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H.J. van den Herik

Full Professor Computer Science
h.j.vdnherik@uvt.nl

Faculty Humanities
Tilburg centre for Creative Computing

 

Expertise

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Publications

Principal publications
  • S.Bakkes, P. Spronck, and J. van den Herik (June, 2009), Rapid and Reliable Adaptation of Video Game IA. In EEEI Transactions on computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 1, pp.93-105
  •   O. David-Tabibi, H.J. van den Herik, M. Koppel, and N.S. Netanyahu (2009).Simulating human grandmasters: Evolution and coevolution of evaluation functions.In Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 1483-1489,Montreal, Canada, July 2009.
  • Herik, H.J. van den and Postma, E.O. Geloof in Computers (2009).
  • Berezhnoy, I.J., Postma, E.O., Herik, H.J. van den (2009). Automatic extraction of brushstroke orientation from paintings. Machine Vision and Applications, Vol 20, pp. 1-8.
  • Lankveld, G. van, Spronck, P. , Herik H.J. van den(2009). Incongruity-Based Adaptive Game Balancing. (Presented at the 12th Advances in Computer Games conference, publication follows later this year).

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

 

Education

  •  1983; Ph.D. Thesis: Computerschaak, Schaakwereld en Kunstmatige Intelligentie (In Dutch)) / Delft University of Technology, Promotores: Prof. H.J.M. Lombaers, Prof. A.D. de Groot and Prof. S.J. Doorman
  • 1974; M.Sc. examination Mathematics (Cum Laude) / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam M.Sc. supervisor Prof. G.Y. Nieuwland

Career

  • Sept. 2008 - present : Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Humanities of Tilburg University, Tilburg

  • 1987 - Sept. 2008 : Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of General Sciences of the Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht.

  • 1988 - present : Professor of Law and Computer Science at the Faculty of Law of the Universiteit Leiden, Leiden.

  • Sep.1984 - Jan. 1985 : Invited Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

  • Feb. 1975 - Aug. 1987 : Assistant Professor / Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Delft University of Technology, Delft.

  • Mar. 1974 - Jan. 1975 : Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Astronomy of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Publications

Principal publications
  • S.Bakkes, P. Spronck, and J. van den Herik (June, 2009), Rapid and Reliable Adaptation of Video Game IA. In EEEI Transactions on computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 1, pp.93-105
  •   O. David-Tabibi, H.J. van den Herik, M. Koppel, and N.S. Netanyahu (2009).Simulating human grandmasters: Evolution and coevolution of evaluation functions.In Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 1483-1489,Montreal, Canada, July 2009.
  • Herik, H.J. van den and Postma, E.O. Geloof in Computers (2009).
  • Berezhnoy, I.J., Postma, E.O., Herik, H.J. van den (2009). Automatic extraction of brushstroke orientation from paintings. Machine Vision and Applications, Vol 20, pp. 1-8.
  • Lankveld, G. van, Spronck, P. , Herik H.J. van den(2009). Incongruity-Based Adaptive Game Balancing. (Presented at the 12th Advances in Computer Games conference, publication follows later this year).

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

External accreditation

 

  • Honorary Member of the CSVN (Computer Chess Association in the Netherlands) (2005)
  • ECCAI Fellow (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) (2003)
  • Member of the KHMW (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities) (1999)
  • Honorary Chairman of the JURIX Foundation (1999)
  • Honorary Member of the BNVKI (Belgian Dutch Association for AI) (1998)
  • Recipient of the Certificate of Distinguished Services for the CSVN (Computer-Chess Association in the Netherlands) (1996)
  • Guest of the Indonesian Government (1996) for the World Computer-Chess Championship
  • Guest of Honour of the ACM Congress and Supercomputing Conference (1991) in Albuquerque, NM.

Research supervision

 

List of Ph.D. Students Supervised by Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik

  • 1 July 2009, S. Vanderlooy, Ranking and Reliable Classification, Maastricht University, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.mr. Th. A.de Roos and Prof.dr. e. Hüllermeier
  • 23 June 2009, L.J.P. van der Maaten, Feature Extraction from Visual Data, Tilburg University, Prof.dr. E.O. Postma, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Dr. A.G. Lange (Daily Advisor)
  • 17 June 2009, F. Reul, New Architectures in Computer Chess, Tilburg University, Prof.dr. van den Herik, Dr. J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (Daily Advisor)
  • 4 June 2009, S. de Jong, Fairness in Multi-Agent Systems, Maastricht University, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. E.O. Postma, Dr. K.P. Tuyls (Daily Advisor)
  • 21 January 2009, H.R. Stol, A framework for evidence-based policy making, Maastricht University, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik
  • 3 December 2008, B. Torben-Nielsen, Dendritic morphology: function shapes morphology, Tilburg University, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. E.O. Postma, Dr. K.P. Tuyls (Daily Advisor)
  • 29 October 2008, L.M.M. Braun, Pro-active Medical Information Retrieval, Maastricht University, Prof.dr.ir. A. Hasman, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik 
Complete list of Ph.D. Students

 

Teaching


H.J. van den Herik teaches the following subjects:

Other activities

 

  • Member of the Board of TWINS (since May 2008)

  • Commissioner of Games Factory Online BV (since 2007)

  • Scientific Director of IKAT

  • Member of the Board of the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS) (since 1996)

  • Scientific Director of the Foundation for Knowledge-Based Systems (SKBS) (since 1991)

  • Member of the Board of the CEPIS Special Interest Network ?Legal & Security Issues? (CEPIS LSI) (since 1998)

  • Chair Executive NWO Committee research programme TOKEN (since 1999)

  • Chair Executive NWO Committee research programme CATCH (since 2003)

  • Board Member of the National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) (since 1999)

  • Editor-in-Chief of the ICGA Journal (since 1983)

  • Research Leader of the BioInformatics group at MICC-IKAT

  • Member of the Editorial Boards of Theoretical Computer Science, Data and Knowledge Engineering

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    Room D 345
    PO Box 90153
    5000 LE Tilburg
    Tel. +31 13 466 3569
     If no reply +31 13 466 8118
    Email h.j.vdnherik@uvt.nl

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