Investigating Cybercrime

Promotor: Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UL)
Copromotores: Mr. dr. F. P. Ölçer (UL), Mr. dr. B.W. Schermer (UL)
Promotie: 10 januari 2017

Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks using Argumentation

Promotores: Prof. dr. J.-J. Ch. Meyer (UU), Prof. dr. mr. H. Prakken, (UU / RUG), Prof. dr. H. B. Verheij (RUG)
Copromotor: Dr. S. Renooij (UU)
Promotie: 01 februari 2017

Grid Manufacturing; A Cyber-Physical Approach with Autonomous Products and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Machines

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.-J. Meyer (UU)
Promotie: 31 januari 2017

Multi-core parallelism in a column-store

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. Kersten (CWI)
Copromotores: Prof. dr. S. Manegold (CWI)
Promotie: 15 februari 2017

Collaboration Behavior; Enhancement in Co-development

Promotor: Prof. dr. H. Afsarmanesh (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Dastani (UU)
Promotie: 11 april 2017

Intelligent Information Systems for Web Product Search

Promotor: Prof. dr ir. U. Kaymak (TUE)
Copromotores: Dr. F. Frasincar (EUR)
Promotie: 23 februari 2017

Insight in Information: from Abstract to Anomaly

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. P. J. M. Siebes (UU)
Copromotor: Dr. J. Vreeken (Max Planck Inst. Saarbrücken, Germany)
Promotie: 17 mei 2017

Detecting Interesting Differences:Data Mining in Health Insurance Data using Outlier Detection and Subgroup Discovery

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. N. Kok (UL), prof. dr. G. Koole (VU)
Copromotores: Dr. A. J. Knobbe (UL), dr. W. J. Kowalczyk (UL)
Promotie: 28 februari 2017

Text as Social and Cultural Data: A Computational Perspective on Variation in Text

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. M. G. de Jong (UT), prof. dr. A. P. J. van den Bosch (RUN)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Theune
Promotie: 10 maart 2017

(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior

Promotor: Prof. dr. D. K. J. Heylen (UT), prof. dr. G. Koole (VU)
Copromotores: Dr. ir. D. Reidsma (UT)
Promotie: 24 maart 2017

Modelling patterns of time and emotion in Twitter #anticipointment

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. van den Bosch (RUN), prof. dr. M. van Mulken (RUN)
Promotie: 21 maart 2017

Robust Process Mining with Guarantees

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. W. M. P. van der Aalst
Copromotor: Dr. D. Fahland (TUE)
Promotie: 9 mei 2017

Social Touch Technology - Extending the reach of social touch through haptic technology

Promotor: Prof. dr. D. K. J. Heylen (UT)
Promotie: 24 februari 2017

You Are Who You Play You Are: Modelling Player Traits from Video Game Behavior

Promotor: Prof. dr. E. O. Postma (UVT)
Co-promotor: Dr. ir. P. H. M. Spronck (UVT)
Promotie: 19 juni 2017

Memory-Based Text Correction

Promotor: Prof. dr. A. van den Bosch (RUN), Prof. dr. E. O. Postma (UVT)
Promotie: 12 april 2017

Understanding and Modeling Users of Modern Search Engines

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. E. Kanoulas (UVA)
Promotie: 10 mei 2017

Crowdsourced Online Dispute Resolution

Promotor: Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UL) en Prof. dr. A. R. Lodder (VU)
Promotie: 27 juni 2017

Entity Associations for Search

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UVA)
Copromotor: Dr. F. Steijlen (KITLV)
Promotie: 11 mei 2017

Proximity of Terms, Texts and Semantic Vectors in Information Retrieval

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. P. de Vries (TUD)
Promotie: 26 april 2017

Fostering Engagement in Knowledge Sharing: The Role of Perceived Benefits, Costs and Visibility

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. M. Brazier (TUD) en Prof. dr. C. P. van Beers (TUD)
Co-promotor: Dr. S. G. Lukosch (TUD)
Promotie: 3 juli 2017

Meta Matters in Interactive Storytelling and Serious Gaming (A Play on Worlds)

Promotor: Prof. dr. D. K. J. Heylen (UT)
Copromotor: Dr. M. Theune (UT)
Promotie: 4 mei 2017

Logics for causal inference under uncertainty

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. A. H. van Harmelen (VU)
Copromotores: Dr. P. T. Groth (Elsevier Labs) en Dr. J. M. Mooij (UVA)
Promotie: 12 juni 2017

Entities of Interest - Discovery in Digital Traces

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Rijke (UVA)
Co-promotor: Dr. E. Tsagkias (904Labs)
Promotie: 16 juni 2017

Use of Affordances for Efficient Robot Learning

Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Babuska (TUD)
Co-promotor: Dr. K. V. Hindriks (TUD)
Promotie: 20 juni 2017

Knowledge Representation for Clinical Guidelines, with applications to Multimorbidity Analysis and Literature Search

Promotor: Prof. dr. F. van Harmelen (VUA)
Copromotores: Dr. A. ten Teije (VUA), Dr. C. Pruski (Luxemb. Institute of Science and Technol.), Dr. M. da Silveira (Luxemb. Institute of Science and Technol.)
Promotie: 27 september 2017

Socially intelligent robots that understand and respond to human touch

Promotor: Prof. dr. D. K. J. Heylen (UT)
Co-promotor: Dr. M. Poel (UT)
Promotie: 28 juni 2017

Investigating Positioning and Gaze Behaviors of Social Robots: People's Preferences, Perceptions and Behaviors

Promotor: Prof. dr. V. Evers
Promotie: 20 juli 2017

Architecture Practices for Complex Contexts

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. C. van Vliet (VU)
Promotie: 22 september 2017

From IT-BusinessStrategic Alignment to Performance: A Moderated Mediation Model of Social Innovation, and Enterprise Governance of IT

Promotores: Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UL), Prof. dr. B. A. van de Walle (TUD)
Promotie: 26 september 2017

The Power of Facial Expressions

Promotores: Prof. dr. E. O. Postma (UVT), Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UL)
Promotie: 29 september 2017

Advances in computational methods for QFT calculations

Promotores: Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UL), Prof. dr. A. Plaat (UL)
Promotie: 2 november 2017

Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. de Vries (RUN)
Promotie: 30 october 2017

Towards a Design Rationale for Software Documentation: A Model of Computer-Mediated Activity

Promotor: Prof. dr. G. C. van der Veer (OU)
Promotie: 10 november 2017

The Evaluation Framework for Learning Analytics

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. Specht (OU)
Co-promotor: Prof. dr. H. Drachsler (OU)
Promotie: 22 september 2017

Interpreting natural science spreadsheets

Promotores: Prof. dr. A. Th. Schreiber (VU), Prof. dr. J. L. Top (VU)
Co-promotor: Dr. J. Wielemaker (VU)
Promotie: 26 oktober 2017

Shape Analysis for Phenotype Characterisation from High-throughput Imaging

Promotores: Prof. dr. F. J. Verbeek (UL), Prof. dr. H. J. van den Herik (UL)
Promotie: 17 oktober 2017

WiBAF: A Within Browser Adaptation Framework that Enables Control over Privacy

Promotores: Prof. dr. P. M. E. de Bra (TUE), Prof. dr. M. Pechenizkiy (TUE)
Co-promotor: Dr. G. H. L. Fletcher (TUE)
Promotie: 8 november 2017

Normative Social Applications
Promotor: Prof. dr. M. A. Neerincx (TUD)
Co-promotores: Dr. M. B. van Riemsdijk (TUD), Dr. ir. W. P. Brinkman (TUD)
Promotie: 27 september 2017

Exploiting properties of the human auditory system and compressive sensing methods to increase noise robustness in ASR

Promotores: Prof. dr. A. van den Bosch (RUN), Dr. S. Mohammad Ahadi (Amirkabir University of Technology)
Co-promotores: Dr. ir. B. Cranen (RUN), Dr. L. ten Bosch (RUN)
Promotie: 2 november 2017

Steer your Mind: Computational Exploration of Human Control in Relation to Emotions, Desires and Social Support For applications in human-aware support systems

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Co-promotor: Dr. M. C. A. Klein (VUA)
Promotie: 13 november 2017

Minding a Healthy Lifestyle: An Exploration of Mental Processes and a Smart Environment to Provide Support for a Healthy Lifestyle

Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Treur (VUA)
Co-promotor: Dr. M. C. A. Klein (VUA)
Promotie: 6 november 2017

Causal discovery from mixed and missing data with applications on ADHD datasets

Promotor: Prof. dr. T. Heskes (RUN), Prof. dr. J. Buitelaar (RUN)
Co-promotores: Dr. P. Groot (RUN), Dr. J. Glennon (RUN)
Promotie: 30 oktober 2017

Semantic Mapping in Video Retrieval

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. W. Kraaij (UL)
Co-promotor: Dr. K. Schutte (TNO)
Promotie: 18 december 2017

Understanding User Stories - Computational Linguistics in Agile Requirements Engineering

Promotor: Prof. dr. S. Brinkkemper (UU)
Co-promotor: Dr. F. Dalpiaz (UU)
Promotie: 30 november 2017

Decentralized Runtime Norm Enforcement

Promotor: Prof. dr. J.J. Ch. Meyer (UU)
Co-promotor: Dr. M.M. Dastani (UU)
Promotie: 20 november 2017

Sensor-based Learning Support

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. Specht (OU)
Co-promotores: Dr. P. van Rosmalen (OU), Dr. D. Börner (OU)
Promotie: 24 november 2017

Crowd Knowledge Creation Acceleration

Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. G. J. P. M. Houben (TUD)
Co-promotor: Dr. ir. A. Bozzon (TUD)
Promotie: 15 november 2017

Collaborative inquiry-based learning

Promotor: Prof. dr. M. Specht (OU)
Co-promotores: Dr. S. Ternier (OU)
Promotie: 1 december 2017