

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. A. H. van Harmelen (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. A. Ten Teije (VUA)
Promotie: 07 April 2014

2014-17

Kathrin Dentler (VUA)

Computing healthcare quality indicators automatically: Secondary Use of Patient Data and Semantic Interoperability

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. A. H. van Harmelen (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. ir. R. Cornet (UVA), Dr. N. F. de Keizer (UVA), Dr. A. ten Teije (VUA)
Promotie: 19 May 2014

2014-18

Mattijs Ghijsen (UvA)

Methods and Models for the Design and Study of Dynamic Agent Organizations

Promotor: Prof. dr. B. J. Wielinga (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. W. N. H. Jansweijer (UvA)
Promotie: 09 April 2014

2014-19

Vinicius Ramos (TU/e)

Adaptive Hypermedia Courses: Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation and Tool Support

Promotores: Prof. dr. P.M.E. De Bra (TU/e) and Prof. dr. G. B. Xexeo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Copromotor: Mykola Pechenizkiy (TU/e)
Promotie: 29 April 2014

2014-20

Mena Habib (UT)

Named Entity Extraction and Disambiguation for Informal Text: The Missing Link

Promotor: Prof. dr. P.M.G. Apers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. van Keulen (UT)
Promotie: 09 May 2014

2014-21

Kassidy Clark (TUD)

Negotiation and Monitoring in Open Environments

Promotor: Prof. dr. F.M.T. Brazier (TUD)
Promotie: 14 May 2014

2014-22

Marieke Peeters (UU)

Personalized Educational Games - Developing agent-supported scenario-based training

Promotores: Prof. dr. J.J. Ch. Meyer (UU), Prof. dr. M.A. Neerincx (TNO, TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. K. van den Bosch (TNO)
Promotie: 05 June 2014

2014-23

Eleftherios Sidirourgos (UvA/CWI)

Space Efficient Indexes for the Big Data Era

Promotores: Prof. dr. M. Kersten (CWI/UvA), Prof. dr. P. Boncz (CWI/VU)
Promotie: 14 May 2014

2014-24

Davide Ceolin (VUA)

Trusting Semi-structured Web Data

Promotores: Prof. dr. A.Th. Schreiber (VUA), Prof. dr. W.J. Fokkink (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. W.R. van Hage (VUA)
Promotie: 02 July 2014

2014-25

Martijn Lappenschaar (RUN)

New network models for the analysis of disease interaction

Promotor: Prof. dr.P. Lucas (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. A. Hommersom (RUN)
Promotie: 02 June 2014

2014-26

Tim Baarslag (TUD)

What to Bid and When to Stop

Promotor: Prof. dr. C.M. Jonker (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. K.V. Hindriks (TUD)
Promotie: 18 September 2014

2014-27

Rui Jorge Almeida (EUR)

Conditional Density Models Integrating Fuzzy and Probabilistic Representations of Uncertainty

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. U. Kaymak (TU/e), Prof. dr.ir. Joao Miguel da Costa Sousa (Universidade de Lisboa)
Promotie: 26 June 2014

2014-28

Anna Chmielowiec (VUA)

Decentralized k-Clique Matching

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. M.R. van Steen (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. S. Voulgaris (VUA)
Promotie: 18 September 2014

2014-29

Jaap Kabbedijk (UU)

Variability in Multi-Tenant Enterprise Software

Promotores: Prof. dr. S. Brinkkemper (UU), Prof. dr. J.C. Wortmann (RUG)
Copromotor: Dr. S.R.L. Jansen (VU)
Promotie: 20 October 2014

2014-30

Peter de Cock (TiU)

Anticipating Criminal Behaviour

Promotores: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (RUL), Prof. dr.J.C.Scholtes (UM)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. P.H.M.Spronck (TiU)
Promotie: 10 September 2014

2014-31

Leo van Moergestel (UU)

Agent Technology in Agile Multiparallel Manufacturing and Product Support

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.J.Ch. Meyer (UU)
Promotie: 10 September 2014

2014-32

Naser Ayat (UvA)

On Entity Resolution in Probabilistic Data

Promotores: Prof. dr. H. Afsarmanesh (UvA), Prof. dr. P. Valduriez (INRIA)
Copromotor: Dr. R. Akbarinia (INRIA))
Promotie: 30 September 2014

2014-33

Tesfa Tegegne (RUN)

Service Discovery in eHealth

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. Th.P. Van der Weide (RUN)
Promotie: 05 September 2014

2014-34

Christina Manteli (VUA)

The Effect of Governance in Global Software Development: Analyzing Transactive Memory Systems.

Promotores: Prof. dr. H. Van Vliet (VUA), Prof. dr. B.J. van den Hooff (VUA)
Promotie: 15 October 2014

2014-35

Joost van Oijen (UU)

Cognitive Agents in Virtual Worlds: A Middleware Design Approach

Promotor: Prof. dr.J.J.Ch. Meyer (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. F. Dignum (UU)
Promotie: 28 October 2014

2014-36

Joos Buijs (TU/e)

Flexible Evolutionary Algorithms for Mining Structured Process Models.

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. W.M.P. van der Aalst (TU/e)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. B.F. van Dongen (TU/e)
Promotie: 28 October 2014

2014-37

Maral Dadvar (UT)

Experts and Machines United Against Cyberbullying

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. De Jong (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. F. Dignum (UU)
Promotie: 12 September 2014

2014-38

Danny Plass-Oude Bos (UT)

Making brain-computer interfaces better: improving usability through post-processing.

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. Nijholt (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Poel (UT)
Promotie: 21 November 2014

2014-39

Jasmina Maric (TiU)

Web Communities, Immigration, and Social Capital

Promotor: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (RUL)
Copromotores: Dr. R. Cozijn (TiU), Dr. M. Spotti (TiU)
Promotie: 18 November 2014

2014-40

Walter Omona (RUN)

A Framework for Knowledge Management Using ICT in Higher Education.

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. Th. Van der Weide (RUN), Prof. dr. P.H.J. Hendriks
Promotie: 03 December 2014

2014-41

Frederic Hogenboom (EUR)

Automated Detection of Financial Events in News Text

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. U. Kaymak (TU/e), Prof. dr. F.M.G. De Jong (UT/EUR)
Copromotor: Dr. F. Frasincar (EUR)
Promotie: 11 December 2014

2014-42

Carsten Eijckhof (CWI/TUD)

Contextual Multidimensional Relevance Models

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A.P. De Vries (CWI/TUD)
Promotie: 14 Oktober 2014

2014-43

Kevin Vlaanderen (UU)

Supporting Process Improvement using Method Increments

Promotor: Prof. dr. S. Brinkkemper (UU)
Copromotores: Dr. G.C. Van de Weerd (VU), Dr. F. Dalpiaz (UU)
Promotie: 11 December 2014

2014-44

Paulien Meesters (TiU)

Intelligent Blauw: Intelligence-gestuurde politiezorg in gebiedsgebonden eenheden.

Promotores: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (RUL), Prof. dr. Th. De Roos (TiU)
Promotie: 01 December 2014

2014-45

Birgit Schmitz (OUN)

Mobile Games for Learning: A Pattern-Based Approach

Promotor: Prof. dr .M. Specht (OUN)
Copromotor: Dr. R. Klemke (OUN)
Promotie: 12 December 2014

2014-46

Ke Tao (TUD)

Social Web Data Analytics: Relevance, Redundancy, Diversity

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir .G.J. Houben (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. C. Hauff (TUD)
Promotie: 09 December 2014

2014-47

Shangsong Liang (UvA)

Fusion and Diversification in Information Retrieval

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. De Rijke (UvA)
Promotie: 15 December 2014

SIKS

List of dissertations 2014