Ontologies for interaction: Enabling serendipitous interoperability in smart environments

On 9 October 2012 Gerrit Niezen successfully defended his PhD dissertation at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, entitled: “Ontologies for interaction: Enabling serendipitous interoperability in smart environments”. The work was supported by the SOFIA (Smart Objects For Intelligent Applications) project and funded through European JTI ARTEMIS under the subprogramme “Smart Environments and Scalable Digital Services”. Gerrit defended his dissertation in a public ceremony held at Eindhoven University of Technology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Loe Feijs and Prof. Panos Markopoulos, and co-supervised by Dr. Jun Hu. The members of the reading committee included Prof. Harold Thimbleby, Dr. Stephan Wensveen and Prof. Johan Lukkien.