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List of dissertations 2008

List of dissertations 2008
2008-01
Katalin Boer-Sorbán (EUR)
Agent-Based Simulation of Financial Markets: A modular, continuous-time approach

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. de Bruin (EUR)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. U. Kaymak (EUR)
Promotie: 25 January 2008
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2008-02
Alexei Sharpanskykh (VUA)
On Computer-Aided Methods for Modeling and Analysis of Organizations

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Promotie: 10 January 2008
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2008-03
Vera Hollink (UvA)
Optimizing hierarchical menus: a usage-based approach

Promotor: Prof. dr. B.J. Wielinga (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. M.W. van Someren (UvA)
Promotie: 31 January 2008
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2008-04
Ander de Keijzer (UT)
Management of Uncertain Data - towards unattended integration

Promotor: Prof. dr. P.M.G. Apers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. M. van Keulen (UT)
Promotie: 01 February 2008
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2008-05
Bela Mutschler (UT)
Modeling and simulating causal dependencies on process-aware information systems from a cost perspective

Promotor: Prof. Dr. R. J. Wieringa (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. U. Reichert (UT)
Promotie: 17 January 2008
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2008-06
Arjen Hommersom (RUN)
On the Application of Formal Methods to Clinical Guidelines, an Artificial Intelligence Perspective

Promotor: Prof. dr.ir. Th.P. van der Weide (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. P.J.F. Lucas (RUN)
Promotie: 18 April 2008
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2008-07
Peter van Rosmalen (OU)
Supporting the tutor in the design and support of adaptive e-learning

Promotor: Prof. dr. E.J.R. Koper (OU)
Copromotor: Prof. dr. P.B. Sloep (OU)
Promotie: 18 April 2008
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2008-08
Janneke Bolt (UU)
Bayesian Networks: Aspects of Approximate Inference

Promotor: Prof. dr.ir L.C. van der Gaag (UU)
Promotie: 21 April 2008
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2008-09
Christof van Nimwegen (UU)
The paradox of the guided user: assistance can be counter-effective

Promotor: Prof. dr. L. van den Berg (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. H. van Oostendorp (UU)
Promotie: 31 March 2008
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2008-10
Wauter Bosma (UT)
Discourse oriented summarization

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Theune (UT)
Promotie: 27 March 2008
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2008-11
Vera Kartseva (VUA)
Designing Controls for Network Organizations: A Value-Based Approach

Promotores: Prof. dr. Y.H. Tan (VUA), Prof. dr.ir R. Paans (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. J. Gordijn (VUA)
Promotie: 28 May 2008
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2008-12
Jozsef Farkas (RUN)
A Semiotically Oriented Cognitive Model of Knowledge Representation

Promotor: Prof. dr.ir. Th.P. van der Weide (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. J.J. Sarbo (RUN)
Promotie: 23 April 2008
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2008-13
Caterina Carraciolo (UvA)
Topic Driven Access to Scientific Handbooks

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. J. Kircz (HvA)
Promotie: 25 April 2008
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2008-14
Arthur van Bunningen (UT)
Context-Aware Querying; Better Answers with Less Effort

Promotores: Prof. dr. P.M.G. Apers (UT), Prof. dr. L. Feng (Tsinghua University, China)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Fokkinga (UT)
Promotie: 13 June 2008
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2008-15
Martijn van Otterlo (UT)
The Logic of Adaptive Behavior: Knowledge Representation and Algorithms for the Markov Decision Process Framework in First-Order Domains.

Promotores: Prof. dr.ir A. Nijholt (UT), Prof. dr. J.-J.Ch. Meyer (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Poel (UT)
Referent: Dr. M. Wiering (RUG)
Promotie: 30 May 2008
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2008-16
Henriette van Vugt (VUA)
Embodied agents from a user's perspective

Promotores: Prof. dr. J. Kleinnijenhuis (VUA) Prof. dr. G.C. van der Veer (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. J. Hoorn (VUA), Dr. E.A. Konijn (VUA)
Promotie: 25 June 2008
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2008-17
Martin Op 't Land (TUD)
Applying Architecture and Ontology to the Splitting and Allying of Enterprises

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. J.L.G. Dietz (TUD)
Promotie: 13 June 2008
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2008-18
Guido de Croon (UM)
Adaptive Active Vision

Promotores: Prof. dr. E.O. Postma (UM), Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (UM)
Promotie: 26 June 2008
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2008-19
Henning Rode (UT)
From Document to Entity Retrieval: Improving Precision and Performance of Focused Text Search

Promotor: Prof. dr. P.M.G. Apers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. D. Hiemstra (UT)
Promotie: 27 June 2008
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2008-20
Rex Arendsen (UvA)
Geen bericht, goed bericht. Een onderzoek naar de effecten van de introductie van elektronisch berichtenverkeer met de overheid op de administratieve lasten van bedrijven.

Promotor: prof. dr. T.M. van Engers (UvA)
Promotie: 07 October 2008
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2008-21
Krisztian Balog (UvA)
People Search in the Enterprise

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UvA)
Promotie: 30 September 2008
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2008-22
Henk Koning (UU)
Communication of IT-Architecture

Promotores: Prof. dr. S. Brinkkemper (UU), Prof. dr. J.C. van Vliet (VUA),
Copromotor: Dr. R. Bos (UU)
Promotie: 24 September 2008
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2008-23
Stefan Visscher (UU)
Bayesian network models for the management of ventilator-associated pneumonia

Promotor:Prof. dr. M.J.M Bonten (UU/ UMCU)
Copromotores: Dr. P. Lucas (RUN), Dr. C.A.M. Schurink (EUR)
Promotie: 30 September 2008
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2008-24
Zharko Aleksovski (VUA)
Using background knowledge in ontology matching

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. van Harmelen (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. W. ten Kate (VUA)
Promotie: 05 September 2008
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2008-25
Geert Jonker (UU)
Efficient and Equitable Exchange in Air Traffic Management Plan Repair using Spender-signed Currency

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.J.Ch. Meyer (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. F. Dignum (UU)
Promotie: 06 October 2008
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2008-26
Marijn Huijbregts (UT)
Segmentation, Diarization and Speech Transcription: Surprise Data Unraveled

Promotor: Prof. dr. F.M.G. de Jong (UT)
Copromotor: dr. R.J.F. Ordelman (UT)
Promotie: 21 November 2008
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2008-27
Hubert Vogten (OU)
Design and Implementation Strategies for IMS Learning Design

Promotor: Prof. dr. E.J.R. Koper (OU)
Copromotor: Dr. J.M. van Bruggen (OU)
Promotie: 07 November 2008
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2008-28
Ildiko Flesch (RUN)
On the Use of Independence Relations in Bayesian Networks

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. Th.P. van der Weide (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. P.J.F. Lucas (RUN))
Promotie: 27 November 2008
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2008-29
Dennis Reidsma (UT)
Annotations and Subjective Machines - Of Annotators, Embodied Agents, Users, and Other Humans

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. H. J. A. op den Akker (UT)
Promotie: 09 October 2008
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2008-30
Wouter van Atteveldt (VUA)
Semantic Network Analysis: Techniques for Extracting, Representing and Querying Media Content

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. van Harmelen (VUA), Prof. dr. J. Kleinnijenhuis (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. S. Schlobach (VUA)
Promotie: 11 November 2008
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2008-31
Loes Braun (UM)
Pro-Active Medical Information Retrieval

Promotor: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (UM), Prof. dr.ir. A. Hasman (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. F. Wiesman (UvA)
Promotie: 29 October 2008
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2008-32
Trung H. Bui (UT)
Toward Affective Dialogue Management using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. J. Zwiers (UT)
Promotie: 09 October 2008
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2008-33
Frank Terpstra (UvA)
Scientific Workflow Design; theoretical and practical issues

Promotor: Prof. dr. P.W. Adriaans (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. G.R. Meijer (UvA)
Promotie: 06 November 2008
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2008-34
Jeroen de Knijf (UU)
Studies in Frequent Tree Mining

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.P.J.M. Siebes (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. A.J. Feelders (UU)
Promotie: 19 November 2008
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2008-35
Ben Torben Nielsen (TiU)
Dendritic morphologies: function shapes structure

Promotor: Prof. dr H.J. van den Herik (TiU), Prof. dr. E.O. Postma (TiU)
Copromotor: Dr. K.P. Tuyls (TU/e)
Promotie: 03 December 2008