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                           Francis Heylighen's PhD Students

   Several researchers have been or are [2]making a PhD thesis under [3]my
   supervision. This means that I am their doctoral advisor, or "promotor" in the
   Belgian terminology. In practice that can mean that I have been collaborating
   very intensely with them (e.g. Johan Bollen), or that they have worked basically
   on their own, with me only providing feedback and guidance about the final
   dissertation (e.g. Bertin Martens), or anything in between.

   The list below is meant to give an idea of the variety of subjects and
   backgrounds, and to link to the relevant home page or work description for the
   people interested in more details about this particular work. The discipline and
   country mentioned behind a researcher's name is merely the one where they got
   their basic degree, not in general the one of their present work. In practice,
   all subjects fall within the broad, transdisciplinary domain of [4]evolutionary
   cybernetics, or what I might summarize as: the self-organization and evolution of
   distributed, cognitive systems.

   Most of this research is being done within the new [5]ECCO group that I direct. I
   advise the others more from a distance, as their main affiliation is elsewhere.

Within ECCO

   [externallink.GIF] [6]Klaas Chielens (linguistics, Belgium):
          started 2004, subject "[7]Evolutionary Aspects of Language Spreading:
          Quantitative Research of Memetic Selection Processes in the Distribution
          of Virus hoaxes"

   [externallink.GIF] [8]Mixel Kiemen (computer science, Belgium) :
          simulation of innovation by agents learning to "improperly" use objects,
          thus discovering new functions and "appropriating" parts of the
          environment

   [externallink.GIF] [9]Marko Rodriguez (computer science, USA)
          development of societal-scale decision-support system capable of tapping
          the collective intelligence potential of a society

   [10]Clément Vidal (philosophy, France)
   evolutionary theories of cosmology
   [11]Shwetambhara Sabharwal (psychology, India)

   influence of relations and emotions on cognitive categorization

   [externallink.GIF] [12]Erden Göktepe (political science, Turkey)
          complexity and self-organization theories applied to the emergence of new
          actors and institutions in international relations

Former

   [externallink.GIF] [13]Carlos Gershenson (computer science, Mexico):
          started 2002, defended 2007, subject: " [externallink.GIF] [14]Design and
          Control of Self-organizing Systems" (co-promotor with [externallink.GIF]
          [15]D. Aerts)

   [externallink.GIF] [16]Johan Bollen (psychology, Belgium):
          thesis " [externallink.GIF] [17]A Cognitive Model of Adaptive Web Design
          and Navigation: a shared knowledge perspective", started 1994, defended
          2001 (co-promotor [externallink.GIF] [18]F. Van Overwalle). Since Jan.
          2002, Johan heads his own research groep at the Old Dominion University,
          in Virginia, USA.

   [externallink.GIF] [19]Bertin Martens (economics, Belgium):
          thesis " [externallink.GIF] [20]The Cognitive Mechanics of Economic
          Development and Institutional Change", started 1998, defended 2004.
          (co-promotor with M. Despontin).

   Leor Gründlinger (computer science, Israel):
          started 1999, stopped 2001, subject "Collective intelligence in on-line
          election markets"
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   Jan 27, 2004 (created)

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