Patterns that Matter

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.P.J.M. Siebes (UU)
Promotie: 09 February 2010

Work flows in Life Science

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT), Prof. dr. G.C. van der Veer (OU)
Copromotor: Dr. P. van der Vet (UT)
Promotie: 14 January 2010

A Document Engineering Model and Processing Framework for Multimedia documents

Promotor: Prof. dr. L. Hardman (CWI/TU/e)
Copromotor: Dr. J. van Ossenbruggen (CWI)
Promotie: 03 February 2010

Do You Know What I Know? Situational Awareness of Co-located Teams in Multidisplay Environments

Promotores: Prof. dr.ir. A. Nijholt (UT), Prof. dr. G.C. van der Veer (OU)
Copromotor: Dr. E. M. A. G. van Dijk (UT)
Promotie: 14 January 2010

Predicting the Effectiveness of Queries and Retrieval Systems

Promotor: Prof. dr. F.M.G. de Jong (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. D. Hiemstra (UT)
Promotie: 29 January 2010

Rapid Adaptation of Video Game AI

Promotor: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (TiU)
Copromotor:Dr. ir. H. M. Spronck (TiU)
Promotie: 03 March 2010

Gesture interaction at a Distance

Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT), Prof. dr. G.C. van der Veer (OU)
Copromotor: Dr. P. van der Vet (UT)
Promotie: 11 March 2010

Towards an Improved Regulatory Framework of Free Software. Protecting user freedoms in a world of software communities and eGovernments

Promotores: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (TiU/UL), Prof. mr. A.H.J. Schmidt (UL)
Promotie: 20 April 2010

Politiële gegevensverwerking en Privacy, Naar een effectieve waarborging

Promotores: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (TiU/UL), Prof. mr. A.H.J. Schmidt (UL)
Copromotor: Mr. dr. L. Mommers (UL)
Promotie: 14 April 2010

Mobile Communication and Protection of Children

Promotor: Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (TiU/UL)
Copromotor: Dr. mr. B. Schermer
Promotie: 22 April 2010

The world according to MARP: Multi-Agent Route Planning

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. Witteveen (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. F. A. Kuipers (TUD)
Promotie: 15 March 2010

Sensemaking software for crime analysis

Promotores: Prof. dr. J.J.Ch. Meyer (UU), Prof. dr. mr. H. Prakken (UU / RUG)
Copromotores: Dr. H. van Oostendorp (UU), Dr. G.A.W. Vreeswijk (UU)
Promotie: 15 March 2010

High Performance Data Mining using Bio-inspired techniques

Promotor: Prof. dr. T.M. Heskes (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. E. Marchiori (RUN)
Promotie: 22 March 2010

Automated Web Service Reconfiguration

Promotor: Prof .dr. F. M.T. Brazier (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. P.H.G. van Langen (TUD)
Promotie: 29 March 2010

Managing Dependency Relations in Inter-Organizational Models

Promotores: Prof. dr. R.J. Wieringa (UT), Prof. dr. M. Reichert (University of Ulm)
Promotie: 17 June 2010

Efficient Identification of Timed Automata, theory and practice

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. Witteveen (TUD)
Copromotor:Dr. M. de Weerdt (TUD)
Promotie: 02 March 2010

Scalable Discovery of Networked Resources: Algorithms, Infrastructure, Applications

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. van Harmelen (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. R. Siebes (VUA)
Promotie: 24 March 2010

Caught in the Act: Investigating Crime by Agent-Based Simulation

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. M.C.A. Klein (VUA)
Promotie: 12 April 2010

People's Responses to Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Promotor: Prof. dr. B.J. Wielinga (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. V. Evers (UvA)
Promotie: 23 April 2010

Whose Story Is It Anyway? How Improv Informs Agency and Authorship of Emergent Narrative

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. Nijholt (UT)
Copromotor:Dr. M. Theune (UT)
Promotie: 19 May 2010

Privacy-aware data management by means of data degradation

Promotores: Prof. dr. P.G.M. Apers (UT), Prof. dr. P. Pucheral (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Fokkinga (UT)
Promotie: 04 June 2010

End-user Support for Access to Heterogeneous Linked Data

Promotores: Prof. dr. L. Hardman (CWI) and Prof. dr. A.Th. Schreiber (VUA)
Copromotor:dr. J.R. van Ossenbruggen (CWI)
Promotie: 20 April 2010

The Logical Structure of Emotions

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.J.Ch. Meyer (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. M.M. Dastani (UU)
Promotie: 27 April 2010

Designing Generic and Efficient Negotiation Strategies

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. M. Jonker (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. K. Hindriks (TUD)
Promotie: 7 June 2010

Modelling Human-Awareness for Ambient Agents: A Human Mindreading Perspective

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. T. Bosse (VUA)
Promotie: 25 May 2010

XRPC: Efficient Distributed Query Processing on Heterogeneous XQuery Engines

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. L. Kersten (CWI/UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. P. Boncz (CWI)
Promotie: 8 July 2010

Automatisch contracteren

Promotores: Prof. mr. H. Franken (UL), Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (TiU/UL)
Promotie: 03 June 2010

Characteristic Relational Patterns

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.P.J.M. Siebes (UU)
Promotie: 31 May 2010

Database Cracking: Towards Auto-tuning Database Kernels

Promotor: Prof. dr. M.L. Kersten (CWI/UvA))
Copromotor: Dr. S. Manegold (CWI)
Promotie: 24 June 2010

Accessing Natural History - Discoveries in data cleaning, structuring, and retrieval

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.P.J. van den Bosch (TiU)
Copromotor: Dr. P. K. Lendvai (TiU)
Promotie: 30 June 2010

Ontology Enrichment from Heterogeneous Sources on the Web

Promotor: Prof. dr. B.J. Wielinga (UvA)
Copromotor: Dr. M. van Someren (UvA)
Promotie: 30 September 2010

An Adaptive Service Oriented Architecture: Automatically solving Interoperability Problems

Promotor: Prof. dr. W.J.A.M van den Heuvel (TiU)
Copromotor: Dr. H.Weigand (TiU)
Promotie: 07 September 2010

Modeling Representation Uncertainty in Concept-Based Multimedia Retrieval

Promotores: Prof. dr. P.G.M. Apers (UT), Prof. dr. F.M.G. de Jong (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. D. Hiemstra (UT)
Promotie: 02 July 2010

Interaction Design in Service Compositions

Promotor: Prof. dr.ir. C.A. Vissers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. van Sinderen (UT)
Promotie: 10 September 2010

Proof of Concept: Concept-based Biomedical Information Retrieval

Promotores: Prof. dr. F.M.G. de Jong (UT), Prof. dr. ir. W. Kraaij (RUN)
Promotie: 01 September 2010

Paving the Way for Lifelong Learning; Facilitating competence development through a learning path specification

Promotor: Prof. dr. E.J.R. Koper (OU)
Copromotor: Dr. A. Berlanga (OU))
Promotie: 17 September 2010

Correctness of services and their composition

Promotores: Prof. dr. W.M.P. van der Aalst (TU/e), Prof. dr. K. Wolf (University of Rostock)
Copromotor: Dr. N. Sidorova (TU/e)
Promotie: 27 September 2010

From Scenarios to components

Promotores: Prof. dr. W.M.P. van der Aalst (TU/e), Prof. dr. W. Reisig (Humboldt University Berlin)
Copromotor: Prof. dr. K. Wolf (University of Rostock)
Promotie: 27 September 2010

Integrative modeling of emotions in virtual agents

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. T. Bosse (VUA), Dr. J.F. Hoorn (VUA)
Promotie: 28 September 2010

Converting and Integrating Vocabularies for the Semantic Web

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. Th. Schreiber (VUA)
Copromotor: dr. J.R. van Ossenbruggen (CWI/VUA)
Promotie: 01 Oktober 2010

Monte-Carlo Tree Search

Promotor: Prof. Dr. G. Weiss (UM)
Copromotores: Dr. ir. J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (UM), Dr. M.H.M. Winands (UM), Dr. B. Bouzy (Univ Paris Descartes)
Promotie: 30 September 2010

Needs-driven service bundling in a multi-supplier setting - the computational e3-service approach

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.M Akkermans (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. J. Gordijn (VUA)
Promotie: 25 Oktober 2010

A Computational Approach to Content-Based Retrieval of Folk Song Melodies

Promotores: Prof. dr. R.C. Veltkamp (UU), Prof. dr. L.P. Grijp (UU, Meertens Instituut)
Copromotor: Dr. F.Wiering (UU)
Promotie: 04 Oktober 2010

An Approach towards Context-sensitive and User-adapted Access to Heterogeneous Data Sources, Illustrated in the Television Domain

Promotores: Prof. dr. P.M.E. De Bra (TU/e), Prof. dr.ir. G.J.P.M Houben (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. L.M. Aroyo (VUA)
Promotie: 7 Oktober 2010

A theory and model for the evolution of software services

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. Papazoglou (TiU)
Promotie: 01 Oktober 2010

e3alignment: Exploring Inter-Organizational Business-ICT Alignment

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.M. Akkermans (VUA)
Co-promotor: Dr. J. Gordijn (VUA)
Promotie: 17 December 2010

Mining Process Model Variants: Challenges, Techniques, Examples

Promotor: Prof. dr. R.J. Wieringa (UT)
Co-promotor:Dr. A. Wombacher (UT)
Promotie: 11 November 2010

Solving difficult game positions

Promotor: Prof. Dr. G. Weiss (UM)
Copromotores :Dr. ir. J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (UM), Dr. M.H.M. Winands (UM)
Promotie: 15 December 2010

Search in Audiovisual Broadcast Archives

Promotores: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UvA), Prof. dr.ir A.W.M. Smeulders (UvA)
Promotie: 26 November 2010

Understanding and supporting information seeking tasks in multiple sources

Promotor: Prof. dr. L. Hardman (CWI, TU/e)
Copromotor: Dr. J. van Ossenbruggen (VUA, CWI)
Promotie: 08 December 2010

Adaptive Support for Human-Computer Teams: Exploring the Use of Cognitive Models of Trust and Attention

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Copromotor: Dr. T. Bosse (VUA)
Promotie: 09 December 2010

Combining Concepts and Language Models for Information Access

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UvA)
Promotie: 10 December 2010