Reinder Pieter (Reind) van de Riet (22 April 1939,

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– 18 December 2008,

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) was a Dutch

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and Emeritus Professor Information Systems at the

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, known for the development of COLOR-X, a linguistically-based event modeling language for

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ing. Van de Riet received his

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(Ph.D.) in

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at the

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in 1968 under supervision of

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for the thesis, entitled "

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as Formula Manipulation Language." In 1970, he was appointed Professor Information Systems at the VU University Amsterdam, where he retired August 2000. Among his Ph.D. students were Peter Apers (1982),

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(1985), Frank Dignum (1989),

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(1990) and Frances Brazier (1991). Van de Riet was editor of ''Europe of Data and Knowledge Engineering'' journal and member of the Editorial Board of the ''Information Systems Journal''. His research interests were in the field of "database and Knowledge bases; the use of Linguistics; Security and Privacy problems; and computational auditing."Reinder Pieter van de Riet (1939)
at gplsi.dlsi.ua.es. Accessed 10.2011. He was knighted into the

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. He died in Baarn, Netherlands, 18 December 2008, shortly after a lecture trip through the United States.

Selected publications

* Sicherman, George L., Wiebren De Jonge, and Reind P. Van de Riet. "Answering queries without revealing secrets." ''ACM Transactions on Database Systems'' (TODS) 8.1 (1983): 41-59. * De Jonge, Wiebren,

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, and Reind P. Van De Riet.
Two access methods using compact binary trees
" ''Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on'' 7 (1987): 799-810. * Burg, J. F. M., and R. P. Van de Riet. "COLOR-X: Object Modeling pro ts from Linguistics." ''Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases: Knowledge Building & Knowledge Sharing'' (KB&KS'95) (1994): 204-214. * Burg, J. F. M., and Reind P. van de Riet.
COLOR-X: Linguistically-based event modeling: A general approach to dynamic modeling
" ''Advanced Information Systems Engineering.'' Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. * Olivier, Martin S., Reind P. van de Riet, and Ehud Gudes. " tp://ftp.cs.bgu.ac.il/pub/ehud/olivier.pdf Specifying application-level security in workflow systems" ''Database and Expert Systems Applications,'' 1998. Proceedings. Ninth International Workshop on. IEEE, 1998.

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