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Best Paper Award
At the 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering
(WISE 2011) in Sydney (Australia) the best paper award went to William Van
Woensel, Elien Paret and Olga De Troyer of the WISE research lab together with
Sven Casteleyn
of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) for their paper "Transparent
Mobile Querying of online RDF sources using Semantic Indexing and Caching".
Best Paper Award for WISE
The members of the research group WISE of the department of
Computer Science Elien Paret, William Van Woensel, Beat Signer and
Olga De Troyer, together with Sven Casteleyn of the Polytechnic
University of Valencia (Spain), have won the best paper award at the
8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS)
in Canada with their article "Efficient Querying of Distributed RDF Sources
in Mobile Settings based on a Source Index Model".
Ph.D. Jorge Vallejos
On Thursday 7 July 2011 Jorge Vallejos successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled
"Context Dependency and Group Behaviour in Ambient-oriented Programming" (abstract).
Prof. Dr. Theo D'Hondt was the promotor of this dissertation.
Ph.D. Yann-Michaël De Hauwere
On Tuesday 28 June 2011 Yann-Michaël De Hauwere successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation titled
"Sparse Interactions in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" (abstract).
Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé was the promotor of this dissertation.
Ph.D. Michael Spranger
On Friday 20 May 2011 Michael Spranger successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled
"The Evolution of Grounded Spatial Language" (abstract).
Prof. Dr. Luc Steels was the promotor of this dissertation.
Three out of three for Extreme Blue
Three students of our program Master of Science in Applied Science and
Engineering: Computer Science were selected for IBM's
extreme blue project. There were 120 applications for this
project. Out of these, 26 students were invited for a final day of
selections. In the end, twelve candidates were selected. Among these
were three computer science students, all three of them out of our
program. Congratulations to these students: Gomez Marulanda, Thiago
Dantas de Mendonca, and Wolney De Mello Neto !
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