Recognition of Shapes by Humans and Machines

Promotor: Prof. dr. T.M. Heskes (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. T.M.H.Dijkstra (RUN)
Promotie: 20 January 2016

Optimizing medication reviews through decision support: prescribing a better pill to swallow

Promotor: Prof. dr. S. Brinkkemper (UU), prof.dr.M.E. Numans (UL)
Copromotores: Dr.M. Spruit (UU), Dr. P.A.F. Fransen (UMC)
Promotie: 13 January 2016

Knowledge Work in Context: User Centered Knowledge Worker Support

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. W. Kraaij (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. S. Verberne (RUN)
Promotie: 19 February 2016

Publishing and Consuming Linked Data

Promotor: Prof. dr F.A.H. van Harmelen (VU)
Copromotores: Dr. R. J. Hoekstra (VU), Dr. K. S. Schlobach (VU)
Promotie: 9 March 2016

Expanded Acyclic Queries: Containment and an Application in Explaining Missing Answers

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Marx (UVA)
Promotie: 12 February 2016

Robust scheduling in an uncertain environment

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. Witteveen (TUD)
Copromotores: Dr. T. B. Klos (TUD)
Promotie: 1 February 2016

Measuring and modeling negative emotions for virtual training
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VU)
Copromotor: Dr. T. Bosse (VU)
Promotie: 29 February 2016

A Link to the Past: Constructing Historical Social Networks from Unstructured Data

Promotor: Prof. dr. E. O. Postma (TiU), Prof. dr. A. P. J. van den Bosch (RUN)
Promotie: 2 March 2016

Trusting Crowdsourced Information on Cultural Artefacts

Promotor: Prof. dr. W. J. Fokkink (VU)
Promotie: 29 March 2016

Parameter Control for Evolutionary Algorithms

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. E. Eiben (VU)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Hoogendoorn (VU)
Promotie: 24 February 2016

Search Engines that Learn from Their Users

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. S. A. Whiteson (University of Oxford)
Promotie: 27 May 2016

Logics for Modelling and Verifying Normative Multi-Agent Systems

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. J. Ch. Meyer (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. M. M. Dastani (UU)
Promotie: 6 April 2016

The Web, Speech Technologies and Rural Development in West Africa - An ICT4D Approach

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. M. Akkermans (VU)
Copromotor: Dr. V. de Boer (VU)
Promotie: 5 April 2016

Revisiting Legacy Software System Modernization

Promotor: Prof. dr. S. Brinkkemper (UU), Prof. dr. J. Jeuring (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. S. Jansen (UU), Dr. J. Hage (UU)
Promotie: 13 April 2016

Hybrid Probabilistic Logics - Theoretical Aspects, Algorithms and Experiments

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. J. F. Lucas (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Hoogendoorn (VU)
Promotie: 4 May 2016

Socially Intelligent Autonomous Agents that Learn from Human Reward

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. F. C. A. Groen (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. S. A. Whiteson (University of Oxford), Dr. H. Hung (TUD)
Promotie: 26 May 2016

Towards Embodied Evolution of Robot Organisms

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. E. Eiben (VU)
Copromotor: Dr. E. Haasdijk (VU)
Promotie: 23 June 2016

Refining Statistical Data on the Web

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. A. H. van Harmelen (VU)
Copromotor: Dr. K. S. Schlobach (VU), Dr. A. Scharnhorst (KNAW)
Promotie: 9 May 2016

Mining Social Structures from Genealogical Data

Promotores: Prof. dr.T. Calders(VU Brussel), Prof.dr. P. De Bra (TUE)
Promotie:20 April 2016

Context & Semantics in News & Web Search

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. De Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. E.J. Meij (Yahoo Labs)
Promotie: 10 June 2016

From Traditional to Interactive Playspaces: Automatic Analysis of Player Behavior in the Interactive Tag Playground

Promotor: Prof. dr. D. Heylen (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. R. Poppe (UU)
Promotie: 21 April 2016

Software Architecture Strategies for Cyber-Foraging Systems

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. Lago (VU)
Promotie: 7 June 2016

Query Auto Completion in Information Retrieval

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. De Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Prof. dr. Honghui Chen (National University of Defense Technology)
Promotie: 14 June 2016

Repurposing and Probabilistic Integration of Data; An Iterative and data model independent approach

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. Apers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. van Keulen (UT)
Promotie: 16 June 2016

Using Contextual Information to Understand Searching and Browsing Behavior

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. De Bra (TUE)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Pechenizkiy (TUE)
Promotie: 13 June 2016

In or Out of Control: Exploring Computational Models to Study the Role of Human Awareness and Control in Behavioural Choices, with Applications in Aviation and Energy Management Domains

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VU)
Copromotor: Dr. T. Bosse (VU)
Promotie: 15 June 2016

Understanding Geo-spatial Information on Social Media

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A.P. De Vries (CWI/TUD)
Promotie: 23 May 2016

Large-scale agent-based social simulation: A study on epidemic prediction and control

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. Verbraeck (TUD)
Promotie: 18 May 2016

Peak Reduction in Decentralised Electricity Systems - Markets and Prices for Flexible Planning

Promotor: Prof. dr. H. La Poutre (CWI/TUE)
Promotie: 27 May 2016

The Eyes Have IT

Promotor: Prof. dr. E. O. Postma (UVT), Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UVT)
Promotie: 5 October 2016

Deep web content monitoring

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. M. G. Apers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. D. Hiemstra, Dr. ir. M. van Keulen
Promotie: 2 June 2016

Assessing Telecommunication Service Availability Risks for Crisis Organisations

Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Wieringa (UT), Prof. dr. S. Etalle (TUE)
Promotie: 14 July 2016

Single Sample Statistics, exercises in learning from just one example

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. W. Adriaans (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. S. de Rooij (UVA)
Promotie: 31 May 2016

Configurable Process Trees: Elicitation, Analysis, and Enactment

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. W. M. P. van der Aalst (TUE), Prof. dr. ir. H. A. Reijers (TUE)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. H. M. W. Verbeek (TUE)
Promotie: 6 October 2016

Monitoring Social Media: Summarization, Classification and Recommendation

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. E. Kanoulas (UVA)
Promotie: 6 October 2016

Beyond R2D2: The design of nonverbal interaction behavior optimized for robot-specific morphologies

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. G. M. Apers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. ir. H. M. W. Verbeek (UT)
Promotie: 14 September 2016

Aligning Law and Action - a conceptual and computational inquiry

Promotor: Prof. dr. T. M. van Engers (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. A. W. F. Boer (UVA)
Promotie: 8 December 2016

Materials that matter - Smart Materials meet Art & Interaction Design

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. M. G. Nijholt (UT)
Promotie: 7 October 2016

Believable Suspect Agents; Response and Interpersonal Style Selection for an Artificial Suspect

Promotor: Prof. dr. P. M. G. Apers (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. H. J. A. op den Akker (UT)
Promotie: 7 October 2016

Accounting for Values in Design

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. M. Jonker (TUD), Prof. dr. M. J. van Hoven (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. K. V. Hindriks (TUD)
Promotie: 7 October 2016

Governing Governance: A Formal Framework for Analysing Institutional Design and Enactment Governance

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. Jonker (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. M. V. Dignum (TUD), Dr. M. B. van Riemsdijk
Promotie: 27 October 2016

Combinatorial and compositional aspects of bilingual aligned corpora

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. C. Monz (UVA)
Promotie: 21 October 2016

Context-Aware Support for Stress Self-Management: From Theory to Practice

Promotor: Prof. dr. W. Kraaij (RUN), Prof. M. A. Neerincx (TUD)
Promotie: 10 October 2016

Automatic assistants for database exploration

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. L. Kersten (CWI)
Promotie: 3 November 2016

Experiencing Brain-Computer Interface Control

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. Nijholt (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Poel (UT)
Promotie: 12 oktober 2016

Robots to Make you Happy

Promotor: Prof. dr. V. Evers (UT)
Promotie: 20 October 2016

Real-time foresight - Preparedness for dynamic innovation networks

Promotor: Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UL), Prof. dr. B. R. Katzy (UL)
Copromotor: Prof. dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)
Promotie: 20 December 2016

Collecting Lessons Learned

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. Verbraeck (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. S. G. Lukosch (TUD)
Promotie: 1 December 2016

Participation and Interaction in Projects: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

Promotor: Prof. dr. C. Witteveen (TUD), prof. dr. C. M. Jonker (TUD)
Copromotor: Dr. M. M. de Weerdt (TUD)
Promotie: 6 December 2016

The Bridge of Dreams: Towards a Method for Operational Performance Alignment in IT-enabled Service Supply Chains

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. H. A. Akkermans (UVT), prof. dr. ir. W. J. A. M. van den Heuvel (UVT)
Promotie: 7 December 2016