CHAIR OF

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INTELLIGENCE

Our RoboCup Team got the third place at the WorldCup 2021. This was recognized by the Mayor of the City Magdeburg, Dr. Trümper, who asked the team to sign in the golden book of the city. 

The third edition of the Computational Intelligence Textbook is published: 

More information can be found on Springer: 

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42227-1?sap-outbound-id=91E90FD39D2E81E34B5F80F5BE7F254BBA8EEE4D

Or here: https://www.computational-intelligence.eu

Sanaz has been appointed to be a new member of Saxon Academy of Sciences (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften - SAW). More information about SAW taken from the webpage of SAW "It is founded in 1846 under the name of Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities. ... More than 200 scientists of all disciplines meet regularly to exchange views, examine methods and results of specialist studies in interdisciplinary discussion and engage in long-term basic research."

Together with several well-known prestigious AI and Robotics labs in Germany, SwarmLab hosted several PostDocs from across the world. This was planned as part of the Postdoc-NeT-AI "Robotics and AI" program by DAAD.

Christoph and Sebastian presented their robotics research at SwarmLab.

Jens Weise received the Faculty of Computer Science Research Award 2021. Congratulations!

In the same ceremony, Professor Kruse gave the best student research award which is called "Rudolf Kruse Award" to Anne Rother. 

Palina Bartashevich successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations on the excellent work! 

Simon has received the best student award for his paper "The Dynamic Role Mining Problem - Role Mining in Dynamically Changing Business Environments" which he published at the 13th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA/IJCCI). 

Congratulations!

Finally after a long time of having only digital meetings, we could meet for the first time since 2020. Many talks, presentations and the highlight was a hackathon. We could even organize a social event in Laser Tag :-) 

On Saturday 29th May 2021, we presented three projects from SwarmLab and the Chair of CI at the Long Night of Science 2021, Digital (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft LNDW21). 

Project 1: OVGU Bot (by Xenjia Neufeld)

Project 2: CIcker - Season 1 

Project 3: oTToCar 

 to be uploaded

In preparation for the long night of science 2021 (Digital), we made a movie from our CIcker Project Season 1: 

Our robotic team "oTToCAR" successfully took part in the Carolo-Cup 2021.

The competition took place under special circumstances caused by the ongoing Corona pandemic. The team performed the driving @Home and received the 4th place in the Basic-Cup at Carolo-Cup@Home.

Further details are available in the dedicated article written by the team.

We are starting a blog about our new Robotic Game AI platform "CIcker". In this blog, we will regularly post about this project, which we call it CIcker Season 1. 

The goal of this project is to let AI play against a human player. This project is initiated by three students who visited the robotic activities at SwarmLab and visited the course Computational Intelligence in Games. 

This is called Season 1, since in this season we will have AI against human. In Season 2, we aim to have AI against AI. 

Mahrokh and Jens presented their PhD programs at the doctoral symposium of the faculty of computer science. Jens received the best presentation award: 

Rudolf Kruse has edited a newly published book on Synergy and Intelligence: Technical, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Interaction of Living and Non-Living Entities in the Age of Digitization (SYnENZ). 

The Chair of CI has also contributed to this book by the paper: 

• Sanaz Mostaghim and Sebastian Mai
• Kooperation mittels Schwarmintelligenz
• In Haux R, Gahl K, Jipp M, Kruse R, Richter O, Herausgeber. Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz. Pages 55-69, Wiesbaden: Springer VS; 2021, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-30882-7_5

Since January 2021, Sanaz has been apoointed as the vice president of member activities at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS): https://cis.ieee.org/about/excom-executive-committee

The CIG Heathstone competition award ceremony took place. The two winning teams Alexander Babel, Jann-Martin Kias (Bachelor) and Nils Bonhof, Jon-Miles Graeffe were very happy to be given the prices from the sponsoring companie AxeTrading and regiocom.

The results of the internal CIG competition are now online. All competing students please have a look! We thank our sponsors for their support: