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Keynote Talk at IJCCI 2020
On Wednesday 4th November, Sanaz gave a keynote talk at the 12th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) 2020.
Title: Collective and Individual Decision-Making in Swarm Robotics
Abstract: Autonomous systems are becoming more and more ubiquitous and their influence on our lives grows every day. In the last years, computational intelligence methods have – more than ever - extensively contributed to the latest scientific breakthrough in developing such intelligent systems. Nevertheless, one major challenge concerns the real-time reactions of autonomous systems to the unknown dynamics in their environments which is considered to be among the grand challenges in this area. This talk is about multi-objective decision making algorithms in Swarm Robotics. It will give an overview about the design issues and the challenges in real-time applications in robotics and computer games. In most of such applications, the decision makers (robots or agents) must find and select one possible optimal solution in a very limited time frame. This is very challenging, when the environment dynamically changes as the decision maker needs to re-optimize and decide on the fly. Multi-objective decision making algorithms in dynamically changing environments will be addressed and applications in Swarm Robotics will be presented. The results on individual and collective decision making are represented.
New research blog
From today, we will weekly post new research findings, videos, codes, etc. in our research blog.
Firmenstaffel Digital 2020
Jens, Basti and Sanaz participated the Firmenstaffel (Running Relay Competition) Digital 2020 and altogether collected 300 km!
Keynote Speech at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2020
Sanaz is going to give a Keynote Speech at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020:
https://wcci2020.org/speakers/
Title:
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making in Timely Critical Scenarios
OvGU Picnic - almost back to a new normal life on campus
Part of CI group at the first picnic on campus:
IEEE SSCI 2021
Together with Dr. Keeley Crockett, Sanaz is the general chair of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, which will take place in December 2021 in Orlando, USA:
Alexander Dockhorn defended his PhD
On Friday 12 June 2020, Alexander Dockhorn successfully defended his PhD:
Online Courses in Summer 2020
We will offer all of our courses in summer semester 2020 in online format. More information can be found:
http://ci.ovgu.de/Teaching.html
Digitalization Advisory Board
Sanaz got appointed for the next term of two years as the member of the advisory board on digitalization, Ministry of Economy, Science and Digitalization, State Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany: More information can be found here (in German)
Newly funded project by Volkswagen Foundation
A new project with the title "AI to the Rescue: Life-and-Death Decision-Making under Conflicting Criteria" which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation will start soon. More information will be provided here: http://ci.ovgu.de/Projects.html
Awards for research
The CI group is very happy to receive two awards for the best research from the faculty of Computer science:
Heiner received the “FIN-Forschungspreis für Nachwuchswissenschaftler” for his contribution to the field of Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization by publishing the paper:
- Heiner Zille, Hisao Ishibuchi, Sanaz Mostaghim and Yusuke Nojima
- A Framework for Large-scale Multi-objective Optimization based on Problem Transformation (Download) (Supplement Material) (Sourcecode)
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 260-275, April 2018. --> Link
Lukas Hoyer received the “ FIN-Forschungspreis für Studierende” for his contribution to the field of Robot Localization by publishing the paper:
- Lukas Hoyer, Christoph Steup and Sanaz Mostaghim
- A Robot Localization Framework Using CNNs for Object Detection and Pose Estimation
- In the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), IEEE SSCI 2018, Pages 1388-1395, India, November 2018 --> Link
Congratulations to both of them!
CI X-Mas Party
The Computational Intelligence group celebrated the Christmas 2019:
X-Mas Party SDW
Sanaz celebrated the Christmas 2019 with the students from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw)
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PhD Defense Heiner Zille
Heiner successfully defended his PhD Thesis on:
Large-scale Multi-opjective Optimisation: New Approaches and a Classification of the State-of-the-Art
Congratulations for the excellent work!
RoboCup Team in City Hall
The RoboCup Team which got the second place at the WorldCup 2019 in Sydney, was invited by the mayor of the city Magdeburg and was honored to sign in the golden book of the city:
MOSAIK Project Meeting
On Monday 18.11.2019, we organized the second MOSAIK project meeting at the SwarmLab. Our project partners from the University of Erlangen, German research center for AI (German: DFKI), NETSYNO and BOSCH GmBH visited us. We had a very fruitful meeting and a great team-building event in the evening:
Featured Journal Paper at IEEE CI Magazine
Xenija's paper which got published at IEEE Transactions on Games is featured at IEEE Computational Magazine:
- Xenija Neufeld, Sanaz Mostaghim, Dario L. Sancho-Pradel and Sandy Brand
- Building a Planner: A Survey of Planning Systems Used in Commercial Video Games
- IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume, 11 , Issue: 2 , June 2019 (Download) --> Link
https://engage.ieee.org/CI-Magazine-PDF-Download.html <https://engage.ieee.org/CI-Magazine-PDF-Download.html
Eusflat 2019 Distinguished Student Paper Award
Alexander Dockhorn and Rudolf Kruse attended the 11th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology conference in Prague.
There, Alexander received the distinguished student paper award for his paper:
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Alexander Dockhorn, Tony Schwensfeier, and Rudolf Kruse
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Fuzzy Multiset Clustering for Metagame Analysis
- In the Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, Prague, September 2019 --> PDF, Github
Two papers at Eurogen 2019
Mahrokh and Sanaz attended the Eurogen conference 2019 in Guimaraes Portugal and presented two papers:
- Mahrokh Javadi, Cristian Ramirez-Atencia and Sanaz Mostaghim
- Combining Manhattan and Crowding distances in Decision Space for Multimodal and Multi-objective Optimization Problems
- In EUROGEN conference, September 2019
- Mahrokh Javadi, Heiner Zille and Sanaz Mostaghim
- The effects of Crowding Distance and Mutation in Multimodal and Multi-objective Optimization Problems
- In EUROGEN conference, September 2019
Best Poster Award
Xenija received the best poster award at IEEE Conference on Games in London for the paper:
- Xenija Neufeld, Sanaz Mostaghim and Diego Perez-Liebana
- Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach
- IEEE Conference on Games, London, August 2019
The picture from Award Ceremony will be uploaded soon...
