Robert de Hoog (born 3 October 1944 in
Nieuwer-Amstel
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) is a Dutch
social scientist and Emeritus Professor Information and
knowledge management
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at the
University of Twente
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, known for his contributions in the field of
scientific modelling
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.
[Met modellen meer mans: Het gebruik van modellen in de (veranderkundige) beroepspraktijk](_blank)
at uva.nl, 2013. Accessed September 27, 2013.
Biography
De Hoog received his PhD in 1978 at the
University of Amsterdam
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with a thesis entitled "Politieke voorkeur: oordelen en beslissen" under supervision of
Robert J. Mokken.
[Robert de Hoog](_blank)
at Mathematics Genealogy Project.
After graduation De Hoog started his academic career at University of Amsterdam as researcher for the ''Instituut voor Wetenschap der Andragogie'' IWAL (Institute for Scientific Andrology), where mid-1980s he became Associate Professor of Social Science Informatics. In 2000, he moved to the University of Twente, where he was appointed became Associate Professor Information and knowledge management. Among his doctoral students were Suzanne Kabel (1996), Lambertus van Wegen (1996), Michiel Kuijper (1998) and Maarten Sierhuis (2001).
De Hoog's research interests are in the fields of "artificial intelligence, expert systems, knowledge based information retrieval and knowledge management...
ndthe EU funded KITS projects which has built a comprehensive knowledge management learning simulation game and the METIS project which focuses on knowledge mapping techniques and methods using different ontologies."
Publications
De Hoog published several books and many articles
CURRICULUM VITAE PROF. DR. ROBERT J. MOKKEN
Accessed 20 December 2009. and over 200 articles.Nigel Shadbolt
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, Walter Van de Velde, and